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About

Ten years running petabyte-scale data platforms as the customer. Five years helping customers build them. Today I lead Applied Engineering for Snowflake's US West customers, getting AI agents into production.

I know what buyers care about because I've been the buyer. That shapes how I build teams, run technical deals, and design go-to-market.

Career

SnowflakeOct 2025 – now

Sr. Manager, Applied Engineering, Frontier Engineering, US West · previously Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture

Leads Applied Engineering for US West Apex and Enterprise customers in Snowflake's Frontier Engineering organization
Originated and built Snowflake's interoperability offering: a write-once-read-many architecture that lets Spark, Flink, Trino, and other engines share the same data without migration or duplication
Leads open-source interoperability engineering across Apache Iceberg, iceberg-go, Apache Polaris, and Apache Ossie
Built a national developer community program for Cortex Code
Co-created Blueprint Manager (Snowflake-Labs, announced at Summit 2026) and the SHERPA Iceberg playbook, and shaped Snowflake's Well-Architected Framework

Weatherford International2024 – 2025

Sr. Director, Enterprise Data & Architecture · Head of Enterprise Data Platform & Enterprise Architecture

$23M P&L·300+ developers·$189M AWS agreement

Owned AI-ready data infrastructure; petabyte-scale operations for 300+ global developers across 5 SaaS energy products
Architected Centro™, CygNet® SCADA, ForeSite®, and the Unified Data Model, across AWS, Azure, and IoT/NVIDIA Jetson
That suite is central to Weatherford's Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS (May 2025), a $189M, five-year commitment; drove the data architecture foundation and contributed to the negotiations
Built the company's first Enterprise Data Governance & Data Quality Office: 100+ stakeholder interviews, core policies ratified at Executive Council

Yugabyte2021 – 2024

Director of Sales Engineering, North Americas

$56M quota·$2M+ partner revenue

Led the North America SA team against a $56M annual quota for Fortune 50 accounts in Financial Services, Retail, Media, and Manufacturing
Built the SE team from the ground up; designed GTM motions across AWS, Azure, and GCP
Represented Yugabyte at Snowflake Summit, Money 20/20, AWS re:Invent, Gartner D&A, and KubeCon

The Sherwin-Williams Company2011 – 2021

Global Head of Data Engineering

70+ engineers, 5 countries·1 PB+ daily·60K+ users

Built and led 70+ data engineers across five countries; a Data-as-a-Service platform serving 60K+ users and $4B+ in quarterly retail operations
1,300+ data pipelines processing 1 PB+ daily; scaled Snowflake to 3,000+ Tableau users and 40+ data marts in 24 months
Architected consumer data flywheels, pipeline tooling, and automated data quality frameworks across the $18.4B enterprise

Oracle · Hitachi Consulting · Sierra Atlantic2006 – 2011

Lead ETL Developer / Software Engineer

Data engineering and application delivery for Fortune 100 enterprises: ERP manufacturing, supply chain, and financial pipelines across Latin and North America

Industries

Retail & CPGSherwin-Williams, Walmart, Kroger
EnergyWeatherford: oilfield, IoT, drilling
Financial servicesFortune 50 banking & payments
Healthcareproduction AI deployments
AI, SaaS & technologyagentic AI, interoperability

Education & recognition

MBA, FinanceCleveland State University, 2015
Executive Leadership CertificateCase Western Reserve University, 2017
Snowflake Data Superhero2020 – 2023
SIM Midwest RLFclass of 2020
Cleveland Leadership Center Civic Institute2016

Boards & civic

Esperanza Inc.Board Chair, Governance, 2017 – 2024
Diversity Center of Northeast Ohio2019 – 2023
CSU AlumniBoard Chair, 725 members

Skills

sales engineering leadership · forward deployed engineering · AI/ML architecture · agentic AI (Cortex) · Snowflake interoperability · Apache Iceberg · Databricks coexistence · enterprise account strategy · GTM offering development · open source · distributed systems · technical enablement at scale