Experience
Field-tested systems & storage
From multi-site infrastructure and Linux platforms to strategic Lustre / AI storage accounts — design, deploy, break, fix, repeat.
Technical Account Manager — Strategic Accounts
DDN
currentMay 2024 – Present
remote · us-east
- Primary technical owner for strategic AI and HPC accounts running DDN Exascaler / Lustre.
- Translate deep storage internals into customer outcomes: performance, reliability, and scale.
- Bridge field reality and product — escalate the right issues, design the right architecture, keep clusters healthy under load.
Senior Systems Architect
Q² Solutions
May 2022 – May 2024
Durham, NC
- Lustre SRE — reliability and operations for parallel filesystem environments.
- JuiceFS SRE — production care for JuiceFS-backed storage paths.
- Genomics pipelines — systems support for high-throughput bioinformatics workflows.
- SLURM — cluster scheduling and HPC job environment stewardship.
Senior Development Engineer
Atlantic Computer Services
Aug 2016 – May 2022
Greater Wilmington Area
Senior Technology Specialist
Cape Fear Juice Company, LLC
Mar 2014 – Aug 2016
Wilmington, NC
- Linux infrastructure deployment and management using containers for individual company services (intranet and extranet).
- Internal: Samba domain for mixed Windows / Linux / macOS clients — profile redirection, company shared storage, private user storage.
- Internal: NGINX (SuiteCRM, SmokePing) and MariaDB for all database needs.
- External: NGINX hosting a WordPress / WooCommerce online store.
Sr. Systems Engineer
blue dog NETWORK
Oct 2010 – May 2015
- Infrastructure design, deployment, and management for multi-service environments.
- Exchange 2010 SP1, SharePoint 2010, and Citrix XenApp 5.0 delivering DaaS.
- Virtualized foundation on Hyper-V.
Systems Engineer
Atlantic Computer Service
Jan 2009 – Oct 2010
Sr. Network Engineer
Maritime Company for Navigation
Mar 2007 – Jan 2009
- Project lead designing a complete cargo tracking and documentation system for international container shipping.
- Consolidated multi-location infrastructure using Citrix XenServer.