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.