Experience

November 2025 – Present
Senior Partner Solutions Architect
Anomalo — Remote
  • Technical lead for all ISV and SI partnerships, including enablement, onboarding, service package design, GTM strategy, and opportunity coaching
  • Primary technical liaison for strategic partnership pursuits
  • Developed prototypes for API-based integrations with Snowflake Intelligence and Databricks Agent Bricks to support product launches and differentiate Anomalo within each partner ecosystem
December 2024 – May 2025
Senior Alliances Solutions Architect
StarTree — Remote
  • Acted as technical POC for AWS and Confluent partnerships, creating joint demos, providing enablement via workshops, designing GTM campaigns, and activating partner program benefits
  • Partnered with Product and Engineering to scope partner integrations and author solution briefs supporting real-time analytics and Generative AI use cases
  • Partnered with Marketing and Sales to drive pipeline through partner field events and executive briefings
July 2023 – November 2024
Technology Partner Manager
Starburst Data — Remote
  • Owned ISV ecosystem strategy, managing 75% of strategic software partnerships including AWS, Collibra, dbt, and Tableau
  • Drove $1M+ ARR in 2024 (as a team of one) through co-sell plays and joint GTM with ISVs
  • Built partner onboarding and enablement framework that cut activation time by 25% and scaled partner delivery
  • Collaborated on partner certification-style playbooks and training content for partner and field teams
August 2020 – July 2023
Partner Solutions Architect
Starburst Data — Remote
  • Partner-facing SA supporting 20+ ISVs and SIs with integration validation, solution design, and GTM enablement
  • Contributed to 20% of ARR in 2022 and 2023 via partner-sourced and influenced pipeline
  • Authored integration guides, co-sell playbooks, and enablement materials used by global field and partner teams
March 2018 – June 2020
Partner Solutions Architect
Alation — Remote
  • Designed and launched Alation's first partner enablement program, driving 29% of ARR in 2019 through ISV and cloud alliances
  • Became the primary subject matter expert on Alation's library of APIs
  • Enabled Systems Integrators and cloud partners with joint workshops, case studies, and solution briefs
  • Scoped and validated API-based integrations with AWS, Snowflake, and Tableau to align with partner GTM priorities
December 2016 – February 2018
Sales Engineer
Alation — Remote
  • Joined during Alation's Series A phase as one of the company's first Sales Engineers
  • Led pre-sales engagements — demos, PoCs, solution design — becoming a trusted advisor on complex data governance challenges and driving multiple six-figure wins
  • Drove 45% of new ARR in 2017 through technical leadership across the full sales cycle
  • Partnered with Product and Engineering to refine early-stage features based on client feedback
June 2016 – December 2016
Sabbatical

Took intentional time away to recharge — exploring national parks, deepening a meditation practice, working on music, and spending meaningful time with family and friends.

January 2014 – May 2016
Big Data Sales Engineer
IBM — Chicago, IL
  • Quota-carrying SE, achieving 100% of quota in 2014 and 2015
  • Built trusted C-level relationships while scoping data warehousing, Hadoop, and streaming architectures
  • Acted as the primary technical contact for clients and partners, ensuring solution adoption
April 2007 – December 2013
Director, Architecture, Modeling & Optimization
IRi (now Circana) — Chicago, IL
  • Delivered data and analytics programs for Fortune 500 clients in retail and CPG
  • Designed audience segmentation, loyalty analytics, and campaign performance solutions informing major marketing strategies
  • Built automation solutions that increased data quality scores to over 95% and reduced delivery time by 25%
June 2003 – February 2007
IT Consultant, Technical Architecture
Accenture — Chicago, IL
  • Built enterprise SaaS-enabled data systems for healthcare and CPG organizations
  • Architected a multi-tool CPG data extraction solution that reduced processing time by 30%, delivered on time with zero defects
  • Identified over $4M in billing discrepancies using SQL and PL/SQL analysis of healthcare claims
  • Developed automated tools that improved patient management productivity by 150% and reduced care costs for high-risk populations

Education

B.S. Computer Science, Business Minor
Michigan State University

Skills

Partner Solutions & Enablement
Technical POC Demos & Workshops SI Enablement Partner Certification Playbooks Integration Scoping GTM Strategy
Data Stack
Snowflake dbt Trino Spark Confluent Pinot Tableau ThoughtSpot AWS Azure GCP Data Governance Data Observability
Technical
SQL Python APIs SaaS Integrations Reference Architectures Solution Briefs
Commercial
Pipeline Generation ARR Growth Co-sell Contract Negotiation MEDDIC / MEDDPICC

Training

Sales: Command of the Message, MEDDIC, MEDDPICC, IBM Global Sales School, TOPO

Technical: Apache Spark (Level 1), Starburst Fundamentals, Netezza Advanced Concepts & Performance Tuning