Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
Results-driven Executive Solutions Architect with 20+ years of experience delivering innovative, high-impact data solutions for enterprise customers across financial services, technology, and other industries. Currently leading strategic engagements at MongoDB, helping organisations accelerate application modernisation, scale mission-critical workloads, and unlock the full potential of cloud and GenAI architectures. Proven track record in technical pre-sales, solution design, and executive advisory, with deep expertise in database technologies, distributed systems, and big data platforms. Skilled at bridging business goals with technical capabilities—whether through architecting resilient multi-region deployments, guiding best practices, or enabling teams to realise measurable outcomes. Before MongoDB, I spent over a decade at IBM in roles spanning software development, proof-of-concept leadership, and technical sales across Netezza, Hadoop, and DB2. Known for winning complex, competitive deals by combining technical excellence with consultative selling, hands-on solution delivery, and customer advocacy. Passionate about mentoring technical teams, simplifying complex concepts for business stakeholders, and driving digital transformation strategies that last.
As a Senior Solutions Architect, I am responsible for guiding our customers and users to design and build reliable, scalable systems using MongoDB. Some key responsibilities are: • Design systems, applications, and infrastructure to help drive some of the world's largest software development projects leveraging MongoDB • Advise customers on architectures, patterns, and strategies for making best use of MongoDB • Partner with our sales team to help ensure success in accounts ranging from small startups to large enterprises • Lead proof of concept implementations from concept through execution • Translate technical concepts and patterns into business benefits for management and executives
Technical Pre-Sales Specialist at IBM focused on pre-sales activities around IBM Big Data portfolio - PureData Systems for Analytics (Netezza), InfoSphere BigInsights(Apache Hadoop) and InfoSphere Streams. - Responsible for presenting IBM Big Data products and solutions to prospects to generate new sales opportunities - Built and presented proof of technology and demonstrations - Responsible for RFP responses, successful execution of POC and delivering final results to customers - Supported customers as a trusted advisor delivering training, best practices and troubleshooting to maintain customer satisfaction
Member of POC team covering US and Canada to provide deep technical resources for local sales team - Delivered technology briefing and workshops to support sales cycle - Led the POC activities in a highly competitive sales cycle such as creating test cases, defining success criteria, generating application migration scripts, integrating 3rd party tools and ensuring successful execution of the POC to close the deal - Delivered training for new customers on Netezza administration, development, integration and best practices
Started as a student followed by software developer and then a team lead for DB2 catalog services and database upgrade engineering team at IBM Toronto Lab - Designed, developed and delivered DB2 engineering projects for new releases - Collaborated with extended engineering teams to support inter component integration and troubleshooting - Provided advisory role to QA team to help them with QA test cases, strategy, automation, and knowledge transfer of component designs - Engaged with customer on product demonstrations, presentation and technical support