Greensboro, North Carolina, United States
I’m a technology executive with more than three decades of experience leading enterprise transformation across Fortune 500 companies including Lincoln Financial, PepsiCo, and Reynolds. My passion is building high‑performing global teams, solving complex challenges, and delivering technology strategies that create lasting competitive advantage. I specialize in technology strategy, infrastructure, data center and resilience modernization, and organizational change that drives measurable ROI. Over the course of my career, I’ve managed global architecture teams, $80M+ budgets, delivered global programs that advanced the business through technology, reduced costs, improved resilience, and enabled digital growth — always aligning innovation with enterprise goals. As an active industry thought leader, I serve as Chair of the Netscout Customer Advisory Board and was a Charter Member of the Equinix Customer Advisory Board. I frequently keynote and present at global technology conferences, sharing insights on colocation, cloud, data center, network and enterprise transformation. I thrive at the intersection of technology and business strategy — aligning vision with execution to deliver results that matter.
Lincoln executive level role with responsibilities ranging from, architecture, engineering, deployment and operational responsibilities for core infrastructure services. These services include distributed compute, storage, data protection, co-location, data and IT disaster recovery services. Specific emphasis on overall engineering, deployment, operational and financial excellence in the delivery and sustainment of these solutions for the Lincoln business in conjunction with leading critical vendor relationships including offshore service providers, hardware, software manufacturers and co-location providers.
Lincoln executive level role with responsibilities including; architecture, engineering, deployment and operational responsibilities for data center, storage and network services. Network services include; voice, data, video, call center, data center and Internet/Extranet infrastructure. Specific emphasis on overall engineering, deployment, operational and financial excellence in the delivery and sustainment of these solutions for the Lincoln business.
PepsiCo executive level role with responsibilities including; planning/architecture, engineering and deployment activities for all voice, data, video, call center, data center, Internet/Extranet and webhosting infrastructure and services. Specific emphasis on overall engineering, deployment and financial excellence in the delivery and sustainment of these solutions for the PepsiCo business. Recently led all aspects and completed a multi-year, North American network security strategy and delivery of network admission control, lan switch port security, across all of North America. Translated the Global CISO and business requirements into a complete architectural strategy, presented to all North America CIO/CTO stakeholders, authored and drove approval of a $2MM+ capital expenditure (CAPEX) request. Owned deployment project and timeline to 800+ PepsiCo business locations and attained the highest possible ratings for a port security solution from external audit company during post deployment audit exercise.
Functioned as technical leader in the design, planning and implementation of IP networks including voice and data. Specific technical expertise in enterprise ip routing strategies and topologies and mpls network design and migration
Functioned as senior network engineer in the design and planning of ip networks with specific technical expertise in wide area network design, frame-relay design and architecture, eigrp routing topologies and as400 computing environments