• Consistently recognized as a top-performing Sales Engineer, receiving Summit Circle SE of the Year award in 2016, Commitment to Excellence SE of the Year award in 2015, and Go-To-Automation SE from 2015 to 2021. Consistently surpassing quota by an average of 115% during FYs 2015, 2016 & 2018.
• Accrued extensive customer-facing expertise by actively supporting prominent cable MSOs (Charter, COX, Wide Open West, CableOne, Astound). Taking a leadership role in driving the successful execution of 15+ POCs & 30+ RFPs/RFIs, with the goal of launching Juniper products into customer’s live production network.
• Led Juniper’s first virtual firewall sale in the history of Cox by enabling Edge team to deploy data centers with vSRX. Contributed to Juniper’s first MIST win across Cox’s Hospitality, Business, Residential BU’s as an alternative to incumbent Cisco, Aruba and Ruckus. Cox Backbone Win – MX (PE) and PTX (P) upgrades with 400G & 800G support, competitive with Nokia and Cisco.
• Saved $5M in CapEx & OpEx for Cox in 2017 by spearheading the product launch of Managed Router as Security Virtualized Services (MRaaS) at COX by deploying Contrail powered on-prem cloud (compute,storage,networking), decisively displacing Cisco.
• Contributed to Juniper’s digital transformation from a networking to cloud corporation by implementing Contrail, OpenStack, OpenShift at Cox. Spearheaded innovation in VNF management via Appformix, reducing operational costs by 15%. Resolved performance bottlenecks with Netronome Agilio NICs, achieving a 25% boost in network throughput.
• End-to-End Experience with Juniper’s portfolio: Automation & Orchestration (Contrail, Openstack, AppFormix, K2iO, Paragon, Northstar, Healthbot), Data Center (EX/QFX/ACX series), Security (SRX, IBM JSA/CP4S), Backbone (MX,PTX).