Summary
Experienced Sales Engineer with 25+ years in web development, sales, and technical implementation. Specializing in providing individualized prospect training and creating demo/proof-of-concept material. Passionate about designing solutions for identified pain points, sharing knowledge, and creating champions.
Work Experience
Solutions Engineer, IPInfo
February 2025 - Present (Remote)
- Helped create new Solutions Engineering function at a bootstrapped startup.
- Defined roles and responsibilities for future Solutions Engineers.
Senior Solutions Engineer, Edgio
November 2021 - January 2025 (Remote)
- Owned technical relationships with channel partners' sales, business, and dev teams.
- Led the AMER Applications SE team to increase efficiency and impact, providing technical leadership and strategic direction aligned with organizational objectives.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to architect complex migration paths and facilitate seamless adoption of Edgio's application/security SaaS platform.
- Presented and demoed product features during technical discovery, early trial stages, and POCs, significantly boosting new customer sales and ensuring smooth migrations.
- Built solid technical relationships with prospect and partner project teams by ensuring communication throughout the project via email, Slack, WhatsApp, and other means; organizing pair programming and classroom instruction sessions; and championing their needs in front of the Product team when they found feature gaps.
Key accomplishments at Edgio:
- Maintained a pipeline of over $7.1MM across 82 midmarket, enterprise, and partner deals in 2024.
- Accelerated sales cycles and secured buy-in for at-risk deals in multiple global regions, including Mars Wrigley (US), Arsenal F.C. (UK), and MadeiraMadeira (BR).
- Presented seven global SE team training sessions on the Edgio platform, including two international sessions in London and one during a company-wide sales training week.
- Developed internal applications to enable sales leaders and solutions engineers to generate actionable intelligence, reducing effort and unlocking upsell opportunities.
Awards received:
- Named Solutions Engineer of the Year for 2023.
Manager, Technical Services, Pantheon
December 2018 - October 2021 (Remote)
- Led and mentored a remote team of senior engineers within Professional Services, shaping and executing the long-term technical roadmap for the Professional Services portion of onboarding new Drupal and WordPress customers.
- Identified new service offerings for the organization, prioritized and staffed for developing these initiatives, and led sales motions with the SE team to sell these new offerings.
- Worked with Product and ProdEng teams to productize and scale new platform features developed by the Technical Services team.
Key accomplishments at Pantheon:
- Created the Advanced Global CDN product, generating $10MM of net new revenue and unlocking 35 new logos in 2020.
- Partnered with a global web development agency to develop a customizable, repeatable, high-volume live events platform to maximize speed and performance for paying attendees, generating approximately $20k per event for Pantheon and unlocking partnership opportunities for the agency.
Awards received:
- Named Professional Services MVP for 2019 for work on Advanced Global CDN.
Tech Lead / Lead Developer / Sr. Developer, Eastern Standard
September 2016 - December 2018 (Philadelphia, PA, USA)
- Demonstrated strong leadership in driving the successful delivery of customer web applications and features.
- Developed new Drupal and WordPress modules and plugins to provide custom features for client applications.
- Orchestrated company-wide training exercises to foster a culture of innovation and cooperation while exploring new design libraries and approaches.
Senior Web Developer, eBay Enterprise
March 2014 - November 2015 (King of Prussia, PA, USA)
- Led a cross-functional team in building a web application for American Airlines' loyalty program marketplace which processed $1.2MM in transactions during the first month.
Languages Spoken
- English (native)
- Brazilian Portuguese (conversational)