My Next Adventure

Today marks the beginning of a new and exciting adventure in my career. I spent the last year at Pure Storage and got to experience life in the private sector. Man, what a ride! I truly enjoyed my time at Pure and it is a phenomenal company with great people.   

As I reflect upon last year at Pure some of the highlights that were most memorable were:

• Got to meet and support several new customers across DOE West. Although mostly remote, I established some great new relationships that will carry forward into my new role.
• Won the 1st corporate hackathon at Pure which resulted in the Zero Touch Provisioner application for FlashArray and FlashBlade.
• Led the delivery of a new solution that integrates Pure FlashBlade File and S3 Object directly into Azure Stack Hub in partnership with Gridpro.
• Learned the intricacy’s of being a vendor rather than a customer which provided such amazing insights into customers service, product engineering, and sales mechanics. I have a new appreciation for all the vendors out there!
• The excitement of the entire team rallying behind wins. So much fun and such energy and support.

So, thank you for everything Pure Storage!

For my next adventure I need to get back to my roots. Though working at Pure was awesome, I was still missing something…some element of purpose that is in my blood. I guess it comes from being at Sandia for 18 years and seeing the fruits of my labor directly or indirectly supporting a mission. So, when the perfect opportunity popped up from Idaho National Labs, I jumped on it. Starting today, I am joining the Enterprise Architecture group under the CTO to help INL continue their digital transformation both strategically as well as tactically. I am so excited to be at INL and cannot wait to see what challenges I get to be a part of.

 "Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do." - Steve Jobs