Senior Director, Solutions Engineering · Yubico

I build SE teams for the AI‑security era.

Solution engineering leadership at the intersection of identity security and agentic AI — secure workflows, hardware-backed trust, and teams that mentor as well as they sell.

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Solution Engineering

Translating technical capability into compelling customer value.

Technical Leadership

Building and scaling high-performing pre-sales and SE teams.

Strategic Consulting

Go-to-market strategy and winning competitive enterprise deals.

Writing

Latest thinking

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Identiverse 2026 - My takeaways
June 26, 2026

Identiverse 2026 - My takeaways

Identity is expanding from access control into action control. For years, so much of the identity conversation has centered on authentication: proving the right human is at the keyboard, getting them into the right system, and reducing risk at login.

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The New SE: How AI Is Redefining Solution Engineering and Forward-Deployed Roles
June 8, 2026

The New SE: How AI Is Redefining Solution Engineering and Forward-Deployed Roles

The role of the Solution Engineer is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades. Not because the job is being replaced, but because AI is amplifying what was always the hardest part: bridging the gap between what a product does and what a customer needs. The best SE teams I've seen operate from a shared set of operating principles: not aspirations on a wall, but real decision-making frameworks. Things like putting the customer first, bias for action, work together-not alone, and do what you say you are going to do. These principles have always defined great SE work. What's changed is that AI finally gives SE's the leverage to actually live them at scale.

The Tower of Babel Had No Audit Log
May 27, 2026

The Tower of Babel Had No Audit Log

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical Magnifica Humanitas (May 15, 2026) is a sweeping document: part moral philosophy, part social doctrine, part urgent warning about AI. For those of us building infrastructure for agentic AI systems, it deserves a close read. Not because we need papal approval, but because the Pope is asking exactly the right questions.

About

Building solutions, leading teams

My passion is building and maintaining elite teams of technical sales and engineering resources who excel at the customized design, positioning, and delivery of outstanding business solutions. With a foundation of discipline from my military service, I lead teams to prioritize the success and enthusiasm of our customers and partners.

I'm currently focused on AI strategy with a security lens — architecting secure, agentic AI workflows and helping SE teams stay ahead of AI-orchestrated threats. I believe the most valuable players look beyond the mastery of their craft to how well they mentor others to mastery.

Leadership

Teams & orgs

Focus

Solutions Eng

Approach

Customer-first

Stack

Full-Stack AI First

Career

Where I've been

Jan 2026 – Present

Senior Director, Solutions Engineering · Yubico

Remote

Scaling the technical sales organization and evolving the language of value for the modern AI-driven threat landscape. Architecting AI strategies for SE teams at the intersection of identity security and Generative AI. Building end-to-end agentic workflows to automate the SE lifecycle, while supporting FIDO2 standards adoption across 150+ countries.

Sep 2022 – Jan 2026

Director, Solutions Engineering · Yubico

Greater Seattle Area

Led solutions engineering for the world's leading hardware authentication company. Drove technical sales strategy, POC frameworks, and competitive positioning across enterprise accounts; supported YubiKey and FIDO U2F adoption for the world's largest organizations.

Oct 2021 – Jul 2022

Senior Manager, Emerging Markets · Okta

Bellevue, WA

Led the emerging-markets SE team on identity security and Zero Trust. Partnered with sales on discovery, POC design, and executive-level security reviews across the Pacific Northwest and emerging west.

Jun 2021 – Oct 2021

Solutions Architect · Quantum

Seattle, WA

Solutions architecture focused on enterprise data management and storage — pre-sales technical requirements and customer solution design.

Mar 2012 – Dec 2020

Senior Systems Engineer → SE Manager · Commvault

Chicago, IL → Seattle, WA

Nearly nine years from Key Accounts Senior SE to Systems Engineering Manager. #1 revenue-generating SE in the Chicago Enterprise district (FY2014), growing accounts from $0 to $2.4M; later led pre-sales SE teams across the West covering enterprise, SLED, and healthcare.

Earlier

IT Leadership, Pre-Sales & Military Service · Various

Chicago, IL & New Orleans, LA

Pre-Sales Engineer at Integrated Data Storage; Director of IT and Senior Systems Engineer at PayFlex Systems; Senior Network Administrator at REAL Watersports; USAF / Air National Guard (1999–2006). Military service instilled the discipline that underpins my leadership approach today.