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From “Is this it?” to “This is it.”
Principal Technical Architect (Data 360 & Agentforce), Salesforce · Director of Technical & Sales Enablement, Zendesk & Deltek · Ironman & Leadville 100 finisher
Thirty years architecting enterprise systems. Most recently I built Salesforce agentic AI solutions for enterprise clients. Before that, as Director of Sales Enablement, I led the teams that taught go-to-market organizations how to use AI in their daily work instead of talking about it in a slide deck. I learned I could engineer almost anything. At fifty-four, I found out what happens when you turn that same precision on your own life.
Book a Free Discovery CallI was born in 1971 in Hungary, to parents who had to start working after eighth grade. They gave me something that outlasted credentials: work is a privilege, and showing up fully is its own kind of dignity.
I married an American exchange student and arrived in Colorado in the early nineties with a backpack of clothes, no job, no savings, and no network. My Master’s in chemical engineering meant nothing to anyone hiring, and my English was accented and slow.
I did what survival required: hostessed at a restaurant, smiling through conversations I only half understood, took tickets at a baseball stadium through the summer heat, then spent nights unloading bulk mail trucks for the USPS. Those night shifts didn’t break me. They taught me I could do hard things and not come apart.
I went back to school for computer science. An internship turned into a job, and the job turned into thirty years in enterprise technology, at Oracle, MicroStrategy, Birst, Zendesk, Deltek, and eventually Salesforce. Over time I moved from building the architecture myself to leading the teams that trained others to build it. As Director of Technical Enablement at Zendesk and later Director of Sales Enablement at Deltek, I ran global teams that trained solutions engineers, technical account managers, and sales organizations, reporting results directly to the sales VPs and executive leadership whose teams that training served. Mentoring and coaching came as naturally to me as the architecture had.
My last chapter in corporate technology was the most telling one. At Salesforce, as a Principal Technical Architect, I built agentic AI solutions for enterprise clients: Data 360 and Agentforce. Before that, leading Sales Enablement at Deltek, I watched which leaders adapted to AI and which didn’t. It had less to do with technical skill than with judgment. That’s why I do this work now.
I kept earning certifications: Salesforce Platform Administrator, Salesforce System Architect, Salesforce Application Architect, Agentforce Specialist, MicroStrategy Certified Developer, MicroStrategy Certified Engineer, PMP. Partly because I love learning. Partly for a harder reason: I needed proof I was enough, for my colleagues, for every boss who had the power to decide whether I belonged, for my own résumé and my own LinkedIn profile. The certifications were evidence, undeniable, on the screen, in the work, in the room. I needed to be enough.
“Competence is not the same as contentment.”
— Zsuzsanna Tuell Rise Above the Line.
I had done the things that were supposed to prove I’d arrived: raised three children, built a thirty-year career most people only dream of, and run the Leadville Trail 100 — the Race Across the Sky — finishing it once, in 2011, with my kids walking the last mile beside me.
But it wasn’t enough. I went back to Leadville again and again — 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2021, 2024 — and the mountain beat me seven times. I told myself that was persistence. Some of it was. But some of it was the same old hunger, wearing a different number on its bib.
“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”
— John Wooden
By that definition, I had already succeeded. I’d made the effort and become the best I knew how to be. It still wasn’t enough.
That’s why I went deep, reading and studying until I developed the SOV-LINE™ Framework: a map of the line between two ways of living. Above the line is self-love and creative energy. Below it is self-neglect and reactive energy.
I already mentored professionals through Presales Academy, but guiding women over fifty is the work I left my tech career to do: women who have spent their whole lives achieving and performing for everyone else, finally ready to live for themselves. When I describe this work, women don’t hear something new. They hear something they’ve carried for years, without the words for it. Rise Above the Line is that pattern, put into language, for every woman I work with now. What you give from shapes what you build. These days I give from fullness.
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