Bruno Hall Independent Advisor, Cloud Migration Expert Email & Phone Number

Darien, IL, US

Global

Most recent engagement: Oversaw the cloud migration for a $30B biopharmaceutical company. Touched 1,100 applications, 6,500 OS instances, retiring half, and migrated half to 6 AWS regions, and closed 10 data centers in the US, Europe, and Asia.

Mchenry IL

Co-founder of an innovative product company, selling a patented power protection device to the Global 5,000. Led strategic and operational business planning. Responsible for the go-to-market strategy and business operations. Developed the product channel both in the US and abroad. Customers include Amazon, AAA, IBM, Capital One, RIM, SuperValu, TransUnion.

Montreal, Canada Area

Designed, built, populated and ran a mid-sized (1.5 MW) cryptocurrency mining farm from the ground up.

Oak Brook, IL

Defined and executed a global infrastructure strategy that balanced existing and emerging technology trends, availability of services and labor, operational simplicity, and the financial realities of the consumer packaged goods industry. Orchestrated multiple global initiatives including migrating to AWS, moving from MPLS to a high-capacity SD-WAN.

Pittsburgh, PA

Conceived, sold and delivered complex strategy, infrastructure and operations consulting engagements. Led teams of solution architects and multidisciplinary teams in crafting winning proposals for deals between $10M and $350M, with most in the $40M - $120M range. Provided advisory service to CIOs and their infrastructure leaders.

Pittsburgh, PA

Provided varied IT Strategy and Infrastructure consulting services to Pittsburgh-area firms.

Pittsburgh, PA

Provided global IT strategy, design and implementation of culture, process and technology for a $600M global telecommunications equipment company. Accomplishments led to being nominated for and winning CIO Magazine’s Ones to Watch Award, 2009.

Pittsburgh, PA

Rationalized and solidified the IT environment, processes and procedures to ensure that Laurel would be able to reliably service their tier-1 carrier customers including: AT&T, BT, Level 3, NTT, Verizon, SBC. These efforts resulted in being nominated for, and winning Pittsburgh CIO of the Year, 2005. ECI Telecom acquired Laurel Networks in June 2005.

Palo Alto, CA

Built the consulting services practice for the then $14M company. Established the consulting infrastructure, secured reference accounts, and achieved 100% client satisfaction.

Redwood City, CA

Managed numerous consulting engagements with direct and indirect reports. Played instrumental role in modifying GNAC structure & culture and increasing sales from $5 to 10 million while staffing grew from 40 to over 100 people in one year. Also known as Global Networking And Computing.

Abbott Park, IL

Hired to lead Clinical Data Management Center out of chaos and manage timely, accurate processing of voluminous test data, thereby establishing Center's credibility with users and helping ensure Abbott Lab's success in acquiring FDA approval for new drug applications.

Arlington Heights, IL

Led Strategic Projects Group: Supervised six System Administrators in the engineering design, manufacture, and support of cellular base stations. Managed backups, hardware replacement, scripting of printer problems, etc. Acted as hostmaster & postmaster and resolved user questions.

Montreal, QC

Served small business clients with analysis, design and implementation of database systems.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma SigmaEMBA 34

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical Engineering

Honors

Baccalauréat Français, Science