Christopher Parent Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas, Us

▶ Established and led cross-LOB program to drive adoption of OCI cloud services for SaaS and reduce third party spend. Launch streamlined delivery process from inception to increase adoption of essential OCI services by development teams and replace 3rd party spend across F5 Firewall, Thousand Eyes, PagerDuty, and GitLab. Institute standardized best practices focused on completing requests within specified timelines for continuous delivery. Deploy formalized metrics/reporting capabilities to measure success/uncover roadblocks. Realized ~$40M in annual cost savings. Program subsequently adopted across entire enterprise.▶ Established and led cross-LOB engineering review board for Oracle’s SaaS portfolio, focused on cloud architecture best-practices, cloud security, FedRAMP and PCI/HIPAA compliance evaluations to align cloud infrastructure, networking, data flow, third-party product usage, and identity/access management.▶ Established and led cross-LOB programs for driving cloud migration/digital transformation of corporate multi-billion-dollar SaaS portfolio. Create RAMP and OCI Native Programs centered around architecture, security and compliance, and operational enablement. Track release milestones and coordinate between the SaaS development team and the various other LOB stakeholders (Architecture, Security, Compliance) to reduce operating costs for SaaS by getting out of legacy data centers and migrating to OC.▶ Catalyst for expedited adoption of OCI IaaS/PaaS. Establish key programs; OCI Service Assessment/Patterns. Develop reusable architecture patterns for uptake by SaaS Teams replacing traditional Oracle database with standardize OCI autonomous database and ensuring successful adoption.

Austin, Texas, Us

In 2021, I was promoted to an executive leader to manage a large portfolio of programs and provide oversight for 11 lines of business, 70 SaaS offerings for ~30K employees. I am dedicated to bridging the gap between technical with business requirements and executing multi-year digital transformations and cloud migration initiatives.♦ Hire, train, and lead high performing team of Technical Project Managers (TPMs) to drive strategic programs across multiple LOBs. Manage compensation, promotions etc. Conduct performance reviews, and institute disciplinary measures when required. Meet with team members 1:1 weekly to coach and provide key oversight. Navigate through obstacles to achieve goals.Contribute key expertise on senior leadership team to devise strategic planning for maturing and enhancing cloud architecture.♦ Develop strategic plans, institute best practices/policies, identify cost-savings measures, and align team goals with company objectives. ♦ Foster relationships with cross-functional teams and executive leaders to bridge business/technology gaps. ♦ Meticulously define KPIs and provide reporting to executive leaders for all critical programs. Craft strategic actions plans to address issues and concerns as well as drive growth and adoption of emerging technologies. ♦ Serve as liaison and escalation point to mid and upper management. Engage with service teams to prioritize requests and devise weekly executive reporting to SVPs.

Austin, Texas, Us

In my initial role with Oracle, I was assigned point-person for the Cloud architecture review process to align service sales, apps, and new capabilities across global business unit for SaaS Teams.♦ Formalized and implemented strategic process for assessing uptake of OCI IaaS/PaaS and usage with GBU SaaS, devised tactical usage patterns and best practices.♦ Ascertained standardized operational/security guidelines for strategic Oracle FMW deployment to ensure high availability, backup and recovery, and disaster recovery. ♦ Envisioned and formalized tactical Disaster Recovery strategies across utility cloud services; databases and file system replications to align with Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO).♦ Systematically developed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), security guidelines, and knowledgebase for OCI cloud acceptance processes/services focused on Disaster Recovery (DR), application server, networking, identity management, and security.Analyzed business/technical practicality for utility LOB cloud offerings. Conducted comprehensive service modeling, estimation, and security reviews. Proficiently costed cloud architectures and secured business case/security approvals. ♦ Worked closely with developers and architects and devised strategic planning to streamline cloud migrations.Some achievements in this role include:✶Served as lead Architect championing strategic development of Oracle Cloud as preeminent native Cloud provider. ✶Successfully re-platformed Oracle Public Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) with automated password rotation. Assessed next cloud-gen technologies to modernize offerings.

Greenwood Village, Co, Us

During my tenure with this consulting firm, I acted as Lead Solutions Architect and Oracle Fusion Middleware (FMW) SME providing strategic support and administration of enterprise platforms for specialized Oracle practice. ♦ Conducted technical demos focused on Oracle SOA/BPM suite of products.♦ Methodically supported business development by crafting strategic Request for Proposals (RFPs) and Request for Quotes (RFQs), white papers, and sales engineering collateral.

For six years. I served as trusted advisor and primary, hands-on SOA Architect for Oracle Fusion Middleware platform; Oracle WebLogic/Service Bus, and Java 1.6x.♦ Strengthened enterprise architecture systems utilizing tools/products; J2EE, Oracle Fusion Middleware, JMS, JNDI, EJB, Web Services, JDBC, along with Agile, Scrum, and Waterfall methodologies.♦ Acted as WebLogic System Administrator across domain configuration, JDBC, JMS, Directory services, Security Realms, SAML, SSL, clustering, data migration, fail over, and WebLogic scripting.My key achievements in this role:✶Spearheaded significant reduction deployment of WebLogic across GPS OCX enterprise from three weeks to one day leveraging Chef Automation. Architected and developed Chef recipes using WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) for systematic deployment.✶Expertly re-architected WebLogic deployment strategy delivering exceptional cost savings across development, operations, and maintenance. Minimized domains by 90% and significantly reduced overhead/hardware expenditures.

London, Gb

Bethesda, Md, Us

Ms, Systems Engineering

Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science