As Software Development Sr. Manager for the Cloud Engineering team I am responsible for leading and managing the team responsible for deploying, managing, and supporting Oracle Health & AI's OCI footprint that is used to deliver health care, financial and analytics solutions for customers.• Automate provisioning of OCI tenancies, compartments, IAM and networking via Infrastructure as Code.• Create and manage CI/CD pipelines for the Infrastructure as Code developed by the team to manage OCI resources.• Implement network and security services and operational processes to support the deployment of a NIST 800-53 level environment that can be used to support State and Federal deployments.• Consult, provide input and give feedback on public cloud service features and roadmaps.• Participate in new public cloud service and feature testing prior to general availability.• Develop tooling and processes that enable self-service capabilities for solution teams while maintaining the environment's security posture.• Support onboarding and migration of solutions from on-premises or other public clouds to OCI.

As Manager / Lead Technology Architect for the Cloud Engineering team I was responsible for leading and managing the team responsible for deploying, managing, and supporting Cerner's HITRUST certified Landing Zone on AWS with custom written Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines to support the deployment of health care and financial applications globally.• Automate provisioning of new AWS accounts and network infrastructure into the secure HITRUST environment allowing solution teams to migrate or deploy new solutions in the public cloud.• Create and manage CI/CD pipelines for public cloud infrastructure lifecycle events and operational tasks, minimizing the need for manual changes to be completed via the console.• Automate and manage AWS Service Control Policy and rollout across AWS Organization Units.• Support and manage 300+ AWS accounts globally across the HITRUST account landing zone and the legacy AWS environment.• Implement and support multiple third party network security appliances (F5, Palo Alto) in addition to AWS network security tooling.• Manage hybrid network connectivity and circuits between global data centers and AWS.• Review and provide guidance on public cloud architectures on to AWS.• Collaborate with solution teams on migration plans and provide support during migration events.• Automate the AWS account reclaim process following internal retention policies.• Securely integrate with third party public cloud solutions.• Consult and provide feedback on public cloud vendor service features and roadmaps.• Participate in public cloud evaluation and testing with proof of concept projects and document outcomes for C-level executives.• Create Disaster Recovery (DR) plans for global environments and organize annual reviews.

As Senior Technology Architect for the Cloud team I was responsible for planning, designing, and implementing our cloud architectures while incorporating feedback and requirements from business units within Cerner.• Architect, implement, and operationalize a private OpenStack-based IaaS platform on which development, CI/CD pipelines, and production applications are delivered.• Work on cross organizational teams to design, implement and responsibly leverage public cloud offerings and technologies for specific workloads.• Architect, build, and operationalize resilient and high performance scale out block and object storage clusters.• Implement configuration management tools like Ansible, Puppet, and Chef to deploy and maintain the configuration of the cloud infrastructure.• Build, automate and deliver Linux and Windows Operating System images designed for cloud deployments based on business requirements and industry security guidelines.• Build and automate the provisioning of bare metal Linux servers and components which auto-scale Kubernetes clusters as well as traditional compute and virtualization workloads.• Design and build a modular container based system to augment capabilities of the bare metal provisioning system.• Work with internal teams to transition traditional on-prem workloads to public cloud infrastructure using AWS and Azure.

As the virtualization technology architect for Cerner I was responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining technical architectures to provide resilient, flexible, and cost effective infrastructure, management, and monitoring for our enterprise class, cloud, and development workloads of 35,000+ virtual machines and 4,000+ hypervisor instances. I was responsible for analyzing technical issues related to the implementation or operation of these technologies as well as providing planning and technology roadmap presentations to executives across the company.Key Responsibilities:• Work with developers and engineers to create road maps for applications, align development plans, and ensure effective integration between systems and infrastructure.• Consult on technical environment and hardware configuration decisions.• Develop techniques to improve system performance and optimize hardware utilization.• Evaluate hardware systems ability to support specified requirements and determine potential and actual bottlenecks.• Improve system performance through implementing recommended hardware changes.• Improve software systems efficiency through implementation of features/functionality or configuration and tuning.• Review and improve operational efficiencies across systems and infrastructures.• Assess risks and mitigation strategies within the architecture that has an impact on the business.• Monitor industry trends to ensure that solutions are in line with government standards and industry best practices.• Prepare proper documentation that is compliant with standard operating procedures.• Manage project expectations, resources, budget, and timelines.• Take appropriate action to prevent and report any risks or compromises of security.

• Lead and managed several teams of high performing senior engineers, with teams focused on storage, networking, UNIX/Linux, Windows, and virtualization for the infrastructure group within Cerner.• Automated reporting and tracking of key technical metrics and data for senior organizational leadership.• Lead several large TCO reduction projects resulting in savings of over $1M.• Managed a capital budget of over $1.5M.