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Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Cloud Migration for Business Transformation: Successfully spearheaded company-wide migration of Corporate and Operational Technology (OT) applications to the AWS cloud.• Empowered IT for Cloud Migration: Created and delivered a customized training program for the ITdepartment. This program covered essential skills including ITIL, DevOps, AWS, Terraform, and Ansible,ensuring the team possessed the necessary knowledge to support the organization's cloud transformation goals.• Led Cloud Platform Selection & Migration: Guided the selection and evaluation process for the cloudcomputing platform, prioritizing agility, productivity, resilience, security, and cost optimization. This resulted in a successful migration that positioned the organization for improved efficiency and scalability.• Streamlined Cloud Migration & IT Operations with DevOps: Implemented a robust DevOps pipelineleveraging Terraform (including Terraform Cloud) and Ansible Automation Platform with GitLab. Thisautomated 95% of AWS resource deployments and 43% of application deployments, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and improved security posture.• Championed Cost-Effective Cloud Usage: Led a cross-functional team to develop a FinOps strategy and roadmap, including implementing VMware CloudHealth. This focus on fiscal discipline optimized cloud spending and ensured financial transparency through the entire application stack.• Bridged Gap Between Business and IT: Within the Business & Enterprise Architecture Solutions Team, Ifostered improved communication and collaboration between departments strengthening IT infrastructure governance, while ensuring robust solution designs met business requirements.

Collaboratively developed standard Business Requirements and Design process for use within project delivery.• Developed and deployed updated Business Requirements & Design template• Developed Business Requirements & Design desk level procedures

Boulogne-Billancourt, Île-De-France, Fr

Collaboratively delivered end-to-end technical architectural designs and solutions based on business requirements in a timely, secure and customer focused manner.• Managed design, migration and delivery of fifty plus applications to AWS hosting, saving the business $750KUSD in annual infrastructure costs by leveraging leadership, communication and collaboration skills as a senior manager with the Energy Connections Cloud Task Force team.• Managed design and delivery of infrastructure for complex Teamcenter, Hybris, PDMLink, and Tacton application implementations, meeting project timeline and budget objectives while incorporating security design and availability requirements. • Developed project execution metrics and tracking dashboards which led to a year over year 10% reduction in project cycle time across the Solution Architecture team.• As a senior leader within the Program Excellence Council, guided teams through the Project Management methodology framework to ensure that projects delivered the desired business outcomes and return on investment.• Established technology roadmaps and delivered Pace Layering application classification as a senior leader within the Enterprise Architecture Council.

Established and delivered IS/IT services for green field company start up with specific focus on Department of Defense security clearance.• Maintained DoD Security Clearance for the facility by securing Defense Security Services acceptance of the Electronic Communication Plan in support of the Special Security Agreement in place to mitigate Foreign Ownership Control and Influence.• Developed and established processes for the collection of Government Security metrics achieving consistent and accurate reporting to the Board of Directors on a monthly basis.• Led two Defense Security Service Cleared Facility inspection cycles, achieving a Satisfactory rating each cycle.

Boulogne-Billancourt, Île-De-France, Fr

Delivered IS/IT services to 500 employees in North America covering two main offices and six regional offices.• Led cross-functional team to coordinate, extract, cleanse and load legacy system data into SAP for three testing cycles, UAT and go-live for the North America and Canadian businesses, successfully meeting all delivery dates. Data elements included the following functional SAP areas: FTM, PTP, PTS, STC, FTC and PS. • Developed and established a support model for SAP encompassing go-live hyper care support and transition to steady state support. Key considerations and support requirements were addressed by customizing the model to include Subject Matter experts within the business providing first level support. This approach reduced the recommended number of FTE hires from six to one.• Designed and delivered a new datacenter for Converteam North America ensuring high availability of business applications.• Led the integration of Electric Machinery business into Converteam – wide area network, migration of messaging environment and integration of IS/IT teams, achieving targeted cost savings.