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Having progressed through a series of cloud architect roles to currently serve as Director of Cloud Strategy, Rackspace Government Solutions, I design and lead high-impact cloud initiatives, leveraging strategic partnerships to cover a full range of cloud services. I direct a team of cloud and security architects to build, manage, and monitor cloud infrastructures while concurrently holding a contractual role as Technical Strategy Director for the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR) Public Cloud Manager Services.Key highlights of my contributions in this position include... • Increased annual recurring revenue $100M+ by growing state, local, and education (SLED) customer base. • Negotiated $5M in third-party resource savings while maximizing operational efficiency on behalf of Texas through discount programs and partner-led solutions. • Eliminated $20M annually by mitigating financial risk through a strategic partnership.• Formalized robust IT compliance and security risk management program. • Onboarded Oracle Cloud infrastructure (OCI) into Texas DIR DCS program, unlocking millions in savings for DCS customers. • Built Cloud Center of Excellence, centralizing cross-functional knowledge, expertise, and best practices.

As Senior Cloud Architect, I was the key visionary for the development of cloud roadmaps, transformation planning, governance frameworks, security and compliance management, and operational support strategies. I onboarded public cloud services through AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to provide managed services and best-fit solutions tailored to align with each customer's goals, requirements, and budget. Key highlights of the value I contributed as Senior Cloud Architect included... • Architected scope of work for the Texas DIR Public Cloud Manager Services contract. • Developed and implemented IAM strategy, enabling state employees to self-service public cloud services and resources.• Migrated legacy systems with combined annual spend of over $10M. • Generated $1M+ in revenues by developing contractual deliverables and securing milestone payments.

As Senior Product Architect at Rackspace, I provided subject matter expertise for RFP/RFO responses for state, local government, and education (SLED) initiatives. I developed key partner integrations for Rackspace Inheritable Security Controls (RISC) and developed sales engineering collateral and tooling for go-to-market of Rackspace Government Cloud (RGC) on AWS. • Here, I achieved DoD IL-5 compliance and FedRAMP authorization for RGC on AWS.

In this position, I spearheaded partner-led, cross-functional efforts to launch Rackspace's third public cloud offering. I architected cloud infrastructure migration, implementation, and integration plans and partnered with Google on a five-city tour to evangelize Google Cloud.

As Solution Architect, Managed Public Cloud at Rackspace, I developed reference architecture and standardized cloud engineering, operational, and deployment practices. I orchestrated a strategic shift toward public cloud customers, designed cloud architectures, and migrated workloads to AWS to meet diverse and complex customer requirements.• My key contribution in this role was meeting the experience requirements and generating collateral to obtain Managed Service Provider (MSP) and Financial Services (Fiserv) partner competencies for AWS.

Architected and launched microservices platform and AWS architecture for competitive gaming platform.

Developed asset management solutions for midstream petroleum industry.

Implemented agile development and project management. Developed reporting for agile project burndown metrics. Accelerated time-to-market.

Developed web content and community sites for popular video games. Developed data collection, warehousing and visualization solution.

Developed electricity consumption forecasting solution for retail electricity.

Large Drupal to WordPress migration.

Developed globally available web applications on AWS. Developed League of Legends Season One Championship (DreamHack) tournament site.

Architected and delivered solutions for content generation, SEO/SEM, analytics and ad targeting.

Developed content solutions and applications for over 300 web properties. Implemented analytics and ad targeting solutions.

Developed ad delivery and reporting, messaging and BPM solutions for custom ad platform.

Re-implemented web-based front-end for network security SaaS.