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Denver, Co, Us

I decided to step away from work after a deeply personal loss.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Strategic consulting and pre-sales leader for IT Strategy, Cloud, and Data & Analytics advisory practices, focused on driving customer success with infrastructure modernization solutions.- Guided account teams, partners, and customers through complex solution design initiatives by evaluating needs, understanding value, devising strategies, and building actionable plans. - Executive SME for large-scale digital programs, partnering directly with C-level executives and stakeholders to translate complex needs into scalable infrastructure modernization solutions.- Led teams on projects worth $45+ million, including public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms, critical infrastructure, application modernization, security, operations, and governance.

Worldwide, Oo

Led global organization focused on cloud solutions, hyperconverged infrastructure, secure hosting, and global technology operations. - Developed and implemented strategies, processes, and governance models to support cloud infrastructure at scale, ensuring alignment with global operational and regulatory requirements for cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba Cloud, 21Vianet, NWCD).- Integrated critical infrastructure services, controls, and automation to ensure security and regulatory compliance for cloud infrastructure and workloads. - Led large cloud development initiatives, ensuring successful deployment and implementation through code, scripting, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) practices.- Optimized cloud consumption by implementing financial management programs (FinOps) for global cost controls and financial risk management.

New York City, Ny, Us

Led architecture and platform engineering team (50+) for a $700 million transformation initiative to modernize all digital products, core systems, and data and analytics systems. - Built and executed a comprehensive architecture strategy and roadmap for a new SaaS product portfolio, which now generates $2.5 billion in annual revenue.- Built development infrastructure and led SRE and DevOps teams, enabling 100+ global teams to rapidly ship web, mobile, and API products securely and efficiently at scale. - Migrated all customer-facing, revenue-producing systems to AWS, including 25+ applications, 15+ enterprise services, and multiple petabyte-scale databases.

Southlake, Texas, Us

Global leader for Enterprise Architecture and Platform Engineering: six direct reports with 50+ staff covering architecture, engineering, operations, and R&D located in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.- Senior technology architect for Travelocity and Sabre APIs, the transaction infrastructure for most online travel agency businesses worldwide, processing 1+ billion API calls daily.- Led programs to incrementally build, migrate, and integrate the systems for all online businesses to a converged and consolidated set of enterprise technology platforms.- Designed production architectures for all technology platforms and enterprise caching systems, including operational ownership of the developer desktop, development and certification environments, production build validation, and supporting processes.- Built enterprise frameworks, providing standardized and consistent implementations of core technologies for mission-critical systems.- Led end-to-end performance engineering, including global observability platform ownership (instrumentation, logging, monitoring, analytics).

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Senior technology leader for the systems integration consulting business within IBM Global Services. Advised customers targeting infrastructure modernization and system integration strategies for SOA, BPM, and middleware solutions.- Global Media and Entertainment Corporation – Developed high-end computing solution for the electronic distribution of media assets throughout global entertainment properties and external partners. In conjunction with IBM Research, developed a SOA solution that integrates process automation, media content management, and systems integration technologies into a secure and managed infrastructure that reduces the complexity of identifying, converting, routing, and transporting digital media assets.- Domestic, Regional Utility Company – Managed solution architecture and system operations design for an enterprise-wide systems integration effort required as part of a multi-billion dollar initiative to deploy and manage automated gas and electric metering throughout a nine million customer service area.- Domestic, Nationwide Wireless Telecommunications Company – Led technology strategy initiative providing the foundation for a large systems integration effort needed to address redundant systems, processes, and infrastructure after a nationwide wireless telecommunications company acquired another similar company. Designed the solution based on SOA and developed the implementation strategy and roadmap.- Global Media and Entertainment Conglomerate – Led strategy initiative for a large media and entertainment conglomerate, which focused on improving enterprise integration infrastructure to address supply chain management disruptions.

Plano, Tx, Us

Built services and support operations for early-stage start-up, driving customer success with business process management and systems integration product: nine direct reports and 50+ staff, including offshore delivery center. We sold the company to BEA Systems, Inc. for $87 million.- Built services and support operations for early-stage start-up, driving customer success with business process management and systems integration product: nine direct reports and 50+ staff, including offshore delivery center.- Created service offerings, delivered technology solutions, managed client relationships, and led delivery engagements across the company’s customer base.- Built delivery methodology and tools for field implementation of product, including toolkit of pre-packaged deliverable templates, checklist-based work packages, and technical support guides.

Menlo Park, California, Us

Built consulting business from pre-revenue to $20 million. Led three regional organizations with 50+ staff developing solutions, managing client engagements, and working with channel partners and system integrators to ensure customer success.- Domestic, Regional Bell Operating Company – Deployed EAI infrastructure used as a platform for developing an integrated view of customers across business lines. Responsible for deploying distributed messaging infrastructure enterprise-wide and developing technology for legacy system connectivity.- Global Energy Corporation – Led global deployment of EAI infrastructure for consolidating enterprise systems onto a shared messaging platform. Responsible for worldwide implementation, system optimization, operations design, and change management.

West Hartford, Us

- Managed organization specialized in standards-based integration, component-based development, software automation, and electronic commerce.- Led $ 6.5 million development effort, including 100+ staff, to enable business transactions over the internet consisting of secure authenticated electronic negotiable documents.- Architected the MERS system, the digital book-entry registry for tracking nationwide mortgage rights in the United States.

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