As a strategic, hands-on TECHNOLOGY LEADER, Ellen delivers solutions to complex issues while finding ways to increase capacity, mitigate risk, avoid cost, to meet business and service requirements. She is a recognized industry leader who has published 25+ papers who gained technical depth and business acumen as the owner of a technology-consulting firm.She is a collaborative leader and mentor, who builds respected teams, leads by example, brings diverse groups to agreement, and coordinates business units and technical support teams to develop and deploy solutions. As Director of Cloud Migration Engineering she is leading efforts to build a Migration Factory as part of a multi-year, Transformation Program to the AWS Cloud. The factory model creates a repeatable process from design through automated provisioning with the objective to reduce operational costs and complexity and provide a scalable, secure and compliant platform.As Director Capacity Planning, Performance Engineering & Service Level Management, Ellen built the practices from the ground up – growing it to a team of 12.As Director IT Services, she took on the challenge of managing DB and middleware teams, and led team through a multi-year program to upgrade aging core banking systems.■VENDOR MANAGEMENT – Responsible for delivery of multi-year program with direct oversight of migration partners and management of on-shore/off-shore team. ■ COLLABORATION & PERSUASION – As a consultant, brought together leaders from different organizations to develop solutions that standardized systems and databases saving processing time.■ SERVICE DELIVERY & SOLUTIONS – Established governance process for establishing, modifying & reporting on system/application SLAs.■ APPLICATION & PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION – Established APM practice and led hundreds of efforts to improve application performance 2x to 5x.Ellen is the Chairperson for CMG NY Chapter – and a recipient of the J.W. Mullen and Best Paper Awards.