John Merritt Email & Phone Number

United States

Seattle, Wa, Us

I leverage both my extensive experience as a Cloud Transformation leader and AWS MAP best practices to help AWS customers accelerate their cloud migrations and IT transformation with speed, precision, and scale.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Chief Architect & Senior Director, IT (Present)Senior Director, IT (2014-2019)Manages cloud-based computing services and platforms globally. Facilitates the migration of data and systems to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Evaluates new technologies and develops strategic plans to systematically meet and exceed evolving industry standards. • Leading the data center consolidation and migration of all systems (14,000 total) to cloud-based computing. Currently 51% of all systems (7140) have been migrated to AWS, including 14PB of data.• Drove the successful re-platforming of the leading life sciences ecommerce site (thermofisher.com, $2.5B in annual revenue) to AWS with a fully automated CI/CD pipeline.• Designed a cloud financial management practice which optimized cloud computing workloads and saved 14.4% in overall cloud computing costs.• Implemented a program to assess the talent impact of cloud computing in IT. This assessment led to the development of the roles of the future in IT and conducted a talent assessment of the IT workforce, ultimately prompting an increase in talent reskilling and training.• Led cloud strategy and development across lines of business to adopt cloud migration strategies and ultimately use cloud technologies to solve business problems.• Managed a team of 250 engineers responsible for data centers, systems integration, global networks, telephony, client engineering, storage, backups, identity and access management, disaster recovery, operational risk management, enterprise architecture, major incident management, reliability engineering, full stack engineering, IT operations centers. Cloud architecture and automation, and software quality.• Managed a budget of over $150M.• Created a formal Disaster Recovery and IT Risk Management program to ensure the timely recovery of mission critical services. The IT Risk Management program identifies documents and classifies all IT operational risks.

Waltham, Ma, Us

THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC, Carlsbad, CA 2012-2016LIFE TECHNOLOGIES, Carlsbad, CA 2009-2012Technical Director: Enterprise Architecture, Systems Integrations, SAP Basis, and Database ServicesDrove the development and execution of Thermo Fisher’s global strategies for ERP, eCommerce, and Service. Developed and executed the standards and governance for systems integrations across Thermo Fisher Scientific.• Led a team of Enterprise Architects responsible for working across the lines of business and IT leadership to ensure the reusability of technology and alignment of business and IT capabilities to drive efficiency, productivity, reliability, and increased revenue. • Coordinated the SAP Basis team responsible for the development and support of the SAP ERP systems across Thermo Fisher.• Led the Global Database Services team responsible for all Oracle and MSSQL databases for Thermo Fisher.• Led the Systems Integration team responsible for the integration of systems and applications across Thermo Fisher Scientific. The primary system integration platforms consist of Oracle Fusion Middleware and WebMethods.

Waltham, Ma, Us

Brought on to lead the modernization of the computing platforms for Life Technologies, including the shift to a fully virtualized computing platform using VMware and a shift from Windows to Linux and open-source software services.• Promoted to lead the newly formed Infrastructure Architecture team in designing the infrastructure components to support all Enterprise Applications.• Established and published Infrastructure Standards and Governance to ensure compliance with global standards.

Germantown, Md, Us

Held top secret SI/TK security clearance for functions at the Office of Naval Intelligence, Pentagon.

Washington, Dc, Us