John Sarazen Email & Phone Number

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Greater Seattle Area

VorpalEdge, LLC - privately held investment and advisory firm focused on cloud & edge-centric and augmented reality opportunities and talent development. Writing a book on edge computing. - VorpalEdge is presently focused in the areas of AR, hybrid cloud, cloud-to-edge innovation, application integration across cloud & edge ecosystems, and enterprise-to-cloud transformation initiatives. - Currently working with startups in contextual AI & enterprise IT/edge… Show more VorpalEdge, LLC - privately held investment and advisory firm focused on cloud & edge-centric and augmented reality opportunities and talent development. Writing a book on edge computing. - VorpalEdge is presently focused in the areas of AR, hybrid cloud, cloud-to-edge innovation, application integration across cloud & edge ecosystems, and enterprise-to-cloud transformation initiatives. - Currently working with startups in contextual AI & enterprise IT/edge transformation, data analytics, and AR. As the founder and managing partner of VorpalEdge, I have an energetic passion for hands-on leading-edge technical achievement. Enjoy executive roles, but there's nothing so satisfying as bringing difficult projects to a successful end whether these are seed-stage startups or intrapeneurial teams within the enterprise. Show less

Washington D.C. Metro Area

immuta.com - Advisor to one of the most intriguing and imaginative startups in data analytics.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

I am a hands-on IT practitioner with 25+ years experience at the leading-edges of technology’s latest innovations, focused now on hybrid cloud and secure next-gen mobile for private and public sectors. Internationally recognized as a practical thought leader and advisor, delivering strategic IT transformation guidance and real world next-generation solutions consulting to CIO/CTO executives in private sector and government, including the US/international defense, intelligence, and civil IT… Show more I am a hands-on IT practitioner with 25+ years experience at the leading-edges of technology’s latest innovations, focused now on hybrid cloud and secure next-gen mobile for private and public sectors. Internationally recognized as a practical thought leader and advisor, delivering strategic IT transformation guidance and real world next-generation solutions consulting to CIO/CTO executives in private sector and government, including the US/international defense, intelligence, and civil IT communities. I'm highly successful at executing enterprise IT transformations for complex, highly regulated public and private sector organizations. - Business Development: Identify and exploit new opportunities for revenue and relationships through transformations of legacy and current IT to include next-gen technologies and solutions. - Complex Solution Selling: Partner with clients to understand their unique technical demands and secure buy-in for the sale of technical architecture design for hybrid cloud and enterprise IT transformation. - Enterprise IT Transformation: Align the right IT solutions to address internal business effectiveness and efficiency and external competitive and regulatory threats with the client’s current IT strategies and portfolios. - Innovation: Thought leader in hybrid cloud and next-gen mobile solutions to identify opportunities and develop technology-driven cloud, mobile and data solutions that enhance competitiveness, efficiency and sustainability. - Executive Communication: Able to get a seat at the table as a trusted advisor to public and private sector leaders at the highest levels of the organization. Provide them with objective advice and effective strategies.C-level technologist, solution developer in cloud, mobile, next-gen digital enterprise transformation. Investor, advisor to stealth-mode startups. contact: john dot sarazen @ gmail dot com / 1.908.347.2919 Show less

Washington, D.C.

Deep hands-on mentoring for CSC's fast-moving global public sector cloud business. I provide thought leadership to diverse clients and help guide them to CSC's innovative cloud-centric solutions involving Big Data, mobility, agile DevOps, and related multi-vendor offerings. CSC's North America Public Sector (NPS) united with SRA in November 2015 and became CSRA - acquired by General Dynamics in Spring 2018. Did what I was asked to do, get CSC's public sector expert on hybrid cloud. Now into… Show more Deep hands-on mentoring for CSC's fast-moving global public sector cloud business. I provide thought leadership to diverse clients and help guide them to CSC's innovative cloud-centric solutions involving Big Data, mobility, agile DevOps, and related multi-vendor offerings. CSC's North America Public Sector (NPS) united with SRA in November 2015 and became CSRA - acquired by General Dynamics in Spring 2018. Did what I was asked to do, get CSC's public sector expert on hybrid cloud. Now into 2nd gen cloud, mobile, public sector systems integrator services transformation. And, of course, finding & mentoring the next tech gems.Globally experienced, high-energy senior-level performer. Hands-on "catalyst"​ for cloud-centric enterprise IT transformation. Entrepreneur, solution architect, development of government-scale "as-a-service"​ offerings to Federal Government and the international public sector. Next-gen advisor and successful technology investor. Mentored CSC's public sector team on hybrid cloud. They won the FAA Cloud opportunity ($1B). Led the CSC Canada team to the lead position on Shared Services Canada ($100M+). Led the CSC NPS (CSgov) effort on Israel's MoD Cloud opportunity ($200M+). Agility Hybrid Cloud Management Platformhttps://www.dxc.technology/cloud/offerings/140040/140142-dxc_agility_platform. The founders of ServiceMesh did what we set out to do some 8+ years ago. SM defined and built the first application-centric hybrid cloud management platform. Now, everyone is rushing as fast as they can to catch up and move beyond infrastructures. Couldn't be more grateful to them all and excited about what's emerging! So... to quote a good friend: "What's the future of the cloud? It has no future." Any more than "electricity" does. It's what we do with it, what appliances we invent... that matters, and it's time to move to the next, the much more disruptive, creative, and valuable stages. Security clearances: DoD Secret, Top Secret; DHS EOD Show less

Santa Monica, Ca

IT Transformation Strategy Advisor & Consultant to servicemesh. As an advisory consultant, I provide thought leadership in large-scale federated cloud environments. A founding investor, not an employee.

Washington, Dc

Completed - Tasked with refining and delivering the overall technical solution of the HPES cloud offering for a public sector Workplace-as-a-Service: virtual workspaces (desktop, mobile/BYOD), provisioning & management portals, service/application catalogs, enterprise application transformation-to-mobile platforms, and selection/integration of cloud products and services. Tasked with leading development of the technical cloud services integration strategy and next-gen infrastructure to align… Show more Completed - Tasked with refining and delivering the overall technical solution of the HPES cloud offering for a public sector Workplace-as-a-Service: virtual workspaces (desktop, mobile/BYOD), provisioning & management portals, service/application catalogs, enterprise application transformation-to-mobile platforms, and selection/integration of cloud products and services. Tasked with leading development of the technical cloud services integration strategy and next-gen infrastructure to align WPaaS, EaaS, SPaaS, DTaaS and other "as-a-service" offerings. Consulting architect and SME for HP DHS Enterprise Cloud Portal offering (mobility, security (HSPD-12/virtual PIV/CAC), portal design, process orchestration, federated data center management, infrastructure) Show less

Washington Dc Area

Senior Program/Project Manager responsible for numerous relocation and modernization projects as part of a major public sector data center transformation initiative. This is widely considered to be among the very largest and most complex mission-critical data center migrations, modernizations and IT infrastructure/applications transformation projects currently underway globally. Multi-year, multi-billion dollar data center systems and applications migration, consolidation and IT transformation… Show more Senior Program/Project Manager responsible for numerous relocation and modernization projects as part of a major public sector data center transformation initiative. This is widely considered to be among the very largest and most complex mission-critical data center migrations, modernizations and IT infrastructure/applications transformation projects currently underway globally. Multi-year, multi-billion dollar data center systems and applications migration, consolidation and IT transformation projects that include extensive, multi-agency cloud initiatives with very high security and 24x7x365 uptime requirements. My roles: program and project management, enterprise data center cloud architect. Technical "hands-on" leadership in data center migration, infrastructure modernization, and IT transformation via enterprise cloud initiatives. As "program/project" manager, I am very hands-on in all technical, management, and financial aspects of these initiatives. Projects included: Customs & Border Protection, Secret Service, TSA Federal Air Marshal. Received a 2012 Commendation for Excellence from the CIO, US Secret Service for successfully leading a complex project to satisfactory completion. Show less

Washington, Dc

Data center migration & modernization planner for multisite data center migration effort. Developed the comprehensive data center migration, modernization, and IT transformation plans to move public sector data centers. Multi-year effort, requiring deep hands-on involvement in all technical, management and client-contractor aspects of the initiative.

Ny/Nj

Global Program Manager - for an enterprise desktop refresh initiative in 95 countries. The program was scaled at 400K desktops, including approx. 120K thin clients, thousands of supporting servers, an upgraded infrastructure and upgraded MS platforms. I worked with 18 regional Program Managers and various technical teams. The overall budget was $1.2B.

Princeton, Nj

Working closely with the Merrill Lynch Private Client CTO and executive management, I led development of transformative solutions that enabled Private Client to reduce costs, create and deliver new services faster, improve client satisfaction, and support Merrill's financial advisors.Hybrid Cloud: do a search on Distributed Adaptive Computing (DAC), a US patent issued to ML in 2002. It has been cited hundreds of times since then and is considered by many authoritative cloud gurus as one… Show more Working closely with the Merrill Lynch Private Client CTO and executive management, I led development of transformative solutions that enabled Private Client to reduce costs, create and deliver new services faster, improve client satisfaction, and support Merrill's financial advisors.Hybrid Cloud: do a search on Distributed Adaptive Computing (DAC), a US patent issued to ML in 2002. It has been cited hundreds of times since then and is considered by many authoritative cloud gurus as one of the truly foundational patents describing the concepts inherent in hybrid cloud and how it should be designed, deployed, managed, and optimally used. DAC is still well ahead of the state of the art today (2015). Tony Pizi and the other named authors were the creators of these groundbreaking ideas. I was privileged to create the first business case for DAC - MajorDomo. As I developed the technical and economic business models to support these concepts, I formulated some of the key ideas that are now fundamental to the primary economic and technical models of optimized hybrid clouds, years before these became a "thing..." Show less

Murray Hill, Nj

Business Development Manager: if you've ever used voice recognition on a smartphone, PC/Mac, or other device or service, I led the Bell Labs team that packaged the core research at Bell Labs and developed the licensing models used by virtually all companies worldwide.Senior Project Manager: in 1995, I led a joint AT&T Bell Labs and EDS development team that created an enterprise-wide software application monitoring, reporting, and management system that was used by product teams across… Show more Business Development Manager: if you've ever used voice recognition on a smartphone, PC/Mac, or other device or service, I led the Bell Labs team that packaged the core research at Bell Labs and developed the licensing models used by virtually all companies worldwide.Senior Project Manager: in 1995, I led a joint AT&T Bell Labs and EDS development team that created an enterprise-wide software application monitoring, reporting, and management system that was used by product teams across all CIO groups at AT&T. The system tracked more than 25K developers in many locations. It was viewed as a successful early Web-based intranet application, using Netscape, C++, and Java 1.x Enterprise Architect: involved in development of new media infrastructure architecture design for Internet media delivery (audio/video/wireless-deployed via AT&T's acquisition of McCaw Cellular in 1994 and Worldnet)1992 - Tokyo, Japan. Keynote speaker representing AT&T Bell Labs at Artificial Intelligence and Speech Processing Conference.Senior Project Manager: led team that worked with Carnegie Mellon, Capers Jones, and PMI in the development of content for the PMBOK, v1.0 - contributed technical thought leadership on large-scale software development project management. Show less

Ohio, Colorado

Systems engineer for UNIX/AIX. Competitive analysis: DEC, SUN. Responsibilities included development of technical solutions in the financial services, cable/satellite, airline, oil/gas, and healthcare sectors. Worked with the Ohio State University and IBM Cambridge UK on medical imaging and just-in-time manufacture of implantable medical devices (hip joint prosthetics). Worked with IBM SMB to support healthcare clients in Colorado (Steadman Clinic, Vail) and major clients: Jeppesen Aviation… Show more Systems engineer for UNIX/AIX. Competitive analysis: DEC, SUN. Responsibilities included development of technical solutions in the financial services, cable/satellite, airline, oil/gas, and healthcare sectors. Worked with the Ohio State University and IBM Cambridge UK on medical imaging and just-in-time manufacture of implantable medical devices (hip joint prosthetics). Worked with IBM SMB to support healthcare clients in Colorado (Steadman Clinic, Vail) and major clients: Jeppesen Aviation (digital cartography), cable/satellite, oil & gas (downstream), banking & brokerage. Supported Battelle and Borden (Ohio) and United Airlines AIX initiatives. Led numerous open systems/AIX strategy workshops for IBM's Fortune 100 clients. Show less

Ba, Economics

Activities and Societies: other foci: marine biology, geography/cartography. Created and taught the first for-credit rock and ice climbing.

Mba, Finance, Information Systems

MBA program with concentration in Finance and Information Systems. Didn't complete the MBA program. Did however, teach rock climbing to CU.