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Leading cloud technology initiatives and overseeing a team of engineers and architects. Playing a pivotal role in providing cloud-based services to Milliman practices globally. Providing strategic thinking and driving the adoption of cloud-based technologies, leading data strategy for the business, improving processes, fostering collaboration, and.

• 1 of 7 inventors for published US Patent of “Systems and Methods for Automated Cloud Provisioning”
• Established an Enterprise cloud platform and infrastructure architecture vision and ensured specific components were appropriately designed and leveraged, including an AWS Landing Zone with integrated Atlassian.
• Built a Cloud Adoption team of architects, then lead and evangelized Cloud Adoption efforts, guided the development strategy of “Cloud First” and drove cloud technologies towards implementation and exploitation.
• Collaborated with Elevance Health Business Units (Corporate, Government, Commercial, and Digital) to enable a cloud migration of over 700 applications.
• Worked in partnership with a new line of pharmacy business to establish a cloud presence and mature an application portfolio of 29 applications to be fully cloud native.
• Provided oversight on new workload needs with respect to multi-cloud providers and technology capabilities including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud.

• Designed and documented an Enterprise-wide standardized tagging/labeling convention for cloud resources.
• Evangelized use of hyperconverged infrastructure to reduce hardware provisioning time for Datacenter and x86 server teams, to implement “just in time” capacity, speed up time to market for lines of business, and.
• Documented and formalized process for architects to recommended new technologies based upon business value drivers and return on investment, including being Product Owner for the process front end website, ArchiPortal.
• Established overall platform/infrastructure architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged which contributed to the holistic vision of Enterprise Architecture.

• Evangelized use of vCOPS within the virtual environment to improve operations and reduce costs by ~$2M annually, while also providing real-time reporting of storage, memory and CPU capacity and usage.
• Managed, governed, and grew virtual environment to over ~7,000 virtual machines with Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and ~200 VMware ESX operating systems.
• Architected, designed, and provided implementation guidance for VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware vSphere 4 and VMware vSphere 5 virtual environments following best practices with ESX Server hosts, fiber attached.

• Designed, documented, and implemented an Enterprise-wide server infrastructure Active Directory OU structure with hardening GPOs for a Fortune 50 company.
• Designed and documented an Enterprise-wide standardized server naming convention for Intel and Midrange platforms.
• Designed and documented virtualization processes for an Enterprise-wide virtualization and refresh initiative where over 2,000 servers were virtualized.
• Used various scripting languages (PowerShell and VBScript) to efficiently support and automate management of both physical and virtual server environments.
• Used BMC BladeLogic to manage multiple aspects of the Development and Test server environments including audit/compliance, provisioning, and application deployment.

• Reduced project lifecycle rework by 99.48% with Six Sigma Green Belt project
• Designed and implemented first IBM DB2 cluster environment at Elevance Health
• Maintained, monitored, installed, built, configured, supported, and troubleshot infrastructure including switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls, and 300+ Microsoft Windows servers with multiple Active Directory.