Mark Rackers Email & Phone Number

Frisco, Tx, Us

Frisco, Tx, Us

Reston, Virginia, Us

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Cloud Architect and Cloud Engineer supporting Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud (GCP). Working with application teams to understand their requirements and design solutions in the cloud; either for new applications, existing application migration, or to modernize an application using cloud services. • Responsible for the cloud infrastructure foundation in Azure, AWS, and GCP. Designed and implemented architectural changes to strengthen security through policies, improve automation with DevOps and Terraform, and to make the environment easier to use by application teams by allowing them to utilize console with policy guardrails in place.• Provided architecture and implementation for over 50 Google, Azure, and AWS cloud solutions including on-prem to cloud migrations, modernization, and new applications. Included various degrees of difficulty by simple cloud computing (Iaas) to utilizing software as a service (Saas).• Redesigned the Azure cloud landing zone to give the application teams more control over their resources, enable more Azure services, and to organize billing. The new landing zone enabled the financial team to identify 1 million in savings per year.• Restructured the hierarchy in Azure and Google to minimize security risks and implement job function roles for support. The new function-based roles allowed teams to focus on specific skills that improve cloud user satisfaction when issues arose.• NSA clearance to maintain restrictive data and resources hosted in Nokia IT environments. Redesigned the architecture in Azure and Google with to meet requirements for hosting NSA classified applications. • Service Owner for Azure, AWS, and Google cloud infrastructure due to my business aptitude and my strong knowledge of the multiple cloud environments. Single point of contact for any customers, application teams, operations, and engineering changes.

Ashburn, Virginia, Us

Architect for DXC Analytics and Intelligence organization with area of expertise in leading tool adoption, standardization, and migration to cloud computing. Technical Lead for multiple teams to ensure they meet stated goals and develop skillsets within the team. Agile Coach for global teams providing guidance for scrum masters to lead their teams. Collaborate cross-functionally to align priorities and adhere to project deliverable.Key Achievements:• Successfully reverse engineered an AWS data collection and web reporting solution from a partner, enabling a seamless exit from a $MM contract and with no impact to end users or data providers.• Optimized an inherited Amazon Web Services environment by eliminating and re-engineering, reducing costs by 50%.• Developed a new Business Intelligence solution utilizing Amazon Web Services. Designed a serverless environment and used open source so the entire solution could be moved to another cloud provider with minimal changes.• Re-designed SAP Business Objects environment of 56 servers in multiple global regions and optimized the environment, improving the solution availability from 75% to 99%. • Directed a team to perform domain changes for 200+ Linux and Windows servers over 6 tools with no impact to users or customers, developing the plan for each tool for implementation by engineers and operations teams.• Solution Architect for a new QlikView-based dashboard reporting system for 200+ clients in multiple global regions, as well as designing complementary Qlik Sense product enabling use of data models in a customized dashboard.• Built a new report and storage and retrieval system based on .NET to maintain 2.5M reports for 100+ clients—currently in use with 99.99% uptime over life of tool. Tool provided self-maintenance • Spearheaded the integration of Agile methodologies replacing waterfall project management for a team of over 100 individuals. Performed 1500+ hours of agile based project management.