Cloudgainz specializes in Azure cost optimization services and architectural subject matter expertise for Microsoft enterprise customers. Services include fully managed Cost Optimization as a Service, FinOps transformation, Cloud Modernization, and Value Realization.

Direct responsibility for Azure, VMware, Windows, Active Directory, and Unix infrastructure teams. Represented Ferguson in partner relationships with Microsoft, Red Hat, HP, and VMware, including cost optimization and private advisory groups in the areas of governance, automation, and operational insights. Led cross-functional teams including the Cloud Center of Excellence responsible for operational architecture, engineering, and service delivery of overall cloud platforms and infrastructure.Notable projects include: data center migration | data center reduction | data center refresh | private cloud implementation | public cloud implementation | organizational transformation | mergers & acquisitions

Responsible for all aspects of IT including datacenter, architecture, security, compliance, governance, end-user compute, helpdesk, applications, software development, budget, and the back office.

Led IT and worked alongside a growing strategic corporate leadership team for a decade as the business grew from a modest DoD contract firm to a mid-sized enterprise through rapid organic growth and inorganic growth including frequent mergers & acquisitions. Responsible for all aspects of IT including datacenter, architecture, M&A onboarding/consolidation, wan, security, applications, compliance, governance, finance/budget, end-user compute, and helpdesk.Originally SFA, Inc., the company became Global Strategies Group (North America) through international acquisition, went public on the NASDAQ as Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc., and sold to a private equity firm, becoming Sotera Defense Solutions, Inc.

Responsible for the Communications Engineering Group's datacenter, systems, and end-user compute.

Led field dispatch teams in support of Newport News Shipbuilding's end-user compute. Grew business unit in Charleston, SC responsible for managed services.

Fun times in the early days of high-volume customer tech support.