Michael J Geiser Email & Phone Number

Ocean View, De, Us

Paris, France, Fr

As a trusted customer advocate, help organizations understand Architectural best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions, and provide advice on strategies for migrating existing workloads to the cloud. I help drive successful business outcomes across a broad set of enterprise customers through educating, training, designing and building cloud solutions.In my work with Generative AI in the AWS CoE, I provide guidance as a Principal-level Generative AI Solution Architect. I advise on the use of ML and Generative AI tools, such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Bedrock, and Amazon Code Whisperer, to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems.In this role, I am responsible to:• Ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the AWS platform.• Educate customers on the value proposition of AWS and showcase the art of possible.• Participate in deep architectural discussions and design exercises to create world-class solutions built on AWS while ensuring solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud.• Author and contribute to AWS customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, workshops, proof of concepts, and prototypes.• Build deep relationships with senior technical individuals within customers to enable them to be cloud advocates.• Lead the architecture and enabling technologies strategy for AI/ML Platform & Engineering, Generative AI enablement, Advanced Analytics and MLOps.• Provide thought leadership and act as the trusted technical adviser to the business and technology leadership team.• Build awareness, increase knowledge and drive adoption of AI tools and technologies

Paris, France, Fr

Responsible for managing and growing multiple accounts with technology teams for large ($10M+) strategic engagements. Manages and expands the relationships between Capgemini and our clients and plays a critical role in driving the growth of the practice. Hire, develop, and lead some of the world’s best consultants.• Led team that delivered high volume, low latency, & resilient event-based data Ingestion and transformation backbone for IoT data scalable to 1B events per day using AWS-based Services and related PaaS architectures.• Awarded the Capgemini DCX NA 2022 “Account of the Year” Team Award.• Overall owner of technology for multi-year program with a 75+ member internationally distributed team.• Build technology team with ownership of coaching, mentoring, and developing technical professionals.• Member of four-person Capgemini/Client Program Management with ultimate responsibility to Client SVPs and CXOs for program vision definition, roadmap, deliverables, budget, and driving business results on $19M US annual program.• Program governance and escalation point for both Capgemini and Client for technology issues across multiple accounts.• Define and drive maturity of Cloud & Cloud Native technologies, DevOps, and Agile to support initiatives.• Responsible for team that established Data Lake and other stores to feed novel ML based models and inference engines.

Member of five-person Board of Directors for 126 unit HOA in Collegeville PA

Member of three-person Board of Directors for 210 unit HOA in the resort area of Ocean View, DEBoard President from May 2019 through May 2020

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Us

Picwell is the most advanced and revolutionary decision support tool for health plan choice. Picwell objectively ranks health plans that best fit a consumer’s personal needs and values, using technology powered by predictive analytics and behavioral economics.My role included: Provide leadership for the development, testing, and DevOps contributors. Set standards and processes for the most effective use of Cloud resources and to control related operational expenses. Select, promote and implement new technologies that solve business needs. Control growth of labor through automation and appropriate use of self-service designs. • Defined and implementing iterative AWS cost reduction strategies; AWS annual spent on track to be reduced for a full year by 56% by the adoption of Autoscaling, optimizing product use, adoption of new products, and data life cycle policies.• Changed consulting staffing strategy and partners to increase available developers by 40%, reduce total labor costs by 20%, and reallocated work to accelerate product delivery.• Set architectural direction for AWS technology roadmap and implementation plan for adoption of new technologies.• Updated postings and increased recruiting channels for open development positions resulting in a 700% increase in quality applications. Improving applicant screening to better identify qualified applicants.• Implemented career progression for Software Engineers and DevOps positions with clear standards for promotion to increase staff retention rates• Introducing Secure SDLC training, and automated testing for security, integration, and regression domains to SDLC.• Assessed stakeholder needs, defined solution, gained consensus, and implemented very low impact time accounting process with reporting to categorize work by client/internal account and by OpEx/CapEx in very compressed timeline

King Of Prussia, Pa, Us

Responsibilities include providing strategic and tactical planning, organizing, managing, and implementing the development and architectural components of the engineering department and corporate roadmap. Provided expertise in cybersecurity to ensure the security of new and existing platforms through the entire SDLC in accordance with regulations and industry best practices. • Developed and enhanced the technology strategy in support of the organization’s strategic goals and mission.• Managed all phases of multiple strategic development initiatives using locally and geographically distributed teams.• Defined and managed compliance to a comprehensive annual budget for the department and related activities. • Structured and led global IT staff to maximize productivity and manage cost. • Defined and implemented effective internal controls and regulated environments.• Negotiated and managed consultant contracts and SOWs for fixed-term and recurring contracts.• Proactively managed budget recurring operational expenses for $200k reductions each calendar year.• Directed planning, deployment and maintenance of IT infrastructure, applications, and new technical solutions.

White Plains, New York, Us

Responsible for driving technical decisions and application development of a new SaaS based Healthcare Employee Benefits Administration platform. Managed large geographically distributed development organization and coordinated with and influenced DevOps, QA and Product Owners as needed to ensure all launch targets were met.Team successfully delivered new core revenue generating business application under very aggressive timelineDesigned and implemented robust design for entire platform with seamless AWS and company owned data center. Personally defined and built out entire infrastructure, documented and turned over to DevOps.Developed program to retrain core staff on new technology stack (.NET to Java) and drove integration of staff FTEs and consultants (on and offshore) into effective team.Key team member for rebooted Agile SDLC program and drove adoption by teams; optimized tools, practices, and adoption across teams. Defined performance metrics and automation requirements and developed initial release of Selenium based platform to evaluate production performance of Live site and to capture metrics for NOC alerting and Kibana dashboard. Extended use to QA for automated functional and regression testing.Designed Business Continuity approach for Main site and DR site with zero downtime planned fail-over and Release management processes minimal unplanned fail-over times.Identified continuous improvement opportunities in components and processes by identifying opportunities for defects, accessed risk and potential impact and then defined and implemented remediation.

The Lead Technical Manager in the Multi-Channel Group is a Product Owner and senior leadership position who manages direct reports that can include Technical Managers or individual contributors and indirect reports plus contractors. Duties include ultimate accountability for delivery of release of Project based development work and accountability for cross-system development teams who must deliver high quality, end to end e-Commerce solutions. Contributions:Created and implemented an IT department-wide “Recruit Better, Hire Better, Develop Better” career path program credited with reducing time to fill open positions by 15 days and reducing attrition by 30% over the first two years.Managed the implementation, performance validation and initial client launches on the platform. The first 6 months saw successful launches of 18 brands tracing to significant incremental revenue and usage growth.Scaled Agile SME/Coach, Tools and ReportingAgile coach and subject matter expert. Created a comprehensive portfolio/Scaled Agile tool set in JIRA and influenced adoption through peersMulti-Channel e-Commerce: One project was 9 month, 65,000 hour, and $5M budget Scaled Agile project that was on-time and on-budget with high quality/low defects that added $100M incremental sales during year two of releasee-Commerce Architecture: Development of Product based services that meet scalability, reliability, security and availability requirements for robust Multi-Channel and core commerce components to meet the volume spikes of seasonal trafficVendor Relationship ManagementManaged all phases of Vendor relationships.Litigation and Patent DefenseProvided technical expertise to assist in the defense of patent litigation including contributing declarations/affidavits

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Architect and Project Manager for specific areas of the high volume online products with 450,000+ users, millions of views, and high transaction levels for the main global customer facing website of a $2.5B line of business. Leader for successful pilot project and program roadmap for multi-year Application Modernization of web and internal SOA/SaaS services for global eCommerce site.Increased uptime and productivity while decreasing user response times (up to 60%), system load (up to 7%), operational expenses, and new feature delivery time.Leveraged communication and negotiation skills to orchestrate project teams at three geographic locations.Liaison for department to executives, business and external partner stakeholders, PMO Council and Enterprise Review Boards.Prepared, presented, and managed project and personnel budgets for both capital and operating expenses.

Oaks, Pa, Us

Technical Manager on 400 person and $350+ million new product initiative supporting banking, financial adviser and financial services customers. Architected custom code and APIs to deliver custom code integrating with multiple COTS and Open Source systems. Managed key partner vendor relationships.Led effort from vendor selection, rollout, architecting and managing multiple releases of custom Java Documentum API Led or participated on key Enterprise Architecture teams to implement additions and improvements to infrastructure, application components and enterprise frameworks. Responsible for staff management; led technical teams through motivation and mentoring of team members by effort and example for geographically dispersed teams of employee, consultant and offshore staffs.Established, extended, and maintained vendor relationships with Tier 1 enterprise class partners such as EMC, Microsoft, BEA, CA, Borland, and Schwab.

Senior management level position providing tactical and strategic leadership across multiple functional areas. Directed and coordinated all aspects of implementation, design, and maintenance of up multiple concurrent projects that effectively used technology solutions to meet business objectives established by internal or external clients. Developed staffing plans and recruited senior level leaders as well as staff positions to the plan. Drove development and sales efforts to meet growth, revenue and profitability goals of company.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Norwalk, Ct, Us

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

B.S., Technology Management

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