Into Generative AI, ML, cloud strategy & technologies, paleontology, coral reefs & aquatic eco systems.Michael is an experienced Executive in Accenture’s Cloud First Infrastructure Engineering practice, responsible for the creation & management of SOWs, responding to RFPs, setting strategy and architecture, staffing, creating project plans, estimates and requirements, presenting to and engaging C-Level leadership and has led implementations with up to 300 people reporting up to him.Michael is also a mentor, of which all of his counselees requested his service, and he leads the Western Region Cloud Migration & Design Hub. As a mentor, Michael is responsible for their performance evaluations and representing them for promotions, raises, bonuses, and new roles. As the Western Region Cloud Migration & Design Hub lead Michael is responsible for guiding client cloud account teams with their migrations and assisting with their client level issues. Michael has over 20 years of experience as a corporate entrepreneur, providing thought leadership, creating road-maps for Technology Transformation projects and uses the diversity of thought of stakeholders to design solutions and fulfill contracts. Michael is also the Winner Of The University Of Boulder Leeds Schools Of Business Tesla New Venture Challenge.Certs TrainingMichael holds an AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certificate, a VCE VBlock Converged Infrastructure certificate, is a certified Scrum Master, holds an ITIL 2011 certificate, and has hands on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, GCVE, Vblocks, public clouds, private clouds hybrid clouds, EMC storage, servers, networking, virtualization, AI (Artificial Intelligence) predictive analysis, CMDB, discovery ,Service Management, Sarbanes Oxley ( Michael created the first SOX compliant DevOps process application, which was presented to the USA Congress), IT operating models, CRM, demand mgt., project mgt., sustainable supply chain management more.Fun FactsMichael has an MS from the University of Colorado Boulder, where he was awarded a full ride and stipend to grad school for a Scientific Research Metadata Tracking system he created for museums and research institutions, and a BS in CIS from Regis University. Michael was a certified Paleontologist with the State of Colorado, published and does research projects with Universities and Government entities. For enjoyment Michael paddle boards during the summer, skis during the winter, and likes to dig in the dirt and do research on the K/T Extinction event and aquaculture of coral and freshwater fish.
