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Olathe, KS, US

Austin, Texas, US

• Transitioned to Oracle as part of the Cerner acquisition. As senior manager of the Cloud Business Office (CBO) I oversaw a 95M cloud budget across 350+ AWS accounts and 50+ Azure subscriptions with responsibility for.
• Led the creation of detailed capacity reports, mapping major AWS resources to OCI across all AWS accounts.
• Oversaw the analysis and purchase of 38M in AWS savings plans, resulting in 20M in cost savings vs on-demand over the same period.
• Managed an Agile development team that designed and implemented OCI compartment request forms in Cerner's cloud onboarding and tenant lifecycle solution Altitude, streamlining the onboarding process of 37 product teams.
• Worked closely with finance to forecast cloud spend and collaborated with product teams to ensure that spending aligned with approved amounts, resulting in consistent favorability against our forecasts.
• Documented the onboarding and capacity process utilized by all product teams across Oracle Health and AI, facilitating the adoption of OCI cloud technologies.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

• Lead Cerner's Cloud Business Office (CBO) managing a small team with responsibility for cloud tenant onboarding, forecasting, budget, cost optimization and reporting. Also serve as product manager responsible for.
• Functioned as the product manager to drive ground up development of Altitude, a server less web application running in AWS, to enable Cloud Engineering to shift from a Jira-based request process to a full-featured.
• Streamlined cloud governance and onboarding processes, resulting in greater scalability, and enabling efficient processing of over 100 cloud business cases annually.
• Drove creation of internal cost reporting based on AWS CUR to replace Cloudability solution with PowerBI reporting saving over 200K in renewal costs.
• Maintained over 95% AWS savings plan coverage, resulting in over $5M per month in savings.
• Created the 2022 annual budget process in Altitude by building an Altitude form and documenting the request process. Then worked with finance to finalize the plan, and provided a plan overview for executives across.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

• Managed a team of 4 architects focused on enterprise storage, compute, data protection, and UNIX. Key Accomplishments:
• Designed a new rack architecture using HPE servers with top-of-rack switches to enable Oracle RAC clustering, network, and storage connectivity, resulting in improved stability, scalability, and system performance.
• Architected a new DB backup solution using NetApp FAS to host NFS mounts with snapshots, resulting in significant improvements in recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO) for large-scale.
• Responsible for architecture and initial implementation of HPE Gen 10 servers and HPE Synergy.
• Responsible for the architecture and initial deployment of the HPE 3PAR storage system, providing high-performance storage for Cerner's multi-petabyte backup and storage environment.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Enterprise storage architect responsible for one of the largest and most complex storage environments in the midwest.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Moved to architecture team to focus on SAN\Storage. Implemented IBM SVC for data protection.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

I Currently work on a reactive\proactive storage team responsible for 18.5PB of storage and 20,000 ports in a heterogenous storage environment. My primary focus is reacting to mission critical issues and proactively maintaining the storage environment. I am experienced in leading projects, architecting solutions, implementations, migrations, performance.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Responsible for managing corporate backup environment. Responsible for both Veritas NetBackup and TSM.

Milwaukee, WI, US

Worked at Harley Davidson through Sperion as a helpdesk intern. Start date is an estimate.

Master Of Science In Management, Business

B.S. Management Information Systems, Information Technology

Associate In Arts