Chris Ellison Email & Phone Number

Orlando, Fl, Us

Burbank, Ca, Us

London, Gb

-DIRECTOR, CLOUD & PLATFORMS (2019-2020)-DIRECTOR, APPLICATION PLATFORM SERVICES (2016-2019)◆ 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗘: Spearhead executive leadership and create the strategic roadmap for a 250+ global technology enterprise for this Big 4 accounting firm posting $32.7B in revenue. Lead technology operations and site reliability engineering, enabling customer and employee success, and delivering E2E lifecycle and cloud infrastructure, and application platform products and services.◆ 𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗭𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗧:➣ Strategized and built reliable and scalable services across 7 platform product spheres, including cloud application platforms, DevOps, virtual app services, analytics & big data, among others.➣ Held financial governance for $56M annual budget, leveraging investments and revamping application platform services to DevOps and Agile models.➣ Fueled value creation and customer success by cultivating business partnerships, identifying opportunities, and creating customer-focused technology solutions.➣ Architected and championed a Leadership Cohort program, a holistic, cross-functional leadership engagement initiative to transform the leadership culture and identify middle management challenges.➣ Crafted global enterprise DevSecOps solution of IaC patterns with 30+ automated core building blocks, including infrastructure, platform, and cloud services.

San Jose, Ca, Us

◆ 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗘: Guided a 13-member team for this global manufacturer and supplier of integrated, network, cloud, and software solutions, leading infrastructure architecture and design leadership, providing large-scale, cross-domain data center and application solutions.◆ 𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗭𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗧:➣ Created NextGen cloud infrastructure build on openstack, containers, and VMware.➣ Delivered hybrid cloud solution, linking private enterprise and public clouds.➣ Leveraged Agile and continuous delivery frameworks to build large-scale engineering environments.➣ Developed enterprise networking and cloud-ready networks.

San Jose, Ca, Us

◆ 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗘: Formulated and enacted future state architecture capabilities and solutions across 4 infrastructure domains: database & ERP, application & web platforms, identity & access management, and middleware & integration.◆ 𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗭𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗧:➣ Earned Oracle Innovation Award for deploying Oracle adaptive access management platform (OAAM).➣ Established database as a service cloud database framework, launching cloud-enabled DB capacities, such as Cassandra & MariaDB database services.➣ Architected an identity of everything strategy that outlined an identity and access framework, ensuring secure access from any client, from any device to any service, from anywhere.

San Jose, Ca, Us

◆ 𝗦𝗖𝗢𝗣𝗘: Steered enterprise IT architecture and multi-tiered software initiatives, such as budget forecasts, process improvements, system protocols, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and user SLAS.◆ 𝗢𝗥𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗜𝗭𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗜𝗠𝗣𝗔𝗖𝗧:➣ Stimulated $2.3M in supplemental revenue through implementing an RF inventory management process, garnering an additional manufacturing day in Juarez, Mexico.➣ Core member of corporate IT security and risk management team; achieved low-risk IT security rating (among lowest in EY annual security audit).Early Career Success: Developed a solid foundation with Scientific Atlanta, Inc. as a MANAGER, TECHNICAL SERVICES and MANAGER, APPLICATION & PLATFORM SERVICES.

Coursework Completed

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration, Technical Services

Asee, Electrical Engineering

Education record