Robert Seward Email & Phone Number

Highland Park, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Global Leader of Cloud Architecture and Cloud CoE, responsible for defining, designing and implementing Global Cloud Strategy, Standards, and Best Practices.• In this role I notably led the establishment and development of the Cloud CoE including establishing the Cloud Foundation, operational process and best practices, developing staff and culture, and ensured robust cybersecurity posture and financial stewardship of cloud usage.• My approach achieved enabling each business unit to operate autonomously to meet their respective market’s needs via automated provisioning of Application Landing Zones for their cloud environments.• Led Cloud efficiency effort, reducing Azure costs by 25% through SKU optimizations and tuning, decommissioning, automated scheduling, and reservations. Showcased improvements via ongoing reporting.• Developed comprehensive cloud training programs and provided mentorship to global cloud architecture and engineering teams to boost internal cloud skills and expertise.

Deerfield, Il, Us

Senior Technical Leader of Cloud Architecture team responsible for defining, designing and implementing Global Cloud Strategy, Architecture and Standards.• In this role I led the establishment of the Cloud Architectural Review Process, aligning business initiatives with cloud architecture, standards and cloud-native practices, including enhancing resiliency, elasticity and performance. Additionally, automated this process, reducing turnaround time by 90%, boosting customer satisfaction and alignment.• Led Cloud efficiency effort, reducing Azure costs by 35% through IaaS & PaaS SKU optimizations and tuning, auto-scaling, scheduling, decommissions, and without the need for reservations. Continuously showcasing progress to leadership, resulting in 4x the requested outcome.• Designed and automated rapid environment delivery of Isolated Azure application landing zones, facilitating rapid availability for new application development in secure isolated environments.• Mentored Global Cloud Architects and Engineers, fostering expertise, confidence, and executive presence. Advanced team knowledge in Resiliency, IaaS, Networking, AKS, SQL, and other PaaS solutions.

Deerfield, Il, Us

Global leader of Cloud Engineering, Delivery, and Operations Organization, responsible for all global public and private cloud environments from design and delivery to operational support.• Assumed leadership of an underperforming organization, successfully transforming the team to exceeding senior leadership expectations. This included coaching and mentoring team members across all levels of the organization, addressing significant mid-year overspend, by bringing the budget back on track before end of the fiscal year, without reducing headcount or impacting SLAs. Additionally, led Cloud Optimization effort, reducing cloud-spend by 15%.• Led organization in providing Infrastructure and Cloud environments for major business initiatives of Walgreens Healthcare and micro-fulfillment centers, supporting multiple healthcare partners and logistics across over a dozen states.• Led improvements in network security change process, including automated deployment to a repeatable state, and automated ticket creation of policy violations to ensure timely remediation.

Deerfield, Il, Us

Senior Technical Leader of Infrastructure and Cloud, responsible for defining and leading Architecture and Strategy, and developing our Global Technology Architects and Engineers. In this role I led the global technical team on the evaluation and execution of a strategic cloud partnership for delivering transformational health outcomes and Data Center consolidation.• Led the comprehensive Cloud-viability assessment of GCP and Azure capabilities and their NDA roadmaps to meet critical business requirements and our large-scale SAP landscapes, resulting in a 7-year partnership with Microsoft.• Led the global technical team in multi-vendor partnership for Cloud Modernization developing and delivering the Global Cloud Strategy, architecture and standards, including modernized cloud foundation, governance, secure cloud connectivity, shared core services, resiliency, and monitoring. Successfully migrated 100 applications in 1st year. These included architecting, designing, and delivering the cloud migration of the world’s largest SAP Retail implementation of over 300 hybrid servers including a dozen HLI S4/HANA servers, creating the world’s largest Public Cloud SAP implementation.• Established and led Strategic Architecture Review process, aligning consistent standards, architecture and best practices globally.• Led the Architecture, design and delivery of high-speed / high-availability (no SPoF) hybrid cloud connectivity via redundant isolated dark-fiber connections to redundant geographically diverse Cloud Exchanges to our cloud providers.• Concurrently held role as Global Director Hybrid-Cloud for one year, overseeing 160 Global resources, responsible for all aspects of public, private, and hybrid cloud including data centers and remote facilities.• Led Linux Strategic Partnership, reducing OS licensing costs by over 50%, doubling license count, and increasing flexibility.

Deerfield, Il, Us

Senior Infrastructure Architect, responsible for defining infrastructure strategy, architecture, design, and implementation.• Developed and led the strategy, design and delivery of Shared Services Infrastructure automated provisioning platform, achieving 99% hands-off provisioning of virtual environments, reducing delivery time from months to minutes. Utilized Infrastructure as Code and DSC configuration management to ensure consistency with automated validation.• Led team on Infrastructure architecture, design and implementation for major business-critical initiatives, including Pharmacy, Prescription Imaging, Pharmacist Workload automation, Single View of Customer, PBM, and Home Care.• Defined and led initiative creating internal CMDB extending the enterprise CMDB capabilities, with detailed change tracking and reporting on all aspects of UNIX servers. Historical and audit reporting of changes and timing. Still in use 15 years after last update.• Mentored and developed other Architects and Engineers, fostering a culture of growth and innovation.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

Led design and delivery of transaction processing engine to receive, process, enrich and route Credit Card transactions for processing and authorization, leveraging 3-tier architecture across multiple UNIX server clusters interfacing with external 3rd parties and mainframe applications.

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Lead IBM consultant for the world’s largest retailer. Working on multiple large UNIX migration projections, including store server migration project, and high OLTP processing mainframe system requiring reinventing CICS middleware tier to support required TPS (15x compute reduction)

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Bs, Computer Sciece

High School, Mathematics And Computer Science