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San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Denver Metropolitan Area

Co-managed P&L in excess of $80MM including 75+ dedicated personnel and 100+ non-dedicated, supporting personnel realizing YoY growth of 35%Lead multiple organizations including: Solution Architecture, Security, Automation, Cloud Center of Excellence, and Networking; supporting Enterprise and SMB workloads on AWS, Azure, and GCPResponsible and accountable for delivering weekly status updates to Executive Leadership on overall status, progress, and issues with the largest customer base at Rackspace with the only customer-dedicated organization Serve as primary interface point and final decision maker for State Agency CIOs and CTOs, as well as State of Texas Executive Leadership on any technical, product, or solution escalationsDefine and execute Technical Strategic Roadmap, including product offerings, reference architectures, and new services. Notably led product design on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offering, including assisting with negotiations and contract structure with Oracle, as well as organizational planning to address customer demand

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Assisted in pursuit, negotiation, architecting, and solutioning for Rackspace’s largest contract (>$500MM TCV). Contract is for managed services and support of all State of Texas AWS, Azure, and GCP infrastructurePlanned and led transition of services from incumbent vendor to Rackspace solution for said contract as a multi-million dollar professional services engagementDesigned organizational staffing model and grew organization from 5 personnel to over 60 in less than 4 monthsFinal point of escalation for contract delivery, architectural, technical, organizational, and customer escalationsSelected and negotiated 3rd party contracts with staffing, services, and SaaS vendors ensuring alignment with budget and contractual requirements

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

Provide leadership on business transformation projects and integration workstreams from initiation through delivery. Manage cross-functional projects to drive improvement in process metrics, targeted financial benefits, and achieve company goals. Partner with D+ leadership population, as well as external consultants, to support strategic initiatives, advise on change management processes, and communicate on business unit scale.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Responsible for merging, sunsetting, or formalizing product offerings between Rackspace and its acquisitions. Operate across geographies to consolidate product offerings globally. Contribute to global cost savings targets via offering migrations, hardware reclamation. vendor consolidations and negotiations, and workforce optimization.

San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area

San Antonio, Texas Area

Louisville, Kentucky Area