Career Profile
Cloud Transformation Leader with a demonstrated history working with high-profile customers with challenging scenarios. With over twenty-five years of experience in information technology, I have helped organizations with deploying on-premises solutions and migrating and modernizing solutions to the cloud. Over the last fifteen years, I have worked with C-Level executives, technology leaders, and architects to solve problems, optimize their cloud environments, and influence executives to build robust solutions.
Experiences
Responsible for all integration initiatives on Microsoft Azure. Includes native tools integration with Azure services and Vantage Cloud Lake on Azure.
- Discussions with C-Suite around company strategy and direction
- Executive call prep and participation in discussions with Microsoft Executives
- Collaboration with Marketing and GTM on messaging for new integrations
- Teradata liaison to navigate Microsoft, acting as a bridge between the two companies
- Secured Microsoft’s commitment to providing native sync for Azure Data Factory
- Facilitating contract negotiations with partners for product improvement
- Technical program manager for Azure integration efforts
- Partner with sales leaders to unblock strategic customer opportunities
- Roadmap planning with Product Management to ensure alignment with Microsoft semester planning
Responsible for technical relationship with top five Capital Market companies. Ensure architects are aware of latest enhancements, follow well architected guidelines, and provide voice of the customer to engineering.
- Engaged customers ensuring they meet their RTO/RPO requirements in the most cost-effective way
- Mentored architects/engineers to enable them to achieve greater success and career growth
- Provided the voice of the customer to influence engineering advancements
- Escalation point for architects, removing customers blockers
- Provided strategic direction to the customer, allowing them to leverage a $350,000 cost avoidance
- Developed Azure automation, enabling rapid deployment of SQL Server saving 86% of human effort
- Created a solution that allowed customers to manage SQL Server at scale (saved customer 950 hours per year)
- Created LabInaBox, which allows individuals to spin up sandbox environments quickly
- A major contributor to the SQL Server DSC resource
- Developed a new architecture that allowed for consolidation, reducing licensing costs
- Developed an archiving solution improving production efficiency while maintaining compliance
- Developed reusable modules DBAs could leverage to minimize human error
- Developed an automated solution to migrate SQL Server to a newer version
- Developed framework to assist in the rapid development of SQL Server Service Broker applications
- Implemented multi-node SQL Server clusters
- Developed reporting solution for SSIS package logging
- Designed and Implemented a monitoring solution
- Maintained Chase.com online databases