George S. Parker III

Technology Strategy Advisor

Cloud | Security | Modernization | AI

Technical Strategy Advisor

Cloud | Security | Modernization | AI

 Digital Transformation Architect     Technical Strategic Advisor    Customer Success Specialist

Portfolio

Technology

 

Enablement

  • Identity and Access Management Immersion Day (2023): Hands-on day teaching customer teams to control who can access what in their cloud.
  • Building a Monitoring Strategy Workshop (2023): Workshop helping customers decide what to watch in their systems and when to be alerted.
  • AWS DeepRacer (ML Fundamentals) (2023): Hands-on machine learning basics, where customer teams trained a small self-driving race car.
  • AWS Step Functions Workshop (2023): Workshop showing customers how to automate multi-step processes so every step runs in order.
  • Healthcare & Life Sciences GenAI Enablement for TAMs (2023): Co-created internal AWS training on generative AI for HCLS Technical Account Managers.
  • Cloud Cost Optimization Workshop (2023 & 2024): Ran sessions showing a customer where their cloud money goes and how to spend less.
  • GenAI Enablement & Bedrock Immersion Day (2024): Hands-on day getting a customer's teams started with generative AI on Amazon Bedrock.
  • Agentic AI for Life Sciences Workshop (2025): Workshop showing life sciences customers how AI agents can carry out multi-step work.
  • Azure Copilot Observability Agent Chalk Talk (2026): Internal Microsoft session showing colleagues how Azure monitoring and AI can support real-world operations work.


 

Solutions

  • Cloud File Services Migration (2019-2021): Led the architecture, build, and migration that moved a company's file storage to the cloud.
  • Amazon Bedrock & Step Functions Scalable Pipeline (2024): Directed the architecture for a pipeline that runs large volumes of AI requests reliably.
  • Oncology Clinical Data Extraction with GenAI (2024): Coordinated, as lead architect, an AI project that pulls key details from cancer care records.
  • Cloud Intelligence Dashboards (CID/CUDOS) (2024): Coordinated the rollout of dashboards that track a customer's cloud spending and usage in one place.
  • GenAI Clinical Intelligent Document Processing (2024-2025): Helped a customer build a trial AI system that pulls key data from clinical documents.
  • GenAI Clinical Documentation Generation (2024-2025): Ran the early fact-finding sessions for a specialist-built AI prototype that drafts standard procedure documents.
  • Genomics Data Transfer & File Gateway (2023 & 2025): Led the design and testing of a way to move large genomics files into the cloud.

 

Projects

  • Child-Safety Hotline Backup Site Readiness (2015): Headed backup site readiness and relocation coordination for a city agency's child-safety hotline.
  • Court Case Database Migration (2016): Helped coordinate a city agency's move of court case records into a new city-built database.
  • Network Flattening and Consolidation (2019-2020): Drove the redesign that brought several separate company networks under one.
  • AWS Industry Quest: Healthcare (2023): Helped test AWS's healthcare training game before its public release.
  • Application Modernization Lab (Monolith to Microservices) (2023): Led the early technical work to break one large legacy application into smaller, modern parts.
  • DR PET (Driving Resilience with Proactive Engagement by TAM) (2023 & 2024): Led discovery for one customer's disaster recovery review and supported another through completion.
  • AWS Jam: Generative AI (2023): Tested AWS's generative AI challenge workshops in practice runs ahead of the re:Invent conference.
  • Security Improvement Program (2024): Headed reviews that found a customer's security gaps and built a plan to close them.
  • Security Architecture Review (2024): Organized and led a multi-day security design review with a customer's architects and AWS specialists.
  • Enterprise Support Value Analysis (2024): Ran a value analysis of a customer's support and cloud spending, presented to global executives.
  • ModernOps Blueprint (2024-2026): My step-by-step framework for moving IT operations from legacy systems to cloud, automation, and AI.
  • DOPE Framework for Digital Transformation (2020-2026): My framework for digital transformation, built on Data, Operations, Platform, and Engineering.

 

Leadership

 

Public Speaking

  • AI for Career Development Workshop (2025)
  • Work ED & Brooklyn STEAM Center: Cybersecurity & AI Pre-Apprenticeship - Panel Discussion (2025)
  • Per Scholas NY: Back to School Tech Event (2025)
  • Per Scholas NY: AWS ProStart Career Development Workshop (2025)
  • LinkedIn Best Practices Training (2025)

 

Mentorship

  • Amazon Mentorship Program (2023-2025)
  • BUILD NYC: Young Entrepreneur Pitch Competition (Spring 2025)
  • One To World New Grad Job Prep & Mock Interviews (2025)
  • Amazon Career Fest at AfroTech Conference (2024)
  • Amazon Job Prep Workshop at Techsgiving (2024)

 

Event Organization & Sponsorship

  • Per Scholas NY: Back to School Tech Event (2025)
  • Per Scholas NY & NY Tech Week: A Seat at the Table: Women in Tech (2025)

 

Community

 

Organizations

  • Amazon Black Employee Network (BEN) NY Metro (2025)
  • National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) (2024-2025)
  • Black Connect (2025)
  • AfroTech Insider (2024-2026)

 

Patron

  • The Met Museum
  • National Museum of African American History and Culture (Smithsonian Institution)
  • Manhattan Theatre Club
  • Year Up United's Black Opportunity Alliance
  • Schomburg Center (New York Public Library)
  • Wildlife Conservation Society (Bronx Zoo & New York Aquarium)
  • Roundabout Theatre Company
  • Rail Passengers Association