Technology Strategy Advisor
Cloud | Security | Modernization | AI
Technical Strategy Advisor
Cloud | Security | Modernization | AI
Digital Transformation Architect Technical Strategic Advisor Customer Success Specialist
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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Technology Strategy Advisor with 15+ years across healthcare and life sciences, financial services, federal and local government, nonprofit and advertising organizations. Delivering transformation through the following capabilities:
Infrastructure & Platform Optimization | Operational Readiness & Excellence | Architecture Reviews | Security Assessments | Modernization and Migration | Cloud Financial Management (FinOps) | Business Case & Workload Discovery | IAM and SSO | Resilience and Disaster Recovery | Technical & AI Enablement | Executive Briefings & Business Reviews | Training & Mentoring | Workshops & Public Speaking
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
ACEsCORE Tech Group
Co-Founder & Principal Technology Strategist | Jul 2026 to Present
A technology advisory firm for public-sector organizations and nonprofits.
Advise organizational leaders on technology direction, investment priorities, risk and modernization.
Lead technology assessments and translate business needs into practical roadmaps, vendor-neutral recommendations and implementation plans.
Guide implementation by aligning specialists, vendors and stakeholders on scope, responsibilities and delivery priorities.
Microsoft
Cloud Solution Architect, Cloud & AI Platform for Financial Services | Feb 2026 to Jul 2026
Supported discovery presentations and architecture discussions for financial-services customers, and technical workshops across industries.
Built and delivered an Azure Copilot Observability Agent Chalk Talk demonstrating how Azure monitoring and AI can support real-world operational use cases.
Earned 13 Microsoft delivery accreditations across seven offering areas, including Azure Landing Zone, Workload Reliability, Azure Monitor and Trainer Enablement.
Amazon Web Services
Senior Solutions Architect, Healthcare & Life Sciences | Oct 2024 to Jan 2026
Guided customer discovery and architecture engagements across GenAI, hybrid storage and networking. Coordinated technical working sessions with customer engineers and AWS specialists to develop designs, validate solutions and address implementation questions.
Led discovery and advisory for a GenAI prototype that reduced demonstrated document-generation time from 2 to 3 days to under 5 minutes per document, coordinating with specialists who built it.
Led a successful AWS Storage Gateway proof of concept for hybrid genomics storage, including workshops, architecture design and implementation.
Orchestrated a clinical-data-extraction engagement and its subsequent optimization phase between the customer team and AWS Generative AI Innovation Center specialists. The team improved extraction quality. The optimization phase reduced experiment cycles from days to hours and introduced prompt caching and batch inference as options for more efficient AI evaluation.
Oversaw solution architecture for a high-volume Amazon Bedrock pipeline, including Step Functions Map-state design and CloudWatch observability. Coordinated customer engineers and AWS specialists; the team’s solution processed 500,000 prompts in 4 hours 25 minutes.
Facilitated a networking architecture workshop and review, and a separate cost-optimization and Well-Architected review, partnering with AWS networking specialists when needed.
Conducted scoping and discovery for a modern data-platform initiative.
Senior Technical Account Manager, Healthcare & Life Sciences | Dec 2021 to Oct 2024
Owned healthcare and life sciences customer technical relationships across architecture, security, resilience, cost and operations. Conducted business reviews and executive discussions, and planned technical engagements around business priorities, lifecycle risks and launch readiness.
Developed technology roadmaps for every customer in the portfolio and recommended which initiatives to fund, defer or stop. Presented technical options and tradeoffs to executives to support their decisions.
Co-created healthcare and life sciences GenAI enablement content and contributed pre-release testing for GenAI workshops. Mentored new Technical Account Managers through role-readiness reviews and mentored a junior Solutions Architect.
Analyzed Enterprise Support value across support cases, technical engagements, cloud spending and optimization, and presented findings to global executives and FinOps leaders. The analysis supported a $430 million, three-year contract renewal.
Guided discovery, architecture reviews and technical workshops for a legacy .NET and SQL Server modernization, including usage analysis and stakeholder coordination. Helped advance the work into a funded AWS Professional Services engagement that delivered an MVP and knowledge transfer.
Conducted discovery and provided prescriptive guidance through Security Improvement Program engagements, building joint remediation and training plans with monthly follow-up. One program included five discovery sessions and a focus on the highest-severity risks. In one engagement, partnered with the customer’s IT Director and CISO to prioritize the action plan, identify required roles and teams, and jointly track remediation progress.
Organized and facilitated a multi-day security architecture review with customer infrastructure architects and AWS security specialists.
Coordinated Cloud Intelligence Dashboards implementation and FinHack activities to help cloud operations, FinOps and engineering teams manage cloud spending.
Helped implement S3 Intelligent-Tiering on a customer workload, contributing to approximately 50 to 60% realized storage savings. A cost-optimization review for another customer identified 30%+ savings opportunities.
Coordinated database and cloud-operations teams during the 2024 RDS/Aurora certificate-authority rotation, with weekly remediation tracking across 500+ affected database resources, specialist guidance and support escalation.
Identified outdated Amazon EKS clusters during customer business reviews and worked with customer technical operations and AWS specialists on remediation. The clusters were updated.
Provided VPN-over-Direct-Connect guidance and network-migration planning in distinct engagements, partnering with networking specialists on Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPC routing and Fortinet.
DaaS Tech
Founder and Solutions Architect | Feb 2020 to Dec 2021
Operated a cloud consulting business, translating the goals of small business clients into architecture, project scope and delivery requirements.
Defined scopes of work, deliverables and delivery benchmarks, and coordinated vendors and consultants around client requirements.
Created, managed and migrated Microsoft 365, Exchange Online and Azure AD environments, including moving data from on-premises storage and other cloud providers to OneDrive.
Managed Windows and Linux servers in client cloud environments and maintained WordPress sites, plugins and web security.
Omnicom Health Group
Senior Systems Engineer | Apr 2019 to Dec 2021
Omnicom Health Group (via Kforce)
Senior Systems Engineer | Jan 2019 to Mar 2019
Modernized infrastructure, identity and security in an environment of roughly 1,000 servers supporting offices in the United States, Canada and Europe. Directed third-party technical teams alongside internal stakeholders.
Led the architecture, design, deployment and migration of 150+ TB of Windows file services to Nasuni on AWS. The move saved approximately $600,000 per year in datacenter and shared-infrastructure costs.
Led the Okta single sign-on rollout and application integrations for approximately 3,000 employees and contractors.
Migrated from Infoblox to Microsoft DNS/DHCP, leading the project and implementing the solution.
Designed the IP layout and coordinated re-addressing that brought eight agency networks under the parent WAN.
Contributed to a 120 TB Aprimo digital-asset migration from AWS to Azure. Identified delta-copy and metadata challenges during initial PowerShell work and brought in a developer with Bash expertise. Coordinated solution design, testing and delivery.
Oversaw Windows Server 2008 retirement and remediated and hardened systems identified through recurring penetration testing.
Contributed to data-loss prevention solution evaluation, policies, deployment and user training.
Supported a legacy PBX-to-VoIP migration through architecture, vendor and number-porting coordination, phased rollout and training.
Rockefeller Capital Management (via Insight Global)
Systems Engineer | Jul 2018 to Jan 2019
Coordinated consultants and application partners across cloud, identity and endpoint projects while administering Windows infrastructure and providing Tier 3 troubleshooting.
Worked with a consulting partner to take Azure and Office 365 work from proof of concept to production.
Integrated PingFederate/PingOne SAML single sign-on with application partners and configured RSA SecurID for remote access.
Built Windows 10 baselines, Group Policy and imaging configurations, and trained junior technicians. Other completed projects included enterprise mobile-device management and SD-WAN rollouts.
Completed a VMware Horizon View proof of concept; contributed to VMware ESXi/vCenter, backup, monitoring and SolarWinds alert-management projects.
Administered Active Directory, DNS and Group Policy; troubleshot infrastructure and application issues using system logs and alerts.
NOAA (via Maximus)
Lead System Administrator III | Sep 2017 to Jul 2018
System Administrator II | Mar 2017 to Sep 2017
Promoted to lead Windows, Solaris and Red Hat administrators supporting the GOES and DSCOVR satellite ground systems. Prioritized technical work across system administration, security remediation and configuration control.
Established a weekly SysAdmin and security-team vulnerability-status meeting to replace fragmented email coordination. The overall Security Control Assessment score improved at least 25% in two consecutive quarters.
Produced Plans of Action and Milestones, Security Control Assessment and Federal Data Call artifacts, and collaborated on security controls. Served on the Configuration Control Board to review proposed network changes.
Patched systems based on vulnerability findings, ran scans, and reviewed system logs and scan outputs. Created PowerShell scripts for system administration and designed, deployed and configured Windows servers.
Contributed to automated software build, test and deployment pipeline and satellite ground-system virtualization projects.
DC Child and Family Services Agency
Lead IT Specialist | Aug 2015 to Mar 2017
Managed a rotating team of 5 to 10 employees, contractors and interns across 12 sites, with project budgets up to $300,000 per quarter. Gathered business requirements, briefed stakeholders and managed schedules, resources, procurement and service-level commitments.
Coordinated hot-site readiness and relocation for the child-safety hotline during city water maintenance. Worked with Facilities and executives on equipment, staffing and transition needs; the hotline experienced no downtime.
Created a technical internship partnership with an A+ training provider and managed the program. It provided three-month placements for three interns per quarter; support coverage across nine buildings improved from every three weeks to weekly.
Helped coordinate migration of confidential court and child-case information from Microsoft Access to a database built by DC OCTO.
Designed and administered the agency's WordPress intranet IT HelpCenter.
Contributed to ITIL service-management processes and tooling, and to a reporting and data-visualization platform, including dashboard governance.
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare
Technical Support Specialist | Feb 2013 to Jul 2015
Contributed to document rights-management work and a self-service password-reset project integrated with Active Directory and multifactor authentication.
Installed and configured workstation software and Citrix XenApp on WYSE thin clients; performed monthly maintenance, patch management and security reviews.
Wrote operating procedures and user guides, trained staff, and coordinated equipment purchases and vendor repairs. Worked with the IT manager on server requirements and load balancing.
UMUC (via Randstad Technologies)
Call Center Help Desk Agent | Dec 2012 to Feb 2013
Provided Level 1 application support for students, faculty and staff, triaging issues and coordinating escalation with other departments and support teams.
Logged and updated incidents in Parature and Salesforce, keeping users informed in line with support-center procedures.
PC Retro / Capitol Asset Recovery
PC Technician Intern | Nov 2012
Refurbished computers and other IT equipment, maintained inventory, and imaged systems during a one-month internship.
Staples
EasyTech Associate | Sep 2012 to Nov 2012
Assessed customer technology needs and recommended products and services.
Performed basic system diagnostics and upgrades, and tracked customer work and progress updates in Staples OMS.
PSA IT Solutions
Founder and IT Consultant | Oct 2009 to Aug 2014
Assessed client technology needs, troubleshot systems and provided repair and security recommendations. Work included Windows XP-to-Windows 7 migration and vendor and web coordination.
CERTIFICATIONS
AWS Certified Security - Specialty (earned 2023)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (earned 2022)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (earned 2023)
COMMUNITY
Amazon Black Employee Network (BEN) NY Metro
Community Board Member | 2025
Planned and hosted the August 2025 Amazon Black Employee Network (BEN) NY Metro and Per Scholas NY Back to School Tech Event and personally presented AI for Career Development.
Designed and delivered the Per Scholas NY AWS ProStart Career Development Workshop, covering personal branding, resume writing and interview preparation for 15 participants.
Organized and hosted A Seat at the Table: Women in Tech, a Per Scholas NY and NY Tech Week event with AWS and BEN NY Metro, coordinating guests, venue logistics, panels and networking. The event drew 175+ attendees.
Research Technology Associates
PC Technician (Volunteer) | Sep 2012 to Nov 2013
Repaired home computers and laptops, troubleshot hardware and software issues, and supported charitable fundraising for technology access.