Bio

Sr. Principal IT Cloud Architect, Operations Manager, IT Consultant. 25 years experience in IT service delivery. Focus areas have included application modernization, global data center and hosting strategy, global information security compliance (HIPAA, GDPR, EU data privacy, NIST), data center and application migration, Agile software development lifecycle and Devops, systems monitoring and operations management. I have developed skills in strategic planning, innovation, cloud financial management, project estimation, capacity planning, requirements gathering, process improvement, problem solving and solutioning. I currently lead Cloud Services Technical Architecture for Medtronic in the Global IT Cloud Services team. In this role, I coordinate the design across compute, network, storage and security domains. I am a product management stakeholder for private and public cloud services which involves Agile , requirements gathering and prioritization, operations transformation planning, and marketing/evangelizing benefits and capabilities. My career goal is to focus my skills on improving the delivery of IT services and to champion innovation. I am able to capture business requirements and translate these to actionable solutions. I have managed a wide array of technology projects from the visioning process through planning, budgeting, implementation, optimization, and into multiple phases of improvement and lifecycle management.