Cloud transformation leader

Enterprise cloud strategy that connects business outcomes to execution.

Proven enterprise architect with 28 years of IT leadership, including 22 years shaping enterprise insurance technology and 4 years leading cloud initiatives at Microsoft.

I help organizations treat cloud as a business decision across cost, speed, resilience, security, data readiness, and the way teams build and deliver software.

Value proposition

Insider context, industry perspective, cross-domain synthesis.

The enterprise operating advantage

Deep understanding of large-enterprise culture, stakeholder dynamics, business drivers, and technology landscapes enables immediate impact in complex organizations.

Microsoft and industry perspective

Direct experience with how vendors operate, think, and execute strategy, with a practical lens for applying those mechanics inside an enterprise.

Cross-domain synthesis

Proven ability to align applications, infrastructure, data, DevOps, and security into cohesive enterprise strategy that breaks silos.

Experience

Cloud, architecture, modernization, and enterprise operations.

2022 - Present

Microsoft | Account Technology Strategist

Strategic cloud advisor for Higher Ed and Health Sciences customers

  • Owned the core strategic relationship with Microsoft customers while leading a virtual team of 20+ resources across an $80 million book of business.
  • Structured large multi-year Azure commitments balancing revenue goals, customer discounts, and enablement funding.
  • Functioned as a virtual advisory CTO, aligning customer business goals with Microsoft cloud product portfolios and adoption roadmaps.
  • Partnered with CFO and CIO offices to align cloud consumption models with capital allocation and predictable high-ROI investments.
  • Led readiness assessments for AI deployment across data governance, security, and pipeline architecture.
2016 - 2022

Enterprise Insurance Leader | Cloud Domain Architect, Center of Excellence Owner

Enterprise cloud strategy and Cloud Center of Excellence leadership

  • Influenced enterprise-wide cloud strategy across leadership, senior management, enterprise architects, and domain architects.
  • Designed the operating model for a 50+ person Cloud Enablement function, shifting legacy operations toward a self-service product model.
  • Created the Cloud Center of Excellence for AWS, Azure, OpenStack, and container platforms, establishing governance, standards, and roadmaps.
  • Approved cloud foundation designs across tenant structure, networking, security, Infrastructure as Code, and monitoring.
  • Mentored developers, engineers, and cloud users through skilling plans and architecture reviews using Well-Architected practices.
2013 - 2016

Enterprise Insurance Leader | Compute Domain Architect

On-premise compute strategy, stability, and automation

  • Accountable for overall design and function of datacenter hardware, operating systems, virtualization, storage, and backup capabilities.
  • Owned enterprise infrastructure stability, SLAs, and collaboration with 24/7 operations monitoring teams.
  • Developed self-service, automation, and configuration automation strategies to improve delivery speed and service quality.
2011 - 2013

Enterprise Insurance Leader | Collaboration Domain Architect

Collaboration platform modernization

  • Led collaboration architecture strategy across email, chat, SharePoint, video distribution, and voice capabilities.
  • Launched a multi-year initiative to move on-premise collaboration capabilities to Office and Microsoft 365.
2005 - 2011

Enterprise Insurance Leader | Virtualization and Hosting Capability Leader

Virtual infrastructure and datacenter transformation

  • Owned design and evolution of the enterprise virtualization environment from inception through majority server virtualization.
  • Roadmapped and funded virtualization transformation through ongoing budgeting and business justification.
  • Drove the shift from legacy physical server hosting to converged Cisco UCS infrastructure optimized for virtualization and operations at scale.
1998 - 2004

Enterprise Insurance Leader and OHIONET | Senior Technical Lead and Technology Consultant

Infrastructure engineering, web hosting, and consulting foundations

  • Led technical work across Windows operating systems, IIS web hosting, Active Directory architecture, and PCI compliance.
  • Developed reusable patterns and automation for large-scale web hosting farms.
  • Designed and implemented LAN, compute, and shared library systems for public libraries and college consortia.

Portfolio

Applied cloud strategy, architecture, and modernization tooling.

Featured project

Patter modernization planning toolkit

Patter is an interactive planning experience for cloud modernization strategy: portfolio assessment, target-state definition, dependency-aware roadmap planning, and executive-ready modernization narratives.

  • Strategy to roadmap Converts application portfolio inputs into practical modernization paths, checkpoints, phases, and sequencing decisions.
  • Architecture decision support Helps teams reason across application, data, network, security, operations, and cloud platform constraints.
  • Executive-ready storytelling Frames modernization decisions in terms of business value, risk reduction, implementation readiness, and measurable outcomes.

Skills

Technical breadth paired with operating-model change.

Core technologies

Hybrid cloud AWS Microsoft Azure Microsoft 365 OpenShift Kubernetes Terraform Network connectivity CI/CD Virtualization

Methodologies

DevOps SCRUM TOGAF Product-based delivery Organizational transformation SDLC Well-Architected reviews Cloud governance

Vendor relationships

Microsoft Amazon HashiCorp VMware Red Hat IBM Google Cisco Dell Palo Alto

Credentials and education

Architecture, security, cloud, and information science foundations.

Certifications

  • 2023 Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals
  • 2022 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
  • 2021 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
  • 2020 AWS Certified Solution Architect Associate

Education and organizations

  • 1998 MA, Library and Information Science, Kent State University
  • 1995 BA, Political Science, Bowling Green State University
  • 2022+ Board Member and Organizer, NEO Cloud Security Alliance