MICHAEL Zazon

• Customer-obsessed sales architect supporting the sales motion for XL AWS customers
• Partner with customer C-suite and business decision makers on technology strategy
• Cloud platform services revenue growth focus, aligning customer with account team priority and AWS service team priority
• Partner with AWS service teams on customer cloud services adoption
• Influence direction of AWS services and service feature roadmaps through customer relationship and stewardship
• Lead internal and external Generative AI transformation and sales plays
• Lead application and infrastructure modernization for global financial services enterprises on AWS
• Oversee multi-year datacenter exit and business transformation programs
• Design and build innovative cloud solutions, collaborating with AWS service teams and specialists
• Recruit, mentor, and lead internal talent and partner delivery teams
• Publish technical content publicly and speak at events

• Integral in the sales motions and delivery practice of global cloud consulting firm
• Led enterprise-scale cloud transformation initiatives across AWS, Azure, and GCP for healthcare and financial services clients
• Architected complex multi-cloud solutions adhering to CIS, NIST, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, DFARS, and FISMA standards
• Application modernization and Infrastructure modernization focuses
• Established cloud governance frameworks and reference architectures for enterprise-wide adoption
• Drove DevOps transformation through infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD automation, and containerization
• Partnered with C-suite on cloud strategy and delivered measurable business outcomes

Core Technical Competencies in Role:

• Infrastructure: AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kubernetes, Docker
• Backend: Python, Node.js, .NET
• Frontend: React, JavaScript
• DevOps: CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub, AWS CodePipeline), Ansible, Chef
• Security: IAM, Zero Trust, Compliance Frameworks
• Networking: VPC Design, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Load Balancing

• Managed a team of engineers with project-focused delivery in Agile and Scrum
• Led pods of internal team members on professional growth through coaching, goal setting, and guidance
• Architected, developed and implemented solutions for customers in AWS, Microsoft Azure, and GCP
• Contributed significantly to revenue for the US cloud consulting practice in the southeast US region
• Built custom cost-control, automated compliance and auto-scaling infrastructure-as-code for customers using Terraform
• Specialized in infrastructure modernization, application refactoring, cloud adoption, and DevOps culture adoption
• Security and compliance-first design methodology through automation, testing, and immutability
• Worked with technology partners and customer technology teams to deliver high-performing, highly-scalable, and cloud-optimized products that deliver business value

Core Competencies in Role:

Same as above, with additional focus on management, coaching, and team leadership

• Founder of a software and cloud consulting practice serving SMBs across the Midwest and East Coast
• Led end-to-end cloud migration projects, specializing in AWS and Azure migrations
• Architected and implemented .NET re-platforming and SQL Server migration solutions
• Managed full sales motion from pre-sales to design and delivery
• Developed and implemented cloud-native and containerized solutions for diverse client needs
• Managed insource and outsource delivery models, partnerships, channel sales

Core Competencies in Role:

• Cloud Platforms: AWS, Azure • Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM Templates
• Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, EKS, AKS, OpenShift
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, AWS CodeSuite, Jenkins, Travis CI
• Automation: Puppet, Chef, Ansible
• Networking: VPC design, hybrid connectivity
• Business Development: Sales, pre-sales, solution design, delivery, and operations

• Acted as lead software and infrastructure architect for The College of Engineering Application Development Team
• Managed personnel and conducted performance reviews including hiring, coaching and professional development activities
• Managed suite of legacy applications and provided application development and architecture consulting to internal BUs
• Managed development and operations for over 250 public-facing CMS websites using a combination of open-source and proprietary tooling
• Drove adoption of application DevOps culture internally throughout the development cycle (SDLC) through automation

Core Competencies in Role:

Regulatory Compliance. Security, Governance. Drupal. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Linux (RHEL and CentOS), Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, VMware, C#, Ruby on Rails, PHP/Laravel, Bash, Powershell

• Served as a working manager and team lead for IT groups in the Office of Academic Affairs and the College of Engineering
• Managed multiple operations groups and acted as enterprise architect for 10 business units
• Worked with compute, storage, hardware and software vendors on design, cost, implementation and maintenance
• Managed and governed operational spend for multiple business units and cost centers
• Managed federal and government compliance for academic and funded research initiatives (NIST, CIS, DFARS, etc.)
• Implemented IT service transformation and IT business unit consolidation for Engineering Technology Services (ITIL)

Core Competencies in Role:

ITIL, Dell, Cisco, VMware, Hyper-V, Active Directory, Windows Server 2008, 2012, 2016, Microsoft System Center (SCOM, SCCM, SCVMM), SQL Server. MySQL, MariaDB. PostgreSQL. Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Powershell, Bash.

Focused on enterprise software development and distributed information systems. Performed CS course tutoring and mentoring. Participated in additional federal and government computer science research as an undergraduate focusing on artificial intelligence, image recognition, neural networks, cross-discipline with Math, Statistics, and other engineering disciplines.