Mike Zazon

• Partner with Global Financial Services enterprise customers to modernize applications & infrastructure.
• Lead application and infrastructure design, implementation, and deployment on AWS.
• Lead internal and global partner delivery teams on design and implementation of infra and application modernization projects.
• Principal technical oversight on large, multi-year, datacenter exit program with XL Global Financial Services customer.
• Drive AWS platform adoption by aligning with AWS account teams and executing against business growth goals and campaigns. 
• Recruit, hire, and mentor leading industry talent to deliver value for customers and enable career growth.
• Work with AWS service teams, specialists and solutions architects to design innovative solutions for customers.
• Publish technical content for accelerating cloud adoption and speak at public events.
• Partner with C-suite, D-suite, board of directors and other internal stakeholders on tactical business strategy.

• Enterprise application and infrastructure architect consultant for large healthcare, financial, and technology companies.
• Led infrastructure design, implementation and adoption for enterprise customers on public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Led Public Cloud Operating Model and Governance High Level Design for customer public cloud adoption to expand on and align with previously defined Enterprise Architecture Frameworks.
• Designed solutions with security and compliance defined by CIS, NIST, GDPR, HIPAA, PCI DSS, DFARS and FISMA.
• Developed reference architecture and patterns for business units to easily consume validated solutions.
• Led application and infrastructure rehost, refactor, and replatform efforts to public clouds.
• Drove adoption of modern DevOps culture through automation, testing, infrastructure-as-code, decoupling monolithic applications/infrastructure, and left-shifting responsibilities.
• Led project delivery teams on implementation of designs and acted as a liaison between delivery resources and clients.
• Worked with C-suite, board of directors and other internal stakeholders on tactical strategy targeting business outcomes.
• Worked with Public Cloud Solutions Providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP), internal and 3rd-party partners to align business requirements with measurable outcomes.
• Delivered measurable efficiencies and positive business outcomes for customers validated by frequent return business, referrals and rapid company growth.

Core Competencies in Role:

Solutions Design & Architecture Diagrams. AWS, Azure, GCP. Infrastructure as Code (Python, CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM Templates). Immutable software and infrastructure. Networking. Regulatory Compliance. Cloud Governance. Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, EKS, AKS, OpenShift). Automation (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Linux). CI/CD (Azure DevOps, AWS Code*, Jenkins, Travis, Bamboo, CircleCI).

• Managed a team of engineers with project-focused delivery in Agile and Scrum environments.
• 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 scaling the business.
• 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:

Infrastructure as Code (Python, CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM Templates). Immutable software and infrastructure. Networking. Regulatory Compliance. Cloud Governance. Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, EKS, AKS, OpenShift). Serverless (Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Functions). DevOps and DevSecOps. Automation (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Linux) and CI/CD (Azure DevOps, AWS Code*, Jenkins, Travis, Bamboo, CircleCI).

• Founded and managed private consulting practice.
• Delivered cloud application and infrastructure consulting to small and medium businesses in the midwest and east cost US.
• Outsourced and managed project resources, scaled self-sustaining consulting firm.
• Specialized in AWS and Azure migrations and adoption with focus on .NET replatform and SQL Server migrations.
• Sales, Pre-Sales and Project management engagement with customers from design to delivery.

Core Competencies in Role:

Sales and Pre-Sales Business Development. Project Management (Waterfall, Agile, Scrum). Application and Cloud Infrastructure Architecture. Networking. Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, ARM Templates). Immutable software and infrastructure. Containerization (Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, EKS, AKS, OpenShift). Automation (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Linux) and CI/CD (Azure DevOps, AWS Code Suite, Jenkins, Travis, Bamboo, CircleCI).

• Acted as lead software and infrastructure architect for The College of Engineering Application Development Team.
• Managed personnel and conducted performance reviews including coaching and professional development activities.
• Managed suite of legacy applications and provided application development and architecture consulting to internal BUs.
• Managed all College of Engineering public and intranet Drupal and PHP environments with over 250+ public-facing websites using a combination of open-source and proprietary tooling.
• Drove adoption of application DevOps culture internally throughout the development cycle (SDLC) in automated application testing and frequent deployment.

Core Competencies in Role:

Regulatory Compliance. Security Governance. 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 several different operations groups and acted as a chief information systems architect for 10 business units.
• Worked with hardware and software solutions vendors like Dell, HP, Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, Oracle and CA Technologies on design, cost, implementation and maintenance.
• Managed IT budgets and spend for multiple business units and cost centers.
• Managed federal and government compliance for academic and funded research initiatives (NIST, CIS, DFARS, etc.)
• Implemented ITIL and transformation and IT business unit consolidation for Engineering Technology Services (ETS)

Core Competencies in Role:

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.