Emory UniversityChief Cloud Architect
Jul. 2016 - Oct. 2020Atlanta, Georgia, United StatesManaged the design, development, implementation, and integration of innovative solutions with a goal of building a complete cloud infrastructure. Led a dynamic team that flexed between 5 and 20 architects, developers, and consultants. Administered a $2.5M core budget and additional software development funding for strategic projects. Created the preferred software development vendor program and oversaw cloud infrastructure, web application, and mobile application development and distribution functions. Responsible for service- and event-oriented integration, application development, cloud network automation, quality assurance (QA) automation, DevOps automation, and DevOps operations, including the management of >110 non-production environments. Reduced cloud provisioning from weeks to minutes by spearheading the development of RHEDcloud for AWS, which enabled automated cloud provisioning, security, administration, and compliance.