Senior Cloud & Infrastructure Consultant
West Monroe Partners
Working with clients to develop IT and cloud strategy, manage technical projects, and implement technical solutions to business problems.
Technical Achievements
· Led and participated in many client infrastructure assessments to discover pain points in overall IT systems and processes and work with clients to develop a roadmap to address risks and pain points
· Developed and tested Cloud Assessment go-to-market based on AWS Well-Architected framework
· Helped create, update, and provide executive presentations on 7year, $50MM cloud infrastructure financial model
· Evaluated client infrastructure and developed cloud-specific roadmaps to fix key pain points and realize maximum benefits from augmenting traditional data center or colocation environments with cloud systems
· Led teams in multiple desktop and file server migrations to cloud and co-located infrastructure
· Responsible for updating network firewall design and rules for several large scale (25+ office, multi-datacenter) clients
Nontechnical Achievements
· West Monroe Seattle Chief BBQ Officer - put on multiple summer BBQs for ~100 person office
· UW iSchool Recruitment Lead - planned, created content, and presented at ~25 recruitment events focused on the University of Washington Information School
· West Monroe Inclusion & Diversity Committee member- helped plan and create video content for WMP Conversations from the Couch video series
August 2016 - Present
Cloud & Software IT Analyst Intern
Cisco Systems, Inc.
· Identified business needs and developed functional requirements to convert product from a traditional software licensing model to an on-demand SaaS model
· Analyzed usage data flow to Hadoop production database and proposed a solution that standardized six products and reduced the need for analysts and developers to onboard new clients
June 2015 - September 2015
Instructional Media Developer
University of Washington Professional & Continuing Education
· Filmed and edited content for two Univeristy of Washington fully-online Bachelor's Degree programs
· Worked with professors and university teams to update course content for a online-first experience
April 2014 - January 2016