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As an Enterprise Cloud Architect at Eli Lilly and Company, I have over 20 years of experience in the life sciences industry, designing, developing, and managing IT solutions across the Enterprise IT Landscape. Eli Lilly is a global leader in pharmaceutical innovation, and I am proud to support its vision and values by leveraging cloud technologies and platforms to enable business agility, efficiency, and security.
I have extensive and versatile experience in Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Azure, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, VMware vSphere, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, with a focus on creating on-premises private, as well as public and hybrid cloud, IaaS and PaaS services and solutions in highly regulated and quality controlled environments. I have led large scale and complex cloud service development projects, such as the deployment of an AWS account provisioning solution that automated AWS account creation, deployment and configuration based on corporate and industry standard cloud security, quality, and compliance standards and guardrails. I am also responsible for the management and oversight of the Enterprise GCP cloud foundation, including project deployment, configuration and service enablement. I partner with development teams on designing and implementing cloud-native applications and architectures that leverage cloud capabilities and best practices. I hold multiple certifications in AWS and Azure, and I am constantly learning and exploring new technologies and trends in the cloud domain. I am passionate about delivering innovative and reliable IT solutions that support the company’s vision and values.
Experience
Enterprise Cloud Architect
Eli Lilly & Company
November 2021 - Present
Research and Understand Technology Trends
- Evaluate new cloud technologies to determine business value for Lilly. Provide practical advice and best practices to overcome these challenges and successfully deliver the expected business outcomes. Contextualize the technology trends based on social, economic, political, and other non-technology trends.
- Keeps abreast of new cloud technology and technological trends across Lilly IDS.
- Align research to business needs and technology strategies across the functions
Lead our Cloud Architecture Vision
- Develop the long-term cloud vision, direction, and roadmaps for Lilly’s enterprise cloud
- Work to understand cloud technology needs to define innovative solutions that fulfill our strategy
- Map cloud technology needs to capabilities to build technology roadmaps, drive rationalization, locate ways to reduce costs in IT
- Identify dependencies and impact of key technologies to develop strategic roadmaps for Cloud Services
Governance and architecture operations
- Collaborate closely with the Enterprise Architecture organization and the Global Information Services (GIS) lead architect to establish and drive an aligned enterprise architecture vision and roadmap.
- Participate as a key and influential member of Enterprise Architecture governance
- Partner with the Director of Cloud Engineering in the cloud architecture governance body to triage new technology requests and ensure Enterprise Architecture alignment and identify gaps in cloud architecture and design.
- Document and communicate cloud procedures, standards, and frameworks
- Drive timely management of technology lifecycle needs across the cloud portfolio and communicate impact to the business IT functions
Reference Architecture
- Own and lead the development and evolution of cloud reference architectures, patterns and implementation frameworks in collaboration with other technology domain architects within and across information technology groups.
- Create materials for alignment and education. Steward the communications
- Promote the adoption and lifecycle management of key technologies represented in the reference model.
- Establish operational procedures for utilization of reference architectures and report on KPIs to assess business value.
Provide Cloud Architecture Guidance
- Align with applicable Local Architects and make recommendations to stakeholders about new technologies and trends.
- Make architecture recommendations based on experience, knowledge of use cases, objectives, and industry learnings
- Work with and help project teams align their solutions with the cloud architectural vision as well as the Enterprise Architecture standards.
- Identify organizational requirements for the resources, structures, and cultural changes necessary to support the IDS cloud architecture
- Work closely with Automation Architect to ensure solutions leverage automation capabilities
Community and Education
- Encourage, promote, and enable adoption; Maximize value derived from cloud tech by increasing knowledge across IDS of cloud capabilities and how to maximize the services and technologies. Expose and overcome barriers.
- Educate and share across the IDS Community to promote best practices and awareness of cloud technology strategies.
- Mentor other cloud technologists to grow technical staff knowledgeable of Lilly technology expectations and existing offerings
Cloud Engineer
Eli Lilly & Company
March 2018 - November 2021
Responsibilities and experiences include
- Experience defining, documenting, qualifying, installing and configuring the cloud foundational services and capabilities required for Enterprise AWS and GCP deployments.
- Led large scale and complex cloud service development projects including the deployment of an AWS account provisioning solution that automated AWS account creation, deployment and configuration based on corporate and industry standard cloud security, quality, and compliance standards and guardrails.
- Responsible for management and oversight of Enterprise GCP cloud foundation, including project deployment, configuration, service enablement and access.
- Partnering with development teams on designing and deploying cloud native architecture focused solutions within AWS and GCP.
- Hands on experience in deploying and configuring Enterprise cloud solutions within AWS and GCP.
- Development and deployment of AWS CloudFormation templates to meet Infrastructure as Code and application deployment requirements.
- Development and deployment of AWS Lambda focused automation for configuration governance and security compliance.
- Experience within AWS and GCP in the creation of IAM Roles, Policies, and Boundaries to enable least privilege access, as well as, the ability to allow service admin autonomy while at the same protecting foundational resources and guardrails.
- Consult and advise on the implementation of cloud practices across the Eli Lilly Global IT landscape.
- Promote, mentor and educate the Eli Lilly IT community on cloud adoption, operating guidelines, principles, and cloud services and solutions
- Serve as an AWS and GCP cloud services evangelist. Providing education, guidance and consultation to teams related to current and future state of our AWS service offering.
- Partner effectively with Information Security, Enterprise Data Services, Network and Service Management teams to ensure delivery of reliable and secure cloud services in AWS and GCP.
PaaS/CaaS Engineer
Eli Lilly & Company
March 2016 - March 2018
PaaS/CaaS Engineer and Service Owner responsible for the technical design, development and implementation of on-premise Platform-as-a-Service and Container-as-a-Service solutions. I was responsible for researching, reviewing, evaluating, and testing on-premise Linux and Windows PaaS/CaaS solutions to identify there fit within our portfolio of on-premise application development solutions.
I lead a global cross-functional team of engineering, development, and operations team members focused on the development and support of an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform Service. The team consults, guides and educates business unit IT teams on new cloud native application development as well as re-platforming applications from legacy platforms to a modern application container based platform running on OpenShift.
Primary Job Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation of an Enterprise PaaS/CaaS Orchestration solution based on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.
- Provide mentoring and guidance to internal app dev teams leveraging the OpenShift platform for next-generation application development.
- Promote and evangelize the use of the on-premise CaaS/PaaS solutions to internal business unit IT groups focused application development.
Virtualization Engineer
Eli Lilly & Company
Mar 2013 - Mar 2016
Responsibilities and experiences include
- I owned, created and deployed a new internal VMware VSAN service offering within the virtualization services team. I authored the requirements, configuration and design documentation for the service, as well as, the service operational support documentation. I drove and championed the use of the VSAN based solutions within all new small site deployments requiring virtualization services infrastructure.
- I conducted a VMware Virtual Distributed Switch Proof of Concept evaluation to determine the feasibility and challenges associated with migrating from VMware Standard Switches to Distributed Switches within our global ESXi environment.
- Responsible for POC testing of VMware vCenter Operations Manager for View software to investigate possibility of the tool to function as centralized resource for View infrastructure capacity, performance and event monitoring and management.
- Service delivery manager for a custom developed IaaS offering and served as the liaison between IaaS portal developers and internal Global IT with regards to ongoing development, improvement of IaaS service capabilities and I oversaw the global rollout of the IaaS offering.
Hosting and Cloud Services Business/Financial Analyst
Eli Lilly & Company
Mar 2010 - Mar 2013
Global Platform Hosting Services Business and Financial analyst. Created and maintained a global internal unit cost and pricing model associated with server deployments, as well as storage and network resource allocation across internal business units consuming IT resource. Developed and managed the volume and project driven growth charge-back/show-back model. Tracked projected and actual OPEX and CAPEX related to virtual desktop and servers, network and storage resources. Owned and developed business cases based on NPV, ROI and TCO analysis of major project proposals. Owned capital asset review and retirement for the department.
Global Service Delivery Manager for Enterprise Systems Management (ESM) and SOA Gateway Services teams. Developed and implemented a ESM project work tracking and status update process. Partnered with ESM Services supplier on service strategy review and development efforts. I was the primary internal departmental customer relationship and issue escalation contact for both the ESM and SOA Gateway services team. Provided quality, process and procedure creation guidance to SOA Gateway Services support team as they worked toward establishing the SOA Gateway offering as a new IT service.
UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator
Eli Lilly & Company
Mar 1999 - Mar 2010
Lead the design and creation of a Red Hat Linux high availability clustering service offering. Compared Veritas HA and Red Hat HA solutions. Created and maintained automated installation and configuration script of Veritas Cluster software onto Red Hat Linux systems. Created NetIQ based monitoring solution for HA Cluster events leveraging trigger scripts to generate NetIQ based incidents and trouble-tickets for HA Cluster failures.
Solaris UNIX performance management subject matter expert for the team. Veritas Volume Management subject matter expert. Created script to automate Veritas Volume Manager upgrades on Sun Solaris UNIX systems.
Service/Sales Engineer
CommNet Plus, Inc
Aug 1997 - Feb 1999
I served as the lead service and sales engineer associated with Checkpoint Firewall software within corporate and educational accounts. I provided on-site and remote support of existing firewall installations, including configuration management and facilitating software upgrades. I also served as the lead service and sales engineer associated with Sun Microsystems hardware. I was responsible for troubleshooting and upgrading various Sun Microsystems platforms both within the company and in off-site accounts. The systems ranged in size from Sparc5 workstations to Enterprise 6000 servers and my responsibilities included OS upgrades as well as component replacement and integration.
Education
Purdue University
Master of Science
Computer and Information Technology Management
August 2009 - May 2012
Anderson University
MBA
Falls School of Business
August 2009 - May 2012
Purdue University
Bachelor of Science
Krannert School of Management
Major: Industrial Management
Minor: Management Information Systems
August 1989 - May 1994
Skills
Programming Languages & Tools
Enthusiastic About
- Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Azure
- Infrastructure as Code
- Container Services
- Cloud Native Application Development
Conversant In
- OpenShift Container Platform
- VMware vSphere
- Linux (RHEL & Ubuntu)
- HTML/CSS
Knowledgeable About
- Programming/Scripting: Bash, Python & JavaScript
- Infrastructure as Code: CloudFormation & Terraform
- CI/CD Tools: GitHub, GitHub Actions, AWSCodeBuild, & AWS CodePipeline
- Serverless Solutions: AWS Lambda, AWS Serverless Application Model & Amazon DynamoDB
- Container Services: Docker, Red Hat OpenShift
- Cloud Network Services: VPC configuration, Subnetting, Routing, Load Balancing, DNS, Proxy Services & Firewalls
