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Over the last decade I've helped hundreds of companies build and scale on cloud. But, in 2020, I felt something was missing. I wanted to share everything I learned in my tech career with you. So, I created ThoughtfulTechy Cloud. My mission is to inspire millions of techies to follow their dreams through building a tech career. I help technologists break into cloud, break free from IT support, and grow in an existing cloud role. My results: → 72K+ people following on LinkedIn → 54K+ people following on TikTok → 15K+ people subscribed on YouTube → 12K+ people read my weekly newsletter → 19M+ Impressions (LinkedIn) If you want to learn more about booking a 1:1: → GO HERE: https://topmate.io/thoughtfultechycloud/ If you want to learn more about ThoughtfulTechy Cloud join our community: → GO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/@ThoughtfulTechyCloud Testimonials: "I would like to thank you for the valuable insights you provide almost every day on your channel. It's really motivating!" "I just watched one of your YouTube videos and it's what I was looking for. Your thoughts are amazing. l'd love to keep in touch with you and learn more." "Great video Greg! Awesome way of breaking down the path into achievable goals. Thanks for the content." Socials: X: @ThoughtfulTechy TikTok: @ThoughtfulTechy_Cloud Instagram: @Thoughtfultechy_Cloud YouTube: @ThoughtfulTechyCloud Views are my own and do not reflect my employer
As a Startup Solutions Architect, I focus on early stage through Accelerator and Incubator firms to later stage VC funded Startups, working directly with Accelerators/Incubator/VC partners and customers in their portfolio to drive the technology behind their key business outcomes. I ensure my Startup customers can continue to successfully grow and scale by guiding them in AWS best practices, becoming a trusted technical advisor, advocating for my customer’s needs internally and through thought leadership in the industry via content creation and presentation delivery. I own the technical engagement and continuously develop and maintain deep expertise in AWS technologies as well as broad know-how around how applications and services are best architected using the AWS platform to facilitate customer success.
As an Enterprise Solutions Architect, I partner with customers to design highly available, elastic and fault tolerant Cloud architectures that solve business problems through the adoption of AWS services. As a trusted customer advocate, I help organizations understand best practices around advanced Cloud based solutions, how to migrate existing workloads to the Cloud, and position customers to successfully achieve their missions with AWS services by thinking strategically about business, products, and technical challenges. I help shape and execute winning strategies for customers that exhibit thought leadership and achieve desired outcomes through the application of AWS services.
As a Technology, Strategy, and Architecture Specialist Master I helped organizations develop the strategies and implement the systems that built business value and drove performance. From system replacement to full IT transformation, I brought deep knowledge and experience to the most complex IT challenges.
-Contractor at DISA- •Gathered, analyzed, and defined architecture data and network and hardware requirements for systems supporting thousands of Air Force users, translating high-level directives into engineering solutions. •Conducted technical planning, risk analysis, requirements verification, and validation for $1M+ systems. •Evaluated IT service requirements, system infrastructure, and network architectures for 8 global data centers. •Created engineering designs using Visio diagrams, integrated diagrams with solution documents for customer review, and implemented designs. •Provided network engineering guidance to Air Force, DISA IT Operations, system engineers, and other stakeholders to increase system stability and resilience. •Led technical engineering review meetings and tiger team events to capture critical insights to improve system capabilities and achieve missions. •Developed hosting solutions for dozens of high-profile, mission-critical cloud architecture projects supporting high visibility programs, primarily using the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) hosting model. •Conducted three IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundation trainings that enabled 95% of students to pass ITIL certification exams.
•Designed and implemented a network attached storage (NAS) provisioning platform that doubled hosting capacity of DOJ litigation portal. •Created and administered Active Directory Domain supporting hundreds of DOJ personnel. •Developed and executed technical strategy to increase network capacity, security, and compliance with DOJ policies. •Managed migration and consolidation of 3 data centers into 2, realizing significant cost savings by using virtualization technologies to maintain computing capacity of newly consolidated data center. •Resolved end-user incidents during work hours and after, usually resolving issues within minutes.
•Provided timely responses for incidents, outages, and performance alerts to reduce down time and build stability of company’s enterprise network that served over 20K personnel. •Collected, reviewed, and reported hardware and application performance trends to predict incidents and prevent outages.