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IT Infrastructure & Cloud Executive

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Ref · CND-85793

Experience
25 yrs
Region
Kansas City, Missouri
Availability
2 weeks

IT infrastructure executive with 25+ years of experience, most recently leading a 40+ person cloud, infrastructure, telecom, and service desk organization and reporting directly to the CIO. At their best walking into an environment that needs cleaning up: replaced manual Azure builds with Terraform and Git-based workflows, built a first-ever security team and GRC program, and has been bringing AI into IT operations. Leads with a people-first style, stays hands-on technically, and is ready to step into a CIO role.

  • Cut production incidents 75% by standardizing every environment through Terraform and Git-based workflows.
  • Built a hybrid cloud cost model projecting about $1.18M in savings over three years, and delivered a 40% multi-cloud cost reduction.
  • Built a security team and GRC program from scratch, reducing audit findings by 85% (SOC 2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS).
  • Rolling out ServiceNow AI agents, Microsoft Copilot, and LLM-assisted site reliability work for tier-1 automation.
  • Built a secondary data center for a healthcare system that cut recovery time from 48 hours to 4.

Technical Expertise

  • Azure
  • Hybrid Cloud
  • Terraform
  • Git
  • ServiceNow
  • ITIL
  • GRC
  • SOC 2
  • HIPAA
  • PCI-DSS
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