George Schaaf

George Schaaf is a highly experienced and accomplished IT executive with over 25 years of hands-on experience in building and leading high-performing teams to architect, develop, and launch world-class global enterprise products and services. George has a proven track record of driving competitive advantage through innovation and promoting business transformation and modernization by migrating to the public cloud. With a strong background in strategy development, solution/cloud architecture, and systems integration in complex distributed environments, he has extensive experience in digital transformation, modernization, cloud migrations, and DevOps.

George is a seasoned technology leader and team builder who is passionate and focused on achieving results, continual improvement, and innovation. He is recognized for delivering solutions that improve the customer experience, increase market share, and increase revenue. His core competencies include cloud transformation, multi-cloud strategy, solution architecture, enterprise architecture, technology leadership, team building, talent development, global delivery leadership, product strategy, road maps, digital transformation, agile SDLC, B2C/B2B e-commerce, and API development.

George has a strong technical background, with expertise in Java/J2EE, .NET, Unix, Linux, C, C++, XML, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Oracle, ERP, WebLogic, Websphere, JBoss, Tomcat, Python, MongoDB NoSQL, Node JS, Angular JS, Big Data Hadoop, Kafka, Spark, Hortonworks, Spring, TOGAF, SOA, microservices, REST/web services, API development, web development, IoT, enterprise architecture, solution architecture, application architecture, MQ, cloud computing, Amazon/AWS, VMware virtualization, Docker containerization, Kubernetes, SSO, DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, CI/CD tools (Maven, Jenkins), VPC, S3, EC2, EBS, ELB, RDS, Aurora, MySQL, Kinesis, Lambda, agile, waterfall methodologies, OWASP, ITIL, PCI, SOX. He has also served as a speaker at conferences and symposiums.

George studied computer science at both the Bachelor's and Master's level, graduating from Calvin College and Stevens Institute of Technology, respectively. He is currently the Head of Solution Architecture at Avis Budget Group and has previously held senior positions at Western Union, Stryker, Liberty Travel, and Euro RSCG Life, among others.