University at Buffalo

Northeastern University

Leader Solutions Architecture, Startups at AWS

Amazon EC2 is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers. Amazon EC2’s simple web service interface allows customers to obtain and configure capacity with minimal friction and it provides customers with complete control of their computing resources while running on Amazon’s proven computing environment. As a leader for the EC2 Core Service Team I provide field, customer and partner facing technical resources for AWS Graviton (ARM silicon), EC2 Mac, and Confidential Compute. With this global focus we have engaged with the largest ISVs and customers building on AWS.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

World Wide Solutions Architecture Leader, EC2 Core

Built a team at AWS that is focused on working with the Startup community. The AWS Startup Solutions Architecture team is dedicated to working with early stage startup companies as they build their businesses. We’re here to make sure that they can deploy the best, most scalable, and most secure architectures possible – and that they spend as little time and money as possible doing so.

Sr. Manager, Solutions Architecture - Startups at AWS

Led and built a global team that developed the AWS ISV Workload Migration Program (WMP). Launched in 2019, the (WMP) helps customers migrate ISV workloads to AWS to achieve their business goals and accelerate their cloud journey. WMP works with AWS Partner Network Technology and Consulting Partners to create a repeatable migration process and methodology for their AWS offering. WMP helps APN Partners drive and deliver ISV workload migrations, enhancing their cloud practices and customer success on AWS.

Manager, Partner Solutions Architecture - ISV Workload Migration

Led and built a global team that developed the AWS SaaS Factory. Launched at re:Invent in November 2017, the AWS SaaS Factory is for APN Technology Partners. The AWS SaaS Factory provides direct access to technical and business content, best practices, and software-as-a-service (SaaS) Solutions Architects that can guide and accelerate delivery of SaaS on AWS solutions. AWS SaaS Factory provides a broad range of business and technical enablement resources for building, migrating, and optimizing SaaS on AWS.

Manager, Partner Solutions Architecture - AWS SaaS Factory

Solinea is the leading Open Infrastructure consulting and tools company in the marketplace.

Projects Include:
• Media and Entertainment - Facilitated their transition from traditional virtualization to Cloud Computing both public and private. This included a migration to an agile, DevOps based process. In addition facilitated an evaluation and architecture of a container orchestration platform, based on Kubernetes, to drive their microservices architecture.

• Financial Services - Worked with a Global stock exchange to transform their infrastructure and development process to cloud and CI/CD.

• Financial Services - Large US Based financial institution to assist in planning their migration from a contract based development team to an in house team developing on a Platform as a Service Infrastructure. 

•  Manufacturing - Auto manufacturer to develop a Big Data solution on OpenStack to assist in their analysis of telematics data being collected from vehicles around the world.


Working with customers in the field, pre-sales, including proposal development, as well as business development with projects and partners in the open infrastructure community.

• Recruiting, hiring, maintaining and leading a staff of technology professionals that deliver open infrastructure solutions globally. 

• Developing technical training programs for OpenStack, container and Open Infrastructure technology solutions.

Solinea

Vice President Delivery

Working closely with Engineering, Marketing, Services and customers in support of the Cloudscaling OCS Hardware Certification List. This includes development and expansion of OCS Cloud Blocks, an integral part of the OCS solution.  Work with  hardware and software partners to create and certify reference architectures  as compatible with the OCS platform. Develop customer facing as well as market facing documentation on Cloudscaling solutions.  Work with customers to develop Cloud ROI Models as well as custom OCS Block Designs. PRD creation in support of new features. Roadmap planning and timely delivery of new updates and features. Work closely with vendors to review and assess how the evolution in the hardware eco systems can impact OCS. Develop presentations for industry trade shows.

Cloudscaling (Now part of EMC)

Director, Product Management

Work across all aspects of the sales process, from customer education to proposal development.  Manage client relationships.  Manage engineering resources focused on deploying Commercial Public and Private Clouds.  Manage all components of a customer deployment, from Bill of Material creation to hardware standup to software deployment.  Primary interface for customers to provide feedback on existing product issues as well as capture new product / feature requests.  Manage recruiting efforts to  develop a deployment team as well as support and operations teams.  Deep focus on customer training and education.  Help to facilitate an understanding of Enterprise Cloud deployments vs. the Cloudscaling’s agile approach to IT infrastructure.  Work with  hardware and software partners to create and certify reference architectures  as compatible with the OCS platform.  Work with customers across the industry verticals that are currently served by Cloudscaling.

Director, Client Services

BrightPlanIT, Inc. offers a full complement of information technology services including Training, Systems Integration, Consulting, Hosting and Application Development Services.  

Responsible for the expansion of the BrightPlanIT service offering in the Western United States.  Assist corporations with enterprise wide technology roadmap development and deployments.  Work as a trusted advisor to clients, including designing and deploying technical architectures for a global customer base.  Design and create marketing material to generate new business.  Perform new business development across BrightPlanIT technology partnerships.

BrightPlanIT, Inc.

Sr. Vice President Operations - Western Region

WNS is a leader in business process outsourcing (BPO) with over 25,000 employees worldwide and offices in the US, UK and four delivery centers in India. WNS provides essential corporate functions, such as finance and accounting, human resources, research and analytics to the travel, insurance, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, distribution and retail industries.

Vice President - Technology

12 Entrepreneuring was an operating company that developed business ideas and brought them to market. 12 was founded by principal executives from American Express, eBay, Gateway and led by Halsey Minor from cnet.  12 provided a wide range of services to companies that operated out of their corporate offices. These services included product marketing and development, legal, finance, information technology and operations.

12 Entrpreneuring

Director of Information Technology

Scient was an ecommerce technology consulting firm founded by principal executives from IBM.  Clients ranged from a startup, with newly acquired venture capital, to large enterprise companies.

Worked with clients to identify and apply their technology needs.  The projects focused on implementing internet technologies to meet the growing online presence required for both new and established businesses.

Scient

Principal Infrastructure Architect

Migrated 3,000+ users from Lotus cc:Mail to Microsoft Exchange. As the project lead, assessed the current email and wide area systems and based on those findings, implemented a Microsoft Exchange network.  Based on a pilot of about 100 users, developed a migration plan for the rest of the system. Trained the end users and the administration staff on Microsoft Exchange and Windows NT Administration.

GE Capital IT Solutions

Infrastructure Architect

Designed and implemented new systems that utilized the full suite of Microsoft BackOffice systems. The LAN and WAN utlized many features of Windows NT Server including a Multiple Master Domain model, DHCP, WINS, and DNS. This was a growing 2,500 node TCP/IP network across all of the SOFTBANK facilities worldwide.

Projects included: conversion of both desktop and server based computers to Windows NT; aided internal departments to design Windows based solutions; established connectivity to external clients including WAN connections; utlized SMS to populate a Human Resource employee database; worked with the Internet Development Group to provide online commerce system to generate sales for clients on the internet.

Seth Fox