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Company:
Accenture
Role:
Infrastructure Transformation Senior Manager
Timeframe:
Nov 2021 - May 2025
As Infrastructure Transformation Senior Manager at Accenture, I directed cross-functional teams spanning network, storage, systems, cloud, automation, and security engineering across multiple enterprise modernization initiatives. Leading teams of up to nine professionals, I oversaw complete engagement lifecycles from assessment through implementation and operational transition.
Healthcare Infrastructure Leadership: Guided architecture and design of a private cloud infrastructure for a large healthcare provider spanning multiple U.S. data centers. Developed a hyper-converged reference architecture enabling flexible hypervisor switching for cost optimization, and created a multi-cluster virtualization framework supporting containerized workloads, management services, and high-performance compute tasks.
Energy Sector Assessment: Conducted comprehensive infrastructure and application assessments across five enterprise data centers for a large energy utility company. Delivered a disaster recovery maturity analysis identifying single points of failure and prioritizing mission-critical applications while assessing compute, network, and storage systems for high availability and fault tolerance.
Financial Services Modernization: Led an observability modernization initiative for a large financial investment firm, improving endpoint visibility, tool optimization, and alert thresholds. Authored current-state and future-state monitoring frameworks with detailed gap analysis and migration roadmaps.
Global Data Center Consolidation: Directed a multiregional data center consolidation project covering applications, network, compute, cloud, and storage across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Designed future-state architectures aligned with business transformation goals, enabling new hosting facilities and unified infrastructure standards.
Technology Leadership: Managed Nutanix vs. VMware hyper-converged proof-of-concepts with full test cases, scoring matrices, and performance benchmarking. Integrated Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible) into configuration and validation pipelines, and led observability platform enhancements using Splunk, SolarWinds, and CheckMK for improved telemetry and actionable metrics.
My tenure at Accenture was marked by establishing global hosting and infrastructure standards, authoring technical architecture documentation, and maintaining integrated project schedules while serving as primary architectural liaison between technical delivery teams and business leadership.
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Led the architecture and design of a comprehensive private cloud infrastructure for a large healthcare provider spanning multiple U.S. data centers. This transformative initiative balanced healthcare compliance requirements with flexible, cost-effective infrastructure capable of adapting to evolving clinical and administrative needs.
Technical Leadership & Architecture
Hyper-Converged Reference Architecture: Developed a comprehensive reference architecture enabling flexible hypervisor switching for cost optimization while maintaining operational excellence. The design provided unprecedented flexibility in resource allocation and vendor selection strategies.
Multi-Cluster Virtualization Framework: Created an innovative framework supporting diverse workload requirements including containerized applications for modern healthcare systems, traditional management services for established clinical platforms, and high-performance compute tasks for medical imaging and research applications.
Cross-Functional Team Management: Directed teams spanning network, storage, systems, cloud, automation, and security engineering disciplines, coordinating complex integration efforts across multiple technical domains while serving as primary architectural liaison between technical delivery and healthcare business leadership.
Project Overview
Conducted comprehensive infrastructure and application assessments across five enterprise data centers for a large energy utility company. This critical initiative focused on disaster recovery maturity analysis and high availability evaluation to ensure uninterrupted utility services for critical infrastructure operations.
Assessment Methodology & Scope
Multi-Data Center Analysis: Evaluated infrastructure and application landscapes across five geographically distributed enterprise data centers, assessing compute, network, storage systems, and their interdependencies for mission-critical utility operations.
Disaster Recovery Maturity Assessment: Delivered comprehensive DR maturity analysis identifying single points of failure and prioritizing mission-critical applications based on business impact and recovery time objectives. Created detailed risk registers and remediation roadmaps.
High Availability Architecture Review: Conducted thorough assessments of compute, network, and storage systems hosting critical business services, evaluating fault tolerance mechanisms, redundancy implementations, and resilience capabilities to ensure continuous utility service delivery.
Project Title:
Financial Investment Firm Strategies
Timeframe:
Nov 2021 - Present
Description:
As a technological oracle for a large financial investment firm, I took the reins of two pivotal projects, each echoing my commitment to strategic progress and technological acumen.
Tech Delivery Expertise: The monitoring observability assessment project was a clarion call for heightened vigilance in endpoint coverage and monitoring architecture—an initiative that improved visibility and optimized alerting thresholds.
Data Center Consolidation Leadership: Leading a multiregional data center consolidation project, I weaved together a tapestry of applications, network, compute, cloud, and storage systems across continents, designing a future state infrastructure that resonated with the firm's transformative vision.
Team and Project Management: Guiding a multifaceted team of nine, I steered a proof-of-concept that compared Nutanix and VMware solutions, distilling requirements and methodologies into a coherent strategy that would become the linchpin of informed decision-making.
As I continue to sculpt the landscape of cloud advisory and solution architecture at Accenture, my story is one of unyielding passion for excellence, an insatiable curiosity for technological innovation, and a steadfast dedication to the clients and industries that depend on our expertise.
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