George S. Parker III

Digital Transformation Architect | Technical Strategic Advisor | Customer Success Specialist

Digital Transformation Architect
Technical Strategic Advisor
Customer Success Leader

 Digital Transformation Architect     Technical Strategic Advisor    Customer Success Specialist

Extended Resume

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Technical strategic advisor with 13+ years driving enterprise transformations and building long-term partnerships across Healthcare & Life Sciences, Financial Services, Government, and Creative/Advertising sectors.

Proven expertise guiding customers through complex cloud adoption journeys while managing cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders. Strong track record of delivering measurable business impact through strategic technical guidance, cost optimization initiatives, and comprehensive customer relationship management.

 

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

  • B.S., Information Technology Management | Western Governors University (In Progress)
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate
  • AWS Security Specialty
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
  • ITIL v4 Foundation

 

COMPETENCIES

Technical: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Salesforce CRM & AgentForce AI, FinOps Strategy (Cost Optimization, Cost Visibility), Active Directory, Identity Management & SSO, Microsoft 365, Security Frameworks, Cloud Operations, Process Automation, Solutions Architecture, Sales Engineering

Strategic: Customer Success & Solutions, Technical Account Management, Technical Program Management, Global Enterprise Support, Cloud Adoption Assessments & Implementation, Strategic Business Reviews & Alignment, Executive Engagement, Customer Enablement, Product Influence

 

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS & CUSTOMER IMPACT

  • $100M+ Annual Enterprise Renewal: Supported major contract renewal through strategic business reviews and executive engagement
  • Cost Optimization: Delivered optimization initiatives across customer workloads contributing directly to customer ROI, retention, and room to scale including a $600K annual reduction through infrastructure modernization and cloud migration
  • Rapid GenAI Adoption: Guided enterprise customer to achieve $0 to $150k monthly service usage within 120 days through strategic technical advisory from ideation to PoC to production adoption
  • Customer Workshops: Trained 1000+ technical stakeholders accelerating product adoption and user competency across organizations globally averaging 4.7/5 customer satisfaction surveys
  • Scaling Thought Leadership: Created reusable assets adopted across multiple organizations internally and externally for engagement, guidance, and training

 

Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Remote

Senior Solutions Architect | October 2024 – Present
•    Guide enterprise Healthcare & Life Sciences customers through strategic cloud transformation initiatives, focusing on emerging technologies and business outcomes
•    Lead Healthcare GenAI implementation projects processing 1M+ clinical records, enabling customers to modernize data processing and accelerate innovation
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Sales, Product, and Engineering to ensure seamless customer adoption and transformation success
•    Architect and design complex AWS solutions for Healthcare & Life Sciences customers, addressing  
•    their unique regulatory and compliance requirements.
•    Lead cross-functional teams to deliver end-to-end technical solutions that drive measurable business outcomes for customers.
•    Influence AWS product roadmaps based on customer feedback and industry trends in the Healthcare & Life Sciences sector.
•    Develop and deliver thought leadership content, including whitepapers, blog posts, and presentations at
•    industry events.
•    Mentor junior team members and contribute to the growth of the Solutions Architect community within AWS.
•    Guide enterprise Healthcare & Life Sciences (HCLS) customers through strategic cloud transformation initiatives focusing on their business outcomes
•    Lead and coordinate GenAI projects enabling customers to modernize data processing while using emerging technologies such as MCP Servers, Agentic AI, and AIOps to accelerate innovation
•    Architected data transfer solution for heterogenous data pipeline processing terabytes monthly of genomics data
•    Guided rapid GenAI service adoption achieving $150k monthly usage within 120-day implementation cycle through strategic technical guidance and collaboration
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Sales, Product, and Engineering to ensure seamless adoption and provide feedback for product improvement


Senior Technical Account Manager | January 2021 – October 2024
•    Managed strategic enterprise customer relationships driving cloud service adoption and technical transformation across multiple business units
•    Supported $100M+ contract renewal through strategic business reviews and executive stakeholder engagement demonstrating long-term technical value
•    Led customer adoption of strategic cloud programs including AWS Managed Services, Security Improvement Programs, and GenAI Innovation Centers resulting in expanded service consumption
•    Delivered cost optimization initiatives identifying average 30% savings opportunities across customer workloads, directly contributing to customer ROI
•    Conducted 15+ customer workshops and immersion days including IAM sessions with 90+ attendees, accelerating product adoption and technical competency
•    Guided rapid GenAI service adoption achieving $60K monthly usage within 90-day implementation cycle through strategic technical guidance
•    Coordinated with Support, Engineering, and Product teams to resolve customer escalations and influence feature development based on customer feedback
•    Created reusable customer engagement assets and enablement content improving team efficiency and accelerating adoption processes
•    Managed strategic HCLS Enterprise Support customer relationships as lead technical advisor to ensure operational excellence and Well-Architected workloads
•    Led strategic proactive engagements such Security Improvement Program, GenAI Innovation Center, customized workshops/Immersion Days/Hackathons, and Modernization Labs
•    Developed customized support plans for each customer and collaborated with customer leaders to define and ensure strategic outcomes were aligned
•    Supported $100M+ annual contract renewal through strategic business reviews and executive stakeholder engagement demonstrating long-term business value
•    Delivered cost optimization initiatives identifying average 30% savings opportunities, directly contributing to customer ROI in additional workloads
•    Coordinated with Support, Engineering, and Product teams to resolve customer escalations and influence feature development based on customer feedback

 

Omnicom Health Group | New York, NY

Senior Systems Engineer | January 2019 – December 2021
•    Led enterprise cloud transformation initiative migrating 150TB+ of data from on-premises infrastructure to cloud storage, delivering $600K annual cost savings
•    Managed complex IT infrastructure supporting 1,000+ servers across North America and Europe, ensuring 99.9% uptime through strategic monitoring and automation
•    Orchestrated enterprise-wide digital transformation including SSO implementation for 3,000+ users and cloud-native collaboration platform adoption
•    Collaborated with international teams and executive leadership to implement technology solutions supporting business growth and operational efficiency
•    Creating technical architecture documentation including runbooks, infrastructure diagrams, and presentations.
•    Designing, installing, configuring, and maintaining technical infrastructure across multiple datacenters and Active Directory forests supporting offices in the US, Canada, and Europe.
•    Ensure the highest level of availability of approximately 1000 servers while improving current system and service monitoring/alerts tools. 
•    Maintaining security, backup, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies via tape and cloud backups, load balancing, and failover methods.
•    Automating tasks through Powershell scripts or recommending 3rd-party tools.
•    Working with clients to provide the best solutions for their day-to-day business such as saving the company over $600k annually by switching from on-prem Windows File Servers to AWS-hosted Nasuni Filers.
•    Projects: SSO Migration to Okta, O365 Tenancy Migration, Windows Server 2008 Deprecation and Migration, File Server Migration to Nasuni/AWS (150TB), DNS/DHCP Migration from Infoblox to Microsoft, Digital Asset Management Migration AWS to Azure (120TB)

 

Insight Global - Rockefeller Capital Management, New York, NY

System Engineer | July 2018 – January 2019
•    Responsible for supporting and monitoring 600+ servers and desktops in a Windows environment.
•    Desktop engineering for Windows 10 rollout: building baseline, configuring GPOs, and testing dynamic imaging. 
•    Handle Tier 3 escalations and train junior technicians with troubleshooting for end-users’ requests.
•    Participated in hardware reduction cost projects by providing server virtualization technology. 
•    SSO administration working with partner engineers to configure seamless SSO with using Ping Identity.
•    Create email accounts in Microsoft Exchange, blacklist spam/phishing addresses, and whitelist false-positives.
•    Projects: Printuition, VMware Horizon View PoC, PingFederate/PingOne (SAML SSO)

 

Maximus – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Suitland, MD    

Lead System Administrator III | September 2017 - July 2018
•    Lead a team of Windows, Solaris Unix, and RedHat Linux System Admins supporting ground satellite missions.
•    Prioritizing and delegating SMART tasks to team members to meet project, task, and ticket deadlines.
•    Producing artifacts for POA&Ms (Plan of Actions & Milestones), SCAs (Security Control Assessments), and audits.
•    Collaborate with customers (internal and external) during the design and development process to employ best practices when implementing security requirements and controls.
•    Responsible for a mixed-platform environment of 1000+ devices (Microsoft, RedHat, Solaris Unix, VMWare).


System Administrator II | March 2017 - September 2017
•    Manage system patching, updating, and scanning based on vulnerabilities, threats, or regulatory compliance
•    Apply Configuration Management (CM) policies for authorizing a change on the network; participate in the Change Control Board (CCB) to ensure changes are not detrimental to security or operations.
•    Managing mixed-platform network environment with tools such as Centrify, Active Directory, Solarwinds, McAfee ePo, Tenable Nessus, Symantec Altiris, and Tripwire.

 

Child and Family Services Agency – DC Government, Washington, DC

Lead IT Specialist | August 2015 – March 2017
•    Supervises and delegates tasks to a team of 5 – 10 rotating technicians, including FTE, NTE, internal/external contractors and interns to ensure ticket completion within SLA to support users in 12 remote sites.
•    Define project budgets up to $300k per quarter (approx. $1M annually), from initiation through full lifecycle
•    Conduct meetings to gather business requirements for system implementations and technology solutions.
•    Creating presentations for projects to demonstrate new products, services, and status updates for stakeholders.
•    Assigns resources and monitors progress of all assignments; ensures schedules to meet service delivery SLAs.
•    Manages and oversees the execution of project plans for any scope; ensures adherence to all department and technology standards and procedures, including all documentation requirements. 
•    Define and control project budgets up to $300k per quarter (approx. $1M annually), from initiation through planning, execution and closing.  
•    Conduct and lead meetings to gather business requirements from other departments to establish needs for system implementations and technology solutions. 
•    Creating presentations for projects and related tasks to demonstrate new products, services, and status updates for stakeholders. 
•    Establishing project schedules with phases, milestones, tasks and due dates.  
•    Assigns resources and monitors progress of all assignments; ensures completion of schedules to meet service delivery SLAs. 
•    Supervises and delegates tasks to a team of 5 – 10 rotating technicians, including FTE, NTE, internal/external contractors and interns. 
•    Install desktop and network printers. Configure network printers to Print Server, monitors and manages daily printer status. Perform toner change, basic maintenance, or contact 3rd-party vendors for repairs. 
•    User account & mailbox creation and configuration on domain via Active Directory, Exchange and ActiveRoles. 
•    Contacts service vendors for external repair service and follow up to completion as required. 
•    Batch scripting for system administration and automation with CMD and Powershell. 
•    Data decryption via Dell Data Protection Encryption (DDPE) when systems crash beyond repair and recovery through OS.  
•    Manages service request queue via BMC Remedyforce from OCTO ITServUS to ensure ticket completion within SLA to support users in 12 co-location sites across Washington, DC.  
Projects: Created technical internship program, system lifecycle management, facility moves, co-location printer deployments, customer relationship management (CRM) implementation, database migration


National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare, Washington, DC 

Technical Support Specialist | February 2013 – July 2015 
•    Research staff member’s operational questions using technical resources such as databases, manuals and online resources. Also recommending training for users based upon interactions 
•    Creating and maintaining documentation such as the MIS Department's 'Standard Operating Procedures’ and training guides for end-users 
•    Installs and configures software for PC & MAC workstations/laptops, Citrix XenApp on WYSE thin clients, and printers on the LAN according to schedule or as requested 
•    Performs monthly system maintenance, patch management, and security audits using Desktop Central 
•    Ensures that equipment is labeled and inventoried/documented for future reference and accounting purposes 
•    Coordinates with vendors for equipment repairs and keeps records of such repairs 
•    Ensures efficient and economical utilization of equipment and resources; responsible for safekeeping of equipment and supplies 
•    Purchases equipment and makes recommendations on equipment retention, purchases and maintenance 
•    Troubleshoot and maintain mobile devices (BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad & Android phones) 
•    Performs audio/video setup and maintenance, recording and editing for conferencing via web, phone, or Skype 
•    Monitors network web filter; blacklist/whitelist domains for staff members 
•    Monitor & maintain security camera system, perform video archiving to network