Cloud and AI strategy, from architecture to the boardroom.
I lead life sciences technology for AWS in US East. Nineteen years, $300M+ influenced, and 24 publications.
About
Transformational cloud technology leader with 19+ years driving enterprise digital transformation, GenAI adoption, and large-scale cloud architecture across regulated industries. AWS-certified architect who pairs broad enterprise experience with deep domain expertise in life sciences, accelerating drug discovery, genomics, and diagnostic workflows while delivering measurable business impact.
Proven track record influencing $300M+ in revenue while reducing operational costs by 50%+ through strategic cloud architecture and adoption strategies. Recognized thought leader with 24 published technical articles and presentations reaching 100K+ industry professionals across cloud architecture, GenAI, and enterprise-scale migrations.
Currently partnering with enterprises to design and build production agentic platforms, guiding teams through multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, LLM evaluation, and integrating GenAI into existing technology stacks.
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering with comprehensive AWS certifications including Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional, and Machine Learning Specialty.
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Five roles, one arc: from storage integration to the architecture of production GenAI.
Principal Solutions Architect, HCLS Tech Lead
Amazon Web Services, Boston
- Lead life sciences technology for AWS US East, influencing $300M+ in revenue at 20%+ year over year growth.
- Advise C-level executives at Fortune 500 life sciences companies on cloud and AI strategy.
- Set technical direction for enterprise drug discovery, genomics, and diagnostic platforms.
- Guide enterprise teams building production agentic platforms: multi-agent orchestration, RAG, and LLM evaluation.
- Author technical content reaching 100K+ professionals, shaping cloud adoption across the sector.
Senior Solutions Architect, Sales
Amazon Web Services, Boston
- Influenced $25M+ in revenue through enterprise cloud transformation initiatives.
- Delivered 100%+ year over year territory revenue growth for three consecutive years.
- Led 50+ workshops, deep dives, and executive briefings for enterprise accounts.
- Built long-term executive relationships positioning AWS as a strategic transformation partner.
Cloud Consultant, Professional Services
Amazon Web Services, Boston
- Led technical engagements with IT executives to accelerate enterprise cloud adoption.
- Owned solution architecture for scale, resiliency, security, and maintainability.
- Coached customer teams to self-sufficiency, building lasting internal cloud competency.
Member of Technical Staff, DevOps
NetApp, Waltham
- Founding engineering team member for ONTAP Cloud, now Cloud Volumes ONTAP.
- Led end-to-end automation across AWS and Azure for a new product line.
- Delivered $1M+ in annual savings through resource optimization.
Senior Systems Integration Engineer
EMC Corporation, Hopkinton
- Defined test strategy for enterprise storage systems and virtualization platforms.
- Architected validation environments spanning storage, SAN fabrics, and disaster recovery.
Core competencies
- Executive advisory
- C-level engagement, strategic planning, digital transformation, executive briefings
- Technology leadership
- Technical direction, cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, mentoring
- Cloud strategy and architecture
- Enterprise solutions design, AWS Well-Architected Framework, multi-cloud strategy
- GenAI and machine learning
- Agentic architectures, multi-agent orchestration, RAG pipelines, LLM evaluation
- Life sciences technology
- Drug discovery, genomics workflows, clinical trial optimization, regulatory compliance
- Business impact and FinOps
- Revenue growth, cost optimization, resource management, operational excellence
- Thought leadership
- Publishing, public speaking, technical writing, community building
- Platform and delivery
- Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, container orchestration, automation at scale
Publications and thought leadership
Twenty four technical articles, case studies, and books, read by more than 100,000 industry professionals.
- Alnylam transforms product complaint management with generative AI using Amazon Bedrock
- Reducing processing time by 11x and cost by 90% using AWS Step Functions at Vertex Pharmaceuticals
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals: accelerating image segmentation for drug discovery imaging using serverless technologies on AWS
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals reduces costs of Cryo-EM data storage and processing by 50% using AWS
- How Vertex Pharmaceuticals reduced time and cost of small molecule drug discovery using Thompson Sampling on AWS
- Building Amazon Neptune based MedDRA terminology mapping for pharmacovigilance and adverse event reporting
- Building a GPU-enabled CryoEM workflow on AWS
- Control formality in machine translated text using Amazon Translate
- Apply profanity masking in Amazon Translate
- Customize Amazon Translate output to meet your domain and organization specific vocabulary
- Translating PDF documents using Amazon Translate and Amazon Textract
- Getting a batch job completion message from Amazon Translate
- Receive phone call alerts for AWS account security events with Amazon Polly
- Automatically update alternate contacts for newly created AWS accounts
- How to manage cost overruns in your AWS multi-account environment, part 2
- How to manage cost overruns in your AWS multi-account environment, part 1
- How to get notified on specific Lambda function error patterns using CloudWatch
- Monitor and notify on AWS account root user activity
- Monitor changes and auto-enable logging in AWS CloudTrail
AWS certifications
- Solutions Architect, Professional
- DevOps Engineer, Professional
- Machine Learning, Specialty
- AI Practitioner
- Solutions Architect, Associate
- SysOps Administrator, Associate
- Developer, Associate
- Cloud Practitioner
Key achievements
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Always open to discussing cloud architecture, GenAI and agentic systems, or strategic partnerships.
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