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Associate Director of Cloud Operations, modernizing platforms and observability to drive measurable operational excellence.

United States
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What I'm looking for

I’m looking to lead cloud operations and modernization end-to-end—aligning CIO strategy, FinOps, and enterprise observability while scaling teams and vendor partnerships to deliver measurable MTTR, uptime, and cost outcomes.

I’m an Associate Director focused on bridging global CIO strategy with cloud-native execution. I lead multi-year cloud modernization across healthcare SaaS platforms, aligning budgets, modernization roadmaps, vendor partnerships, and governance to business outcomes.

I build and run high-impact operations teams and service disciplines—standardizing Datadog enterprise monitoring, leading SOC 2 and HITRUST alignment, and delivering FinOps results like $2M+ in annual operational savings. From enterprise Commvault implementations to Azure/AWS reservation management and workload right-sizing, I drive scalable transformations with measurable improvements in MTTR and uptime.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Cognizant logoCO
Current

Associate Director, Cloud Ops

Jan 2022 - Present (4 years 5 months)

Aligned global CIO strategy with modernization roadmaps across healthcare SaaS, leading a multi-year Commvault data protection rollout and a $15M ELA with Silk.us. Drove $9.9M projected savings over three years, delivered $2M+ annual operational cost savings, standardized Datadog to reduce MTTR by 40%, and led a 18+ person org across PMO, BizOps, architecture, and technical support.

Cognizant logoCO

Senior Manager, Technical Ops

Jan 2018 - Jan 2022 (4 years)

Founded and led the Systems Architecture team supporting healthcare SaaS platforms handling millions of daily transactions. Orchestrated datacenter migrations and led full migration of customer-facing claims processing applications to Microsoft Azure, maintaining 99.9% uptime through proactive capacity management, automation, and standardized monitoring.

Cognizant logoCO

Manager, Salesforce Analytics

Jan 2015 - Jan 2018 (3 years)

Managed enterprise analytics and reporting platforms, leading Salesforce Einstein/Wave, Jaspersoft, and Pentaho for multiple SaaS products. Directed platform integration and transition during Cognizant’s acquisition of TriZetto, ensuring zero disruption to existing delivery pipelines.

NE

Senior Specialist, ServiceNow

NYSE Euronext

Jan 2008 - Jan 2011 (3 years)

Spearheaded an enterprise-wide ServiceNow implementation for NYSE Euronext’s largest global customer, driving IT consolidation by replacing three Remedy and two Jira instances. Built a custom Service Notifier workflow to proactively alert cross-functional teams of system outages, later adopted as a native platform capability.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

TI

The Chubb Institute

Certificate, Network Technician

Grade: GPA: 3.88

Earned a Certificate in Network Technician from The Chubb Institute in Parsippany, NJ (GPA: 3.88).

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