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JAMES PHILLIPS

@jamesphillips1

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Practice Lead and enterprise architecture leader delivering modernization, resiliency, and revenue-driving strategies.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I’m looking for a leadership role where I can drive enterprise architecture and resiliency roadmaps with executive stakeholders—owning modernization strategy, governance, and delivery outcomes in complex, regulated environments.

I’m an enterprise architecture leader with 20+ years driving multi-million-dollar infrastructure decisions, complex modernization programs, and go-to-market strategy for national technology services organizations.

I translate ambiguous business challenges into clear architectural direction, investment strategy, and executable roadmaps—building trust with executive stakeholders across regulated manufacturing, defense, public-safety, federal, public transportation, power generation, and hospitality/gaming verticals.

Across my roles, I’ve led enterprise architecture, BCDR, and delivery programs that influenced $3M–$15M+ infrastructure investments. I focus on investment roadmapping, governance, technical-debt reduction, and practical, board-ready plans that shift organizations from reactive recovery to structured, investment-backed resiliency.

I bring hands-on depth in hybrid cloud transformation, network and zero-trust security architectures, and platform modernization—leading complex migrations such as multi-site BCDR strategy, Juniper-to-Cisco transformations, enterprise AD modernization, and private AI reference architecture pre-sales. My ethos is advisory with outcomes: simplify what’s over-engineered, reduce platform lock-in, and deliver architectures teams can operate reliably.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

President

Current

AiArise

Apr 2026 - Present (1 month)

Founded AiArise to build AI systems that convert discovery calls into client-ready proposals, SOWs, and kickoff materials in a company’s brand and voice. Led the business as an end-to-end sales-cycle automation provider for B2B services firms.

Sales Enablement Client Onboarding AI Systems SOW creation Brand voice generation Remote operations Proposal Generation B2B Sales Automation

Practice Lead, Data Center

Evotek

Oct 2024 - Apr 2026 (1 year 6 months)

Led the data center engineering practice, guiding technical work and remote team execution from 2024 to 2026.

Engineering Leadership Data Center Engineering Remote Team Management Stakeholder collaboration Practice Management Infrastructure Planning Stakeholder Collaboration

Data Center Practice Lead

EVOTEK

Oct 2024 - Apr 2026 (1 year 6 months)

Served as Practice Lead for Data Center Engineering at EVOTEK, guiding engineering practice and delivery for data center initiatives.

Data Center Engineering Engineering Practice Leadership Infrastructure Operations Delivery Management Process Improvement Remote Collaboration Team Leadership

Data Center Engineering Manager

EVOTEK

Oct 2020 - Apr 2026 (5 years 6 months)

Managed the Data Center Engineering team at EVOTEK, overseeing engineering operations and remote collaboration.

Data Center Engineering Engineering Management Infrastructure Operations Team Leadership Remote Management Delivery Management Systems Reliability

Manager, Data Center Engineering

Evotek

Oct 2020 - Apr 2026 (5 years 6 months)

Managed data center engineering responsibilities across teams from 2020 to 2026. Coordinated engineering execution to support ongoing infrastructure needs.

Remote Operations technical coordination Data Center Engineering Team Leadership Technical coordination Delivery Oversight Infrastructure Management Engineering Management

Information Technology Strategist

Evotek

Oct 2020 - Sep 2021 (11 months)

Provided information technology strategy support and guidance for infrastructure and IT planning activities in the Las Vegas area from 2020 to 2021.

Stakeholder Management Roadmap Planning Systems Thinking IT strategy Governance Infrastructure Planning

Director of Continuous Infrastructure

Native12

Feb 2020 - Oct 2020 (8 months)

Directed continuous infrastructure efforts, overseeing ongoing infrastructure improvements and engineering execution from early 2020 to October 2020.

Continuous Infrastructure Cross Functional Collaboration Delivery planning Engineering Management Infrastructure Engineering Process Improvement

Director, Continuous Infrastructure

Native12

Feb 2020 - Oct 2020 (8 months)

Directed Continuous Infrastructure efforts at Native12, leading infrastructure improvement and delivery programs.

Cross functional Coordination Continuous Infrastructure Infrastructure Strategy Engineering Leadership Process Improvement Delivery Management

Engineering Manager

Technologent

Jul 2018 - Feb 2020 (1 year 7 months)

Managed engineering work at Technologent as an Engineering Manager, supporting cross-functional delivery.

Cross functional Leadership Engineering Management Project Management Systems Delivery Team Leadership Process Improvement

Engineering Manager

Technologent

Jul 2018 - Feb 2020 (1 year 7 months)

Managed engineering teams and coordinated delivery of technical initiatives while leading engineering work from 2018 to February 2020.

technical coordination Team Leadership Continuous Improvement Project Delivery Hiring mentoring Engineering Management Stakeholder Communication

Senior System Engineer

Credit One Bank

Feb 2016 - Jun 2018 (2 years 4 months)

Worked as a senior system engineer supporting enterprise systems from February 2016 to June 2018. Contributed to system design and ongoing engineering support.

System Design engineering collaboration Troubleshooting Technical Documentation

Senior System Engineer

Credit One Bank

Feb 2016 - Jun 2018 (2 years 4 months)

Worked as a Senior System Engineer at Credit One Bank, delivering and maintaining production systems.

Systems Engineering Production Support Troubleshooting System Design Reliability Engineering Documentation

Senior Systems Engineer

Wynn Las Vegas

Jan 2015 - Dec 2015 (11 months)

Led an engineering effort for a PCI-driven OS and application upgrade program, designing the MDT deployment infrastructure to support the rollout.

PCI Compliance Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)Windows Server Deployment Engineering Data Center Engineering Infrastructure Program Leadership

Senior Systems Engineer

Wynn Las Vegas

Jan 2015 - Dec 2015 (11 months)

Led an engineering team for a PCI-driven OS and application upgrade program, designing Microsoft MDT deployment infrastructure to support controlled enterprise rollout.

PCI Compliance OS Upgrade Program Application Upgrades Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)Deployment Automation Enterprise Infrastructure Team Leadership Program Delivery