Roland Coffee

Led discovery, Well-Architected assessments, and cloud migrations for multiple clients, achieving up to 30x scalability and reduced latency via Global Accelerator while implementing zero-trust security and automated backup solutions.

Architected GitLab CI/CD pipelines and led migrations from VMware on Azure to AWS EKS/Fargate, deployed Oracle on AWS with Terraform, and developed DMS-based database migration strategies ensuring NIST-aligned federal compliance.

Designed and implemented AWS-based cloud solutions (EC2, S3, RDS, VPC) for state/local government, conducted GPU-accelerated forensic password recovery and maintained secure EC2 Linux environments to meet legal and compliance requirements.

Led AWS cloud migration design and network integration sessions, provided presales AWS SME support, and developed traffic analysis and cloud economic models to optimize costs and capacity planning.

Directed hybrid cloud infrastructure team, implemented FinOps tagging to reduce AWS costs by 10%, and modernized analytics and ERP platforms using Athena, EKS, and Okta SSO while enforcing SOC 2 aligned zero-trust networking.

Architected physical and virtual infrastructure and led migrations to IBM Cloud, providing technical leadership for VMware, Kubernetes, and network integration initiatives including NSX integration for e-cloud migration.

Led VMware modernization for Fidelity, supporting 15M+ clients across 1,000 hypervisors and developed automation (PowerCLI) and migration processes to ensure zero downtime during vSphere upgrades.

Architected PCI-DSS compliant payment processing private cloud for AAFES, designed ESXi 5.5 environments, and implemented converged infrastructure solutions with EMC, VCE, Dell and UCS.

Architected IaaS solutions and led migration of private cloud environments, supporting 400+ ESX hosts and 3000+ VMs while coordinating cross-functional teams for on-premises transitions.

Managed multi-site IaaS environments and provided pre-change design oversight for large VMware deployments, supporting 140+ ESX hosts and 1000+ VMs with SLA-driven incident response.

Global lead VMware architect for Russell Investments, architected and managed private cloud environments (500+ VMs, 50+ ESX hosts), led ESX and vCenter upgrades and automated deployments to improve platform reliability.

Engineered VMware ESX-based IaaS solutions and participated in large-scale physical-to-virtual consolidation and data center migration projects while maintaining Windows AD services and IIS application support.

Completed training at Resource Development Academy in Austin, Texas.

Earned the AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional certification (verification available via Credly).

Attained VMware Certified Professional (v3, v5, v6) in Datacenter Virtualization.

Holds MCSE, MCP+Internet, and MCP professional certifications from Microsoft.