Michael de Groot
Accomplished senior information technology professional offering over 20 years of demonstrated career success developing and executing operational strategies to promote organizational growth and optimal utilization of emerging technologies. Extensive hands-on experience in managing technical teams and developing enterprise-class web and mobile applications. Possesses in-depth experience with proposal development, competitive bidding and providing strategic technical leadership for any enterprise application project. Decisive leader of operational initiatives of organizations of varying size and scope. Results-oriented professional, recognized for taking on major initiatives, successfully delivering on multi-million dollar projects, adapting to rapidly changing environments and resolving missions critical issues to ensure bottom line success.
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Work with clients to understand their business problems and propose efficient/effective Azure cloud technologies to bring forth value....
Work with clients to understand their business problems and propose efficient/effective Azure cloud technologies to bring forth value. Includes pre-sales meetings with the client, solutioning, presenting the solution to C-level stakeholders, writing the SOW and overseeing the implementation of the project.
• Advise clients on the most efficient/effective cloud technologies to utilize to solve business problems.
• Create proofs of conc...
• Advise clients on the most efficient/effective cloud technologies to utilize to solve business problems.
• Create proofs of concepts and reference architectures for cloud-native applications/technologies and DevOps.
• Provide project delivery, architectural and development oversight for multiple projects/teams ensuring success.
• Provide clients with strategic, technology road maps in their journey to the cloud
• Work with project leaders, product owners, architects and senior management to collaboratively create cloud-based solutions.
• Architected, led a 6 person team and developed a cloud-native restaurant operations application using AWS, Apache Kafka and Java.
• Tripled the performance and scalability of a client’s system running on AWS by using EKS and microservices.
• Architected, led a 5 person team and developed a cloud-native, personalized selling platform for a major house developer which included SharePoint integration.
• Created a 5 year strategic roadmap to assist a large, national charity
• Led an assessment and roadmapping effort to identify People, Process & Technology changes that could dramatically improve the client’s business operations. Implementation is in progress.
• Led an effort to migrate a .NET WebForms application to Angular 14 and .NET Core 7.
• Responsible for the career growth and progression of up to 5 team members.
• Continue to be hands-on coding in .NET and Java.
• Assist clients in addressing the technical and financial hurdles encountered in moving their application platforms ($3MM-$100MM clou...
• Assist clients in addressing the technical and financial hurdles encountered in moving their application platforms ($3MM-$100MM cloud spend annually) from on premise data centers to the cloud.
• Advise clients on the most efficient/effective cloud technologies to utilize to solve business problems. Saved a client over $150k annually in Azure utilization while at the same time making the application more scalable and performant.
• Create proofs of concepts and reference architectures for cloud-native applications/technologies.
• Provide architectural and development oversight for multiple projects/teams.
• Provide clients with strategic, technology road maps in their journey to the cloud
• Work with project leaders, product owners, architects and senior management to collaboratively create cloud-based solutions.
• Architected, led an 8 person team and developed a cloud-native logistics application integrating ERP and Business Intelligence systems.
• Designed and developed a strategic CI/CD platform to assist in making the use of Azure services easy and cost efficient for client development teams.
• Created an IoT solution to track conference room usage: included software and hardware development.
• Continue to be hands-on coding in .NET.