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Rob’s experience spans AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, hybrid and private cloud, DevOps, CI/CD, containers, data platforms, security, and 24/7 operational support\. He has held senior architecture and engineering roles at Charter Communications, Cablevision, DISH Network, MediaKind, Empower Retirement/Great\-West Financial, Eplexity, Nortel, and ExtendMedia, and co\-founded a consulting practice\. At Charter, Rob led more than 300 employees and contractors and, over three years, helped deliver or replace more than 200 products and more than 750 architecture designs and systems\. His work includes an AWS system that maintained 100% uptime through Hurricane Sandy, Cablevision’s first IP Video Cable system launched in April 2011, DISH’s Smart Home Services systems delivered in five months, and a 700\-application, 500\-database public\-cloud migration and refactoring program at Empower Retirement/Great\-West Financial\. ## Services - Product Management - Telecommunications - Wireless - Software Development - IP - VoIP - Broadband - Software Engineering - Ethernet - Mobile Devices - Network Design - Strategic Planning - Integration - Strategic Partnerships - Vendor Management - Cloud Computing - Management - DRM - Amazon Web Services \(AWS\) - Microservices ## Highlights - Currently serves as AWS Principal Cloud Resiliency Architect at Amazon Web Services\. - Is identified professionally as an AWS Principal Delivery Architect Consultant\. - At Charter Communications, led a direct organization of more than 300 employees and contractors as SVP of Software Engineering and Architecture\. - Over three years at Charter, led a cloud software development team that designed, built, or replaced more than 200 products\. - Over three years at Charter, delivered more than 750 architecture designs and systems\. - Designed and built an AWS\-based system that maintained 100% uptime during Hurricane Sandy despite a massive traffic increase\. - Implemented DevOps culture and processes at Charter\. - Led service and system strategy and architecture and development strategy for solutions, systems, and applications at Charter\. - Led cloud technology and development approaches for microservices and distributed systems at Charter\. - Led teams managing more than 3,000 virtual servers and systems supporting rapid development and configuration\. - Introduced DevOps continuous delivery, micro\-deployments, and continuous integration techniques\. - Led Client Digital set\-top\-box development for Zodiac and TiVo operating systems and cloud\-based set\-top\-box user interfaces using ActiveVideo\. - Built and led system\-integration, QA, triage, DevOps, and worldwide 24/7 support teams and tools at Charter\. - At Cablevision, built and led digital and cloud software, architecture, and operations teams for more than 12 years\. - Led development of the first IP Video Cable system, launched in April 2011, using a distributed architecture that decoupled packaging, encryption, and video streaming from the encoding farm\. - Managed Cablevision projects with annual capital budgets exceeding $30 million\. - At DISH Network, architected and led delivery of ONTECH DISH IT systems using a hybrid AWS cloud\-center design\. - Created software, system, and CI/CD architecture for DISH Smart Home Services and drove delivery in five months\. - Designed DISH systems for customer\-order issue detection and notification, e\-commerce purchasing, and online workforce\-reservation access\. - Created a Narrow Band IoT design for DISH wireless services\. - Co\-founded a cloud and native software\-and\-systems consulting practice covering architecture, design, planning, and proofs of concept\. - Consulted to Deloitte and served clients or industries including Gordon Food Service, iHeartRadio, Toyota, telecom, cellular, cable, and venture funding\. - At MediaKind, led multi\-public\-cloud product engineering and deployment across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including Terraform and Kubernetes environments such as GKE and EKS\. - Designed and deployed MediaKind cloud solutions for large carriers globally\. - At Eplexity, designed AWS cloud\-native applications including real\-time IoT delivery, secure API Gateway WebSocket delivery, a 6\-petabyte migration, and real\-time data translation systems\. - At Eplexity, led AWS migrations involving hundreds to thousands of servers or instances, automated landing zones and pipelines, Well\-Architected Framework remediation, and CXOS AWS pattern\-deployment automation\. - At Empower Retirement/Great\-West Financial, led planning for migration from the data center to AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure within three years\. - At Empower Retirement/Great\-West Financial, led migration and refactoring of 700 applications and 500 databases into public clouds using more than 75 cloud technologies and DaaS, SaaS, and PaaS offerings\. - Held senior roles including Director of Broadband Access Technology at Nortel and CTO at ExtendMedia\. - Earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Queen’s University\. ## Experience - **AWS Principal Cloud Resiliency Architect at Amazon Web Services** (2022\-06\-01–present) - **Director of Cloud Platform Engineering at MediaKind** (2021\-01\-01–2022\-06\-01) — \- Lead and managed cloud engineering team responsible for building and deployment MK products \- Multi public cloud design, build and deploy \- Azure, AWS and GCP \- Terraform based designs and deployments \- Key cloud design components \* Kubernetes\(GKE, EKS, , Networking, Load Balancing, Security, Virtual Machines, Block Storage, Attached Storage \* designed and deployed solutions for large carriers globally - **Principal Cloud Architect at Eplexity** (2019\-09\-01–2020\-12\-01) — Principal architect responsible for design and implementation of cloud native applications using AWS cloud services • Large scale realtime data delivery system \- IOT\. • Greengrass, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, Lambda, CodePipeline, Glue, Sagemaker, EMR, CFT • Realtime secure data delivery system using API Gateway Websockets, Lambda, Authenticators • Massive data migration \- 6 PBytes \( DataSync, S3, EKS, ECS \), CFT • Design and implementation of realtime data translation system \(Workdocs, Textract \),CFT • Principal architect responsible for design and implementation of cloud migrations towards AWS cloud services \- hundreds to thousands of servers/instances • Migration planning , migration analysis and wave planning \(MRA/MRP\) • 6\-Rs strategy and implementation • Fully automated pipelines \(AWS Code Pipeline\) • Full automated landing zones • AWS Well Architect Framework\(WAR\) implementation, analysis and remediation • Linux, Windows Migrations, SQL migrations, Postgres, DB conversions, Windows - **OnTech Principal Architect at DISH Network** (2018\-06\-01–2019\-09\-01) — Responsible for the enterprise and solutions architecture for Dish networks\. • These projects were the highest profile projects at DISH over the last 12 months\. • Architected, designed and lead team that built the ONTECH DISH IT systems using hybrid cloud\(AWS\) center design • Created complex software, system and CI/CD architecture for DISH new line of business – Smart Home Services and drove the development team to deliver in 5 months\. • Designed and drove implementation of an intelligent system for finding issues in customer orders and provides notification to associated organizations • Designed and drove implementation of E\-commerce system for purchasing goods and services • Designed and drove implementation of online customer’s access to work force reservation system\. • Created Narrow Band IOT design for DISHs second new line of business – wireless services\. • Lead teams and designs in NodeJS, HTML/Angular, Python and Java\. - **VP Enterprise Architecture at Empower Retirement \(Great west\)** (2017\-01\-01–2018\-06\-01) — Responsible for the enterprise and solutions architecture team for all IT systems at Great\-West Financial\. • The role also includes the design, planning and migration of the company’s data center into a multi cloud AWS, Azure Cloud and Oracle \(OCI\) system within 3 years\. • Industry Experience in Financial, Insurance and off hours Trading\. • Lead the IT organization in three critical phases • o 1\) Migration away from its data center to Cloud systems • o 2\) Transform its technology to current system and software stacks • o 3\) Design and deliver cloud based Big Data system • o 4\) Organization move to Full Stack teams and DevOps • o 5\) Secure data design in the cloud for financial \(PII, NPPI\) for all storage types • Design, Implementation, execution of the migration/refactoring of 700 applications and 500 databases into public clouds \(AWS, Oracle Cloud, Azure\)\. • Leveraged over 75 different cloud technologies and cloud DaaS/SaaS/PaaS offerings\. • Roadmap and leadership for public and hybri - **Enterprise and Cloud Architecture at Consulting** (2016\-06\-01–2017\-01\-01) — Co\-Founder • Responsible for founding a consulting company focused on software and system consulting practices using cloud or native implementations, leading edge methodologies and technology solutions\. • Technology practice focuses, including architecture, design, planning and PoC\. • Industry Experience in Logistics\(Gordon Foods\), Technology\(iHeartRadio\), Automotive\(Toyota\), Telecom, Cellular, Cable and Venture Funding\. • Consultant to Deloitte • Migration from mainframe systems to cloud and on premise application designs • Designed performance system for realtime assessments of high capacity cloud car automotive navigation system\. • Cloud and Native Architecture for clients • o Developed Cloud Stack \(Hybrid , Private and Public \) solutions, Cloud Orchestration plans, Deployments, Container Scheduling comparisons • o Roadmap and leadership for public and hybrid system designs for cloud first / Cloud native designs, including public/Private designs\. • o Standard server design to Docker - **SVP Software Engineering and Architecture at Charter Communications** (2013\-06\-01–2016\-04\-01) — Responsible for building a software engineering organization that brought innovative Cloud software solutions that would generate revenue, retain customers and develop customer relationships in an agile, CICD and DevOps methodology\. • Lead a direct team of over 300 employees and contractors\. • In three years, leading and growing the Cloud software development team the delivered consistently through design, build and replace over 200 products, delivered over 750 architecture designs and systems, transforming Charter into a leading technology and software company • Implemented DevOps culture and processes\. • Developed service and system strategy • Responsible for Client Digital Set top box development team \(Zodiac and Tivo operating systems\) • Responsible for Cloud based STB user interfaces \(Active Video\) • Designed and built AWS cloud based system that survived massive increase in traffic and maintained 100% uptime during Hurricane Sandy\. • Lead the Cloud technology and development appr - **SVP Software Engineering and Architecture at Cablevision** (2001\-06\-01–2013\-06\-01) — Over 12 years built and lead the Digital and Cloud software, architecture and operations teams while helping to formulate the vision of Cable companies as software development organizations\. • The most profound and market leading system developed was the first IP Video Cable system \(Launched April 2011\) with a distributed architecture that decoupled the packaging, encryption and video streaming functions from the encoding farm in order to streamline operations and decrease risk and time to market for new adaptive streaming formats\. • Responsibilities • Formed and lead the Engineering eMedia software development team • Managed projects with annual Capital budget in excess of $30M\. • Agile Development methodology • Data Center Hosting and AWS first generation cloud systems\. • 24/7 tier 2 to tier 4 support team\. • Lead teams and designs in C, C\+\+, Java 6/7, HTML/Javascript/Angular, Perl, VB, \.Net, PLSQL, Objective C, Client Java and Silverlight - **CTO at ExtendMedia** (1995\-06\-01–2001\-06\-01) - **Director Broadband Access Technology at Nortel** (1987\-06\-01–1995\-06\-01) ## Education - Bachelor of Applied Science \(B\.A\.Sc\.\), Electrical and Electronics Engineering — Queen's University (1979\-01\-01–1983\-01\-01) ## FAQ ### What does Rob do now? Rob is an AWS Principal Cloud Resiliency Architect at Amazon Web Services\. His headline also identifies him as an AWS Principal Delivery Architect Consultant\. ### What are Rob’s core professional strengths? Rob’s strengths include enterprise and solutions architecture, cloud resiliency, cloud\-native and distributed systems, microservices, migration strategy, DevOps, CI/CD, containers, system integration, software engineering leadership, and large\-scale platform delivery across public, private, hybrid, and multi\-cloud environments\. ### What did Rob accomplish at Charter Communications? At Charter Communications, Rob was SVP of Software Engineering and Architecture\. He built a cloud software engineering organization focused on revenue\-generating solutions, customer retention, and customer relationships through agile, CI/CD, and DevOps methods led more than 300 employees and contractors and, over three years, led a team that designed, built, or replaced more than 200 products and delivered more than 750 architecture designs and systems\. ### How did Rob advance cloud engineering and operations at Charter? Rob designed and built an AWS\-based system that survived a massive traffic increase and maintained 100% uptime during Hurricane Sandy\. He also led cloud technology and development approaches for microservices and distributed systems, managed teams responsible for more than 3,000 virtual servers, and introduced DevOps, continuous delivery, micro\-deployments, and continuous integration practices\. ### What product and engineering responsibilities did Rob hold at Charter? At Charter, Rob was responsible for Client Digital set\-top\-box development for Zodiac and TiVo operating systems and for cloud\-based set\-top\-box user interfaces using ActiveVideo\. He led architecture and development strategy for solutions, systems, and applications built system\-integration, QA, triage, DevOps, and worldwide 24/7 support teams and led work in C, C\+\+, Assembler, Java 6/7, Node\.js, HTML/Angular, Python, Objective\-C, and client Java\. ### What was Rob’s role at Cablevision? Rob was SVP of Software Engineering and Architecture at Cablevision for more than 12 years\. He built and led digital and cloud software, architecture, and operations teams, helping shape a vision of cable companies as software development organizations\. ### What was Rob’s notable IP video accomplishment at Cablevision? At Cablevision, Rob led development of the first IP Video Cable system, launched in April 2011\. Its distributed architecture decoupled packaging, encryption, and video\-streaming functions from the encoding farm to streamline operations and reduce risk and time to market for new adaptive\-streaming formats\. ### What other responsibilities did Rob have at Cablevision? Rob formed and led Cablevision’s Engineering eMedia software development team, managed projects with annual capital budgets exceeding $30 million, used agile development, worked with data\-center hosting and first\-generation AWS cloud systems, and led 24/7 tier 2 through tier 4 support\. His teams and designs used C, C\+\+, Java 6/7, HTML, JavaScript, Angular, Perl, VB, \.NET, PLSQL, Objective\-C, client Java, and Silverlight\. ### What did Rob do at DISH Network? Rob was OnTech Principal Architect at DISH Network, where he was responsible for enterprise and solutions architecture\. The work included some of DISH’s highest\-profile projects during the preceding 12 months\. ### What systems did Rob deliver at DISH? At DISH, Rob architected, designed, and led the team building ONTECH DISH IT systems using a hybrid AWS cloud\-center design\. He created the software, system, and CI/CD architecture for Smart Home Services, a new line of business, and drove delivery in five months\. He also designed systems for customer\-order issue detection and notification, e\-commerce purchasing, online access to workforce reservations, and a Narrow Band IoT design for DISH’s wireless\-services business\. ### What technologies did Rob lead at DISH? Rob led DISH teams and designs using Node\.js, HTML/Angular, Python, and Java\. ### What was Rob’s consulting experience? Rob co\-founded a consulting company focused on software and systems consulting using cloud or native implementations, leading\-edge methodologies, and technology solutions\. The practice covered architecture, design, planning, and proofs of concept, and Rob consulted to Deloitte\. ### What did Rob do through his consulting practice? Rob’s consulting work included logistics with Gordon Food Service, technology with iHeartRadio, automotive with Toyota, and experience across telecom, cellular, cable, and venture funding\. He worked on mainframe\-to\-cloud and on\-premises application migrations, real\-time performance assessment for a high\-capacity cloud automotive\-navigation system, cloud\-stack and orchestration planning, Docker standards with AWS ECS, EKS, and HashiCorp Nomad, omnichannel modernization using serverless, Node\.js, and Java, scale architecture, and consumer voice\-device integration using voice recognition and voice control\. ### What did Rob do at MediaKind? As Director of Cloud Platform Engineering at MediaKind, Rob led and managed the cloud engineering team responsible for building and deploying MediaKind products\. He led multi\-public\-cloud design, build, and deployment across Azure, AWS, and GCP, including Terraform\-based designs and deployments\. ### What cloud platforms and components did Rob work with at MediaKind? At MediaKind, Rob worked with Kubernetes environments including GKE and EKS, networking, load balancing, security, virtual machines, block storage, and attached storage\. He designed and deployed solutions for large carriers globally\. ### What did Rob build as Principal Cloud Architect at Eplexity? At Eplexity, Rob was Principal Cloud Architect responsible for cloud\-native application design and implementation using AWS services\. His projects included a large\-scale real\-time IoT data\-delivery system using Greengrass, SQS, SNS, Step Functions, Lambda, CodePipeline, Glue, SageMaker, EMR, and CloudFormation a secure real\-time data system using API Gateway WebSockets, Lambda, and authenticators a 6\-petabyte migration using DataSync, S3, EKS, ECS, and CloudFormation and a real\-time data translation system using WorkDocs and Textract\. ### What migration and automation work did Rob lead at Eplexity? Rob also led AWS migration design and implementation at Eplexity for hundreds to thousands of servers and instances\. His work included migration assessment, analysis, and wave planning 6\-R strategy implementation automated CodePipeline pipelines and landing zones AWS Well\-Architected Framework analysis and remediation Linux, Windows, SQL, PostgreSQL, database conversion, Windows and Linux container, GuardDuty, Transit Gateway, Config, Systems Manager, DMS, Boto3, Lambda, CodeDeploy, and patching work\. He also led an automated CXOS AWS pattern\-deployment capability as lead engine architect and developer, using scalable SQS event messaging, Boto3, CloudFormation, serverless, stack\-based applications, and AWS components\. ### What was Rob’s role at Empower Retirement/Great\-West Financial? As VP of Enterprise Architecture at Empower Retirement, formerly Great\-West Financial, Rob was responsible for enterprise and solutions architecture for all IT systems\. He planned the company’s data\-center migration to a multi\-cloud AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment within three years\. ### What transformation work did Rob lead at Empower Retirement/Great\-West Financial? At Empower Retirement/Great\-West Financial, Rob led migration away from the data center, technology\-stack modernization, cloud\-based big\-data design and delivery, a move to full\-stack teams and DevOps, and secure cloud data design for financial PII and NPPI across storage types\. He led design, implementation, execution, migration, and refactoring for 700 applications and 500 databases into AWS, Oracle Cloud, and Azure, using more than 75 cloud technologies and DaaS, SaaS, and PaaS offerings\. ### What technologies and domains did Rob cover at Empower Retirement/Great\-West Financial? Rob’s Empower Retirement/Great\-West Financial work also included public and hybrid cloud\-first and cloud\-native roadmaps, CI/CD automation, container technologies, large IT and DevOps transformation programs, enterprise and solutions architecture for financial systems, business intelligence, applications, and big data including Spark and EMR\. He developed designs using serverless systems, grid computing, AI, speech processing, machine learning, and multi\-cloud Docker implementations across Azure, an on\-premises data center, and AWS\. His industry experience includes financial services, insurance, and off\-hours trading\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/ACoAABk6454BaC17cRFZdLR2jA2gcV4hTF9djjw