Charles Follen
Technology Executive
- Role
- Senior Director at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Charles Follen
A creative technology Executive helping Fortune 500 businesses transform with cloud technologies. Known for envisioning new products using cloud technologies, leading globally distributed and cross-functional teams, steering project portfolio management efforts, guiding software development and driving convergence between business and IT. Cloud Transformation: Direct engagement with enterprise stakeholders implementing cloud technologies including business case development, governance, workload migration and cloud financial management. Deep understanding of cloud computing concepts and value proposition, including agility, elasticity, scalability, automation, cost savings, service integration, and rapid innovation.Team Leadership: Twenty-two years people management experience and known for setting strategic direction, generating enthusiasm and rallying a team behind a vision. Ability to adjust leadership and communication style based on differing situations, audiences and business conditions. Comfort defining organization and individual change during cloud adoption.Cloud Workload Migration: Experience leading teams through the stages of cloud adoption, decision criteria and frameworks for application modernization, refactoring, native cloud services and lift-and-shift technologies. Project and Portfolio Management: Significant experience managing projects, portfolios of projects and large scale programs. Direct experience in project rescue and remediation.Profit and Loss Management: Experience in the creation and effective management of both product and labor P&L plans, and forecasting revenue generating activities.
Experience
Senior Director
Mar 2024 — Present
Work with a cohort of Global Systems Integrators migrating on-premises ITO, App Managed Services, and Artificial Intelligence workloads to AWS.
Education
University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business
Bachelor of Business Administration, Management Information Systems
1986 — 1990
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence
Skills
- Team Leadership
- Information Technology
- Professional Services
- Business Intelligence
- Program Management
- IT Operations
- Talent Management
- IT Strategy
- Consulting
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Leadership
- Microsoft Infrastructure Technologies
- Software Development Methodologies
- Financial Services
- Crm
- Cloud Computing
- Project Management
- People Development
- IT Management
- Customer Engagement
- IT Outsourcing
- Managed Services
- Integration
- Software Development
- Outsourcing
- Change Management
- Strategic Partnerships
- Virtualization
- Strategy
- Saas
- Sharepoint
- Enterprise Software
- Management
- Enterprise Architecture
- Solution Architecture
- Solution Selling
- Business Process Improvement
- Microsoft Technologies
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