Jason Jace Rhoads

About Jason Jace Rhoads

At Amazon Web Services, my role as Senior Software Engineering Manager is centered on spearheading technical leadership and nurturing new business development. Our team\'s dedication is showcased in the successful inception of AWS Customer Engineering and the AWS Professional Services Solutions business—a testament to our ability to deliver Amazon\'s renowned development processes and high-quality benchmarks to our clientele. The mission to transform client projects with optimized software components has been a hallmark of our strategy, streamlining processes and diminishing costs. The shared services team under my guidance reflects our collective commitment to customer empowerment, ensuring that our solutions not only meet but exceed the expectations of quality and efficiency that Amazon is known for.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineering Manager

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   Oct 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   AWS Professional Services (ProServe) has a long and storied history of helping customers realize their business goals “better, faster, cheaper and more securely” in the AWS cloud. I have been working to drive a transition of the ProServe business to transform from fully project-based consulting, to a product lead business that drives greater value for our customers while simultaneously enabling us to scale efficiently and improve margins.Since Nov 2022, I have been building the business strategy for delivering “off the shelf, packaged software” to AWS’ customers looking to modernize their applications by taking advantage of the latest technologies the cloud has to offer. I led the development of all business processes, ranging from financial models, international tax and pricing strategy to licensing terms, resale agreements, and go to market strategy. I own all aspects of software engineering for this venture, including vetting and selection of product ideas, engineering quality and security standards, roadmap prioritization, as well as support strategy. I lead seven software engineering teams as well as a handful of program and product managers that are distributed across the US, Australia and India.Major Accomplishments- Drove executive alignment for business strategy to enable AWS ProServe to build and sell packaged software- Defined and delivered ready to sell “minimum lovable product” for 9 self-contained software products- Defined, built and launched private beta for AWS Console experience to provide purchase, delivery and lifecycle management for customers acquiring ProServe software products- Built organizational structure and charter for seven teams and lead three layers of managers to implement and maintain a high-performance engineering culture.

Education

• University of Colorado Colorado Springs

  Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Systems Engineering

  2009 — 2012

• Whitworth University

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science

  2001 — 2003

Skills

• Systems Engineering
• System Administration
• Radar
• Configuration Management
• Aerospace
• Networking
• Military
• Comptia Security+
• Spacecraft
• Troubleshooting
• System Design
• Project Management
• Defense
• Leadership
• Engineering Management
• Linux
• Information Assurance
• Navy
• Security+
• Command
• Perl
• Government Contracting
• Space Systems
• Integration
• C4isr
• Dod
• National Security
• Program Management
• Air Force
• System Architecture
• Intelligence
• Military Operations
• Satellite
• Army
• Management
• Cloud Computing
• Servers
• Software Development
• Earned Value Management
• Electronic Warfare