Randy Thomasson

About Randy Thomasson

Hands-on leader, strategist, architect, and technical manager with over 20 years of…

Experience

1. Global Field CTO

   Hewlett Packard Enterprise

   Mar 2021 — Present

   Global technical leader and strategist for HPE Ezmeral, working with customers, sales, engineering and product teams to create innovative solutions spanning analytics, AI/ML, and Cloud Native application workloads.• Strategic advisor to senior leadership, engineering and product management on the direction and features of HPE Ezmeral products including Spark, MLOps and Kubernetes related offerings.• Thought leader and subject matter expert on complex, multi-site solutions encompassing AI/ML, Analytics, containers and Kubernetes including service mesh and container attached storage technologies.• Principal technical advisor and architect on large-scale, complex sales pursuits including financial services, health care and manufacturing customers involving Kubernetes and MLOps solutions.• Technical advisor and Solution Architect on the effort to migrate customers from the legacy container orchestration engine (EPIC) to Kubernetes; working with HPE Ezmeral sales, product management, and engineering to devise a solution as well as working with customers to aid in their migration efforts.• Solution Architect and key contributor to the creation of a Kubernetes-based Splunk as a Service solution offering as well as the customer launch with a Telecommunications customer in Australia.• Solution Architect and technical team lead on a project to pivot from a proprietary Kubernetes-based MLOps solution to a Kubeflow-based solution for a major U.S. research hospital involving Spark, Jupyter notebooks and GPU accelerated analytics with fractional GPU allocation using NVIDIA MIG.• Executive advisor and Solution architect on an effort to resolve critical customer satisfaction issues with a Hong Kong telecommunications customer struggling to adopt HPE Ezmeral MLOps and Spark in particular. Worked to calm the customer leadership, educate customer technical staff, and work with HPE Ezmeral Support and Engineering teams to resolve outstanding technical issues blocking adoption.

Skills

• Solution Design
• High Availability
• Middleware
• Eai
• Scrum
• Salesforce.com
• Team Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Technical Leadership
• J2ee
• Technical Architecture
• Application Development
• Db2
• IT Service Management
• Jms
• Public Sector
• Oracle
• Spring
• Integration
• Xml
• Enterprise Software
• Retail
• Soa
• Application Architecture
• Software Project Management
• Architecture
• Sdlc
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Paas
• Maven
• Identity Management
• Saas
• Tomcat
• Requirements Analysis
• Web Services
• Solution Architecture
• Sql
• Banking
• Software Development
• IT Strategy