Robert Knowles

About Robert Knowles

Cloud Network Systems Architecture **AWS Cloud Infrastructure **Cloud Migrations…

Experience

1. Principal Cloud Architect

   Slalom

   Feb 2022 — Present

   As a Principal Cloud Architect at Slalom, I bring many years of experience in technology, data center builds/migrations, co-located data center and on-premises migrations to multiple cloud services. Facilitated large-scale Cloud transformation projects. Perform application rationalizations and TCO analysis with anticipation on migrating to the cloud. Recommend, design and implement highly resilient, scalable and agile solutions for enterprise level infrastructure by leveraging cloud based methodologies such as IaaS, PaaS and SaaS, VMC on AWS within and across multiple cloud providers. Demonstrate ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges. Team leader across multi areas of technology. Train and knowledge transfer to other SMEs while building a Cloud Center of Excellence (COE). Extensive experience with Multi Cloud initiatives. Cloud Migration Assessments (Azure, AWS and Google Cloud). Cloud Management, Automation & Orchestration. Experience with public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud and multi cloud. Requirements gathering with business and technical teams. Roadmaps and project executions. Lift and Shift migrations. Integrate 6 R\'s of cloud migrations. Resource forecasting project resources, timelines and budgets. Vendor management of 3rd party services. Executive presentation skills. High Level and Detail Level Design documentation. Application evaluations to decouple apps for cloud adoption. Presentations and scope definitions with Director and C-level decision makers. Cloudformation and Terraform Infrastructure as code

Education

• Pace University

  Finance-Computer Sciences

  1990 — 1992

Skills

• Vendor Management
• Solaris
• Integration
• Operating Systems
• Weblogic
• Ethical Hacking
• Disaster Recovery
• Linux
• System Administration
• Tomcat
• Software Development
• Penetration Testing
• Websphere
• Html
• Apache
• System Deployment
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Windows Server
• Web Applications
• Troubleshooting
• Forensics Expert
• Iis
• High Availability
• Javascript
• Web Services
• Windows
• Servers
• Unix
• Requirements Analysis
• Computer Forensics
• Enterprise Software
• Data Center
• Cloud Computing