Sarah Hiser
Team Lead - Cloud, Infrastructure and Security Services @Energy Exemplar
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Team Lead - Cloud, Infrastructure and Security Services @Energy Exemplar
As Team Lead – Cloud, Infrastructure & Security Services, I serve as platform owner for enterprise cloud deployments supporting high-performance energy market modeling and simulation across North American utilities. I am accountable for end-to-end cloud operations strategy, including infrastructure architecture, CI/CD enablement, observability, scalability, security posture, and cloud cost governance across multi-environment client engagements.I lead cross-functional execution across Sales, Product, Engineering, Security, and Customer Success to standardize deployment patterns, optimize workload performance, and accelerate time-to-value for SaaS-based energy modeling platforms. Through structured presales architecture and infrastructure optimization frameworks, I have reduced average sales cycle time from 90+ days to ~35 days while strengthening cloud margin performance and adoption KPIs.I partner directly with executive stakeholders (CIO/CTO, regulatory leadership, market operators) to align cloud operating models, governance strategy, and capital investment priorities—ensuring secure, scalable infrastructure capable of supporting stochastic simulation, grid modernization planning, and decarbonization strategy at enterprise scale.In a technical capacity I lead our cloud migration engagements for all customers within the America, Canada, and LATAM regions. My team is in charge of all technical, cloud security, and IT conversations, support and field engagements for our cloud customers. My team leads efforts migrating applications and services to cloud platforms (Azure, Google Cloud). We deploy cloud trials, work to establish legacy customer workflows in highly effective cloud native pipelines (SQL Server, DUCKdb, etc.) for large data and simulation sets. In this same way we provide continuous improvement and innovation guidance for our customer partners. My team excels in creative solutions, collaboration and execution.
EDUCATION
University of California, Berkeley
Health and Life Sciences Post-Bacc, Chemistry
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ecology
University of Aberdeen
Master of Science - MS
ABOUT SARAH HISER
I build and scale enterprise analytical and AI platforms to move them from development to revenue. Over the past decade, I have led cloud architecture, presales engineering, data science, and platform strategy across energy, healthcare, federal, and global enterprise environments. My focus is simple: translate complex AI systems into secure, scalable production infrastructure that drives measurable business outcomes.Currently, I lead Cloud, Infrastructure & Security Services for the Americas at Energy Exemplar, where I built and operationalized a pre-sales architecture framework that reduced average sales cycle time from 90+ days to ~35 days. I partner directly with executive stakeholders across North American utilities to modernize energy market modeling platforms in Azure and AWS environments, aligning compute strategy, regulatory timelines, and capital planning decisions.Previously at SAS, I spent nine years leading enterprise pre-sales, applied data science, and cloud enablement across retail, federal intelligence, and regulated industries. I served as a Principal Cloud Architect and Principal Data Scientist, translating advanced AI/ML systems into enterprise-ready solutions for Fortune 500 and government clients.My leadership sits at the intersection of:• Enterprise AI platform commercialization• Cloud architecture & secure deployment strategy• Pre-sales technical leadership & revenue acceleration• Production ML, NLP, and LLM systems• Regulated industry modernizationMaintain experience in the following areas: AI, Data Science, Machine Learning, Team Leadership, Business strategy, Business Development, Project Management, Sales, Solution Architecture, and Client Relationship Management.
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