BENJAMIN YOUNG

• Provided executive leadership for enterprise infrastructure architecture and cloud delivery strategy supporting global industrial and energy solutions.
• Defined and executed the infrastructure delivery strategy for new cloud-based SCADA platforms, driving $70M in first-year revenue and $20M in incremental margin.
• Oversaw stewardship of a $180M operating and capital budget, ensuring quarterly and annual financial performance aligned with enterprise sales, margin, and growth objectives.
• Negotiated and executed a strategic Business Partnership Agreement with Red Hat, delivering a 30% reduction in licensing costs and establishing a recurring 5% licensing margin.
• Led organizational adoption of infrastructure automation and CI/CD operating models, contributing to $257M in cumulative sales (2022– 2025) through faster, more scalable product delivery.
• Established enterprise-wide hybrid cloud deployment frameworks across AWS, Azure, and on-prem environments, reducing delivery timelines from 18 months to 3 months.

• Served as enterprise architect and transformation leader for cloud modernization, enabling scalable growth, long-term digital strategy and an organization-wide change to agile and DevOps frameworks.
• Led the redesign of the enterprise Azure environment to support large-scale migration of on-premise workloads while enabling automation, resiliency, and future expansion.
  Managed and forecasted enterprise cloud consumption agreements totaling $35M over five years, optimizing vendor relationships and spend governance.
• Established enterprise automation standards using Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, and ServiceNow workflows, reducing infrastructure provisioning from 4 months to 10 minutes.
• Built and mentored the teams responsible for Infrastructure-as-Code standards, enterprise repositories, and coding best practices.

• Designed the PaaS hosting deployment process, which saved over $300k annually in Azure expenditures.
• Responsibly managed and planned the enterprise cloud agreements for the consumption of $5 million dollars of Azure cloud resources over a 5-year period.
• Implemented a dual-purpose DR/Failover architecture in a multi-region topology for both IaaS and PaaS services that automatically engages standby resources when outages are detected.
• Worked with infrastructure and automation engineers to build CI/CD pipelines using infrastructure-as-code methodologies, almost eliminating manual stand-up and tear-down of services.
• Managed and administered global datacenters containing 1000s of both Windows and Linux systems.
• Collaborated with technical experts and architects from multiple IT lanes to build robust and scalable solutions that enable instance growth while minimizing costs and improving performance monitoring.
• Worked with enterprise engineers to design on-prem automation to ensure datacenter operations & security KPIs were being met.

• Led digital IT infrastructure overhaul to Microsoft Azure, achieving over $500,000 in savings and reducing management commitments by 40%.
• Collaborated with Cross-Business Innovation teams to create the tools and automate the processes for global corporate cloud offerings, incorporating orchestration using Scalr and Ansible.
• Managed regional datacenters consisting of over 100 servers, which supported 24x7 operations with a near-zero downtime requirement.
• Reduced IT support overhead by implementing CI/CD techniques and agile methodologies, decreasing solution delivery time and IT support costs by 30%.
• Established business intelligence solutions and data warehouse architecture with Azure SQL PaaS, eliminating $250,000 in annual software licensing fees.
• Directed development teams to design a B2B authentication process using Azure services for secure connectivity to ERP systems for over 300 suppliers.

• Collaborated with key stakeholders to plan, implement, and integrate the CRM software, the organizational website, and network data storage to promote user-friendly access and enhanced functionality for internal and external consumers.
• Delivered Microsoft-based products that allowed for ease of use and cross-platform operability, which decreased IT overhead costs by 28% and realized an ROI in less than one year.
• Negotiated third-party vendor contracts for internal network reconfigurations to enable wireless roaming for over 500 simultaneous users.

• Developed a clinical reporting method for staff that reduced metric reporting errors for a 40,000-patient population by 60%, and automated the data modeling process.
• Instituted a local VA work-study program that provided over 500 student veterans with career development opportunities.
• Improved and managed interfaces between healthcare systems to enhance the coordination of patient care requirements, and secure HIPAA-regulated personal information across a multi-branch, geographically separated hospital.
• Worked with DoD leadership to implement a streamlined check-in process using ID cards and kiosks, reducing VA healthcare wait times by 15%.

• Managed a five-person team that was responsible for successfully operating and securing the DoD’s digital credentialing and identity system which contained over 2.4 million individual records.
• Assembled and conducted a cross-functional, multi-departmental team to develop the digital and physical security checkpoint processes for DoD contractor verification that was used across the military.
• Orchestrated an automated data collection and processing system for over 19,000 employees which decreased data entry & analysis time by 50%.
• Managed the application integrations of over 150 different systems to ensure accurate manpower and strength management and tracking.

• Led and developed teams in high-risk, high-accountability environments, executing complex missions under limited guidance.

• Managed personnel readiness, training, and operational execution in multinational settings.

• Maintained accountability for $100K+ in government assets.