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Brad Ross

Summary

A constant learner and highly motivated IT professional with over 15 years of experience in large enterprise environments within the automotive industry. I have the ability to work and engineer solutions across diverse work streams and delivering high-quality results within defined timelines. From 2016 to 2022, my focus was cloud architecture, devOps, application modernization and migrations on AWS across North America, Canada and LATAM markets. In 2022, I began a new role at AWS as an Senior Solutions Architect dedicated to their largest automotive customer driving digital transformation and innovation using AWS services.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services
07.2022 - 08.2024
  • Solutions Architect dedicated to the company's largest automotive OEM.
  • Combine business and technical acumen to architect solutions to complex problems.
  • To influence the long-term business and technology direction of the customer by helping them understand how technology concepts and solutions can impact their business.
  • Developing solution architectures, building POC (Proof of Concept) and leading build events for accelerated customer learning.
  • Spearheaded manufacturing digitalization strategy for Industry 4.0 architecture
  • Led all edge to cloud customer use cases with a focus on IoT, Predictive Analytics and Manufacturing Data Hub
  • Customer advocate for over 27 new features with IoT Service team released at 2023 Re:Invent
  • Led IoT Predictive Maintenance Hackathon for customer in Indonesia
  • Co-led 6 immersion days with the customer on containerization, Kubernetes and SageMaker

COE Americas Technical Lead

BMW Manufacturing
04.2016 - 07.2022

Lead cloud engineer responsible for cloud architecture, devOps, and cloud migrations to AWS. Led solutions architecture for cloud with application migrations across Connected Car, Vehicle Data, Sales & Marketing and Financial Services in North America, Canada and LATAM markets.

  • Technical lead for cloud migrations and architecture in the Americas region (North America, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Canada (2019-2022)
  • Cloud Center of Excellence (COE) Technical Lead Americas Region (2019-2022)
  • Met cost saving targets by re-platforming from Windows Server to Linux-based container services on EKS and Microsoft SQL Server to PostgreSQL (2021-2022)
  • Created and managed internal Git repository to share automation solutions and reference architectures to solve common architecture and software deployment challenges(2020-2022)

Senior Infrastructure Specialist

BMW AG
07.2014 - 04.2016
  • Completed onsite Infrastructure migrations for BMW Netherlands, Australia, South Africa, Italy, Spain and England
  • More details upon request

Infrastructure Specialist

BMW Manufacturing
11.2009 - 07.2014
  • More details upon request

Education

Bachelor of Arts - Computer Information Systems

University South Carolina Spartanburg
Spartanburg, SC
05.1995

Skills

    Containerization / Kubernetes

    Edge to Cloud

    Amazon RDS

    Golang Developer

    Python Developer

    Microservice Development

    Terraform / Helm

    AWS Networking / VPC

    AWS Security

Certification

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional

AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty

Timeline

Senior Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services
07.2022 - 08.2024

COE Americas Technical Lead

BMW Manufacturing
04.2016 - 07.2022

Senior Infrastructure Specialist

BMW AG
07.2014 - 04.2016

Infrastructure Specialist

BMW Manufacturing
11.2009 - 07.2014

Bachelor of Arts - Computer Information Systems

University South Carolina Spartanburg
Brad Ross