Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Technical Projects
Timeline
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Christopher Tate

Upper Marlboro,MD

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

(FDA) Cloud Engineer

Deloitte
Arlington, VA
01.2022 - Current
  • Served as a Cloud Engineer to design and implement microservice architecture for the Medical Review Management and Regulatory Meetings Management solutions to automate and streamline CBER’s product review and approval process
  • Collaborated with 7+ engineers to implement automation code through Terraform to establish environments and launch applications within AWS utilizing Kubernetes through AWS EKS
  • This effort resulted in saving the client’s cloud infrastructure cost by 25% annually on their AWS expenses
  • Saved the client $160k annually by decommissioning of over 4+ legacy systems
  • The systems were modernized to align with the modern technology platform of the federal client, emphasizing standardization and consolidation
  • This endeavor establishes a continuously improving, reusable set of feature components, encouraging interoperability, cost savings, and operational efficiency, leading to a yearly reduction of over 2000 hours in user support
  • Developed the Federal Client’s IT Modernization strategy of implementing their modular-event-driven applications from an on-premises environment to the clients approved AWS Govcloud environment
  • This modernization effort resulted in a cost of $3.5 Million of and the client savings of $475k annually
  • Developed the implementation plan for a $6 million modernization effort, to introduce a new workstream to modernize the client's Product, Review, and Approval process, valued over a one-year plan
  • Planned an additional 2 decommissions for legacy systems for the remainder of the contract which is expected to reduce Operations cost by $150K annually
  • Successfully completed migration of all the federal client’s application code from SVN to Gitlab to support the legacy system End of Life and reduce EOL cost totaling of $650k.

(TSA) AWS Cloud Engineer

Deloitte
Arlington, VA
05.2021 - Current
  • Collaborated with a team of engineers to successfully create and deploy an OCR solution in AWS, utilizing agile development practices and expertise in software development and infrastructure engineering
  • Achieved a $250K annual cost reduction by leveraging AWS services, including Textract, to digitize and securely store personally identifiable sensitive data documents in an AWS online repository, streamlining HR onboarding
  • Orchestrated the implementation efforts of utilizing AWS services to serve as the backend architectures, incorporating services like Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, and AWS Dynamo DB to build.

Sr Business Analyst

CPMS
Washington, DC
10.2020 - 05.2021
  • Lead Business Analyst in requirements gathering and wireframing leveraging tools like Axure Rp and Microsoft PowerPoint, resulting in 75+ requirements and 40+ wireframes for the Health Systems Resource Portal.Which led to a 15% decrease in manual tasks, resulting in a cost savings of $175k annually.
  • Drafted 10+ Quick Reference Guides (QRG’s) for the Health Systems Resource Portal which is used to aid users submitted request, view and download reports, and work tasks. Which resulted in a 25% reduction in user support tickets.
  • Lead Agile training sessions for internal teams, functional POCs, and clients to coach and improve processes and user experiences for the Health Systems Research Portal.

Consultant (Contractor)

Tuba Group
Arlington, VA
01.2020 - 10.2020
  • Conduct an independent assessment of the federal client’s spectrum management costs and their corresponding allocation
  • This effort resulted in a 15% reduction for spectrum management cost and resulted in a annual savings of $450K
  • Provided a potential five-year, forward-looking cost projections and fee schedules which led to a 15% improvement in budget accuracy.

Consultant

Booz Allen Hamilton
Washington, DC
06.2019 - 12.2019
  • Managed a $700m Program’s Financial performance metrics and presenting insight to client and senior leadership
  • Provided recommendations for monitoring programs, organizations, and proposals, as well as interpreting and implementing cost proposal estimating, pricing, and documentation requirements
  • Decreased the time to perform routine financial analysis and administrative tasks by 55% or 360 hours annually through the development of VBA scripts.

Financial Analyst

Vire Consulting
Washington, DC
07.2018 - 06.2019
  • Maintains reimbursable agreements within the Oracle accounting system and provides financial analysis and support on various topics including project setup and closeout, obligation analysis, validation, reconciliation, and invoicing and collection
  • Leveraged account reconciliation processes to automatically match and reconcile 1,000+ transactions, which were previously a very manual monthly process
  • The new auto matching rules decreased the reconciliation timelines from 2-3 weeks to 1- 2 days which lead to a monthly reconciliation processing time reduction of 30%.

Education

MBA - Business Administration

American University
Washington, DC
05.2020

Bachelor of Arts - Communications

University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
12.2016

Skills

  • MS Office Suite Visio Oracle Financials
  • SAFe Agile JIRA Scrum Confluence Kanban
  • Python SQL PowerShell Linux
  • MS Access Dynamo DB Power BI Tableau
  • AWS Compute Services Camunda BPMN Axure RP UI/UX Design
  • AWS Cloud Networking Services Amazon VPC Transit Gateway
  • GitHub Terrafrom Dockers Kubernetes

Certification

  • Project Management Professional PMP (Oct 2022)
  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate, (April 2022)
  • SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, (March 2022)

Technical Projects

  • Created a serverless web application which allows authorized users using Amazon Cognito to add custom notes that are converted to speech using Amazon Polly.
  • Configured a client VPN deployment allowing workstations to connect to a AWS VPC in a safe and secure way
  • Created a continuous delivery pipeline for a simple web application using AWS Elastic Beanstalk environment

Timeline

(FDA) Cloud Engineer

Deloitte
01.2022 - Current

(TSA) AWS Cloud Engineer

Deloitte
05.2021 - Current

Sr Business Analyst

CPMS
10.2020 - 05.2021

Consultant (Contractor)

Tuba Group
01.2020 - 10.2020

Consultant

Booz Allen Hamilton
06.2019 - 12.2019

Financial Analyst

Vire Consulting
07.2018 - 06.2019

MBA - Business Administration

American University

Bachelor of Arts - Communications

University of Pittsburgh

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