Itari Ighoroje
Chief Architect - Strategy, Apps (Office Of The CTO)
San Antonio,TX
Summary
Highly motivated Chief Architect (Office of the CTO) with over 20 years of experience in Organizational Strategy, Consultative Solution Selling, Product Development, Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Software Design and Software Development experience. Strong experience with migrating and transforming customer workloads to the cloud. This includes infrastructure and application assessments, migration and transformation planning, and migrations/transformations. History of taking initiative and demonstrating strong technical leadership skills in various endeavors. History of accomplishing business critical tasks on time. Ability to work effectively and lead a technical team. Very strong problem-solving skills. Strong inter-personal skills. Very great strategic and tactical thinker. Ability to deliver results to the customer. A very fast learner that does not require a lot of support to get things done.
Looking for a challenging position that will continue to develop my leadership skills, leverage my strong strategic analysis and communication skills, and take advantage of my passion for problem solving.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
1
1
Language
Work History
Chief Architect
Rackspace Technology
01.2023 - Current
- Collaborated with various stakeholders (C-Level, VPs, Directors, Product, Sales), to redefine GTM offering strategy. Rackspace went from selling offerings to consultative selling of portfolio of solutions
- Provided delivery framework to engineering teams to help standardize delivery of consultative services to customers
- Worked with communities of practices to identify, catalog, and define services globally
- Helped drive development of new low-code-no-code offering, by working with Product team and third-party vendors
- Provided strategic sales guidance for top Enterprise customer pursuits
- Partnered on various programs with hyper-scalers (AWS, Google) to help drive revenue growth for both parties
- Partnered with Google to help define a joint Migration Offering
- Provided thought leadership by speaking at web seminars, writing whitepapers and online articles around various technical topics (Migrations, Cloud Modernizations, Cost Optimization)
Principal Architect
Rackspace Technology
11.2015 - 01.2023
- Responsible for pre-sales professional services scoping engagements around clients navigating to the cloud.
- Exceeded Professional Services sales targets each year, the most recent at $28million dollars.
- Responsible for consultative selling around Cloud Strategy, Migrations with special focus around Cloud Native, App Transformation and DevOps.
- Delivered on DevOps, App Transformation and Cloud Native workshop across different customer profiles (small market, mid-market, and enterprise).
- Assisted customers in their overall cloud transformation journey.
- Performed cloud transformation implementation projects, when delivery resources were scarce
- Single-handedly created DevOps professional services practice, when need was identified. Responsible for creating marketing collateral, working with product development, architecture, implementation, and co-ordination with our delivery partners. This accounted for ~$1m dollars of professional services sales.
- Involved in Rackspace partner immersion sales sessions
- Provided overview of Rackspace professional services to our channel partners, to boost Professional Service opportunities.
- Responsible for taking feedback from Rackspace customers, identifying service gaps, and liaising with product and marketing teams, to mature services provided to customer.
- Responsible for managing Professional Services bookings and forecasting sessions when required.
Enterprise Architect
Rackspace Technology
12.2012 - 11.2015
- Responsible for strategic solution selling of Rackspace products and services to different customer profiles, with focus on selling Rackspace managed DevOps services.
- Responsible for enterprise architecture and design of standardized APIs across application portfolio
- Responsible for designing solution for common functionality across APIs, such as authentication, authorization, throttling, rate limiting, etc.
Solution Architect
Rackspace Technology
12.2010 - 12.2012
- Responsible for design and delivery of Customer Service architecture. Worked with business partners, technical lead and developers to implement solution
- Responsible for designing and architecting single signup service for Rackspace to support ongoing PCI initiative as well as improvements to performance, maintenance and future support for one signup service for Rackspace to support ongoing PCI initiative as well as improvements to performance, maintenance and future support for one signup shopping cart at Rackspace.
- Worked with members of enterprise data warehouse team and Rackspace user portal to come up with service that allowed customers monitor SAN device usage as well as general device monitoring availability. Responsible for setting up meetings, co-ordination between business partners and developers to come to proposed solution. Helped drive project from onset to completion
- Worked with enterprise usage and mediation. Defined detailed architecture for new proposal on how to collect, mediate, aggregate and distribute usage to billing system
- Came up with proposals on how to stabilize our development environments, development process as well as strategy for smooth delivery and on-boarding of new products.
- Responsible for driving domain modeling sessions with architects and members of business to come up with single customer domain model, to drive unified changes to various systems to achieve this goal at Rackspace. This model addressed all aspects related to customer; contact info, billing, support, product configuration, identity management etc.
- Responsible for architectural strategy for Foundation Global Auth service. Created architectural as-is and to-be documents. Created wadl and schemas for service. Generated developer guide. Worked with technical lead and developer to come up with implementation solutions.
- Responsible for analyzing legacy billing, product catalog and usage systems. Helped other architects understand details of this system
- Aided and fostered design of billing system product catalog domain model.
- Responsible for analyzing legacy system ESB infrastructure and code. Proposed solutions for re-architecting fundamental parts of system to improve manageability, stability, and increase understanding on how current system worked
- Organized technical sessions with Service Development teams to come up with problems facing our SOA from a development perspective
- Collaborated with service teams and Enterprise architects to come up with technical solutions to a wide variety of SOA problems ranging from service deployment and artifact management to service documentation.
- Part of team responsible for POC on third party ESB and Application Performance Monitoring tool. Responsible for setting up environments, analyzing technical requirements, and ensuring tools met needs for Rackspace.
Software Engineer
Rackspace Technology
12.2006 - 03.2011
- Technical lead for services portion of hybrid project. Responsible for getting 4 contractors onboarded and delivering value immediately
- Played a big part in the contract design and implementation of our service, in accordance with our SOA initiative. Performed all this while still meeting our deadline. Project involved consolidating a customer’s portfolio at Rackspace, to enable us better support our customers. The project was a high visibility, high impacting successful project.
- Technical lead on a workflow tool project. This tool allowed us to create, execute and monitor business processes. Played a big role in guiding the features roadmap of the tool
- Technical lead on a server provisioning project. Responsible for making technical decisions that influenced the outcome of the project
- Collaborated with developers working remotely to develop a ticket search system
- Designed and developed an employee roster application using various J2EE technologies.
Software Developer
BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
06.2003 - 11.2006
- Designed, developed and validated various J2EE applications to manage clinical trials and related business critical activities
- Created MSSQL database tables and authored complex SQL to support the applications
- Created web applications hosted on JBOSS application server using HTML, JavaScript, Java Server Pages (JSPs) and Java Servlets
- Created detailed functional requirements documents.
- Designed validation plans that were used to test software applications and electronic case report forms (eCRFs).
- Worked with the Technical Writer and Technical Trainer to develop online help and training material for software applications.
- Worked with the systems architect to configure a methodology and environment to manage software validation.
- Developed a privileges system that controlled access restrictions for the enterprise software application.
- Created a suite of web-based shipping applications that were used to track drug distribution for clinical trials.
- Created a Java-based forms designer used to create electronic case report forms (eCRFs) for clinical trials and system forms used throughout the enterprise software application.
- Developed a session manager that monitored a user’s interaction with the web suite of applications.
- Created a web-based radiological review application that allowed independent radiologists to view patient DICOM images and record their assessment. This application was used in a pivotal phase III clinical trial.
- Created a suite of web-based applications that were used to manage inventory for clinical trials.
- Was part of a team that designed and implemented a suite of Electronic Data Capture (EDC) applications that allowed patient data to be captured, queried, analyzed and extracted.
Education
B.SC Computer Science / Information Technology -
Graceland University
09.1999 - 05.2003
Skills
Cloud Native
Application Modernization
DevOps transformations
Docker, KubernetesCloud Architecture and Design (AWS, Azure, GCP)Application Enterprise and Solution ArchitectureProduct DevelopmentAWS CodeDeploy, AWS Code Pipeline, Octopus Deploy, Bitbucket
Software Design and DevelopmentExcellent Communication
Strategic Planning
Strategic Direction
Cloud Architecture Design
Problem-Solving
Adaptability
Infrastructure Automation
Jenkins, TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Circle CI, AWS Code Build
Ansible, Chef
Certification
AWS Certified Solution Architect
References
Available Upon Request
Timeline
Chief Architect
Rackspace Technology
01.2023 - Current
Principal Architect
Rackspace Technology
11.2015 - 01.2023
Enterprise Architect
Rackspace Technology
12.2012 - 11.2015
Solution Architect
Rackspace Technology
12.2010 - 12.2012
Software Engineer
Rackspace Technology
12.2006 - 03.2011
Software Developer
BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
06.2003 - 11.2006
B.SC Computer Science / Information Technology -
Graceland University
09.1999 - 05.2003