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Jay Hough Jr.

Jay Hough Jr.

Cassadaga,NY

Summary

Well-qualified professional services leader with demonstrated ability to build effective teams, drive sales and execution, and implement continuous improvement mechanisms looking to broaden his impact across an organization.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Engagement Manager (L6)

AWS, Amazon Web Services
07.2021 - Current
  • Delivered AWS Professional Service's largest contract (as of 2023); a $140M Mainframe to Microservices program, reducing customer Opex by $100M and driving over $1B of AWS platform utilization.
  • Defined 350+ person program delivery plan, formed a core leadership team, and successfully structured 14 distinct workstreams to deliver on the customer's 3 year GTM strategy.
  • Established and managed the AWS Global Financial Services Generative AI Sales Campaign, an effort resulting in $4M of GenAI consulting engagements
  • One of three Engagement Managers to pilot the AWS CORE pre-sales SOW delivery review program, improving customer satisfaction, delivery success KPIs, and shifted sales and delivery collaboration left in the sales cycle.


Senior Project Manager

ClearScale, an AWS Partner
11.2020 - 07.2021
  • Lead engagements as an AWS premier partner assisting clients with their cloud journeys, manage 8-14 projects simultaneously, as well as lead the effort to adopt Agile methodologies and bring customer success into focus at ClearScale.
  • Business Outcomes Delivered:
  • Chatbot-as-a-service AWS migration ($12M annual Opex reduction)
  • AI-driven live image recognition (Innovation initiative to better support local government and law enforcement),
  • Data center migration and cloud-based ecommerce solution for the largest dollar store chain in the country ($39M annual opex reduction, breakthrough innovation to launch dollar-store style ecommerce while maintaining price point)

Engagement Manager

Cloud Technology Partners, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
10.2019 - 11.2020
  • Managed relationships with enterprise clients on a wide variety of cloud related engagements, as well as serve as an agile coach to both the internal PMO and our partners, designed a comprehensive sales-to-delivery process to better deliver on HPE's commitments to customers.
  • Business Outcomes Delivered:
  • AWS-based solution to live stream music from on-premise studio architecture, through cloud-native applications spanning multiple enterprise accounts.
  • Assess application portfolio and deliver a strategy to optimize a fortune 100 pharmaceutical enterprise's technical footprint utilizing AWS and HPE Greenlake. The realization of this effort both helped drive a $47M annual cost savings as well as enabled innovations that assisted in the creation of one of the FDA approved Covid-19 vaccines

Program Management CoE Consultant

Highmark, Blue Cross Blue Shield
03.2019 - 10.2019
  • Developed, deployed, and operated the strategic CoE, an initiative to bring customer focus and agile methodology into Highmark’s product design pipeline.
  • Business Outcomes Delivered:
  • Streamlined the project prioritization and ingestion process
  • Unified business product teams and the technical PMO to foster teamwork and establish a "pull" mentality for the backlog of work
  • Introduced agile-based KPIs and Metrics to key business leaders as ways to track progress without reliance on antiquated tools and processes.

Senior Cloud Technology Project Manager

Bayer Corporation, A Lifesciences company
05.2012 - 03.2019
  • Successfully led large programs with budgets in excess of $5M on a global scale for both infrastructure and cloud teams using a variety of methodologies including Agile Scrum, Kanban, and Waterfall.
  • Business Outcomes Delivered:
  • Established Bayer's initial cloud footprint in both AWS and Azure, establishing long-lasting partnerships with consulting organizations, Amazon, and the Microsoft cloud team.
    Support the launch of Bayer's Datalake architecture, providing a platform for Bayer's genome sequencing and GMO initiatives.
  • Designed and implemented a cloud-based IoT pilot, increasing operational efficiency by 11% in four Bayer manufacturing facilities.
  • Redesigned Bayer's wireless network infrastructure, covering 100s of acres of Bayer facilities worldwide with wireless network access and point-to-point connectivity

Education

Bachelors of Science - Management Information Systems

Indiana University of PA
01.2013

Skills

  • Customer Relationship Management
  • People Leadership
  • Project/Program Governance & Delivery
  • Agile Methodologies
  • DevOps Frameworks
  • Organizational Change Management
  • Cloud Technology & Management Consulting
  • Professional Services Go-To-Market Strategy Formation

Certification

  • Amazon Certified Solutions Architect Associate
  • Amazon AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • Amazon Business Professional Certificate
  • Amazon Technical Professional Certificate
  • SAFE Agilist
  • Certified Scrum Master, Advanced Certified Scrum Master, Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Alliance
  • LUMA Certified Practitioner HumanCentered Design
  • Cisco CCNA Certified (Expired)
  • Aruba ACMP Certified (Expired)

Extra Curriculars

Financial Services Technical Field Community

Generative AI and AI/ML Technical Field Community

Timeline

Senior Engagement Manager (L6)

AWS, Amazon Web Services
07.2021 - Current

Senior Project Manager

ClearScale, an AWS Partner
11.2020 - 07.2021

Engagement Manager

Cloud Technology Partners, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
10.2019 - 11.2020

Program Management CoE Consultant

Highmark, Blue Cross Blue Shield
03.2019 - 10.2019

Senior Cloud Technology Project Manager

Bayer Corporation, A Lifesciences company
05.2012 - 03.2019

Bachelors of Science - Management Information Systems

Indiana University of PA

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