Leonard Valsin

• Engaged DoD leadership and cross-functional teams weekly to shape cloud-migration requirements, secure funding paths, and align technical deliverables with mission-critical objectives.

• Led capture-style initiative to migrate 667+ Azure resources via Terraform: collaborated with security, compliance, and operations teams to gather requirements, define migration scope, and deliver a solution 25% ahead of schedule.

• Managed security and export-compliance checkpoints by developing working knowledge of government compliance requirements—ensuring all cloud architectures met DoD cross-border data controls.

• Delivered weekly strategic briefings to Veterans Affairs (VA) stakeholders—articulating cloud modernization roadmaps, budget impacts, and risk-mitigation strategies.

• Cultivated relationships with internal API/software-development teams and external partners to translate evolving requirements into integrated solutions—accelerating time-to-market.

• Provided strategic recommendations for cloud infrastructure roadmaps—informing three-year sustainment plans that improved platform scalability and reduced total cost of ownership by 20%.

• Engaged senior DoD stakeholders and program offices to define cloud-migration needs, align budget allocations, and ensure mission readiness across 350+ end users.

• Led DoD-funded Microsoft 365 migration initiative—ensuring secure PHI access for 350 end users with zero data leakage and full compliance with DoD cybersecurity mandates.

• Supported Defense Health Agency in a $1.2 M MHS GENESIS migration across 300+ nodes: interfaced with acquisition officers to secure funding, optimize workflows, and reduce patient data input time by 50%.

• Managed security policy enforcement and compliance audits for 5,000 network nodes—ensuring adherence to DoD cybersecurity standards and continuous ATO compliance.

• Conducted multi-base IT contingency planning across Dyess, Sheppard, and Randolph AFBs—imaging 110+ nodes and enabling 8,800 virtual medical appointments, safeguarding 5,000 electronic health records.