Robert Adrian

Collaborated with senior leadership to align technology initiatives with business strategies, ensuring that new technologies directly supported organizational goals. Introduced modern architectures and analytics platforms, such as Power BI with ServiceNow to implement those strategies enhancing data-driven decision-making and operational resilience. Led the strategic shift from monolithic APIs to microservices, significantly improving engineering speed by reducing dependencies and allowing feature implementation to be completed with less reliance on other platforms.

• Collaborate with senior executives and stakeholders to introduce technologies and strategies that deliver on business objectives and identify opportunities for achieving current and future business goals.
• Lead digital transformation initiatives, transitioning from monolithic APIs to microservices, using serverless architectures for performance, scaling, and cost savings.
• Worked across Engineering, QA, and DevOps to streamline build and release processes, improving environment stability by 40%, build quality and reliability (35%), and deployment speed by (25%).
• Delivered the new UI implementation for Omnia Data (Cortex), ensuring proper infrastructure support, fault recovery, scalability, and flexibility across global geographies.
• Held workshops and built POCs to explore AI-driven solutions, including LLM AI for searching ServiceNow Tickets, and an NLP interface for searching and updating work items in Microsoft ADO.
• Actively work to develop new leaders, align people with passions, and build high-performing teams.
• Built strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to facilitate faster delivery on objectives and strategies.

Led clients in developing technology and development strategies that best supported their business objectives, then built and led teams to deliver on those strategies. Main areas of change focused on modernizing legacy systems, introducing automation and testing frameworks to streamline release management and enhance operational efficiency. Solutions sometimes included integrating multiple cloud environments, enabling clients to optimize service delivery and improve scalability.

Conifer Health | 09/2020 – 05/2021 Contract

• Streamlined the release management process, incorporating automation in testing and deployment that resulted in a significant 50% reduction in deployment time while also reducing system defects.
• Effectively coordinated intricate deliveries across multiple teams, including senior executive leadership, delivering a unified set of shared architectures that supported the overarching business objectives increasing the speed of feature development by 25% while also reducing technical debt and code maintenance by nearly 40%.
• Ensured successful delivery of multiple projects within defined budgets, timelines, and resources by monitoring and managing both on shore and near shore engineering resources, using agile and Kanban methodologies.

JJ Keller | 08/2018 – 08/2019 Contract

• Developed and executed a comprehensive modernization strategy for JJ Keller's legacy systems, transitioning to a microservices and container-based architecture leveraging Azure services such as IAM, API Management, and Azure Functions, resulting in increased system scalability and reliability.
• Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using ARM templates, automating environment creation and standardizing deployment processes, which enhanced operational efficiency and reduced deployment times by 25% while also providing an automated disaster recovery platform.
• Devised and enforced a robust set of development standards and best practices, leading to a 20% reduction in code defects and a 25% increase in team productivity, aligning with the organization’s long-term technology and business objectives.

American Airlines | 04/2018 – 08/2018 Contract

• Played a key role on the system architecture team, strategically guiding the integration between US Airways and American Airlines by evaluating and implementing solutions across multiple cloud environments, including Azure, AWS, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), to ensure seamless operational alignment and enhanced service delivery.
• Engineered a high-volume mock ticketing system to strategically compare cloud performances, providing critical data-driven insights that enabled the organization to select the optimal cloud provider, ultimately supporting cost-efficiency, scalability, and improved operational performance.

As a key contributor to the senior delivery team, I played a critical role in developing and delivering a hybrid cloud-based data services solution for employee resource management. Together with the senior management team, we developed a comprehensive strategy for transitioning to a hybrid cloud-hosted platform, ultimately resulting in the successful delivery of a suite of data services across Dynamics 365, improving employee resource management, data security, and accessibility.

• Developed a robust suite of data services within the Dynamics 365 environment to streamline management and secure access to employee resources. This initiative significantly smoothed the transition from a self-hosted to a cloud-hosted platform.
• Acted as the technical lead, facilitating crucial discussions among product teams to mitigate risks associated with changes in deliverables and the definition of the Minimum Viable Product (MVP).
• Collaborated closely with senior management to devise a strategic plan for transitioning from a self-hosted infrastructure to a cloud-hosted platform, successfully aligning technology strategy with business objectives.

Participated in a Microsoft partnership program for high-value clients, where I championed the innovative modernization of business feature delivery and technology development by introducing agile methodologies, promoting continuous integration and deployment practices, and facilitating collaboration between development and operations teams. This approach led to the creation of a dynamic, adaptive, rolling delivery model that enhanced responsiveness and supported rapid innovation.

• Served as a key consultant for the construction of cloud-native applications, leveraging Azure Government to ensure compliance and security for sensitive data. Utilized C# within a microservices framework to establish services hosted on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), delivering robust solutions for third-party producers and web frontend clients.
• Implemented real-time communication features using SignalR Service and WebSockets, enhancing the responsiveness and interactivity of web applications. These technologies were integrated into the cloud-native solutions, providing seamless and efficient data flow between services and clients.

Essilor Group, Technical Delivery, Azure Architect

• Led the strategic modernization of clinic applications by transitioning from self-hosting to AWS, architecting an autoscaling and serverless API infrastructure using Lambda functions and SQS for queueing and messaging. This initiative integrated legacy systems and improved scalability, operational efficiency, and data management across clinics.
• Strategically managed the integration of legacy systems into modern cloud infrastructure, ensuring seamless transition and minimizing disruptions to clinic operations. Proactively addressed technical challenges, enabling clinics to leverage advanced cloud capabilities for enhanced performance and cost savings.

Played a key role in co-founding and managing the CNC products division within a small, innovative company. Leveraging my experience in automated manufacturing and embedded systems engineering, I was responsible for all aspects of the division's operations and engineering.

• Developed and launched the company's first desktop 3-axis CNC machine through a successful Kickstarter campaign, bringing advanced manufacturing capabilities to the market.
• Implemented 3D scanning, modeling, and printing for the production of prototypes and tooling, significantly reducing the time required for iterative product development and improving overall production efficiency.
• Designed detailed budget for engineering equipment and projects.

Led the architecture and delivery of the web and application-based trader platform in the Private Investing (PI) division. Collaborated extensively with QA, Engineering, Operations, and the Architecture Review Board, alongside business and marketing teams to define KPIs for client adoption, utilization, and performance, ultimately driving the company's shift towards DevOps.

• Successfully led the migration of on-premises services to the cloud using Azure, ensuring minimal service disruption and data security. This complex project required developing customized solutions due to the limited migration tools available at the time.
• As an early adopter of Azure, worked closely with the product team, providing critical feedback and identifying feature gaps to support better migration processes. This collaboration involved senior leaders across various business units, advocating for increased investment in Azure to facilitate successful migrations.
• Introduced and implemented new technologies, including TypeScript, Angular, and Bootstrap, enhancing our web development capabilities and toolsets.
• Managed the delivery of several products, coordinating resources across multiple countries, including China and India.

As CTO, I strategically built and led the technology team, managed key vendor relationships, and negotiated critical contracts, while presenting at board meetings and trade shows to secure investments and promote the company's innovative technologies. My leadership in the initial design of a self-assembling wireless mesh network, which allowed dynamic adjustment of node cameras based on capture requirements, was pivotal in leading to our acquisition in 2016.

• Negotiated strategic contracts and licensing agreements with major vendors such as Samsung and Microsoft, securing essential partnerships and resources for product development.
• Established and led the cloud platform team, delivering a scalable e-commerce platform on Azure that enabled OEM branding for resellers, driving new revenue streams and market expansion.
• Performed product demonstrations and evangelized the technology at conferences, trade shows, and investor forums, effectively communicating the product's value and securing interest from key stakeholders.
• Designed and implemented the camera synchronization architecture using time-code and messaging, achieving precise coordination of hundreds of cameras within 1 millisecond, a technological breakthrough that set the stage for acquisition.
• Collaborated closely with manufacturing teams to ensure timely delivery, quality assurance, and consistency, maintaining high standards of production and customer satisfaction.
• Managed company-level architecture, platform and data configuration processes and implementation protocols.