Author Profile

Michael Kennedy

VP of Solutions Architecture

A career IT professional that has explored the limits of both traditional and next-generation technologies in the pursuit of solving complex business challenges. Drives better business outcomes through the modernization of technology practices, processes, applications, data, infrastructure, and security. Educates those around him in terms they can understand, from deeply technical, to business fundamentals.

Credentials

  • GCP Professional Cloud Architect
  • GCP Professional Security Engineer
  • GCP Professional Network Engineer
  • ISC2 CISSP
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
  • HashiCorp Terraform, Vault, Consul
  • NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute

Experience

Principal Architect - Arctiq (2021 - Present)

  • Leading the technical aspects of multiple projects across a variety of technologies including Google Anthos, RedHat OpenShift, Microsoft Azure, and related DevOps ecosystem tools
  • Clients include public sector (government & governmental bodies), financial services, telecommunications, natural resources, engineering, and energy services

Engagement Manager - Google (2020 -  2021)

  • Leading professional services engagements for the Google Professional Services organization in mining, financial services, and telecommunications verticals to accelerate the adoption of Google Cloud.
  • Created complex strategic services portfolios with an ecosystem of external and internal services teams.
  • Created customized professional and managed service offerings to maximize the success of GCP adoption for customers.

Cloud Solutions Architect - Scalar Decisions (2015 - 2020)

  • Embedded with Canada’s best companies to drive change with leading-edge solutions that encompassed hybrid cloud and cloud technologies.
  • Influenced customer roadmaps and orchestrated manufacturer partnerships to provide customers with the best-in-class solutions that drove outcomes and satisfied their business needs with a steady eye on the total cost of ownership.

Director, Enterprise Architecture - LoyaltyOne (2001 - 2014)

  • Roles of increasing responsibility that guided and aligned investment for a billion dollar business and led the transformation of IT through adoption of automation and hybrid cloud services strategies that reduced the lead time to change and optimized the operational costs of the portfolio

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Competencies

Cloud & Container Platforms:
Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Google Workspace,  Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Red Hat OpenShift, Google GKE, Azure AKS, AWS EKS, HashiCorp Nomad

Security, Services, CI/CD, Orchestration & Management:
HashiCorp Consul, Hashicorp Terraform, HashiCorp Vault, Red Hat Ansible, Salt Stack, Jenkins, GCP Cloud Build, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, Tekton

Infrastructure:
Data Centres, High Performance Computing, Networking, Security

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