Timothy Strimple

Lead national cloud practice managing 60+ consultants across enterprise and government engagements. Direct client-facing architecture, organizational transformation, and technical evangelism for Fortune 500 clients. Present cloud strategy and AI roadmaps to C-level executives.

Key Accomplishments:

• GenAI Tiger Team (Original Member): Selected as founding member of enterprise generative AI initiative. Drive AI adoption strategy, evaluate emerging AI technologies, and evangelize responsible AI practices across client organizations. Present AI use cases and implementation roadmaps to executive stakeholders.
• Large-Scale Government Cloud Migration: Lead architect for $10M+ Azure migration project spanning 6000+ servers across 15+ semi-independent state agencies. Designed migration framework balancing standardization with agency-specific modernization goals. Drove stakeholder alignment across organizations with widely varying technical maturity (from cloud-native teams to legacy-first mindsets). Established framework enabling 12-person delivery team to operate independently with 98%+ on-time delivery rate.
• Practice Leadership & Talent Development: Manage 60+ consultant practice across national footprint. Recognized internal expert for Azure cloud architecture and software development. Mentor consultants on cloud technology, AI implementation, client engagement, and technical leadership.
• Client Technical Evangelism: Present to C-level executives on cloud strategy and AI-driven digital transformation roadmaps. Evangelize modern development practices, cloud architecture patterns, and generative AI capabilities across client engineering organizations. Drive architectural decisions securing multi-million dollar IT investment commitments.
• Cultural Transformation: Shifted IT culture from top-down architecture to collaborative model across four client organizations. Mentored architects on stakeholder relationship management and emerging technologies. Streamlined governance processes while maintaining regulatory compliance in highly regulated environments.

Promoted from Principal Architect to lead architecture across multiple organizations within Transamerica. Directed cloud adoption strategy in both Azure and AWS. Synthesized fragmented domain knowledge across isolated teams into cohesive enterprise architecture strategy.

Key Accomplishments:

• Multi-Organization Leadership: Led architecture team across four organizations, shifting from siloed teams to collaborative enterprise architecture model. Presented architectural roadmaps to C-level stakeholders to secure IT investment direction.
• Cloud Migration Strategy: Architected Finance department's migration from on-prem to Azure. Drove shift from daily batch processing to real-time data streaming, reducing operational cost and improving data availability.
• Cultural & Process Transformation: Transformed IT culture from top-down heavy architecture to collaborative model between architects and engineering teams. Mentored architects on relationship management, effective stakeholder engagement, and cloud technology capabilities.
• Governance Optimization: Streamlined change management, Architecture Review Board (ARB), and risk management processes while maintaining finance regulatory compliance—major barrier to rapid delivery previously.

As a Cloud Solution Architect, I evaluate a company's existing infrastructure and architecture, whether on premise or at another cloud provider, and help them design a cloud optimized solution. This is a national role, helping to solve issues at large enterprise companies like Stryker, US Bank and Hexagon Intl as they adopt the cloud. The type of help ranged from high level architecture, to digging through the partners code to understand and solve the blockers they are encountering. This included working with machine learning algorithms, connecting and managing millions of the Internet of Things devices, advising on blockchain applications, microservices using Kubernetes, etc.

As part of the team who focuses on open-source technologies, I must stay up to date with alternate cloud offerings like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.

Key Accomplishments:

• Develop internal tools to help manage the business
• Build and present training for Microsoft employees on many topics including: Building on Amazon Web Services, Git & GitHub for distributed development, DevOps
• Mentor Microsoft Academy for College Hires as they start their careers at a large company
• Act as go to technical resource on our team for open source and non-Microsoft technologies

As a Startup Evangelist to drive adoption of Microsoft technologies among startups in SoCal and to act as a liaison (and often translator) between the startup community and Microsoft. This includes startups already building on Microsoft technologies, as well as startups looking for someplace to host their open-source projects. As a technical resource for many diverse companies, I must be an expert at many technologies. I also must stay ahead of the curve to make sure my skills are relevant to startups using the "latest and greatest" tools around.

Key Accomplishments:

• Plan and run events to drive engagement with local startup communities
• Become a technical expert at local co-working spaces for startups working there
• Run training and educational events on cloud development
• Participate in community events like hackathons

Built a software development team from one to eight team members. Implemented software development lifecycle improvements such as continuous integration and automated deployment. Created the entire platform on which the company generates income. Worked closely with the development team to ensure coding standards are met and for mentoring opportunities.

Built client facing websites for use across several markets. Hospitals, clinics, fitness centers, universities and large employers for tracking and trending user and population health over time.

Key Technical Achievements:

• Machine Learning & Predictive Analytics: Designed and implemented custom ML algorithms for health trend prediction and population health analytics. Built models analyzing user health data to provide personalized recommendations and early intervention triggers.
• User dashboard for viewing their health progress over time with ML-driven insights
• Admin Portal & Reports to allow program administrators to track and trend the health of their population over time
• Kiosk application deployed to thousands of grocery stores and healthcare facilities nationwide with integrated ML capabilities
• Integrated various hardware devices to allow them to upload their results into our system