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Principal Solutions Architect Resume Matias Choi Principal Solutions Architect (312) 555-XXXX matias.choi@example.com matiaschoi Chicago, IL 60614 STRENGTHS Customer architecture guidance Translated customer priorities into practical cloud designs, earning recognition from a customer leadership team during a complex migration. Clear technical communication Explained architecture choices to technical and business audiences, helping teams find common ground during design discussions. Reusable solution development Created migration planning materials that delivery teams adopted across engagements, earning a client commendation in 2019. Architect coaching Supported early-career architects with design reviews and presentation practice, helping them prepare for customer conversations. Cross-team coordination Connected customer teams with service, marketing, and professional services colleagues to keep solution delivery aligned. SKILLS AWS cloud architecture Enterprise migration Application architecture System design Cloud adoption strategy Infrastructure consulting Security architecture Technical trade-offs Customer education Executive communication Consensus building Requirements gathering Customer advocacy Reference designs Product collaboration MY CAREER 17.4 Years Principal Solutions Architect at Summit Harbor Digital (5.7 Years) Senior Cloud Architect at Blue Mesa Technology Group (3.8 Years) Solutions Architect at Lakefront Systems (3.8 Years) IT Implementation Consultant at Redwood Bridge Consulting (3.2 Years) Associate Software Engineer at Cedar Point Software (1.1 Years) SUMMARY Senior solutions architect with 17 years of IT development, implementation, and consulting experience in software and Internet businesses , including more than a decade designing cloud applications and infrastructure. Guide enterprise customers through AWS adoption and workload migration, connecting business priorities to secure, reliable, scalable, cost-conscious architecture. Advise senior leaders, clarify technical trade-offs for business and engineering audiences, and build consensus on practical designs. Develop customer training, reference designs, and technical content, while sharing customer feedback with product and engineering teams to inform cloud services. EXPERIENCE Principal Solutions Architect Summit Harbor Digital Mar 2021 - Present Chicago, IL Advise enterprise customers in software, financial services, and logistics on AWS cloud adoption, connecting executive business objectives to application architecture , system design, and implementation road maps. Designed migration patterns for legacy application portfolios, using discovery workshops and dependency mapping to sequence workloads and reduce cutover risk while preserving business continuity. Evaluated architecture trade -offs for scale, extensibility, reusability, security, reliability, performance, and cost optimization, documenting decisions so customer engineering teams could maintain the resulting platforms. Led detailed technical discussions with application, infrastructure, networking, security, and data and analytics teams; surfaced design gaps early and aligned stakeholders on implementation choices. Created reusable reference designs, architecture diagrams, and technical content for common cloud patterns, then delivered customer education and training sessions to support consistent adoption. Established regular feedback reviews with customer teams and translated operational pain points into prioritized business and technical requirements for product and engineering partners. Coordinated customer pursuits and solution delivery with AWS service, marketing, and professional services teams, while presenting strategic recommendations to executive management . Conduct regional customer engagements, typically traveling 15-20%, and represent customer priorities as a trusted technical advocate. Designed an AWS landing-zone reference architecture with segmented accounts, identity policies, and centralized logging, giving enterprise teams a repeatable foundation for secure workload onboarding. Compared managed AWS services with existing application infrastructure during customer design reviews, documenting latency, availability, and cost implications to guide platform choices against business priorities. Converted recurring customer feedback on migration dependencies into engineering requirements and service-team recommendations, helping product partners prioritize improvements to workload discovery and cutover planning. Senior Cloud Architect Blue Mesa Technology Group Jun 2017 - Feb 2021 Milwaukee, WI Led architecture and implementation consulting for enterprise application modernization programs, helping customer teams move business-critical workloads to AWS with phased migration plans. Built secure, reliable cloud foundations spanning identity controls, network segmentation, backup, monitoring, and recovery practices, aligning platform design with customer risk and availability needs. Compared infrastructure and application options through technical workshops and proofs of concept, recording scale, performance, and cost trade-offs for engineering and business decision makers. Worked with senior customer leaders to turn transformation goals into sequenced technical road maps, resolving disagreements between application owners, security teams, and operations stakeholders. Developed migration playbooks and reusable design artifacts that enabled delivery teams to apply consistent implementation practices across multiple enterprise accounts. Presented implementation findings and customer feedback to product and engineering groups, clarifying recurring requirements and opportunities to improve cloud services. Mapped application dependencies and data flows for a financial services migration, then staged database and application cutovers with rollback tests to reduce transition risk and protect service availability. Modeled compute sizing and storage retention options for a multi-account AWS environment, using workload measurements to lower projected monthly infrastructure costs without compromising recovery targets. Solutions Architect Lakefront Systems Sep 2013 - May 2017 Madison, WI Designed AWS application and infrastructure solutions for software and Internet customers moving customer-facing services from data centers to cloud environments. Guided engineering teams through system design reviews covering networking , data flows, security boundaries, reliability, and performance, producing implementation plans suited to each workload. Built and tested migration prototypes with customer developers, validating dependencies and recovery procedures before production transitions. Delivered technical workshops and written guidance that helped customer teams understand cloud best practices and make informed architecture decisions. Consolidated customer observations into clear technical recommendations for internal product teams, using recurring issues to refine reference architectures and implementation guidance. Created a reusable deployment pattern for web applications using AWS load balancing, autoscaling, and health checks, enabling customer teams to handle traffic variation while maintaining service availability. Worked with customer developers to profile application response times and database queries before migration, then adjusted instance and caching configurations to improve performance for customer -facing services. IT Implementation Consultant Redwood Bridge Consulting Jul 2010 - Aug 2013 Minneapolis, MN Implemented software and infrastructure solutions for mid-market and enterprise clients, gathering requirements from business sponsors and translating them into technical configurations and deployment plans. Supported application releases by coordinating developers, systems engineers, and network teams, resolving integration issues and documenting operational handoffs. Assessed security, capacity, and availability needs during infrastructure upgrades, presenting practical options that balanced service continuity with delivery constraints. Prepared technical training materials and facilitated customer knowledge-transfer sessions, helping internal support teams manage newly implemented systems. Translated client reporting needs into application and infrastructure specifications, coordinating data-source validation and release testing so business teams received dependable operational reports. Associate Software Engineer Cedar Point Software Jun 2009 - Jun 2010 Des Moines, IA Developed and tested features for a web-based business application, working from customer requirements with senior developers to refine designs and resolve defects. Documented application behavior and deployment steps, improving handoffs between software development , infrastructure, and client support groups. Investigated production issues using logs and reproducible test cases, communicating root causes and fixes to technical colleagues and customer-facing staff. LEADERSHIP, AWARDS & RECOGNITION Recognized by a customer leadership team in 2023 for clear architecture guidance during a multi-application migration. Received a 2019 client delivery commendation for creating reusable migration planning materials adopted across several engagements. Mentored early-career architects through design reviews and customer presentation practice at Summit Harbor Digital. EDUCATION Bachelor of Science in Computer Science University of Iowa 2009 Iowa City, IA CERTIFICATIONS AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional 2018 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional 2024 AWS Certified Security – Specialty 2020 TECHNICAL SKILLS Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform AWS Compute: Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS AWS Storage: Amazon S3, Amazon EBS, Amazon EFS AWS Networking: Amazon VPC, AWS Direct Connect, Amazon Route 53 AWS Security: AWS IAM, AWS KMS, AWS WAF Monitoring: Amazon CloudWatch, AWS CloudTrail, AWS Config Infrastructure as Code: AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, AWS CDK Containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS Databases: Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Aurora Development Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript Web Technologies: REST, HTTP, JSON SKILLS AWS cloud architecture Enterprise migration Application architecture System design Cloud adoption strategy Infrastructure consulting Security architecture Technical trade-offs Customer education Executive communication Consensus building Requirements gathering Customer advocacy Reference designs Product collaboration PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Member, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), participating in a professional community focused on computing practice and technology. Member, Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), engaging with an industry community focused on cloud security guidance and knowledge sharing.

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