Pluralsight

The lack of cloud skills is costing enterprises valuable time and money — it's the largest barrier to a successful digital transformation. That's why A Cloud Guru is still on a mission to teach the world to cloud as we advance the world's technology workforce with Pluralsight.

Pluralsight partners with leaders of enterprises worldwide to overcome the skills gap challenge and accelerate the ROI of cloud computing. How? We offer enterprises a modern skills development platform combined with a full suite of end-to-end solutions aimed at delivering outcomes empowered by people. 

Unleash the greatness of your workforce.

Chief Cloud Strategist

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

The AWS Heroes program recognizes a select worldwide group of AWS experts whose enthusiasm for knowledge-sharing has a real impact within the community.

AWS Community Hero

A Cloud Guru

A Cloud Guru was founded to “teach the world to cloud” and close the technology skills gap by democratizing access to technical education. Drew joined the early-stage bootstrapped startup in 2017 to scale their content and features to enterprise customers. 

A Cloud Guru built the world’s most comprehensive, hands-on, and effective SaaS platform for cloud learning which enabled 2.5 million learners and over 4,500 organizations. A Cloud Guru was acquired by Pluralsight in 2021 to create the most comprehensive solution for driving cloud maturity at scale.

At Pluralsight, Drew continues to advise business and technology executives on digital transformation strategies to accelerate their cloud adoption. He consults with strategic customers on leadership practices that foster large-scale earning communities to create a sustainable transition to the new operating model of cloud computing.

A Cloud Guru, Senior Vice President

Capital One

Cloud Engineering leader on Capital One's Cloud Migration Program. Delivered the foundational engineering and operational solutions that enabled the enterprise adoption and migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS).  

To enable a scalable and sustainable transition to cloud computing, founded Capital One's cloud engineering college to accelerate an enterprise-wide talent transformation. As the Dean of Cloud Computing, earned a patent for measuring cloud adoption and pioneered the intersection of strategy, governance, engineering, agile, and cloud education.

Director of Cloud Engineering | Dean of Cloud Computing

Director of Enterprise Release Engineering providing services to each of Capital One's technology divisions.  Implemented highly agile release practices focused on the flawless execution of daily operations.  Oriented team toward enabling the flow of delivery of development teams through the automation of processes and elimination of waste.

Director of Enterprise Release Engineering

Hands-on experience managing complex, scalable, and high-performance data centric architecture. Demonstrated skills required to implement and sustain well-managed operational IT services including business continuity, service levels, problem management, capacity management, performance management and complex infrastructure upgrades.

Senior Member Of Technical Staff

Hughes Aircraft Co

Member of the technical staff in an engineering laboratory responsible for the system design and prototype development to enable large-scale satellite image archive and retrieval applications.  The labs efforts were awarded multiple contracts including NASA's major capability for managing earth science data (EOSDIS) and the Defense Mapping Agency's Controlled Image Base (CIB) used to support crisis planning and control.  SSBI and DoD Secret Clearance

Publications			
Mehring, J., Thomas, S., Firment, D., "ATM Performance Measurements for Image Archive and Retrieval Applications", Proceedings of the High Performance Computing Symposium, Phoenix, April 9-13, 1995, pp.411-417.

Systems Engineer

I drive scalable and sustainable transitions to cloud computing though skills development.

Things I've Done:
* enterprise-grade platforms & programs
* director of AWS cloud ops & engineering 
* migrated early AWS adopters into prod
* founded Capital One's Cloud College 
* patent for measuring AWS adoption
* recognized as AWS Community Hero 

Things I Do:
* advise execs on cloud transformation 
* accelerate enterprise cloud adoption
* migrate talent to the cloud at scale 
* foster sustainable learning communities 
* build strategic partnerships & channels 
* on a mission to teach the world to cloud

The most important part of your organization’s transition to the cloud is the transformation of your talent.

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