Meet the Executive Advisory Team
The state and local government and education market segments are critical paths for unprecedented transformation. They are met with changing business models, cost reduction pressure, and increasing cybersecurity threats. And, there is increasing need for data transparency and constituent and student engagement. The Amazon Web Services (AWS) public sector executive advisory team is experienced when it comes to understanding these environments and market transitions impacting their industries.
About the advisors
Our executive advisors strive to help AWS customers achieve their business outcomes by leveraging the richness of the cloud computing platform to drive the right business solutions, enable the technology ecosystem supporting government, and address changing industry needs.
Our advisors support and guide government and education leaders to think strategically and analytically about their business, product, and technical challenges. The advisory team encourages these leaders to build and convey compelling value propositions and to see the value of working cross-organizationally to shape consensus.
As an Executive Government Advisor, Laura works with state and local government executives to plan large and complex digital transformation programs, course correct existing programs and modernize their existing IT portfolio while minimizing business disruption.
As an Executive Government Advisor, Jayson works with state and local government executives and agency leaders to identify modern technology solutions to longstanding challenges in governmental operations. Jayson’s areas of focus and expertise are city and county government, public safety, cybersecurity, and performance management.
As an Executive Education Advisor, Mark works with higher education executives and line-of-business leaders to understand how cloud technologies can enable digital transformation efforts around the effective use of data and analytics.
As an Executive Government Advisor, Danielle helps public sector customers understand how to procure and contract for cloud technology solutions. Prior to joining AWS Danielle spent over 20 years in public sector procurement including higher education and local government.
As an Executive Government Advisor, Morgan works with senior leaders from public sector organizations and their partners to share real-world examples of innovation in government, and develop strategies for modernizing citizen services with the cloud.
As an executive government advisor, Carlos is a public sector data practice subject matter expert who specializes in helping organizations leverage data to make informed, actionable decisions. He also works with Chief Data Officers, Geospatial Information Officers, and other data leaders to develop mission-driven data programs.
As an Executive Government Advisor, Maria specializes in helping customers establish a security first baseline within their environments. Maria works with security and technology leadership for customers, identifying trends, best practices, and assisting them in developing holistic security strategies.
Featured resources
Digital equity: Building an inclusive government that works for all
As digital interactions become central to everyday activities and serve as our primary doorway to information, services, employment opportunities, civic participation and more — digital equity becomes an issue of fundamental fairness for all Americans.
Making meaningful gains in digital equity is vital today, and it’s pivotal to the nation’s future. This thought leadership paper focuses on how governments can create more diverse talent pipelines that will fuel stronger opportunities for all constituents in the years to come.
Best Practice Guide for Cloud and As-a-service Procurement
There are trends sweeping society and the technology marketplace. Cloud-based services are commercially proven and cloud solutions are becoming the platform of choice for an ever growing number of technology-enabled government programs and services.
But it is a complex endeavor to procure solutions as government organizations make plans to migrate to or build new applications on cloud-based platforms.
This Best Practice Guide is a collaborative effort between government IT and security leaders, risk management and procurement professionals, legal counsel, and cloud service providers.
Using data for student success in higher education
Higher education institutions’ main priority is to equip students with solid foundational knowledge and skills to help them succeed in life. The Center for Digital Education (CDE) and AWS brought together IT leaders in a virtual workshop to discuss new and existing data sources that can help support their success.
“Students and their needs are getting more complex and challenging,” said AWS executive education advisor Mark Hampton, who participated in the session. “If we start thinking about them and work backwards, we’ll quickly see data will be a part of the path to giving students the best experience.”