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<h1>Hi, I'm <span class="greetings-emphasis">Zachary.</span></h1>
<h2>Chief Technology Officer</h2>
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Technologist / Leader / Maven / Architect / Engineer / Solver of
Problems / Adventure Enthusiast
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<h3><span class="dot">.</span>About Me</h3>
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My leadership style is that of a transformational leader. I have a
unique perspective on the interplay of technology and business from
both the breadth and depth of my body of work. That work spanned
varying organization sizes and industry types. I began working with my
previous two organizations while they were in the startup phase. Each
company was a managed service provider or MSP. While there, I worked
with established organizations ranging from 50+ employees to 6000+
employees. I've worked with enormous healthcare organizations, tiny
financial institutions, technology firms, hospitality organizations,
construction, and enormous financial institutions. This perspective
has given me an understanding of the evolution an organization goes
through in its lifetime. This experience has helped me to hone in and
focus on what matters most for each organization, in both the present
and future, by leveraging design thinking principles. <br /><br />
Most recently, I have had the privilege of working with a fantastic
leadership team at Think|Stack and at Sandia Laboratory FCU. A pivotal
person on the Think|Stack team and in my career has been Chris Sachse,
CEO at Think|Stack. Chris is a forward thinker when it comes to
innovation in business, design thinking, and putting people first.
I've learned a lot about how to be a better leader through Chris.
<br /><br />
You'll find that I enjoy amping up my team both behind the scenes and
publicly. Whether that be taking the time to explore the team's
hobbies with them, hosting a session of D&D, an escape room happy
hour, or making sure our customers know the impact each individual
team member is having for them. I come from a history of playing team
sports. Sports taught me the value in lifting up those around you. The
power of confidence and positive thinking in any one member of a team
can spread like wildfire and allow for impressive feats, previously
thought impossible. In that same way, failure is something a team
bears the burden of together. A single play may have been what sticks
in one's memories, but it was the team that brought that play to be.
Even in that case, failure is merely a learning opportunity put forth
right in front of your eyes. A guidepost pointing you and the team
towards continuous improvement.
<br /><br />
Interestingly, I'm just as comfortable delivering a presentation to a
board as I am rolling up my sleeves writing code behind the scenes. I
never stray too far from my roots as a network engineer: doodling a
topology diagram on whiteboard, organizing thoughts and ideas on my
tablet, and unpacking the nitty gritty details of a technology. By
putting a piece of technology within my hands I can turn it around and
view it from all angles. Doing so helps me to understand how it can be
placed within a larger system.
<br /><br />
In many ways I'm like a star in the galaxy. I naturally pull a strong
team together around me. To me, the best experience is working with a
team who builds things together. Hands on, constantly improving
everything we touch.
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<h3><span class="dot">.</span>My Technology Philosophy</h3>
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<h4>Technology Should Simplify</h4>
<p>
Technology should make our lives simpler, not harder. People follow
the path of least resistance, and that means complexity or difficulty
leads to ineffective technology. Don't settle for technology that
solves one problem but creates another. Utilize the right technology
to create efficiency and simplicity.
</p>
<h4>Transparent Engineering</h4>
<p>
Technology should be well-documented and communicated to describe how
it works. The most utilized technologies are those which are plainly
written, diagrammed, and described. Doing so allows others to use the
technology as a building block.
</p>
<h4>Security As A Foundation</h4>
<p>
Security must be so interwoven into the technology that it is
indiscernible from the technology itself. It should be a cornerstone
of good technology and the foundation for everything thereafter.
</p>
<h4>Productivity Through Automation</h4>
<p>
Automation of the mundane and the boring solves problems and common
mistakes such as typos or entering data into the wrong field. It
allows people to focus on higher-level projects, innovation, and
growth.
</p>
<h4>Redundant and Resilient</h4>
<p>
Technology should be built for failure. Failure can exist at every
level and when the design or engineering of a technology accounts for
failure that allows for continuity.
</p>
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<h3><span class="dot">.</span>Experience</h3>
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<h4 class="experience-date-header">April 2024 - Present</h4>
<p class="experience-title">SVP, Technology</p>
<p class="experience-company">
Sunward, formerly Sandia Laboratory FCU
</p>
<p class="experience-summary">
Technology visionary, strategist, and leader. My role oversees
technology and cybersecurity within the organization. My goal is to
enable and protect the organization through technology by aligning
the technology to organizational goals. My team translates ideas and
goals into execution by bringing together the right people,
processes, and technology.
</p>
</div>
<div class="experience-content">
<h4 class="experience-date-header">September 2023 - April 2024</h4>
<p class="experience-title">Interim Chief Technology Officer</p>
<p class="experience-company">
Sunward, formerly Sandia Laboratory FCU
</p>
<p class="experience-summary">
Technology visionary, strategist, and leader. With a new leadership
team, Sunward was going through a transition phase rebuilding their
culture and vision. My role was to rebuild the culture, stabalize
the technology, and move into the modern era where technology
platforms enable the business.
</p>
</div>
<div class="experience-content">
<h4 class="experience-date-header">April 2023 - Present</h4>
<p class="experience-title">Founder</p>
<p class="experience-company">Octo Ventures</p>
<p class="experience-summary">
I founded this company to explore technology contracts while my
partner and I traveled the country in our Airstream. This has been
my proof of concept testing grounds for new ideas and exploring new
directions.
</p>
</div>
<div class="experience-content">
<h4 class="experience-date-header">April 2023 - September 2023</h4>
<p class="experience-title">Sr Director of Strategic Technology</p>
<p class="experience-company">Govplace</p>
<p class="experience-summary">
An organization trying to reinvent itself with new leadership and a
new direction. My role was to provide vision, strategy, and
experience in technology.
</p>
</div>
<div class="experience-content">
<h4 class="experience-date-header">2018 - April 2023</h4>
<p class="experience-title">Chief Technology Officer</p>
<p class="experience-company">Think|Stack</p>
<p class="experience-summary">
Technical visionary, strategist, and team leader. I built the
services and projects we sold to our customers with an eye towards
common sense and putting myself in the shoes of our customers. My
focus was on understanding problems in order to design and build out
solutions that could be implemented by a team which included our
engineers and our customer's technical team(s).
</p>
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<div class="experience-content">
<h4 class="experience-date-header">2016 - 2018</h4>
<p class="experience-title">VP of Architecture</p>
<p>Think|Stack</p>
<p class="experience-summary">
Built out a project team in my first year in order to expand
projects offered. Turned my focus to designing and building out a
cloud practice, specifically with AWS and Microsoft 365 centered
around a DevSecOps framework to support scalable, flexible, and
secure projects and management of cloud environments. Wrote over
25,000 lines of terraform code to automate and standardize projects.
Took over the sales team technical engagements, quoting, and
approval process for jobs going to our customers.
</p>
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<h4 class="experience-date-header">2008 - 2015</h4>
<p class="experience-title">
Senior Network Engineer & Systems Engineer
</p>
<p>RedZone Technologies</p>
<p class="experience-summary">
Oversaw all networking projects within my first three months while
self-teaching with CCNA courses. Focused on learning from the
strongest senior engineers and quickly took lead on all projects
assigned to me. Was the primary senior network and virtualization
engineer after proving myself with <strong>200+</strong> network
implementation projects and <strong>100+</strong> virtualization
implementation projects.
</p>
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<h4 class="experience-date-header">2006 - 2008</h4>
<p class="experience-title">Helpdesk Technician</p>
<p>DRAW Enterprises</p>
<p class="experience-summary">
Honed my technical skills and quickly showed aptitude to manage
servers and key environment components such as: citrix, network
devices, servers, and firewalls.
</p>
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<h3><span class="dot">.</span>Accolades & Highlights</h3>
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<h4>Highlights</h4>
<p>
It's difficult to cover the breadth and depth of my last 18 years in
such a small snapshot. Instead, I'll try and cover some highlights
which I'm especially proud of.
</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>
Oversaw a major acquisition and the largest Sunward had ever had.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Our team won a AWS 2022 & 2021 NPO Partner Of The Year award.
I was pivotal in the vision, strategy, and execution of making
this come to be.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Architected scalable web application for major power company in
the United States. Required scaling from 10,000 concurrent users
on average to >4 million concurrent users.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
First organization and project to migrate >90% of credit union
servers and core provider to AWS public cloud.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Built a cloud backup product SaaS platform utilizing python and
AWS serverless technology: Python, Lambda, SQS, and SNS.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Built out >98% of all terraform modules, 50,000+ lines of
code, which are leveraged in projects and managed services
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Led incident response and recovery for 7 major ransomware events,
including a major healthcare provider and major financial
institution. Required migration of all services to the cloud in
order to preserve forensics and speed recovery in parallel.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Led and participated in design thinking sessions with
organizations helping them to identify pain points, resolutions,
and revolutionize their whole business in a new trajectory.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Built the annual technology budget for 20+ financial intitutions
for many years.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
Built the 1, 3, and 5 year technology strategy for 20+ financial
institutions for many years.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>
And most importantly, watched my team grow from individual young
engineers into a tight-knit team of strong senior engineers and
leaders.
</p>
</li>
</ul>
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<h3><span class="dot">.</span>Skills</h3>
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<h5 class="skill">
Architecture & Design
<span>98%</span>
</h5>
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<h5 class="skill">
Leadership
<span>95%</span>
</h5>
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<meter min="0" max="100" value="93"></meter>
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<h5 class="skill">
Technology Strategy
<span>95%</span>
</h5>
<div class="meter">
<meter min="0" max="100" value="95"></meter>
</div>
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<h5 class="skill">
Cloud
<span>98%</span>
</h5>
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<meter min="0" max="100" value="98"></meter>
</div>
<!-- DevSecOps/Platform Engineering -->
<h5 class="skill">
DevSecOps/Platform Engineering
<span>94%</span>
</h5>
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<meter min="0" max="100" value="88"></meter>
</div>
<h5 class="skill">
Cybersecurity
<span>85%</span>
</h5>
<div class="meter">
<meter min="0" max="100" value="85"></meter>
</div>
<!-- Networking -->
<h5 class="skill">
Networking
<span>95%</span>
</h5>
<div class="meter">
<meter min="0" max="100" value="95"></meter>
</div>
<!-- Virtualization -->
<h5 class="skill">
Virtualization
<span>95%</span>
</h5>
<div class="meter">
<meter min="0" max="100" value="95"></meter>
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<!-- Programming -->
<h5 class="skill">
Programming
<span>78%</span>
</h5>
<div class="meter">
<meter min="0" max="100" value="70"></meter>
</div>
</div>
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<h3><span class="dot">.</span>Education &<br />Certifications</h3>
</div>
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<ul>
<li>
AWS Solutions Architect - Professional | 2025 & 2022 & 2019
</li>
<li>
AWS Solutions Architect - Associate | 2025 & 2022 & 2019
</li>
<li>Conscious Leadership Program | 2023 - 2025</li>
<li>Next Generation Leaders Program | 2016 - 2017</li>
<li>
VMware Certified Professional - Data Center Virtualization | 2009
& 2013
</li>
<li>CCNP (previously held) | 2012</li>
<li>CCNA (previously held) | 2010</li>
<li>DeVry University | 2005 - 2006</li>
</ul>
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src="./media/images/ts_zachary_team_building.jpg"
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<img
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src="./media/images/ts_zachary_aws_speaking.jpeg"
alt="Zachary Hill speaking at AWS re:invent 2022"
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src="./media/images/xita_fishing.jpg"
alt="Xita, a dog, in a boat at sunset on a lake on Ontario Canada."
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class="photo"
src="./media/images/2022_aws_partner_of_the_year.jpg"
alt="2022 AWS Partner of the Year trophy sitting on a table."
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<img
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src="./media/images/zachary_backpacking.jpg"
alt="Zachary Hill backpacking in the mountains of Tahoe National Forest."
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class="photo"
src="./media/images/ts_zachary_volunteering.jpg"
alt="Zachary Hill volunteering at a local food bank."
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alt="Xita, a dog, hiking in the mountains of New Mexico."
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