The finalists for WashingtonExec’s 2024 Pinnacle Awards were announced Sept. 20, and we’ll be highlighting some of them until the event takes place live, in-person Nov. 21.
Next is Chuck Greene, public sector cloud advisor at World Wide Technology, and finalist in the Cloud Executive of the Year, Private Company, category. Here, he talks about recent achievements, shares career advice and more.
What key achievements did you have in 2024?
In 2024, our team was able to move World Wide Technology’s federal cloud readiness engagements into the tangible cloud solution, asset inventor, and security categories. These services are leveraged throughout multiple projects across various Department of Defense domains, including GOV, SIPR, NIPR, and JWCS.
We are proud to now provide application portfolio discovery and dependency (ADDM) outcomes to assist in both pre-cloud readiness assessment and asset inventory. Additionally, my team has enabled WWT’s federal customers to gain a secure view of their application community membership, alleviating the micro-segmentation analysis tasks associated with ADDM. As a result of these new capabilities, we unlocked new cloud benefits for federal agencies that have improved asset discovery, application dependency mapping, secure application communities of interest membership, and configuration drift historicity.
What are your primary focus areas going forward, and why are those so important to the mission?
Looking ahead, my team is focused on enabling WWT’s federal customers to run their cloud at continuous authority to operate speed while adhering to critical Department of Defense and NIST best practices. By achieving platform-level continuous ATO, agencies can increase the initial and ongoing speed of applications’ release cycles. This empowers agencies to accelerate mission-critical outcomes by embracing the speed of industry while applying security and governance principles to the release management pipeline by design.
To help agencies successfully navigate this step in cloud adoption, we deploy tailored cloud solutions that blend proper mission-critical architecture and design analysis with FinOps foundation principles. Distilled into an effective day 2 operations team, these solutions are designed to accelerate adoption and automation while seamlessly merging with the agency’s service management principles of enterprise operations.
What is your best career advice for those who want to follow in your footsteps?
Shoot first to become a player coach within the solutions area of interest. The ability to be both hands-on and consultative starts at the operational level and is anchored through experience in technical leadership, practical project execution, day 2 operations and triage event experience. These opportunities bridge a foundation of hands-on experience with technical leadership and will help to accelerate your career.