Josh Payne

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About Josh Payne

My motto: Agere Melius - Do Better (just a little bit, every day) Practical, detail oriented achiever and fixer in enterprise business settings. I derive tremendous satisfaction when I help clean up hard problems that are technical business challenges. I broker, consult, coach, align, negotiate, manage and execute on corporate revenue/profit initiatives driving value through technology adoption at scale. Coming from Industry 4.0/ Smart Manufacturing consulting within Manufacturing and Industrial Operations Technology (OT) I am now focused on IT infrastructure operations and helping customers navigate modernization by making cloud invisible.* managing technology debt across legacy applications and infrastructure.* managing life cycles of IT assets (budgeting, licensing, technical inter-operability)- compute, storage, networking, virtualization, performance optimization, monitoring, securing,* managing growing cyber security challenges and ever increasing attack vectors * addressing operational efficiency -'more with less' through automation and orchestration that is low burden, fast, simple * addressing speed of business requirements against architectural vendor solution lock, enabling business flexibility to run anything, anywhere, through a business model that suits (Cap/Op/static/dynamic/consumptive) Significant back ground in healthcare, government, EDU, Manufacturing, FIN-Tech and agri-business/biotech over 20+ yrs. I love working with and for other people - how can I help you! I'm excited by the possibilities of the future, ever an optimist despite how gloomy it feels these days. I thrive in collaborative team environments and being in front of stakeholders with the confidence we can figure out any problem. Let's get to work.