Todd Field

Engaged at Trulieve through Slalom from May to December 2023 to architect a real-time data platform, then joined full time in December 2023 as Engineering Lead. Reports to the Executive Director of Cloud Infrastructure, IT Operations, and Cyber Security. Leads two managers and four teams (10 employees and 5 contractors): e-commerce infrastructure, digital workplace, cloud services, and networking, and manages more than $10M a year in technology vendor and platform spend.

• Licensing & Vendor Strategy (~$0.7M annual cost avoidance): Redesigned the enterprise Microsoft 365 licensing model, avoiding roughly $0.7M in annual cost, and put an automated governance and audit process in place.
• Enterprise AI Strategy & Governance: Authored the company's AI strategy and governance framework (AI risk, cost management, and security controls), and led enablement of Microsoft 365 Copilot and internal AI agents.
• Snowflake Data Platform: Architected the company's Snowflake data platform from concept to production, with AWS and Databricks, starting as a Slalom consultant in 2023. Added Streamlit apps and Cortex AI under role-based access and data masking. A Snowflake real-time streaming pilot cut data latency from 30 minutes to seconds at a fraction of the prior cost.
• Network Modernization: Standardized and automated management of 300+ sites across multiple states.
• Multi-Cloud & E-Commerce Reliability: Designed a centralized AWS network hub with unified traffic inspection and consolidated logging, set up a Cloud Services operating model across AWS, Azure, and GCP, and hardened high-traffic e-commerce delivery.
• Operating Model Redesign: Led a build-vs-buy review of managed IT services and designed the insourcing plan, RACI, and staffing model for the service desk and endpoint teams. The insourcing expanded the team's scope without a new contract and enabled automation.

One of the first three employees of Slalom's Florida market. Reported to a Managing Director. Promoted from Senior Principal to Director and Senior Director to lead the regional Cloud Enablement practice: $10M in team revenue across 13 clients in multiple industries, and technical lead for state and local government.

• Built the Regional Cloud Practice: Recruited, mentored, and led a team that grew to 15 cloud architects and engineers, owning practice strategy, pre-sales, SOWs, estimating, and contracts.
• Multi-Cloud Delivery & Modernization: Executive sponsor and chief architect for flagship accounts across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Led Cloud Center of Excellence setup, landing zones, data center exits, data lake and streaming architectures, and BC/DR strategies.

Joined as Senior Principal Architect and was promoted three times in three years to Vice President. As VP, reported to the CTO and led about 200 staff with three Senior Directors reporting directly, inside a 1,600-person IT organization. Managed a $15M annual budget.

Compliance: HIPAA, PII, SOX. Part of the team that delivered a FedRAMP High service.

• Operational Turnaround (Sr. Principal Architect): Within 6 months of hire, eliminated weekly enterprise email outages and stabilized WAN connectivity across all corporate and contact center locations.
• Corporate Services (Director): Migrated 25,000 users to Office 365, consolidated 78 Active Directory domains into 4 across 3 acquisitions, and deployed enterprise identity management. Technical lead on the Workday rollout.
• Network & Data Center Consolidation (Sr. Director): Took over networking, server engineering, and global data centers. Stabilized the WAN, renegotiated vendor contracts, and stood up a 24/7 enterprise NOC with centralized logging at 10TB/day.
• Cloud-First Transformation (VP): Set up the Cloud Center of Excellence, led the enterprise AWS agreement, retrained data center staff as cloud engineers, managed AWS spend of about $20M a month across 225 clients and environments, migrated 75+ projects, and retired 4,000 data center servers by 2018.
• Pandemic Response: Deployed 25,000 Amazon WorkSpaces as virtual desktops to support the surge in government services, moving contact center agents to secure remote work without service disruption.

Joined as an Enterprise Architect and was promoted to Senior Manager and Director. Reported to the SVP of IT, with an operating budget of $8M a year.

Compliance: HIPAA, PCI, PII, SOX.

• Platform Ownership: Led a team of 12 running identity, messaging, and virtual desktop platforms for 15,000 users.
• IPO Readiness & Public-Company Governance: Led Corporate Services through the transition to a publicly traded company, establishing audit, identity separation, security, and compliance controls.
• M&A Integration: Technical lead for multiple acquisitions, consolidating domains and migrating ~10,000 users across 8 organizations onto one platform, and leading enterprise BC/DR exercises.

Compliance: HIPAA, PCI, PII, SOX.

• Delivered and operated global messaging for ~40,000 mailboxes across 4 sites, including multi-client Exchange virtualized on VMware, archiving, encryption, and high availability.