Mike Theis // Technology & Infrastructure Executive
I build modern technology foundations and the teams that run them—turning complex infrastructure, security, cloud, and operations into clearer decisions and measurable business outcomes.
// Selected impact
Results that best represent the scale, range, and business value of the work.
Reset platform strategy, consolidated vendors and security tooling, and cut Priority 1 incidents to fewer than one per month.
Led enterprise modernization programs that produced more than $4M in cumulative customer savings.
Led complex migration programs across enterprise VMware, OpenStack, and public cloud environments.
Directed infrastructure operations and continuity planning across one globally distributed estate.
Express + Bonobos
Platform modernization
Complex change, controlled
// Also in the record
Complex cloud, migration, recovery, and risk programs—including a 27-data-center continuity plan and a 1,000+ server Azure feasibility study.
Led migration of major customer-facing platforms, then managed more than 50 sites across the Americas.
Supported a 9,500-account separation and helped move more than 8,000 collaboration users inside a 60,000+ user environment.
// The work
Broad infrastructure depth, organized around the decision and the outcome—not the org chart.
Every engagement, the same standard.
Target states and roadmaps grounded in service continuity, lifecycle cost, technical debt, and real team capacity.
Cloud, data center, storage, network, identity, and security decisions translated into executable sequences.
Discovery, dependency mapping, wave planning, cutover governance, testing evidence, and stabilization.
Direct assessments of critical systems, failure modes, recovery readiness, controls, and remediation ownership.
Blocked decisions surfaced, provider boundaries clarified, and delivery rebuilt around measurable checkpoints.
Monitoring, standards, runbooks, training, and ownership designed into the work—not left for afterward.
// Experience index
Twenty-five years across retail, utilities, financial services, healthcare, government, consulting, and global infrastructure.
Phoenix Retail (Express + Bonobos)
Leadership / Cost / TransformationIPForge
Platforms / Operations / DeliveryNiSource
Architecture / Modernization / StandardsCenturyLink — Special Projects
Enterprise / Cloud / RecoveryAllen, Wilson & Hughes + selected engagements
Engineering / Separation / Scale// Common questions
High-stakes infrastructure strategy, modernization, migration, program recovery, resilience, or operational handoff where clarity and senior technical judgment will change the outcome.
Yes. The value is the through-line from evidence and architecture to decisions, governance, stabilization, and ownership—not a slide deck handed off at the midpoint.
Absolutely. Work can begin with a focused assessment or architecture decision and expand only when the situation calls for it.
Enterprise cloud and data centers, storage, networks, identity, security, VMware, automation, recovery, regulated controls, and the operating practices around them.
Columbus, Ohio, with experience leading distributed teams and programs across global environments.
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