Stefan Buchman

Responsible for partnering with AWS' most valuable customers to design cloud architectures utilizing AWS services. Helping customers solve business challenges such as rapidly releasing products/services to the market or building an elastic, scalable, cost optimized applications. Engage with product owners to influence product direction and help customers tap into new markets by utilizing AWS Services. Look for patterns and trends that can be broadly applied across an industry segment or a set of customers that can help accelerate innovation.

• Responsible for the technical strategy for a large Australian telecommunications company.
• C-Suite engagement across organisational strategy, business objectives and establishing a culture of innovation.
• Managing a team of architects looking after company.
• Focusing on 5G and Edge solutions, large-scale application migrations and modernisation of heritage workloads.
• Designing, reviewing and performing Well-Architected assessments on workloads across core business applications.
• Design of world first capability for entertainment customer.
• Development of internal training program for Solution Architects.
• Published project in AWS Samples GitHub

Public Speaking

• AWS Summit Sydney 2020
• AWS Summit Sydney 2019 (Top 10 session)
• AWS Public Sector Summit 2019
• AWS re:Inforce 2019
• AWS re:Invent 2019
• AWS Tech Summit 2018
• AWS Innovate Online 2018

Built Avanade's first Security Practice for Australia. Build from the ground-up focusing on market opportunities, differentiation and core specialties to focus on. Offering clients knowledge and experience and delivering solutions ranging from Information Security Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) and Cloud-focused security solutions.

• Established a team of 8 consultants across the Australian organisation to develop as full-time Security Architects.
• Working with account teams and customers to identify security opportunities and grow security business.
• Running industry insights sessions for customers.
• Mentorship and training of the security team as it developed.
• Focused on solutions delivering results through the use of cloud security design, Identity and Access Management and edge protection.
• Delivered a security framework for a large health-care organisation undergoing a digital transformation.

Architecture, development and implementation of Identity Management solutions, delivering to a broad range of business and technical challenges.

Leading government institutions and private enterprises through complex identity transitions, including to cloud-based solutions. Involving a broad range of technologies across identity, collaboration, customer relationship management and security.

• Helping customers understand and plan for their Identity challenges today and as they march towards distributed cloud models. Working with leaders within organisations to realise the benefits and necessity of Identity and helping to plan for their businesses future success
  
• Designing scalable and secure Identity solutions, catering to to multi-domain architectures including HR, IT and CRM solution sets
  
• Public and hybrid cloud scenarios, including integration with Azure Active Directory as well as federated Identity across a diverse range of cloud-based offerings
  
• Citizen Identity solutions for public and private sector customers
  
• Identity integration with CRM solutions including Dynamics CRM and Dynamics CRM Online
  
• Office 365 and Azure Active Directory solutions, helping customers on-board quickly to Microsoft's SaaS solutions
  
• Creating new capabilities to deliver unique offerings to customers, catering for the most complex integration challenges
  
• Building solutions covering the latest technologies, including: Azure Active Directory, Azure MFA and Federated solutions

Architecture, design and implementation of complex Identity Management solutions across a wide range of diverse companies. Leading teams through complex identity, messaging and security transformations.

• Delivered e-mail migration project for large mining company of roughly 10,000 seats across 3 organisations.
• Delivered Identity and Access Management project as well as e-mail migration project for large services organisation of 50,000 seats
• Developed migration tooling and strategies used across the organisation

• Implemented a new identity management solution across Active Directory forests and SunOne directories and HR databases. Enabled enforcement of SEC legal requirements as well as delivered data feeds to down-level directories. System is responsible for provisioning and de-provisioning of accounts as well as maintaining authorization groups.
• Created a multi-master, multi-domain group management strategy using identity systems.
• Architected and developed a migration strategy and toolset to enable forest separation while maintaining critical identity.