Joel Parks

Joel Parks has over 16 years of work experience in various technology-related roles. Joel is currently the Director of Cloud, Site Reliability Engineering, and Release Engineering at Science 37, where they have restructured the Cloud team, improved team efficiency, implemented communication patterns to reduce ticket time, identified cost reductions, recommended tooling changes, and improved incident response time. Before Science 37, Joel served as the CTO/Product Marketing Manager at Appvia, overseeing product design and engineering, solutions architecture, quality management, presales engineering, sales, and marketing. Prior to that, they were the Practice Leader (Application Modernization & DevOps) at RoundTower Technologies, LLC, where they supervised solution offerings, mentored the delivery team, and organized marketing engagements. Joel also worked as an Account Principal at Contino, where they facilitated customer and project success, grew practice sales, and played a crucial role in a key client renewal and the company's acquisition by Cognizant. In addition, they have experience as a Practice Manager at Solinea, a Senior Cloud Architect at Asurion, a Senior Architect at Central Parking Systems, and a Global Infrastructure Manager at Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI). Joel started their career as the Director of IT at OJD Engineering and served as the Department Head of Sound Reinforcement at Belmont University.

Joel Parks has attended Belmont University, although the specific start and end years are not provided. No degree or field of study is mentioned for this period. Additionally, they have obtained several certifications including the Amazon Web Services DevOps Engineer - Professional certification from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in April 2019, the MCP certification from Microsoft in April 2018, and the VSP - VMware Cloud on AWS and VTSP - VMware Cloud on AWS certifications from VMware, although the specific months and years of completion for these two certifications are not provided.