Michael Coates
Michael is a seasoned technology executive, leveraging years of experience with enterprise and integration architectural patterns, executed with healthy doses of business acumen and pragmatism. He is highly adept at addressing business challenges with technology solutions and adds additional value by demonstrating the vision to leverage technology innovations into achievable future business opportunities.
While a serious technologist, Michael has a rich business and sales background, enabling him to translate technology topics into business language for business users. He relates well to all audiences: from the C-Suite to line developers, from sales executives to end users. He has significant experience with social media and the international startup community.
Michael writes cloud business use cases for sales professionals, prescriptive architectural guidance for cloud deployments and analysis patterns for migration of on-premises applications to cloud environments. His vertical experience includes healthcare, software, financial, government, media and hospitality.
Michael is known as a pragmatic evangelist, commenting often about technology innovations and business opportunities on his blog at http://blog.opsan.com and at public and private speaking engagements.
Michael lives in the Seattle area and enjoys bicycling, hiking and urban exploration. He is a seasoned traveler and an active member of Mensa.