Nancy Tickle

Experience

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  Chesterfield County

  Jan 1990 - Jun 2022

  Senior IT Manager and Enterprise Cloud Architect focused on cloud-first and innovative approaches to solving local government challenges. Delivering results using Microsoft Azure cloud offerings for data management, data analytics, machine learning, application development, and GIS (geographic information systems) platforms. Partners and communicates with executive to staff level personnel across the county enterprise through strategic initiatives and agile project management practices. Supervise three managers and oversee twenty-four staff members on the Data & Analytics, Geographic Information Systems, and Application Development teams. Build trusted relationships with county executives, departmental leaders, vendors, business experts, and technical staff members. Collaborate on strategic planning and organizational change initiatives, career development plans, annual budget management and forecasting, and portfolio management for system modernization and emerging technology enablement. Responsible for Azure budget forecasting, cost management and bill reconciliation. Created a vision and wrote the initial business case for technology investment for data analytics and business intelligence needs through the county's capital improvement program. Responsible for annual budget forecasting, project planning, vendor engagement, technology enablement for the continuous growth of the Chesterfield County Enterprise StratIS (Strategic Information Sharing) program. Results have included public dashboards and maps, a growing data estate and five-year forecasts for schools, fire, and population. Manage and monitor a diverse portfolio of enterprise and business software projects and technical assets across a multi-landscape hybrid cloud environment. Drive resource commitments, agile processes, team collaboration, and business outcomes. Show less

  • Enterprise Architecture Manager

    Feb 2013 - Jun 2022

  • Enterprise Services Manager

    Mar 2010 - Feb 2013

  • Software Architect

    Apr 2008 - Mar 2010

  • Systems Analyst

    Jan 1999 - Nov 2009

  • Lead Programmer Analyst

    Jan 1990 - Jan 1999
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  ECPI College of Technology

  Aug 2009 - Aug 2010

  Adjunct Faculty
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  Virginia Commonwealth University

  Aug 2010 - May 2019

  Adjunct Faculty

  Taught Information Systems Planning and Project Management, Information Engineering (Enterprise Architecture) and Business Process Engineering to Undergraduate Information Systems students. Previously taught Intermediate Programming using Visual Studio C# 2010.

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  EPIC Tech Advisors

  Jan 2024 - now

  Chief Technology Officer

  Counsel, collaborate, and create business strategies and technical solutions with a data-driven, cloud-first mindset.

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  Virginia Commonwealth University

  Aug 2024 - now

  Adjunct Faculty Instructor

  Mentoring and sharing technical and leadership expertise to future business leaders. Current course covers all disciplines of Information Systems Technology that I am delivering in an Enterprise Architecture top-down approach.