Bill Vass
Chief Technology Officer, Ex-Amazon, Ex-Sun, Ex-SES at Booz Allen Hamilton
Seattle, Washington, United States
About Bill Vass
Bill Vass is Chief Technology Officer, Ex-Amazon, Ex-Sun, Ex-SES at Booz Allen Hamilton. Location: Seattle, Washington, United States.
Bill Vass is an award-winning technology executive and visionary in the Information Technology, Robotics, and Cyber Security fields. With over 40 years of experience at growing revenue, Bill has held CEO, COO, CIO, CISO, and CTO business leadership positions for both start-ups and Fortune 100 companies, as well as the federal government. Bill is currently the Chief Technology Officer at Booz Allen Hamilton. As chief technology officer and a member of Booz Allen’s leadership team, Bill accelerates solutions that leverage the firm’s deep mission knowledge and leading position in AI, cyber, and software and data-centric capabilities. Bill Vass was Vice President of Engineering at Amazon Web Services. In this role, he led over 63 AWS service teams working on Storage (S3, EFS, FSx, Transfer, DataSync, Storage Gateway, Backup, Snowball), Streaming (Kinesis, MSK..), Messaging (SQS, SNS, MQ..), Monitoring (CloudWatch, Managed Prometheus & Grafana..), Events (EventBridge, StepFunctions,..), Logging, Management Tools (System Manager,..), Auditing (CloudTrail, ..), Software Defined (CloudFormation), Quantum Computing, HPC, IoT, Digital Twin, Robotic, Autonomous Systems, Simulation, GameTech, and Studio Rendering Services. His team ran some of the largest software defined storage, streaming, and IoT system in the world, used by web-based companies, consumer companies, and enterprises. In short, his teams developed and operated the largest software defined storage, streaming, IoT, automated management, and monitoring systems in the world, used by web-based companies, consumer companies, enterprises, and governments. Mr. Vass started his career as a software development engineer in 1980 and has extensive experience developing large-scale commercial Information Technology engineering and business systems solutions for defense system integrators, as well as the oil & gas and ocean engineering industries. Specialties: General Management, Technical product development, Sales, Marketing and PR in the technical sector, Software Development, Business Development and Strategic Planning, Open Source, Cloud, IaaS, PasS, SaaS, DaaS, Cybersecurity, quantum, ML, Robotics, CEO, COO, CTO. CIO.
Skills
Additional experience
VP of Engineering
Amazon Web Services
September 2014 – June 2024
Education
- Senior Executive Leadership, Amazon Senior Leader Series
- Advanced Business Andminstration and Leadership, Sun Executive Leadership Academy