Ekow (Tony) Gyepi-Garbrah

Technical Architecture Delivery Leader | Multi-Cloud & AI Transformation | NextGen Banking | AWS | Azure | GCP | Go-To-Market & Modernization Advisory

Washington DC1.8k followers
Accentureex-Burke & Herbert Bank and Trust Companyex-CGI

Strategic and results oriented professional with over 20 + years of experience in across public and private Sector. Has a proven record of delivery/sales of complex consulting projects across: Strategy, Digital/Analytics, ERP, Merger & Acquisition (M&A).

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Proven record in managing program level engagements with multiple workstreams, and client stakeholders. Brings to the table demonstrated leadership, a proactive approach to problem solving, experience navigating day to day client facing engagements, executive leadership, and thinking outside the box. Often described as a visionary capable of building trust, persuading peers amongst ambiguity, and competing ideas. Capable of hitting the ground running and making an immediate impact contributing to the bottom line.

Career Timeline

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  1. GENTLEMEN'S BRIMJOB
    1. Founder, Chief Creative Of…
      14Y
  2. ACCENTUREJOB
    1. Senior Mgr
      2Y 11M
    2. Northeast America GTM (GTM…
      4Y 8M
    3. People Lead/Career Counselor
      5Y 6M
    4. Tech Arch Delivery Mgr - AWS
      2Y
    5. Information Technology Ass…
      3Y 5M
    6. People Lead/Career Counselor
      5Y 2M
    7. Information Technology Ass…
      5Y 2M
  3. IBMJOB
    1. Senior Consultant
      8Y 8M
    2. Consultant
      1Y
  4. WWW.JAPONICATAFE.COMJOB
    1. Partner Japonica Tafé LLC
      8Y 6M
  5. CGIJOB
    1. Senior Analyst, Corporate…
      2Y 7M
    2. Analyst, Corporate Finance…
      2Y
  6. BURKE & HERBERT BANK AND TRUST COMPANYJOB
    1. Intern
      2Y 6M

Time in market 28Y 4MOpen 5Closed 10Stints 15

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  1. Job: Burke & Herbert Bank and Trust Company — Intern · 1998-06 – 2000-12 · 2y 6mo — Intern Gained cross sectional exposure to Trust/Estate management, Internal Audit, Branch Banking operations and Financial Management services
  2. Job: Gentlemen's Brim LLC — Founder, Chief Creative Officer · 2012-10 – present · 13y 10mo — Chief Creative director on all facets: marketing, sales, public relations, product design, development and manufacturing. Oversee brand, direction, strategy and implementation of collections, extending to men’s fashion, leather goods, accessories, art, digital media and technology. www.gentlemensbrim.com
  3. Job: Accenture — Information Technology Associate Manager - AWS · 2018-06 – 2021-11 · 3y 5mo — Designed, developed, and implemented cloud-based solutions, authored customer-facing publications advocating industry + AWS best practices. Led in design, architecture, implementation and strategy for data analytics, and business intelligence solution (Tableau), and single sig-on (SAML/OKTA) integration. Spearheaded automated testing, test driven development (TDD) (Kitchen-Terraform/Ruby, Terratest/Go), behavior driven development (BDD) (Behave). Develop container based strategy and solutions (Docker, Openshift, Quay) utilized for unit, and automated build deployment (Facebook Buck Build, Thought Machine Please Build, and Make). Support in Use Case, Development, Architecture, and Implem…
  4. Job: Accenture — People Lead/Career Counselor · 2021-04 – present · 5y 4mo — Mentor architects and engineers across levels, focusing on certification, leadership readiness, and career growth. Drive initiatives to strengthen Accenture’s technical community and architecture practice.
  5. Job: CGI — Analyst, Corporate Finance & Accounting (Merger and Acquisition) · 2000-01 – 2002-01 · 2y
  6. Job: Accenture — Tech Arch Delivery Manager - AWS · 2021-11 – 2023-11 · 2y — Directed delivery of cloud-native architectures using Terraform, CDK, EKS, and OpenShift. Guided global engineering teams on CI/CD, observability, and automation. Supported proposal development and solution shaping for cloud modernization initiatives. Maintained close engagement with AWS partner teams to ensure architectural alignment.
  7. Job: www.japonicatafe.com — Partner Japonica Tafé LLC · 2004-06 – 2012-12 · 8y 6mo — Representative and partner of JaponicaTafé.com–an Alexandria, VA e-based company that sells fine, gourmet, whole leaf teas on-line, and retail.
  8. Job: Accenture — Senior Manager · 2023-11 – present · 2y 9mo — As a Technical Architecture Delivery Leader within Accenture’s Amazon Business Group (AABG), I specialize in driving multi-cloud modernization and AI-led transformation across enterprise clients. My work spans AWS, Azure, and GCP, architecting scalable digital ecosystems that integrate core banking, payments, data, and AI platforms. Over the past decade, I’ve led large-scale transformations involving event-driven microservices, API integrations, and DevSecOps modernization. I’ve partnered with global cross-functional teams to deliver NextGen Banking capabilities, including real-time payments, open banking, and digital onboarding, while advancing clients’ cloud-native, data-driven, and regu…
  9. Job: Accenture — People Lead/Career Counselor · 2013-04 – 2018-06 · 5y 2mo — Mentor architects and engineers across levels, focusing on certification, leadership readiness, and career growth. Drive initiatives to strengthen Accenture’s technical community and architecture practice.
  10. Job: CGI — Senior Analyst, Corporate Finance & Accounting (Merger and Acquisition) · 2002-01 – 2004-08 · 2y 7mo — Supported $300 million IT Consultancy merger and acquisition. Led in process transformation communicating gaps, and recommending areas of improvement. Developed internal system evaluating business processes/practices enabling employees to cope w/ uncertainty and change across three successful mergers and acquisitions of consulting firms. Analyzed best practice devising plan of action for process transformation and integration of a financial management system. Implemented change management initiative impacting 1500+ users of travel management and accounting solution. Supported $150 million merger and acquisition of technology consulting firm. Led day-to-day management, due diligence, finan…
  11. Job: Accenture — Information Technology Associate Manager - Federal · 2013-04 – 2018-06 · 5y 2mo — Spearheaded architecture, design, development, integration/implementation of open source technology across platforms Cloud Platforms: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and VM Ware, enterprise resource planning (ERP) (Oracle Financials, CGI Momentum, Siebel) - Tasks, Source, Document management (Atlassian: Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence) - Dependency, Binary artifact management (Artifactory, ANT. Maven) - Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (CloudFormation, Terraform) - Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline tools (Jenkins, Build Forge) - Experience in Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, shell scripting (BASH), PHP, curl, REST, JSON, YAML, Java - Artificial Intelligence/Machine lear…
  12. Job: IBM — Consultant · 2004-08 – 2005-08 · 1y
  13. Job: Accenture — Northeast America Go To Market (GTM) Development Technical Architect · 2022-02 – present · 4y 6mo — Serves as a Go-To-Market Technical Architect across multiple industries, leading architecture design, proposal development, and solution validation for enterprise-scale transformations. Key Achievements: • Supported 40+ major enterprise pursuits across financial services, technology, healthcare, manufacturing, and utilities. • Developed reusable technical frameworks for cloud migration, data analytics, and AI/ML modernization adopted across global accounts. • Co-authored multi-billion-dollar proposal responses and technical RFP packages for enterprise modernization initiatives. • Partnered with cloud ecosystem teams to build industry-specific accelerators and solution assets supporting sal…
  14. Job: IBM — Senior Consultant · 2004-08 – 2013-04 · 8y 8mo — Streamlined business applications utilized on a $50+ million financial system engagement in support of defense intelligence agencies strategic goals of: improved financial management, operational efficiency, performance, and compliance Re-aligned business functions on transformation initiative through evaluation/benchmarking of processes. Successfully customized, implemented, and administered change/configuration/requirements solutions reducing labor cost $600,000, saving client $1.4 million and optimizing performance 35% across development Spearheaded the transformation of time intensive manual process for tracking technology defects, and its transition to an on-demand/collaborative proc…
  15. School: George Mason University — B.S. (Double Major), 1. Finance 2. Management Info. Systems

Skills

Cloud-Native ArchitectureDevOps EngineeringAnsibleAI Chatbot DesignAWS ArchitectureCloud Native DevelopmentIaC AutomationOpenShiftTerraformCDKDevOps LeadershipEvent-Driven DesignAI/ML EnablementAWS LambdaAWS SageMakerCloud SecuritySAMLOKTANatural Language Processing (NLP)Kubernetes

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