Richard Saunders
About Richard Saunders
Richard Saunders is the Senior Director of Cloud, Site Reliability Engineering, and Transformation Office at Massmutual Financial Group, with extensive experience in IT infrastructure, process improvement, and leadership.
Company
Richard Saunders is currently working at Massmutual Financial Group in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States. His roles at the company include Senior Director - Cloud, Site Reliability Engineering and Transformation Office, Hosting Product Owner and Senior Director of Hosting Services, and Director of Cloud and Digital Infrastructure.
Title
Richard Saunders holds the position of Senior Director - Cloud, Site Reliability Engineering and Transformation Office at Massmutual Financial Group.
Education and Expertise
Richard Saunders studied at Montclair State University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology. He holds ITIL v3 and ITIL v3 CSI certifications and is certified in Lean Six Sigma. His expertise includes high-performance computing, batch scheduling architecture, process improvement, and automation.
Professional Background
Richard Saunders has a rich professional background that includes several key roles at Massmutual Financial Group. These roles span from Systems Specialist and Systems Technical Consultant to Director positions in various departments. Before Massmutual, he worked at Thomson Reuters as a Systems Analyst and Pf Labs as a Quality Control Consultant. He has also held the position of Business Director at Msa Behavioral Services.
Leadership in Transformation and Optimization
Since December 2018, Richard Saunders has been leading the transformation of legacy application infrastructure to modern deployment patterns. He is responsible for driving the optimization of cloud-related expenditures for both Azure and AWS. Additionally, he develops and implements repeatable automated patterns to support infrastructure deployment.