Summary
Charlie Grover is an IT leader and AWS-savvy practitioner with over a decade of hands-on experience delivering cloud, infrastructure, and workflow solutions across public sector, enterprise lending, and regulated retail industries. Currently serving as IT Manager at SAS Global and IT Team Lead for the City of Detroit while also acting as CTO for a Michigan cultivation business, he blends strategic leadership with day-to-day ops and project delivery. Skilled in AWS architecture, SCRUM practices, Python and Java, he has a track record of modernizing systems, managing media and asset databases, and coordinating complex connectivity and AV environments. Charlie is comfortable bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders to turn regulatory and business requirements into practical, auditable systems. His background supporting creative teams at scale and running IT in a tightly regulated cannabis operation highlights an uncommon mix of creative-technical support and compliance-focused infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Western Governors University
Associate's degree, Associate's degree at Oakland Community College