Michael Wheeler
Transformation Architect
Greater Houston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Wheeler is a Transformation Architect with nine years of senior IT and pre-sales leadership experience, currently steering strategic technical transformations at Zscaler after recent Field CTO roles. He combines deep hands-on expertise in SSL decryption, networking, VMware, SANs, identity/SSO, and automation (Python, PowerShell, C#) with a track record of winning complex proof-of-value engagements and mentoring high-performing teams. Michael has driven product and go-to-market vision across vendors and large enterprises, maintaining exceptional PoC/PoV win rates and repeatedly hitting stretched quotas. He’s comfortable translating between highly technical engineers and business stakeholders, having designed multi-site high-availability datacenter and disaster-recovery solutions and automated operational workflows. Not obvious from titles: he repeatedly builds tooling (e.g., a Zscaler PowerShell module and iControl/iRules automation) to make enterprise security and networking operationally predictable. Based in Greater Houston, he blends field CTO strategy with pragmatic systems engineering across cloud, on-prem, and OT/IoT environments.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Pittsburg State University
Github Skills (21)
desktop2
windows2
docker2
branches2
aws-lambda1
amazon-echo1
linux1
python1
amazon-web-services1
alexa-skills-kit1
validation1
docker-desktop1
lambda-functions1
request-validation1
echo1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mwheeler1982/zscaler-powershell
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
mwheeler1982/metadefender-vault
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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