Summary
Roger Cass is a Chief Cloud Architect with 18 years of hands-on experience shaping enterprise cloud and integration strategies for research labs, insurers, and healthcare organizations. He specializes in translating complex research and business needs into pragmatic cloud adoption blueprints, reference architectures, and CI/CD-driven platforms that accelerate delivery and interoperability across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Roger has led multi-million dollar transformation programs—managing a $30M investment portfolio at Unum—and built enterprise architecture practices from the ground up to balance long-term vision with immediate business value. At PNNL he now catalyzes strategic partnerships between national labs, federal sponsors, and major cloud providers to advance mission-driven research. Trained as an engineer with advanced degrees from Purdue and BYU, he pairs deep technical rigor with proven leadership in governance, security posture, and partner integration. An advisor to lab leadership and the “voice of the customer” for researchers, he brings a rare combination of research-aware cloud strategy and enterprise delivery discipline.
18 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Mechanical Engineering, PhD Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University
MS Civil Engineering, MS Civil Engineering at Brigham Young University
Japanese