Faculty / Instructor
Jimmy Hayes graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis on Information and Decision Systems. In his free time, he enjoys going for a run, talk and learn about technology, and try different types of beers.
Jimmy Hayes is a technology leader with over 20 years of experience driving infrastructure transformations. He has held numerous roles as Engineer, Manager, Architect, and Director. He has worked for companies to include Viejas.com, ftd.com, proflowers.com, amazon.com, zopt.ai, and Teradata.com. Early in his career he managed data center buildouts. As cloud computing emerged, Jimmy led teams through large-scale migrations to Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services. Outside of CIAT, he’s a Director, WW Cloud Architecture and has direct responsibility supporting AWS, Azure and GCP.
Faculty email address: jhayes@ciat.edu
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