Carina Reyes
Verified Expert in Management Consulting
Management Consulting Expert
Dallas, TX, United States
Toptal member since September 2, 2025
Carina is a strategic executive with 25+ years of success transforming enterprise technology environments. Strategically focused on applying generative AI to content, developer experience, and intelligent automation, she has headed high-impact cloud and platform transformations across Fortune 100 and retail organizations. Carina is adept at building inclusive, high-performing teams and delivering user-centered innovation through DevOps, product operations, and modern platform engineering.
Career Highlights
Education Highlights
Case Studies
From Ransomware Recovery to Cloud-ready Resiliency
Expertise
- Azure
- B2B
- Change Leadership
- Cloud
- FinOps
- IT Strategy
- Leadership
- Technology Consulting
Work Experience
Vice President, Cloud COE and Platform Engineering
Albertsons, Inc.
- Oversaw the cloud transformation investments of a $74 billion company to the public cloud. Envisioned and delivered the cloud strategic roadmap and cloud governance. Closed down two data centers and moved 100% DC apps to the cloud.
- Partnered with business and IT leaders to define AI goals and prepare the AI platforms. Achieved value-driven impact on developer experience, resulting in speed to market for digital shopping revenue growth.
- Spearheaded the cloud platform services. Achieved the highest level of resiliency for the core platforms through the cloud providers' availability zones, multi-region setup, and performance hubs.
- Partnered with product leaders to move to cloud native capabilities to fully realize the elastic value of cloud.
Executive Director
Ernst & Young
- Served as a strategic advisor on digital transformation across all business functions. Defined strategy on cloud transformation and application disposition, as well as on placing value on cloud, resilient designs, and security.
- Defined a change strategy to transition to Agile and DevSecOps model, including application and cybersecurity modernization to cloud native options. Transitioned to product operating model and platform engineering.
- Acted as an engagement delivery leader for technology transformations. Led the strategic program management for cloud transformation for a Fortune 500 company.
SVP, Managing Director
JLL Technologies
- Advised CRE executives on real estate and workplace technology strategy and roadmaps, data transformation, and BI analytics that yield outcomes that reduce occupancy costs, attract/retain employees, and improve employee productivity.
- Delivered proven solutions for workplace experience, smart buildings (IOT), integrated workplace management systems, CRE point solutions, data governance, and workplace BI analytics.
- Achieved process efficiencies through a technology transformation focusing on data analytics.
Vice President, Solution Delivery
Xerox
- Set vision, strategy, and execution for the workplace practice collaboratively with sales and product executive teams for the US enterprise division with annual revenue of $1 billion.
- Developed a three-year transformational strategy and roadmap. Collaborated with the sales organization to transform it to a solution-led approach, leveraging internal and partner products.
- Transformed the solution architecture team. Led senior leaders to drive best practices and standards for increasing new business and renewals, as well as solid solution execution.
Director of IT Delivery
Cisco
- Provided executive leadership to the program management, operations, and architecture teams to deliver best practices around network, data center, mobility, collaboration, video, and IT managed services.
- Delivered the telepresence, network optimization, and WAN transformation to Fortune 500. Elevated company brand: "Best Place to Work" rankings rose from 20th to 6th place in 2008.
- Transitioned our business model to a subscription-based model, resulting in $12 million per year cost recovery for IT, and became the bar and role model for future IT services.
- Served as a turnaround IT program director for three programs, achieving the highest CSAT on remote work solutions, messaging migration, and service management. Pioneered a subscription model.
Education
Master's Degree in Information Technology and Cybersecurity
Florida Institute of Technology - Melbourne, Fl, USA
Bachelor's Degree in Organizational Psychology and English
Brigham Young University - Provo, UT, USA
Certifications
Strategic Cost Management
SMU
Strategic Program Leadership
Stanford Executive Education
ITIL 3.0
ITIL
Skills
Finance
Budget Controls
Other
Leadership, Change Leadership, IT Strategy, IT Operations Management (ITOM), FinOps, Technology Consulting, Delivery Management, Microsoft 365, Cloud, B2B, Executive Consulting, Strategic Planning, Operations Improvement, Business & Digital Transformation, Azure, Automation, Annual Budgets, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Oracle Cloud, Budget Modeling, Google Cloud, Program Design, Organizational Design, Information Science, Information Technology, Cybersecurity
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