Hi, I’m Peter Rizk

Solution Architect and technical strategist with 25 years of enterprise delivery. From pioneering variable digital print at R.R. Donnelley to spearheading Azure‑centric cloud migrations for Fortune 500 retailers, I translate business goals into scalable, resilient platforms and data‑driven growth.

Career Snapshot

  • Principal Architect @ Fortune‑500 Retailer — Cut AEM publish lead‑time 87 % and tripled release cadence by moving to AEM as a Cloud Service on Azure infrastructure.
  • Director of Technology @ Simplify Healthcare — Built an on‑shore centre of excellence and rolled out SAFe across 500+ engineers; migrated analytics estate to Azure Synapse.
  • 22 Years at Accenture — Rose from Java developer to data analytics strategist, leading a $12 M ICD‑10 migration with zero Sev‑1s while modernising on‑prem solutions to Azure PaaS services.

Core Strengths

Cloud Migrations

AEM as a Cloud Service, Azure AKS / App Service, blue‑green CICD in Azure DevOps.

Omnichannel Architecture

Experience & Content Fragments powering web, mobile, kiosks, email.

Data & AI Strategy

Azure OpenAI Service, ML‑driven ROI forecasting, KPI modelling, and cross‑platform data interpretation.

Data Visualization

Power BI Designer, Tableau, Excel Power Pivot—interactive dashboards that turn metrics into decisions.

DevOps Enablement

Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, Terraform IaC, 24×7 observability.

Microsoft Office Expert

All office tools and Excel wizardry

Credentials

  • MBA — DePaul University Kellstadt
  • Computer Engineer — University of Illinois Chicago
  • Leading SAFe®, TOGAF 9, PMP (inactive)
  • Microsoft Certified: DP‑203 (Data Engineer), AZ‑305 (Solution Architect)

My Story

Born in Chicago to Egyptian‑immigrant parents, I grew up bridging cultures—weekends at Coptic Orthodox church events and school days tinkering with computers. I wrote my first BASIC program on a Commodore 64 and have been automating ever since.

After earning a Computer Engineering degree from UIC in 1996, I joined R.R. Donnelley’s digital print lab and helped pioneer on‑demand, variable data printing. Consulting called next: two decades at Accenture solving riddles for government, energy, and healthcare clients, then a Director role at a health‑tech scale‑up.

Outside work I’m a proud dad raising two teenagers in Naperville. We enjoy pickup basketball and solving several escape‑rooms. I run workshops on Power Query, DAX, and macro automation for anyone who still loves data viz and analytics as much as I do. Friends hand me their “tech to‑do” lists whenever I visit, and I still can’t resist a challenge, puzzle, or riddle.

Favourite mantra: “Every repeated action is a script waiting to happen.”

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