William O'Connell
Seattle, WA | (206) 551-5524 | WilliamOConnellPMP@gmail.com | LinkedIn | Resume
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Mechanism Design & Program Governance · AWS SAA CertifiedRegulated Environments · GxP · Cloud · AI Safety

Available: Portfolio Governance · PMO Leadership · Change Management · Enterprise Initiatives · AI Governance · Program Delivery · Regulated Industries

What I do best is build the operating mechanisms that move enterprise delivery from stalled to scalable. 20+ years of enterprise delivery across pharma, financial services, and digital media — anchored by 15 years at Roche/Genentech (8.5 as consultant, 6.5 as Delivery Head FTE), with healthcare roots going back to UCSF HIV InSite in the 1990s. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, currently building production AWS serverless systems with safety guardrails. Available for contract and FTE roles in Seattle and remote.

My discipline: Safety controls and operational rigor are not compliance overhead — they are engineering requirements. That philosophy, developed across GxP-regulated systems where a missed control has patient consequences, applies equally to AI infrastructure where a degraded safety pipeline can be invisible and catastrophic. Two production examples: AI Safety & Guardrails for Enterprise Systems — deterministic guardrails on Amazon Bedrock, 640/640 OQ tests passed — and untangledthinking.org, a privacy-first recovery support tool on AWS serverless where user vulnerability made zero data retention a first-principle design decision. The result: zero unplanned downtime, zero compliance findings, delivery at scale.

Delivery Track Record:$100M+ DC delivery~25 infra projects/year39 reports: 10 FTE + ~30 contractResPlan: overallocations 80% → 10%Colo & vendor delivery