Michael Luckey, MBA

Iterategy

Helping Startups make data-backed decisions to achieve sustainable growth

Founder

RevGenius

RevGenius is a trusted space where curious revenue professionals are collaborating on the future of B2B GTM

Member

Rally Corp

As a Co-Founder and Director of Operations, I had multiple roles and responsibilities; a few of those roles and responsibilities include:

• Led Project Management and Product Management, including managing the product roadmap and development team

• Established and scaled the first defined customer support system and process which led to an average time to first response of under 30 mins for support tickets

• Defined customer onboarding and lifecycle to ensure customer success, support, and the resolution of issues were completed in an efficient and timely manner

• Developed multiple outbound prospecting systems and channels including email and LinkedIn which led to organic growth and a decrease in customer acquisition costs 

• Managed the billing department and bookkeeping, including budgets, financial modeling, and growth forecasting

• Developed and implemented regular reporting of key performance metrics including forecasting, funnel analysis, and pipeline management and optimization

Co-Founder, Operations & Strategy

AARE - Real Estate

As Operations Director, I worked across departments to implement multiple processes and systems. Those systems and processes include:

• Launched a new internal communication system that reduced internal email volume by 50%, increased collaboration with the remote workforce, and created the capacity to handle external communications more efficiently

• Deployed a new project management system that identified potential overlapping initiatives and allowed better allocation of resources

• New CRM was the first standardized pipeline and process, thereby combining data/information from multiple disparate systems into one unified system
             • Dedicated pipeline and defined stages and processes
             • Deployed the first sales and marketing automation system

• Led the process of launching a new online community and learning management system, which allowed a central location for members to access information and engage with other members

Fractional Operations Director

Self-Employed

• Led two separate mobile app development teams simultaneously each developing two separate apps, each with their own iOS and Android versions from concept to listing on both the Apps Store and Google Play Store in under 60 days

• Consulted with clients on new business development opportunities

• Provided expertise for marketing campaigns in progress and planned for future campaigns. Developed promotional budgets and implementation plans  

• Conducted market research and advised on go-to-market plans

Product/Project Manager & Consultant

Markstein Beverage Co. of Sacramento

Served on a leadership team comprised of management staff from each department, tasked with creating an employee training program, business-improvement strategies, and product marketing ideas

Was part of a team that managed over $200,000,000 in sales annually

Leadership Team

Developed and implemented marketing and sales objectives for a portfolio of brands that did over $10 million in sales annually. Contributed expertise to successful product launches by educating the sales force about new products and creating product launch strategies. Participated in determining sales goals, developing budgets, and creating incentives sales representatives

Successful projects included:
• Collaborated with the IT department to develop the company’s first-ever digital pitch book for 200+ products, providing 24x7 access to all company product information via sales reps’ tablet computers. 
• Developed strategies and provided training to aid reps in selling new products for smaller brands not yet well established in the marketplace.
• Developed key account list for craft and import beer portfolio and provided account-level support, focused particularly on creating brand-specific promotions in the accounts.

Products worked with include:
Boston Beer, Sierra Nevada, Firestone Walker, Goose Island, Guinness, Speakeasy, Stella Artois, and many others.

Associate Brand Manager, High-End Brand Portfolio

Performed a similar role to High-End brand position, with a focus on lead generation. Additionally, managed and coordinated a product demonstration team for field marketing events.

Products worked with include: 
Monster Energy, Arizona Iced Teas, Perrier, San Pellegrino, Tampico, Nestle Pure  Life, Arrowhead Mountain Spring Water, Acqua Panna Water, Icelandic Glacial, Activate Drinks, illy issimo.

Non-Alcoholic Sales & Marketing Representative

Designed and implemented schematics for chain, independent grocery and convenience accounts. Partnered extensively with independent store owners to design effective, sales-generating beverage sections.

Category Development

Executed sales objectives through merchandising and maintained product quality control at the account level. Initially completed a 3-month internship by rotating through diverse company departments. Gained first experience with the company while still in high school, working summers as a warehouse helper and delivery helper.

Intern

Donaghy Sales, LLC

While completing my undergraduate degree I worked as part of the Contemporary Marketing Team where I initiated actions to develop and execute marketing plans for adults 21-35 years old. This included account management, field marketing, event planning, and customer engagement. In this position I gained both B2B and B2C experience.

Contemporary Marketing Team

Sales & Marketing Operations Expert | Founder @ Rally Corp

As a co-founder and director of operations and strategy at rallycorp.com, I am passionate about empowering communities and causes to rally and mobilize people to change the world. Our mission is to help purpose-driven leaders get results with mobile technology by providing them with innovative tools such as Text-to-Donate, Text-to-RSVP, Ringless Voicemail, and smart Texting Campaigns through our Rally Platform.

With my background in sales and marketing for top consumer packaged goods brands and an MBA in marketing and international business, I have leveraged my skills to build rallycorp.com from the ground up, serving 6 out of 10 of the world's top non-profits and top US hospital networks. My responsibilities include sales and marketing operations, go-to-market strategy, and deploying sales and marketing analytics and automation, allowing us to automate processes and make educated business decisions.

As a B2B SaaS founder, I understand founders' challenges in balancing growth strategy and execution. I offer my expertise as a fractional sales and marketing operations expert, helping visionary B2B SaaS startup founders optimize their sales growth while reducing cost per lead. My services include robust marketing and sales analytics dashboards, sales automation, and designing and executing projects that align with your business goals.

Outside of work, I believe in doing good while also doing well. I enjoy spending time with my family, exploring the great outdoors through golf, hiking, skiing, and fly fishing, and traveling as much as possible.

Let's connect if you're interested in learning more about rallycorp.com, discussing how I can help your B2B SaaS startup as a fractional sales and marketing operations expert, or simply sharing insights and experiences in the world of purpose-driven business.

Sage

Migrated a construction management platform from Rackspace VMs to Azure Kubernetes with fully automated pipelines, IaC (Terraform, Helm, GitHub Actions, Argo CD), and robust security/monitoring
Created a reusable Helm chart to host multiple Corecon apps via separate values files, centralizing Kubernetes resource definitions.
Developed a comprehensive Terraform module for GitHub organizations, repositories, and teams, enforcing best-practice access controls.
Built Terraform modules and reusable GitHub workflows for Azure infrastructure—covering validation, planning, vulnerability scanning, and deployment.
Implemented reusable CI/CD pipelines for Dockerized Angular and .NET/.NET Core apps, including environment variable handling, matrix builds, secrets management, and security scanning.
Strengthened security under Sage Accelerate by introducing WAF, MFA/SSO, vulnerability scanning, encryption, guardrails, and DoS/API protection.
Established a disaster recovery environment in Central US Azure with geo-replication and minimal capacity, integrated into production pipelines for rapid failover.
Developed, integrated, and managed an internal developer portal with Spotify Backstage and n8n workflows on AWS EKS, streamlining onboarding, automating deployments and operations, and ensuring secure infrastructure via Terraform and Helm.
Optimized cloud expenses by identifying and removing unused or untagged resources. Built Datadog dashboards for cost tracking by APM and implemented alerts for exceeding cost thresholds.
Digitized a risk assessment matrix, unifying six independent scoring domains into an automated scoring platform. Developed a scalable FastAPI microservice using advanced Python techniques, Pydantic validation, and structured API patterns. Enhanced cybersecurity team's capability to manage and analyze risk with precision scoring and real-time analytics.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Cisco

Developed auto remediation go scripts in lambda functions to find and remediate vulnerabilities of publicly exposed AWS S3 buckets, IAM users without MFA, exposed Lambda Secrets and automatically remediate and generate Jira tickets for tracking and alerting resource owners for the vulnerability management program. 
Containerized a Python script using Docker to query the NIST National Vulnerability Database for recent CVE updates for Dell iRAC servers, built and deployed using Docker Compose and a Groovy pipeline in Jenkins.
Managed the vulnerability management program (VMP) using Jira for platform, infrastructure, feature teams to address and fix vulnerabilities in their sprints for application code, dependencies, and docker images.
Performed standby tasks for the Information Security team and helped to answer questions in our public infosec slack channel. Led incoming vulnerability requests for alerts from security systems such as Stealthwatch for bot agents attacking our publicly accessible cloud agent linux boxes around the world. Incoming alerts through our Jira boards from automated alerts for vulnerable infrastructure  and application resources.
Helped to prove a bug crowd entry by proving a vulnerability step in our thousandseyes application installation wizard that didn’t use directory permissions correctly on a windows machine and allowed malicious code to be injected which in this case triggered an infinite blue screen of death whenever the machine restarted after thousandeyes application installation.

DevSecOps Engineer

KPMG US

Created Azure Application Insights, Resource Groups, Azure Virtual Networks, Azure virtual subnets, Vnet peering, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Blob storage, Azure Virtual Machines, Nat gateways, Azure Keyvaults, Log Analytics, Monitoring Alerts, and SSL Certificates, and Azure Kubernetes Services modules using Terraform.
Created AWS VPC, security groups, route tables, network ACLs, NAT gateways, AWS Shield, AWS WAF, AWS Security Center rules/triggers, Lambda functions, IAM users, groups, roles, and policies, Amazon EC2, EC2 Auto Scaling groups, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Transfer Family, Amazon RDS (Postgres), Elastic Container and Elastic Kubernetes clusters in AWS using Terraform modules.
Configured stateful and stateless Kubernetes infrastructure by modifying AKS and EKS clusters for an ecommerce and AI/ML applications using kubernetes manifests, helm, and terraform scripts and azure devops & github actions.
Contributed to stateless k8s infrastructure by promoting configuration changes for storage, configuration, Scheduling, Preemption, and Eviction changes in Dev, QA, UAT, and Prod. environments through a formal change approval process.
Created reusable infrastructure yaml based pipelines in azure devops to validate, plan, scan for vulnerabilities, and apply terraform scripts to Azure and AWS Environments using Azure Devops, Github actions, Terraform, and TFSec.
Used Azure Keyvault, AWS Secrets Manager, and Hashicorp Vault to programmatically retrieve secrets in powershell, python, and terraform scripts using azure devops, and github actions yaml workflows. 
Developed chef cookbooks to automate security agent installations of Crowdstrike, Lacework, and Automox agents to secure, monitor, and patch AWS and Azure, windows and linux virtual machines, across several distributions and versions.

DevOps Engineer

NetDocuments

Built Azure Resource Groups Azure Vnets, Subnets, Network Security groups, Express Routes, Storage Accounts, Fileshares, Virtual Machines, WebApps, Container Instances, and Azure Kubernetes Cluster modules using terraform mimicking production configuration for a Disaster Recovery Environment 
Extended our Las Vegas physical data center to Azure as a hybrid cloud setup using Megaport which is a software defined networking interconnection platform to help reduce the gap between on-premise and cloud services and Azure Express Route to enhance performance and latency for hybrid cloud deployments and to quickly shift work loads in the event of disaster.
Updated our GitLab instance from version 11.7.0 to 14.2.1 to provide additional functionality for myself and other developers like a terraform registry to hold our terraform infrastructure modules.
Created a Vault & Consul cluster chef cookbook to provision a cluster of vault servers powered by consul that consisted of a primary, secondary, and DR nodes as secrets management system for the disaster recovery environment in azure, and chef configuration management secrets. 
Created Reusable Infrastructure pipelines using Docker, Terraform and TFSec to plan, scan for vulnerabilities and deploy resources to azure for disaster recovery.
Led Biweekly disaster recovery meetings to showcase completed, current deliverables and plan for future deliverables with the platform vice president, director, and manager.

Automation Engineer

WellSky

Spearheaded bi-weekly releases with delivery managers for monolith and microservice applications for a home health and hospice software platform using Azure DevOps and Jenkins.
Used New Relic, Sumo Logic and Cloudwatch for application and infrastructure performance monitoring to track issues in our microservices and AWS Cloud Infrastructure.
Helped to contribute to reusable ansible, powershell, python, terraform, and jenkins scripts and services to increase efficiencies by automatically building and deploying our Adobe ColdFusion 2018 monolith, and our .net core microservices in Data Foundry, AWS, and Google cloud.
Created terraform modules for VPC Network, subnetworks (private & public), application and network load balancers, network security groups, EC2 virtual machines, and AWS RDS (Postgres) in AWS.
Utilized powerShell & python for automating CI/CD processes, running custom scripts against different systems like F5 load balancer to manage servers, enhancing deployment efficiency.
Helped move large datasets from on-premise location in data foundry to google cloud by building terraform modules for Google cloud storage buckets, cloud sql instances, and virtual machines. 
Led proof of concept and acquired an observability vendor honeycomb.io saving the company up to $300,000 in monitoring and helped to reduce toil and increase operational insight of applications and systems. 
Configured Helm charts to deploy secure tenants to EKS clusters, ensuring sensitive information from application spans and traces is hashed before being sent to the Honeycomb observability SaaS platform for analysis
Presentated, trained and evangelized the honeycomb.io observability system to feature teams across the platform educating them on application instrumentation, queries, alerts, and dashboards.  
Awarded the above and beyond award for outstanding collaborative performance.

Site Reliability Engineer

Platform Engineer | Expertise in Cloud Operations, DevOps/DevSecOps, Security & Site Reliability | Kubernetes Terraform Github Argo Prometheus Certified

A seasoned devops engineer specializing in creating cloud platforms, with extensive expertise in Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Containerization & Orchestration, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Configuration Management, Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD), Observability, Security & Compliance, and Collaboration & Communication. I hold multiple certifications in Kubernetes and Terraform. 

I am deeply passionate about designing and implementing managed services that enhance security and drive innovation in the digital landscape. I possess proficiency in Powershell, Bash, Python, Go, Docker, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Helm, and K8s and I thrive on collaborating and contributing to the observability and information security teams. My proven hands-on experience with Linux and Windows environments, both containerized and virtualized, positions me as an ideal choice for advanced platform engineering roles.

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