Personnel File
James P.
Rodd
U.S. Army Counterintelligence veteran. Enterprise cloud architect. Author of Four-Star Tactics.
U.S. Army Counterintelligence veteran. Enterprise cloud architect. Author of Four-Star Tactics.
James P. Rodd is a U.S. Army Counterintelligence veteran turned enterprise cloud architect with more than twenty years of experience leading high-stakes programs across federal agencies, the Department of Defense, and regulated industries.
After leaving the Army, Rodd applied the discipline and situational clarity he developed in military service to the world of enterprise technology — building cloud platforms, leading modernization programs, and serving as the architect behind FEMA's Cloud Brokerage Office, where he built a cost-recovery model that recouped 30 percent of cloud spend in its second year.
Working at the intersection of military discipline, enterprise complexity, and program delivery, Rodd observed the same pattern across every environment: capable professionals spending their best hours on the wrong work. Four-Star Tactics is his answer.
Operated in high-stakes, high-consequence environments where misallocated attention had real cost — the foundation of everything that followed.
Built FEMA's Cloud Brokerage Office from the ground up. Designed a cost-recovery model that recouped 30% of cloud spend in year two, supporting a goal of >90% cloud adoption by CY24.
Lead cloud architect on a $1.4B+ enterprise IT program for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, shaping hybrid and multi-cloud architecture at scale.
Designs winning Azure solutions for federal Contracts & Proposals — turning complex requirements into architectures that survive both evaluation and real-world delivery.
Twenty years of operational and technology leadership, distilled into a practical system for strategic prioritization and focused execution.
A tactical system for strategic prioritization and focused execution.
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