As General Manager for AWS’s Global Education team, Valerie is responsible for leading strategy and initiatives for Higher Education, Research, K-12, EdTechs, and outcome-based education worldwide. Her Skills to Jobs team enables governments, education systems, and collaborating organizations to deliver skills-based pathways to meet the acute needs of employers around the globe, match skilled job seekers to good paying jobs, and advance the adoption of cloud-based technology.

In her ten-year tenure at AWS, Valerie has held numerous leadership positions, including driving strategic customer engagement within AWS’s Worldwide Public Sector and Industries. Valerie established and led the AWS’s public sector global partner team, AWS’s North American commercial partner team, was the leader for teams managing AWS’s largest worldwide partnerships, and incubated AWS’s Aerospace & Satellite Business Group. Valerie established AWS’s national systems integrator program and promoted partner competency development and practice expansion to migrate enterprise-class, large-scale workloads to AWS.

Prior to joining AWS, Valerie held senior positions at Quest Software, Adobe Systems, Oracle Corporation, BEA Systems, and Cisco Systems. She holds a B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Maryland and a Master in Public Administration from the George Washington University.