Jason Wicker

With over 25+ years in the Enterprise IT world, Jason has a successful career as a leader managing complex strategic alliances and high-performing teams - consistently innovating, strategizing, and executing to generate long-term growth in F500 and the public sector.

Jason has worked for all the major players in the space; Getronics, Rackspace Technology, EMC, VMware and IBM, to name a few. With a drive for mentoring and bringing value to customers and partners, Jason has led and contributed to many critical projects over his career.

His first major enterprise project was designing and overseeing the security integration of British Petroleum when they first acquired Aamco (7,500 users) and later Arco (4,000 users) for North and South America. At EMC and VMware, he helped design, service, sell and support the enterprise tooling suite that later became VMware’s VCenter Operations.

Most recently Jason has been designing and driving the offering that is the Public Cloud Manager for the State of Texas, with over two hundred cloud properties under a single management plane across four cloud providers and twenty-six agencies.

In his current role as Chief Architect for Government, Jason is responsible for driving Rackspace Technology's technological innovations and business solutions across the public sector line of business. He is highly motivated and results oriented, with a track record of building lasting relationships with key stakeholders and executives.

Working as a partner with his clients, Jason brings the ability to create and drive close plans in alignment with clients' priorities allowing them to achieve their business objectives.

He has expertise in enterprise software design, process, and architecture delivering in the areas of Business Management, Cost Transparency, Hybrid Cloud platforms, SaSS, eDiscovery, Security, Operations, Automation, Software Defined Data Center, and Orchestration.

Most recently Jason has joined Rackspace’s FAIR initiative for ethical and responsible AI. The Foundry for Generative AI by Rackspace (FAIR) is a groundbreaking approach to accelerating the responsible and sustainable adoption of Generative AI solutions across industries.