Tyson Foods
Architected the foundation for Tyson Foods' application modernization on Google Cloud Platform — providing the architectural framing and structured decision-making process that enabled fast, confident choices across two critical applications.
Challenge
Tyson Foods was beginning a major application modernization journey and needed to establish the right architectural foundation early. Two critical applications required target state architecture decisions — decisions that would ripple through years of implementation work. Getting them right mattered. Getting them fast mattered equally.
The complexity: multiple stakeholders, deep technical requirements, and the need to make architectural choices that would serve the program’s long-term success, not just the immediate phase.
Approach
Led a comprehensive requirements gathering process across both technical and business stakeholders, then designed the target state architecture for each application optimized for Google Cloud. Created a phased implementation plan that balanced technical depth with business continuity — and framed each application’s modernization within the context of the broader organizational transformation.
Results
The structured approach delivered: fast architectural decisions that were high-quality because they were grounded in thorough requirements, and an implementation roadmap that the team could execute with confidence.
“Throughout the process of gathering requirements for the 2 applications through determining the ’to-be’ architecture of each as well as the implementation plan, Chris added extreme value that allowed fast and high quality decisions to be made ensuring long term success with the project & program.” — Google Account Team