Andrew Thorpe Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

I work on Absolute's Secure Access (NetMotion Mobility) Research & Development team. I engineer client platform solutions using UEM/MDM tools like JAMF Pro, Microsoft Endpoint Manager (Intune), MobileIron, SOTI MobiControl, and VMware Workspace ONE and Identity & Access Management (IAM) tools like ADFS, Azure AD, Okta, Workspace ONE Access.My role is unique. I get to create these solutions for customers, developers, QA, sales, and support across all the platforms Secure Access supports including Android, iOS/iPadOS, macOS, and Windows.I get to do a little bit of everything:• Be the go to expert on all things Client Platform• Build and maintain lab testing infrastructure in Microsoft Azure and VMware vSphere• Build and maintain UEM tenants• Build dog fooding and lab testing environments for Secure Access• Create internal and customer facing documentation for all things EUC engineers need to architect, deploy, and support Secure AccessRecent Projects:• Helped ship the next major release of Absolute Secure Access directly contributing to several new features and functionality including SAML authentication, Hybrid Azure AD Join with VPN support, Android HTTP Proxy, and more• Built a new Azure AD and Intune tenant for our team's new lab including Azure AD SSO and Hybrid Azure AD Join & Azure AD Join Windows 10/11 workflows• Added the ability to easily distribute pre-release Android and iOS builds of Mobility to our customers using Managed Google Play and TestFlight• Standardizing UEM related testing plans by creating a wide variety of preconfigured profiles for all device use cases, VPN authentication and deployment scenarios, and new feature testing and automated creating new profiles for new test environments in some UEM platforms• Documenting everything around how Secure Access works on client devices in a variety of mediums for internal and external facing scenarios: customer facing documents, internal engineering documents, knowledge, test cases

Austin, Tx, Us

Retail Infrastructure platform design engineering for the next generation Android and iOS/iPadOS platform to expand in-store functionality allowing for improved inventory and stock management, layout planning, and mobile checkout. Our next generation mobility platform enables in-store Amazon services at Whole Foods Market locations worldwide helping to unify the Amazon + Whole Foods brands.• Application and configuration management for unified Amazon + Whole Foods Market devices balancing the requirements of both organizations to create a consistent, secure, and user friendly platform for both organization’s applications• Successfully scaled Whole Foods Market from 3,000 Corporately Owned/Managed Android and iOS/iPadOS devices to 30,000 devices in less than one year.• Subject matter expert for VMware Workspace ONE and SOTI MobiControl EMM/UEM, Android Enterprise, and Android rugged use cases bringing all management planes together to build automations for device enrollment, configuration, and long term support• Managing the relationships between internal stakeholders including application developers, business management, network engineering, and operations/support organizations to promote our mobility platform• Providing leadership and guidance for the retail infrastructure engineering team, retail technical operations, and tier support organizations with documentation, knowledge, and training around all things mobility

Swansea, Illinois, Us

Professional Services Partner with VMware for End User Computing (EUC) / Workspace ONE.Areas of expertise:• Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) and Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) expert using the VMware Workspace ONE (AirWatch) and the SOTI MobiControl platforms• Building Unified Endpoint Management solutions using VMware Workspace ONE or SOTI MobiControl for environments and organizations of all sizes including organizations with 100,000+ endpoints.• Highly experienced with Android Enterprise, Android Legacy, and Apple iOS Supervised platforms especially transitioning from platform to platform and addressing the migration from Android Legacy (Device Administrator) to Android Enterprise (Device Owner/Work Profile)• Proficient in building Android/Apple BYOD solutions that balance end user productivity and privacy with corporate data security and policy• Proficient with integrating Identity and Access Management solutions such as Okta with VMware Workspace ONE Access to allow for convenient SSO functionality balanced with conditional access policies that help secure organizational dataRecent projects:• Transformational changes to VMware Workspace ONE environments including largeenvironment upgrades, integrating Office 365 with VMware Workspace ONE Access for seamless SSO, moving from legacy Windows management to modern Windows management, and transitioning from Android Legacy to Android Enterprise• New infrastructure installations of VMware Workspace ONE (AirWatch) including On-Premise and SaaS deployments and migrating from one UEM/EMM platform to another• Aligning existing, complicated VMware Workspace ONE deployments with VMware best practices• Migration of VMware Workspace ONE services from server to server and from on-premse to SaaS

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Solutions I have engineered:• Next Generation Rapid Check-In, Zebra TC75x Rugged Mobile Device & Zebra ZQ510 Printer• Next Generation Rental Platform, Samsung Galaxy Tab Active2• Enterprise Mobility Management / Unified Endpoint Management, mobility device research and development, and solution engineering for a fleet of 50,000+ mobile devices at 10,000+ locations worldwide.• Creating and operationalizing the EMM/UEM IT platform that helps fulfill Enterprise’s company vision to remove barriers between the customer and employee by untethering employees from the counter using powerful mobility solutions that streamline the car rental and buying experiences.• Mobile Device and Form Factor Selection: Selecting right platform (Android, Apple, Windows), form factor (laptop, phone, rugged, tablet), and device with related accessories for mobility platform success including Ingenico devices for payment, Zebra printers for mobile printing, and custom integrated security cases designed to hold and pair Ingenico payment devices.• Application and Configuration Management: Delivering a consistent and secure end user experience managing the intricacies and interrelationships between cellular carrier (including FOTA and private APNs), devices, OEMs, operating system, platform (Android, iOS, Windows), and UEM/EMM software (servers and agents).• Provided leadership and guidance for the mobility platform operational engineering team, tiered support teams, and integrator partners through comprehensive documentation, knowledge, and training.

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

Stated Simply: Setting the standard for new and existing technology deployment for over 10,000 locations worldwideRecent Accomplishments:• Field Network Modernization / Future Rental & Branch Technology: Upgrade network circuits, replacement of legacy network infrastructure to comply with new standards in order to implement new business technologies• Riverbed Implementation / Field Server Risk Mitigation: Rollout of Riverbed Steelhead devices, migration of confidential data to centralized data center file servers, limiting use of or removing local server resources, implementing BitLocker on local field servers• Windows Server 2008 R2 / 2012 R2 Upgrade Rollout: Upgrading 400+ field application/file servers and virtual servers in the corporate data center from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows Server 2012 R2• Windows 7 / Office 2010 Upgrade Rollout: Upgrading 22,000+ PCs across our corporate and field environments from Windows XP / Office 2003 to Windows 7 / Office 2010Capacities for these projects:• Heavily involved with standards, process, and procedural changes, development, and execution often working across multiple teams on major tier one projects involving new technology rollouts• Serve as an escalation point and subject matter expert for multiple areas of responsibility and projects of all levels of complexity for peers on my team and as a leadership resource representing my team in tier one projects• Created comprehensive documentation, knowledge, and training for team processes and projects while working across teams to develop and test the processes created• Establish, monitor, and maintain performance metrics for standards, processes, and procedures on team and tier one projects• Created, maintained, and supervised the creation of moderately complex to complex PowerShell and Visual Basic scripts used for major project related work