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- Monitor the MSIT Capital Capacity Management Board DL and respond to customer questions - Review all new Capex Approval request to the Capex SharePoint site- Ensure all new Capex Approval requests have valid details in the request by working with customer prior to Office Hours- Give insight and answer any questions that the Office Hours team may have.- Close Capex Approval requests if they are denied or move them (if approved) in the queue to the next stage for the monthly Capex Council Board meeting- Populate the monthly Capex Council Board deck that is presented to Capex Council Board members- Work closely with Capex requestor to have talking points to questions that may arise at the Capex Council board meetings (reasons for not going to Azure, and what their plan is to work with the Azure team on a solution etc.) – Prepping them for success- Monitor and assist customers (where need be) with Physical hardware requests using the ADO/VSO/ITVSO process

- Deployment Project Manager for Microsoft IT’s new equipment builds (Network, Compute and Storage)- Initiate deployment projects using internal tool sets- Created Purchase orders and scheduled resources for new Deployments- Develop and manage project schedules- Coordinate with other teams and customers to deliver needed capacity to Microsoft’s IT division.- Track delivered capacity and report out on status each month- Coordinate and schedule work with Microsoft Global Data Center local and regional teams world wide to commission or decommission hardware critical to Microsoft day to day operations and to resolve issues surrounding deployment activities.

Princeton, Nj, Us

Embraced the IT vision of cost reduction by systematically targeting underutilized servers (Frozen/Cold); helping migrate them to the cloud; and optimize the cloud for elastic usage through re-sizing and snooze (de-allocate) effortsKey inputs to the HRRP team for new ideas and future tools and project improvementPrepared critical reporting to partner leads and to senior leadershipDrive decommission challenges with offshore teams to ensure maximum cost savings when a server is retired and/or removed from a datacenterDevelop and present "brown bags" and training to support personnelGuide customers to make informed decisions for their teams server footprints, helping drive the cloud strategy e.g. turning off a set of IaaS servers (snooze) when not in use or recommending and performing resizes for over provisioned Azure SKU's Key achievements - Since joining the team have facilitated cost savings $35,000.00 per month due to meticulous analyzing and taking action of all data points coming into the HHR Project

Princeton, Nj, Us

Manage a portfolio of 4000+ Windows and SQL servers for CFIT (Corporate Function IT)Drive project works, planning, co-ordination with business partners units (BPU) while working with Service Integrators to driving all projects and core competencies to completion.Work on problem management initiatives/remediation projectsPlan critical Weekend schedules and resourcesFixing data gap in portfolio inventoryCoordinate all patching and compliance in accordance to CIO directed KPI’s Daily/Weekly reporting Handle all customer concerns/escalation to ensure all issues are handled by correct teams and driven to completionDrive service improvement initiatives and all KPIs for CIO score cardsRaise capacity requests with planned forecasts to meet BPU’s growing needs.Track procurement requests as per SLA.Create/Modify Process Documents, Project Tracking and reporting

Redmond, Washington, Us

Designed, implemented, delivered, managed, and monitored Remote Access Technologies provisioned by the internal Microsoft IT team. In addition to service delivery, partnered with Tier 3 engineers and Product Group Developers to improve the quality of the Microsoft product. The main technologies used were VPN (PPTP, SSTP, IKEv2), NPS (RADIUS), NAP (Network Access Protection), Direct Access, UAG/TMG. Drove life-cycle management including: testing prior to deployment of pre-release Windows OS builds, filing bugs with the PG, and troubleshooting client side issues escalated to our team from lower support tiers. Worked closely with a globally diverse team to improve current services as well as continuing to advance to the latest version of each product.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Joined the NAP team (Network Access Protection / Quarantine Services) using Windows 2008 to provide full quarantine service, replacing RQS/RQC for VPN/RRAS internally to MS. Provided the solution as a showcase to sell a complete end-to-end solutions to external customers (the beginning of a cloud concept, also known as Microsoft Managed services, etc...). Worked with Microsoft development from alpha stages through RTM. Deployed the solution internally to all VPN services world wide, which enforced client machines to be fully patched with approved updates, and anti-virus installed and running with current signatures before full network access is approved. Built and designed hardware requirements for SQL back end to enable compliant/non compliant reports for all 78,000 remote users.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Tier 3 Infrastructure support Windows Server 2000, through 2008 R2 managing 300 VPN servers, 60 IAS/NPS servers, Deployed Win 2003, 2008 world wide to 50 different countries. Trained Tier 1 and Tier 2 Client side RAS tier 3 support Win 2000, XP and Vista. Deployed beta ver. IAS/NPS world wide to allow all Wireless AP's (Access Points) to 802.1x from wep key authentication method. Deployed smart-card certificate auth. for dial up and VPN remote clients, RADIUS auth for server side. Promoted to team lead and was point of contact for VPN, RADIUS and Metrics. Teamed with SQL engineering to get all RADIUS accounting logs into reportable database. Deployed quarantine services with 2003 RQS/RQC enforcing Microsoft approved clients. Deployed ISA 2003/2004 working directly with Haifa Israel development team to centrally manage VPN servers world wide. Wrote all TSG's and provided infrastructure training to tier 2 infrastructure support. Was technical lead for WPS (Windows Provisioning Service) and worked directly with Infosys India developers to provide a guest access wireless service for all Microsoft customer sites world wide. Traveled to Reading UK to build and deploy WPS for 10,000 person customer/developer expo included Win 2008, SQL 2005 deployment, NPS and WPS service

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for smooth operation and maintenance of all Microsoft infrastructure in the South Pacific Region, including servers, storage, network devices, and telecommunications systems. Project Manager for all projects in the South Pacific Region in relation to infrastructure and networks. Responsible for the roll-out of Windows 2000 (from NT 4.0) throughout the South Pacific Region, and the roll-out of 'Platinum' (Exchange 2000). Installed and configured 100+ servers (Compaq) reducing server footprint by consolidating and retiring old hardware, bringing the region into Y2K and Win2000 standards. Led the Y2K project throughout the South Pacific Region to ensure all systems were updated and functional during and after the Y2K cut-over. Successfully installed a 500 KVA generator for Microsoft's main campus in Australia for readiness of the Y2K rollover period

Au

Owner of 3 out of 6 learning activities of the product Integrated Learning Systems 2 (My Personal Tutor series) Authored and executed major test cases, and measured scripting and plot accuracy against development specs Executed tests manually, with tools written in visual basic and visual test Entered and regressed all bugs from alpha to RTM Implemented quick configuration solutions for rebuilding test machines using imaging Owned and administered the Interactive Media Groups Raid databases used for entering bugs (SQL back-end) Supported 36 users with an average of 2 PC's each Trained low end users in PC skills, e.g. Art directors etc.

Au

Contracted through WANG to be an escalation engineer for Windows 95 launch with Microsoft Product Services Support. Added night shift supervisor to the responsibilities within weeks and then in 1996 became client desktop support for Microsoft internally (Still contracted through WANG)

Network Administration, Novell Networking

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