Dan Mathias Email & Phone Number

Saint Joseph, Mi, Us

United States

As part of CDW’s Digital Velocity (DV) organization, Cloud Architects engage with CDW presales, clients, and internal teams to design, develop and implement automated, cloud native pattern solutions primarily to the public cloud service provider Azure. Cloud Architects design and architect cloud solutions based on Statement of Work (SoW) criteria and as needed, also provide cloud engineering of designed solutions. This role is expected to have thought leadership as well as deep technical knowledge in core areas pertaining Azure and cloud native automation and DevOps solutions.

Open Systems is the global leader in world-class cybersecurity and connectivity from the cloud.⦁ Manage customer experience from a technical and execution perspective⦁ Enable Managed Detection and Response (MDR) sales through technical expertise and practical experience⦁ Strategize with Sales Executives and Engineers to overcome objections and provide the most value to clients leveraging or migrating to the Microsoft Security Stack (M365 E5)⦁ Design and maintain marketing and delivery artifacts for Azure and M365 E5 security offerings ⦁ Presales scoping for various green and brownfield deployment projects⦁ Draft Proposals, Statements of Work and Deliverables⦁ Work with internal and external partners to secure Microsoft funding for projects (MSSP, MCI, ECIF)

⦁ Deliver post-sales work on projects for Azure and M365 E5 security offerings ⦁ Develop ‘Secure Start’ Azure Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) based offering for clients new to Azure

Littleton, Colorado, United States

3Cloud is a Gold-certified Microsoft Azure technology consulting firm and Azure Expert Managed Services Provider that provides cloud strategy, design, implementation, and managed services for clients across multiple industries.⦁ Presales scoping for various green and brownfield projects for large and mid-market enterprises⦁ Lead or junior engineer on various Azure Virtual Data Center/CAF-LZ deployments and migrations⦁ Deploy Azure infrastructure including VNETs, ExpressRoute, VPN, Service Endpoints, Private Link Virtual Machines, Application Services, SQL/SQLMI, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), DataFactory⦁ Firewall, Palo Alto GlobalProtect deployments/migrations, Meraki and Cloudgenix SDWAN deployments⦁ Revise Existing Azure Landing Zone (ALZ) offering network diagrams and documentation⦁ Architect network infrastructure for ALZ deployments including IaaS and PaaS services⦁ Develop Terraform for CAF-LZ deployments to ensure consistency and repeatability

Trusted adviser, engineer and thought leader to fortune 500 and 100 enterprises. Highlights include:-Design and deploy Virtual Data Center solutions for enterprises-Develop Infrastructure as Code using Azure DevOps, ARM, Terraform and Ansible -Deploy and troubleshoot Azure VNETs, Peering, UDRs, Key-Vault, Log Analytics, Sentinel and more-Architect and configure on-prem to Azure connectivity including ExpressRoute, S2S VPN-Best Practice Assessments and remediation of findings for of Azure environment -Create backlog for Azure Devops to track work and deliverables utilizing Agile methodology Develop intellectual property including: -Palo Alto VM-Series offering deployment code, scoping and marketing artifacts; Terraform IaC

PAN Firewall -Design and deploy various hardware and virtual firewall solutions to protect corporate assets.-Migrate legacy deployments to the PAN enforcement platform, including traffic enforcement, IDS/IPS, VPN, URL Filtering and other functions.-Develop standards and procedures in conjunction with team members.DevOps TransformationTerraform Infrastructure-as-Code and Ansible playbooks last mile configuration of AWS virtual firewalls.Idempotent, version controlled, Connectivity as Code deploys security policy via CICD pipeline.Ansible Tower based self-service catalog of firewall related tasks for non-security personnel.

Chicago

Firewall-Legacy (ASA, Checkpoint, Barracuda) to PAN migrations.-PAN best practices assessments.-Policy optimizations.

Chicago

Level 1 Support - Network and Security devices including: Juniper routers/switches/firewalls, F5 BIG-IP LTM/GTM; Palo-Alto and CheckPoint firewalls; BlueCoat traffic management systems, Infoblox DHCP/IPAM solutions. -Incident Response, Request for Change, Trouble Tickets, Vendor Tickets.-RFCs for MSSP and internal clients in accordance with relevant change control policies.

Chicago

Proprietary Options Trader (Nov. 2005 – May 2010)Options Clerk (Jun. 2003 – Nov. 2005)

Bachelor'S Degree, Network Technology, Security Concentration

Activities and Societies: Magna Cum Laude - 3.8 GPA

Associate Of Science - As, General Studies

Activities and Societies: Phi Theta Kappa

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