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London, Gb

Currently on well-deserved hiatus :)FOUR AGREEMENTS 1. Be kind to everyone; 2. Help & coach anyone; 3. Always achieve more impact than expected; 4. Let’s finish it on time, on budget, with great quality, and have fun! DRIVEN BY: Desire to help others achieve their potential while innovating and creating efficiency in every process.MOST PROUD OF* Teaching How to Work & Drive Impact as a TeamLead and Coach (#Teams): Development (72), IT (137), Database (15), Business (68), Startup (29).* Bringing Strategic & Innovative Products to MarketTechNet Events, OpenHack, Global Whitelist, Fully Automated Classroom Onboarding (MIT), DevOps, Automation and Security at Scale, aBitNow and others. * Community Leader and Mentor (Public & Professional)Working with people from all walks of life to listen, share, be a friend and someone to lean on, help others through their personal and professional challenges. Team Building and mentoring.VALUES AND STRENGTHSCritical Thinking, Innovator, Motivator, Integrity, People First, Coach & Mentor, Visionary, Team Builder, Thought Leader, Persistence, Strategize, Hard Work, Architect, Master Collaborator, Cloud First, Results @ Scale ABILITIES (YEARS EXPERIENCE)Process Improvement (36), Code/Content Owner (31), Software Product Development (31), Architect [Tech & Dev](28), Product Management (28), IT/IS Manager/Officer/CTO/CIO (25), Team Leadership (25), People Manager (25), Enterprise Initiatives (21), Program Management (20), Datacenter Management (20), Portfolio Management (16), Agile/SCRUM Methodologies (13), Security Officer [CISO] (10), Product Owner (8)

Show customer businesses, team leaders, and team members how they can use technology to solve their toughest business challenges. Business coach to Sr. Leadership. Technical (CIO) and Security (CISO) leader to customer accounts. Manage successful technology and security consulting, hosting, software development, project management, portfolio management, product management, and MSP businesses. Developed and inspired customer businesses to leverage technology, innovation, business priorities, and finances to solve business problems (e.g., J.J. Best Banc, Best Yacht Auctions, aBitNow, Nichols Trucking). Translate business challenges to technology solutions. Create technology strategy and security strategy for Bay State and its customers. Develop and coach business knowledge, knowledge sharing, and culture change (e.g. working as a team, coaching mindset, security first / zero trust, data transformation, digital business, digital transformation, and emerging trends.Managed IT Governance consisting of technology evaluation implementing Many frameworks and compliance requirements such as NIST, CMMC, HIPAA, PCI, HITRUST, GGDPR, GLBA, and many others from many industries, including finance, manufacturing, distribution, transportation, service, and insurance. Developed strategic initiatives, then coached team members and leaders to drive businesses forward. I recruited, hired, and coached “the right” leadership team to run the business so I could move on to other opportunities. Still involved with significant business and financial decisions, executive high-priority account discussion, and CISO responsibilities. Direct governance and compliance initiatives. An inspirational leader and motivator to business, engineering, development, database, AI, and security teams.VALUES AND STRENGTHSCritical Thinking, Innovator, Motivator, Integrity, People First, Coach & Mentor, Visionary, Team Builder, Thought Leader, Persistence, Strategize, Hard Work, Architect

Redmond, Washington, Us

Energetic Program Technical Owner, Strategic Leader, Portfolio Manager, and Architect of OpenHack. I managed the budget, lean software product development teams (9), and work timelines for all engineering and development teams. Cross-functional team leadership to find internal partners for team collaboration and ideation. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) of physical resources such as cloud assets and personnel across many Microsoft and partner teams. Product visionary and leader driving systems implementations with forward-thinking business process design. Lead 21 projects/products: 12-Development, 4-Security, compliance and governance, 5-IT strategy, management and systems architecture. In my most recent program, I created would show business efficiency by cutting the overall OpenHack program cost by 92% while also creating a new revenue stream for Microsoft and Partners. This was a complete business process redesign. Customer Experience Management was evident in many programs launched to improve customer (internal and external) satisfaction, which drove improvements by over 25% in my tenure. CLOUD DATA CENTER & SECURITY MANAGER: Responsible for all Azure resources for the WW team. I performed the duties of Global Software Development Manager, Security Systems Engineer, CIO, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Scrum Master, Cloud Architect, Systems Architect, Product Owner, and PR Reviewer. Drove innovation, best practices, and automation into every process. Leveraged PowerShell automation skills for streamlining and reducing errors.TEAM MANAGEMENT: Managed all levels of individuals and teams: executive, development, engineering, and business. PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Leveraged skills in PMP/PMI, kanban, scrum, agile, sprint management, data analysis, business analysis, analytical skills, thought leadership, innovation, ideation, and translation of business challenges to technical solutions to finish projects and deliver results shared through presentations

Redmond, Washington, Us

Managed programs and projects to onboard enterprise customers to Azure. Coached and cross-managed development and IT teams from many of Microsoft’s most prestigious customers (e.g., Harvard, MIT, Fidelity Investments, Nasdaq, Accenture, Microsoft, etc.). Recruited customer teams and champions and, through communication mastery, drove them to adoption and innovation through business, process, and technical coaching. Coached team and team member selection, ideation, requirements analysis, business analysis, data analysis, analytical skills, problem-solving, and thought leadership. Taught team leaders and members teamwork and how to coach other teams so the breadth of knowledge could spread rapidly through the organization. Coached IT/IS Managers, IT and security engineers, developers, DBAs (SQL & Oracle), development and other managers, and officers on innovating and improving processes to bring value to market faster while improving customer and employee satisfaction. Started with the discovery of challenges, then developed a team by identifying champions, key team leaders, members, and stakeholders. Used ideation, brainstorming, and Value Stream Analysis/Mapping methods to identify business challenges, the cost of not solving them, and the value of implementing a solution. I had each team vote on one 3-week assignment and a 9–12-month backlog project. Then, I coached them on leveraging tactics such as DevOps, DevSecOps, teamwork, and coaching principals to help them become a high-performing team. We would generally finish the 3-week assignment on the first day of development. We would then dive into the immense challenge and have it completed usually within 3-5 weeks. Improving employee morale was a key deliverable in all projects. We solved the final challenge in one or two 3-week sprints by utilizing innovation, strong values, team collaboration, and knowledge sharing. Implemented rewards programs and reported to all team stakeholders and Microsoft leadership.

Redmond, Washington, Us

The voice and face of Microsoft for the US Northeast territory (NY-ME). Recruited technology and business followers to inspire them to use Microsoft tech at scale. Managed budget and assisted with the marketing budget. Technical lead, content creator, and public speaker for Microsoft TechNet and official product launch events. Community and business technology innovator and influencer at scale. Influenced 10K+ customers monthly face-to-face as a public speaker and technology and innovation coach and 200K+ monthly online. Leveraged Market Research, analytical skills, and excellent communication skills to achieve success. Assisted businesses, from startups (e.g., Rejjee, CodeShip) to enterprise customers (e.g., UPS, The Hartford, Cigna) with innovating and providing technology solutions to business problems. Coached development teams, DBAs (SQL, Oracle), architects, and department leaders to improve productivity while increasing employee satisfaction and saving money. Projects consisted of process improvement, code/content management, software product development, data center architecture, data center management, monitoring and optimization, green initiatives, portfolio management, DevOps, product management, CTO/CIO coaching, team leadership, people management, enterprise initiatives, program management, datacenter management, portfolio management, agile/scrum methodologies, security officer [CISO] coaching, product owner coaching.

Redmond, Washington, Us

“Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions: Exam Ref 70-534” [Author & Reviewer]* Compute infrastructure using virtual machines, serverless computing, and microservices.* Data implementation using storage, relational databases, and NoSQL data stores.* Networking implementation using virtual networks, external connections, security strategies, and hybrid applications.* Security and identity solutions using Azure Active Directory, identity providers, Azure Key Vault, and * Security administration services solutions using platform services, including artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, messaging, and media services* Operations & Platform Solutions Evaluate platform and Azure-hosted architectures for Microsoft System Center deployment, design a monitoring strategy, describe Azure business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) capabilities, design a disaster recovery strategy, design Azure Automation and PowerShell workflows, describe the use cases for Azure automation configurationDesign Microsoft Azure infrastructure and networking * Describe Azure virtual private network (VPN) and ExpressRoute architecture and designSecure resources * Secure resources by using managed identities* Secure resources by using hybrid identities* Secure resources by using identity providers* Identify an appropriate data security solution* Design a role-based access control strategyDesign an application storage and data access strategy.Design advanced applications* Design websites for scalability and performance* Design websites for business continuityDesign a management, monitoring, and business continuity strategy. * Evaluate hybrid and Azure-hosted architectures for Microsoft System Center deployment* Design a monitoring strategy* Describe Azure business continuity/disaster recovery (BC/DR) capabilities* Design a disaster recovery strategy* Design Azure Automation and PowerShell workflows* Describe the use cases for Azure Automation configuration

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Portfolio SampleCHALLENGE: Easily stand up and break down all infrastructure and services needed for a classroom with hundreds of students and machines. The current manual process (on AWS) takes 12 days to complete, with each student consuming 16+ hours of individual effort. During this 12-day cycle, no additional learning can take place. MIT desired to reduce the onboarding time from 12 days to 2 days. SOLUTION: Formed Dev & Engineering teams to create custom automated solutions to stand up and break down a cloud environment using Python, Bash, and PowerShell scripting that could execute with an import of an Excel spreadsheet with student names and MIT email addresses. Complete documentation and easy-to-run instructions were provided for both staff and students. The onboarding for the first class with over 400 students comprised two sessions on consecutive days to give students options for attending the quick automated onboarding process. The time of each session was 4 hours. Student time required 20 minutes or less each. RESULT: Reduced onboarding time for students from 12 days to 20 minutes per student using only two 4-hour days. This decreased onboarding time by 99.4%. This project significantly increased productivity and satisfaction for professors, teacher assistants, and students. It also increased compute capacity by 30% and decreased cost by 43%. The Azure Engineering Teams leveraged our excellent work and feedback to improve the Azure Platform for all Azure customers. New capabilities were introduced in two areas: 1. education product created. 2. High-Performance Compute instances created with Intel Chip “flags” capability. WON MICROSOFT “CUSTOMER OBSESSED” AWARD

“Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions: Exam Ref 70-535” Teaches how to prepare for the Microsoft Exam 70-535 and demonstrate real-world mastery of architecting complete cloud solutions on the Microsoft Azure platform. Designed for architects and other cloud professionals ready to advance their status, Exam Ref focuses on the critical thinking and decision-making acumen needed for success at the MCSA level. This Microsoft Exam Ref: Organizes its coverage by exam skills Features strategic, what-if scenarios to challenge you Includes DevOps and hybrid technologies and scenarios. Assumes you have experience building infrastructure and applications on the Microsoft Azure platform and understand Azure’s services.

Boston, Ma, Us

CHALLENGE: Tap into the incredible growth of Microsoft Azure by delivering CodeShip CI/CD solutions to Azure customers. Significantly grow the value and size of their customer base by offering the capability of targeting the Microsoft Azure Cloud with their platform. They wanted to learn how to decrease the customer cost for deploying to Microsoft and other clouds. SOLUTION: Worked with the CodeShip (Startup) team to enable and expand the capabilities of their CI/CD delivery system to Azure as a distribution location. We implemented targeting multiple containers in a single VM and leveraging Kubernetes and Docker Swarm clusters to increase scalability while decreasing cost significantly.RESULTS: The project achieved all the challenge objectives and more. CodeShip was able to offer its technology to much larger businesses including large enterprises through the new technology we added to its DevOps/DevSecOps CI/CD delivery system.

Boston, Ma, Us

Portfolio SampleCHALLENGE: Tap into the incredible growth of Microsoft Azure by delivering CodeShip CI/CD solutions to Azure customers. Significantly grow the value and size of their customer base by offering the capability of targeting the Microsoft Azure Cloud with their platform. They wanted to learn how to decrease the customer cost for deploying to Microsoft and other clouds. SOLUTION: Worked with the CodeShip (Startup) team to enable and expand the capabilities of their CI/CD delivery system to Azure as a distribution location. We implemented targeting multiple containers in a single VM and leveraging Kubernetes and Docker Swarm clusters to increase scalability while decreasing cost significantly.RESULTS: The project achieved all the challenge objectives and more. CodeShip was able to offer its technology to much larger businesses, including large enterprises, through the new technology we added to its DevOps/SecDevOps CI/CD delivery system.

Irving, Tx, Us

“Microsoft Public Cloud Services: Setting up your business in the cloud” [4 chapters & tech review]Chapter 1: What the cloud can do for your business Chapter 2: Get Started with Office 365 Chapter 3: Store your files in the cloud by using OneDrive for Business Chapter 4: Keep track of customers by using Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online Chapter 5: Manage devices in the cloud by using Microsoft Intune Chapter 6: Build and run servers without using hardware Chapter 7: Understand Server Manager Chapter 8: Run Windows apps remotely Chapter 9: Give users access to third-party apps Chapter 10: Build a website for your business Chapter 11: Build a Windows app by using Windows App Studio

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Community User Group serves the Boston market by offering free training and support on Windows Server technologies. Lead weekly events to teach the community how to leverage the latest technology from Microsoft and other companies. Planned, organized, and collaborated with vendors and product owners to share with the community.

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