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• Tasked with establishing security best practices across 200+ Entra Tenants for a publicly traded insurance company with 40,000+ users, covering areas such as Conditional Access, MFA, MAM, MDM, Intune, and various other aspects of M365/Entra.

United States

• Responsible for migrating 80+ companies into a single Entra ID Tenant. Use of Microsoft Entra Connect and Entra Cloud Sync in a multi-Domain/Forest environment with 3000+ users.• Acted as lead Entra ID Engineer for mergers and acquisitions software company owning a growing portfolio of 80+ companies.• Designed and established organization-wide Entra ID standards to support software companies in a Hybrid architecture.• Developed and delivered workshops on IAM including governance, access control (SSO, MFA) and Privileged Access Management (PAM).• Created processes and implemented guidelines to ensure the smooth transition of company assets from on-prem to the Entra ID cloud.• Migration of 125+ Hyper-V virtual machines to Entra VMs.• Defined operational/technical standards using Management Groups, Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Administrative Units, Conditional Access and Privileged Identity Management to support corporate standards for Roles and Permissions delegation for key IT personnel.• Use of Bittitan MigrationWiz, Microsoft Migration Manager and the Microsoft SharePoint Migration Tool for Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive and File Share Migration projects.• Management of M365 including Exchange Online, SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive for Business.• Intune setup and management covering Device Enrollment, Windows Autopilot, and Application Deployment.• Management of and Migration to IBM Softlayer Cloud resources.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Engineer required changes to Windows Servers 2012/2016/2019 encompassing virtualization via VMware, Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, Updates and Patches, SAN/NAS, Veeam Backup and Disaster Recovery as well as migration of servers to Azure.• Maintain M365 including engineering required changes, monitor and support, and backup via Veeam.• Scripting and Automation with PowerShell, Puppet, and Chocolatey.• Responsible for Linux servers functioning as appliances for security operations center (SOC), and NAS devices.• Oversee Crowdstrike Falcon environment.• Established ManageEngine setup for monitoring and SMS alerting.• Established 2FA for a host of services using Okta.• Support of HPE Aruba Enterprise Network and Cisco Meraki Network including core switches and APs as well as connectivity with Velo SD-WAN.• Responsible for ZScaler Internet Access (ZIA) and ZScaler Private Access (ZPA) environments including content filtering, web filtering, blacklisting and whitelisting.• Implement required content and web filtering changes at FortiGate Firewalls and APs.• Maintain Relationships with Vendors (AT&T/NRI/Veeam/Crowdstrike/VMware/Microsoft/HP/Cisco)

United States

• Designed and implemented Azure Active Directory tenants for multiple clients including the Illinois Department of Public Health and Illinois Department of Employment Security.• Migrated on-premise endpoints to work at home configuration in Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2016 environments.• Made efforts for companies to gain HIPAA and HiTrust certification.• Led Salesforce implementation and created custom Objects and Apps.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• As a technical consultant, led a team of 140 SEO workers for our client, AVV Enterprises, working one on one with the owners for 2 years to create a line of business presently earning $3,000 USD per day. Identified and built out strategies using all current tools, demonstrating my ability to dig deep into the data.• One on one "VIP" service to all clients demonstrating a winning personality and unparalleled professionalism.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Technical support of Microtik routers, PoE switches, Access Points, Windows 7/10, Mac's, smartphones and tablets to ensure working Internet services for 10,000+ hotels.

Wilber, Nebraska, United States

• Promoted to #2 position in Blazing SEO, a large proxy provider, in 2 weeks for this short-term project.• Interviewed, hired, trained, and managed all staff including reviews and raises.

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

• Provided remote tech support and onsite computer repair nationwide.• Interviewed, hired, trained, and managed a staff of 15.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

• Managed a team of 10-15 remote support technicians who were responsible for resolving technical issues with Windows and Macs.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

• Led a migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 and Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2003 and Active Directory, as well as IIS 5.0 to IIS 6.0 for Business Logic, a financial services firm.• Performed a migration of 600 laptops running Windows NT 4.0 to Windows XP Professional in a 2-week timeframe for Bearing Point, formerly KPMG.• Rolled out new end user systems and a standardized Windows XP Professional desktop for Buchanan and Beckering, a specialized medical malpractice law firm.• Led the migration from Windows NT 4.0 server to Windows 2000 server and in the consolidation of data to an EMC SAN for Foremost Insurance, a 3000-user organization.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

• Worked with USFreightways to architect, build, and deploy a split DNS implementation using Infoblox and Windows 2008 DNS Servers.• Designed the core Windows operating systems architecture and entire windows back end with the task of combining 300 data centers.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

• Acted as technical lead in the migration from Windows 4.0 to Windows Server 2003 and Active Directory, Apache to IIS 6.0, and SQL 7 to SQL 2000 for Borgess Health, a 6,000-user hospital.• Headed up a migration from Windows NT 4.0 server to Windows Server 2003 and NT 4.0 workstation to Windows XP Professional for Spectrum Health, an 8000-user hospital.• Engaged the Grand Rapids Press to stabilize its NetWare 6 environment and to provide the staff with comprehensive standard operating procedures.• Led a team of four consultants at Harris Bank corporate to successfully identify the source of enterprise-wide desktop crashes and resolve the problem after three other consulting firms failed to complete the assignment.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

• Successfully completed a migration of Windows NT 4.0 servers to Windows 2000 and Active Directory for a 2000 user division of Alcoa.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Held the most senior technical position in the Infrastructure practice for this 500+ employee partner-level Microsoft solution provider.• Held speaking engagements in 8 cities in direct partnership with Microsoft. Included COMDEX Windows World.• Established standards for server hardware specifications, network operating system builds, and capacity planning for all Windows 2000-based systems for McDonalds Worldwide. The corporate office houses 6000+ users.• Provided consultative advice on the deployment of Windows 2000 and Active directory to Kraft Foods.• Performed a migration of Windows NT 4.0 servers to Windows 2000 and Active directory for a 1500-user division of Allied Signal.• Advised SC Johnson Wax on best practices for the roll out of Windows 2000 server, Active Directory, Group Policy, and the Distributed File System.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Successfully led a mid-sized team comprised of fellow LAN Analysts to migrate this 3000-userenvironment from NetWare 3.11 to 4.1.• Built a consolidated SQL 6.5 database server infrastructure to replace an outdated, poorly performing Btrieve-based NetWare framework.• Revamped inefficiencies in application and data storage services for the 700-user tax division of Arthur Andersen.