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Boston, Ma, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

In this role I focused on Microsoft Cloud Solution Architecture, directly involved in projects ranging in size and complexity, architecting, designing, and executing enterprise-level deployments of Microsoft 365 Security and Compliance tools. As a subject matter expert, I worked directly with BDO clients to design and deploy industry-leading solutions to improve the protection of Microsoft-based assets for both on-premise and cloud environments. I collaborated with and guided various security teams on using multiple approaches to improve cloud, endpoint, and data security and compliance across the digital estate,Being a goal-oriented, customer-focused architect, I applied solutions to business requirements and objectives resulting in BDO customers making the most of their investments in Microsoft Security and Compliance technologies and ultimately improving their overall security posture across the Microsoft Azure, M365,and Windows ecosystems. Responsibilities included:•Provide expertise within the focused practice discipline for client initiatives in the form of technology solutions and service-offering delivery•Proactively identify client needs and requirements through data, client engagement, and other methods to recommend appropriate solutions and service opportunities•Support competitive selling motions within the project scope development•Engage with internal sales and technical teams to support solution sales cycle, qualify opportunities, close open pipeline, and scope to ensure successful solution delivery•Execute consulting projects, driving objectives, creating deliverables, and ensuring client needs and practice obligations are met, successfully providing customer satisfaction•Initiate/lead project scope development and project delivery of all assignments•Serve as a subject matter expert in designing, architecting, and delivering solutions

Introspectrum Solutions provides enterprise-grade cloud and on-premises consulting services for small businesses (50 employees or less), focusing primarily in the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex area.As a Principal Cloud Solutions Architect I provide clients with architecture, design, engineering delivery, and administration. These engagements range from pre-sales requirement gathering and assessments to post-sales delivery of SOWs, technical recommendation guides and implementation of services.-• Security, Compliance, Risk and Solution assessments, which include a Corrective Action Plan (CAP) of recommendations in final report (based on CIS, NIST, and other Industry guidelines)• Microsoft Azure infrastructure, application and data modernization with IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS solutions• Microsoft 365 Enterprise and Business Premium suite of cloud native, desktop, and mobile solutions • Security, Compliance, and Identity with Microsoft Defender Security suite, Purview (Compliance), and Azure Active Directory/Entra IAM solutions• Collaboration solutions on the Microsoft SharePoint and Teams platforms• Cloud-based endpoint device and application management, including mobile devices, desktop computers, and virtual endpoints with Microsoft Intune Endpoint Management, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, and Purview Endpoint DLP solutions • High Availability (HA), Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) solutions• Migrations from on-premises, hosted data centers, and cloud-to-cloud with Azure and Microsoft 365 solutions and advanced technologies• New cloud tenant buildout and full (complete or custom) implementations of Microsoft 365 Defender Security suite and Microsoft 365 Purview Compliance information governance solutions across the entire data estate

Irvine, Ca, Us

Designed, built, implemented and delivered scalable Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 Cloud solutions for client base. Primarily responsible for Modern Workplace Transformation using the Microsoft 365 cloud suite to empower the digital workforce and employee experience, enable and protect frontline workers, provide secure, compliant and cloud connected collaborative apps on any device, enabling converged communications with Teams and NextGen Windows experiencesAlso designed new Microsoft cloud environments, migrated on premise environments to the Microsoft cloud, optimized existing cloud infrastructure environments and built automation using Infrastructure as Code techniques in Azure and Power Automate in M365 solutionsI lead a project for a large multi-national Energy Industry client to govern, protect, and manage their entire data estate with the full Microsoft Purview suite of data governance, DLP, insider risk, and compliance solutions

Melville, New York, Us

Responsible for designing and deploying new Microsoft cloud infrastructure environments, migrating on premise environments to the Microsoft cloud, as well as optimizing existing cloud infrastructure environments and building out automation using Infrastructure as Code techniques. This role required deep knowledge of Microsoft IaaS and SaaS platforms, including past extensive experience migrating to Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365

Athens, Ga, Us

Architected, engineered, and drove a major healthcare provider’s domain divestiture, building out an on- premises environment and also migration to the Microsoft 365 cloud suite:• Migrated 3500 user accounts, 1500 workstations, and over 200 infrastructure and application servers into a Greenfield Server 2016 AD domain• Deployed Hyper-V clusters, built out a System Center infrastructure with SCVMM and SCECM 2019• Leveraging Azure AD Premium P2, created Conditional Access policies, enforced MFA, setup SSO, SSPR, secured highly privileged roles with PIM• Expanded the on-premises physical and Hyper-V/VMWare virtual environment, extending to the cloud in a ‘Hybrid Cloud’ model utilizing Azure AD Connect to facilitate SSO, and DR/BC• Migrated from G-suite for Business to Microsoft 365 E3 and E1 suites (O365 Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Teams), and implemented Enterprise Mobility + Security (Intune MDM and Modern Desktop management, Microsoft Cloud App Security)• Implemented and configured several Defender ATP solutions – Defender for Office 365 and Defender for Identity (Active Directory specific)• Utilized the Microsoft 365 Purview risk and compliance solutions to help manage and monitor their data, protect information, minimize compliance risks, and meet regulatory requirements. Leveraged the Compliance Manager to drive all deployments to adhere to CIS Benchmarks and Microsoft Best Practices and to ensure NIST, HIPAA, HITRUST/HITECH compliance

Irving, Tx, Us

Architected and lead a hospital's domain decoupling from a merged corporate environment and migrated to Microsoft Azure and M365 clouds.• Migrated WAN circuits and B2B VPN tunnels to new SDN ISP• Upgraded Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory DS to Server 2016 Domain Controllers and raised domain to Server 2016 functional level• Migrated to Azure AD Premium, Microsoft 365 suite (O365 Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams), Enterprise Mobility + Security (Intune MDM and Windows Modern Desktop management, Autopilot, Intune OS updates and MAM), OneDrive for Business• Leveraged and expanded the on-premises virtual environment, extending to the cloud in a ‘Hybrid Cloud’ model utilizing Azure AD Connect and other cloud solutions to facilitate DR/BC• Drove all deployments to adhere to Industry Best Practices and ensure NIST, HIPAA, HITRUST/ HITECH compliance, benchmarked with CIS Security Controls.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Hardware benchmarking of ‘Next-Gen’ Intel Select SSD offerings, and Azure IoT Edge devices in containerized and VM environments.• Solid State Drive (SSD) benchmark test suites in both laptops and desktops using a variety of tools - UL PCMark Vantage, UL PCMark 8, UL PCMark 10, SYSmark 2014 SE, SYSmark 2018, and IOmeter • Benchmarked Azure SQL Database Edge x64 and ARM-based containers with IoT devices• Benchmarked WSSD nested virtualization in a VM environment using DiskSpd and VMfleet • Assisted with Machine Learning (ML) code development on "Introduction to Python Using Azure Notebooks" course for Microsoft Reactors (Microsoft Learning Online courseware)

Redmond, Washington, Us

Created weekly builds of a customized Windows OneCore OS (WCOS) for several Surface Hub devices that were in both development and in-market. I worked mainly with PowerShell scripts, JSON and XML files, DISM, and eWDK tools in a (Visual Studio and ADO) "vNext" build environment. • Maintained the automated OS build system driven almost entirely by JSON and PowerShell• Migrated team’s unmanaged on-prem lab environment to a centralized managed infrastructure • Virtualized most of the workloads to Azure IaaS and PaaS in a hybrid cloud model • Created a library of Windows OneCore OS VMs in Azure, then customizing and optimizing the Surface Hub OS auto build system to allow on-demand daily (versus weekly) verifications, significantly improving build quality by allowing developers feedback via quicker testing results • Increased the implementation of Agile methodologies in VSTS to track weekly OS build deliverables, optimizing task assignments and change tracking, plus improving management reporting

Monroe, La, Us

As a member of a 3rd tier team of cloud network engineers also possessing operational systems expertise, performed specialized cloud platform activities (Service Tasks) unavailable to customers through self-service functionality in the CenturyLink Cloud Control portal.SDN network connectivity tasks for access to the CenturyLink Cloud that we facilitated included • Deployed Virtual Routing instances (VRFs) for customer routes on production Juniper SRXs• Deployed IPsec VPN Tunnels, point-to-site and site-to-site tunnel configuration models, both route- based and policy-based• Built Direct-Connect, Inter-Connect, and Cross-Connect configurations for data center connectivity• Implemented static route add/removal on existing customer network instances in the CL Cloud• Deployed Custom OpenVPN Servers or configurations• Deployed and configured Cloud Load Balancers (Single and HA pairs)• Migrated Cloud Virtual Machines across accounts and datacenters

Bellevue, Wa, Us

I spearheaded the IT department of a local game company known for the Nancy Drew games. As the manager of all IT Infrastructure and Operations, I owned and managed the infrastructure and resources to meet organizational needs. I was responsible for working cross-functionally with all departments to identify long-term, scalable, and practical IT solutions, acting as a close business partner, establishing close partnerships with colleagues across multiple disciplines translating business needs into state-of-the-art IT solutions.•Migrated the company website and message boards from two separate hosting environments to one high availability hosting environment resulting in vastly improved performance and management capabilities, and decreased monthly hosting costs by over 50%•Migrated the on-premises Exchange 2010, SharePoint 2010, and company-wide desktop Office environments to Office 365 Business Premium, resulting in drastic improvements in stability, security, performance and manageability, as well as providing increased capabilities for employees to work remotely on any device •Implemented SCCM, SCEP, MDT, and WSUS enabling comprehensive patch management, software distribution, OS deployment, network access protection, and hardware/software inventory.•Virtualized and migrated 95% of the on-premises technology infrastructure to Microsoft Azure IaaS and SaaS, and to other 3rd party cloud solutions, negating the need for on premises full-time IT staff.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Bachelor Of Fine Arts - Bfa, Music, Theory Concentration, Audio Production

Ccna, Routing And Switching

Network Services Certificate Program, Computer Science - Nscom (Network Services And Computing Systems)

Associate Of Arts - Aa, Music Theory And Composition, Music Theory Concentration, Audio Production