Principal Azure Technical Specialist with implementation, design, architecture, and team leadership experience across a wide range of customers and industries. Deep technical experience in IaaS, PaaS, Cybersecurity, Cloud Security,Networking, Identity, Modern Datacenter, Web applications, SQL Server, IoT and Security on Microsoft Azure

Cloud Solution Architect with implementation, design, architecture, and team leadership experience across a wide range of customers and industries. Deep technical experience in IaaS, PaaS, Networking, Identity, Modern Datacenter, Web applications, Big Data, IoT and Security on Microsoft Azure

Pre Sales Technical Professional for Enterprise Accounts in Mid-Atlantic. Focused on Windows Azure, IaaS Solutions, PaaS Solutions, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Azure Networking, Hybrid Applications Azure SQL, Hadoop, Hybrid Identity, Cyber Security, and Server/Datacenter Disaster Recovery in Azure. and every other cool new feature we bring to the Azure Platform.

Senior Consultant working in the public sector. Focused on Identity Management, FIM 2010, Active Directory, AD LDS, LDAP, UAG, Direct Access, TMG, SQL 2008/2012, Lync 2010, and Exchange 2010.

Technical Architect for one of the largest University’s in the county. My role was to architect new solutions to meet the business needs of the University. Create the project plan from all aspects (technical design, budget, scope, technical implementation, communication plan, and executive reporting). Function as Team Lead for the Messaging and Collaboration group. This involved helping develop staff, hiring staff, assigning tasks to team members, and steering the team in the direction it needed to go in to meet the University’s needs. •Worked within the Microsoft and VMware groups with a heavy focus on Active Directory, Exchange, SMTP Gateway Email (Unix and Ironport) and Virtualization.•Lead on projects involving Microsoft TMG 2010, UAG, ILM, FIM 2010, Forefront Endpoint Protection and Blackberry Enterprise Servers. •Held the position of Lead Systems Engineer along with Lead Messaging Engineer and Systems Architect.•Redesigned SMTP Mail flow for the University using Cisco Ironport as the solution.

Lead Messaging Engineer for University of Maryland (College Park). Architected and implemented their Exchange 2007 environment for a planned migration of 20000 mailboxes out of the 80000 mailboxes on campus. Designed and implemented a mission critical environment leveraging HA/cluster technology (Geo Clustering on Windows Server 2008) and EMC Symmetrix SAN storage platform. Team Lead for a group that performed all mailbox and service migrations over to new Exchange 2007 architecture from the Unix Appliance based mail environment.•Designed the Exchange 2007 environment that would support up to 70000 Mailboxes•Implemented all aspects of this environment which included geo clustering, EMC Symmetrix SAN’s, Cisco Load Balancers•Created the migration plan for all users and services, most of the technology behind this plan was using custom Pearl and PowerShell scripts. •Managed the team that performed the migration of all users to the new system•Designed the migration plan Oracle Calendar System to Microsoft Exchange for all University calendars, performed the migration

Evaluated, design new technologies and document the benefits these technologies would provide to the client. Some of these technologies are Lync 2010, Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010, Exchange 2010, and Forefront Identity Manager 2010. SQL Server 2008.•Redesigned SQL instance hosting Forefront Identity Manager 2010 to gain a significant performance increase. •Lead on Forefront Identity Manger 2010, UAG, TMG•Consolidation of SQL database servers, this includes providing a high availability solution for all mission critical databases•Administrator of Lync 2010 and Office Communication Server 2007 environments. Administrator of Exchange 2010 Enviroments.

For a Bio Medical company with headquarters based in United States (branch offices around the world). My role was to act as both a technical implementer and team leader to other members for the Enterprise Messaging and Enterprise Systems Management teams. I was also a technical liaison to various business units. I acted as a relationship manager between the branch offices that were outside of the United States. I also held the role of senior member of the change management and process control board. Worked with other business unit staff on gathering technical information for government requests for proposals (RFPs)•Architected a virtual environment that used EMC SANs for Storage, VMware 3.5 for servers to create a three tier web server environment, Vmotion was used as one of the keys to get the production systems to be fault tolerant •Lead Engineer and made architect changes to email system consisting of Exchange 2003 cluster environment•Redesigned SMTP gateway solution that was running on Red Hat Linux using Postfix•Redesigned Active Directory Topology with child domains in remote locations with limited bandwidth (Uganda, Rwanda, Kampala)•Designed and implemented a Heterogeneous enterprise monitoring system•Design systems and applications that adhered to FIPS standards

For one of the leading media and publishing companies in the country. Lead engineer on all Email and Directory Services projects. Redesigned Exchange environment from 5.5/2000 to 2003 clustered environment with UNIX send mail SMTP gateway servers. Maintained hosted web environment that supported about 2000 websites that were connected to many diverse clustered databases.•Designed and implemented Exchange 2003 in a clustered environment•Architected the Active Directory environment to align with the business practices of the company, this was a scalable design that allowed the company to add acquired branch offices as child domains and remove them as necessary •Designed group polices to help in securing the environment to get the business Payment Card Industry Certificated (PCI)•Designed and administered various database clusters (SQL, Oracle, DB2)•Implemented VMware at its early days (ESX Server 2.0 and 2.5)

. Designed and implemented planning for a migration from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000. Exchange 2003 organization. Designed and implemented Active Directory environment from a Windows NT environment with 5 branch offices using a root and child domain structure. Architected a Citrix Server Farm to provide a solution for employees in the field to have access to corporate applications. Implemented Document Imaging solution using Documentum. Gave presentations and status reports at quarterly executive meetings. Trained staff wrote technical documentation for all procedures. Created the companies IT disaster recovery plan. Maintained all Cisco routers, switches and PIX firewalls.

Designed and maintained Windows 2000 Active Directory’s and Windows NT domains. Configured web based three tier constituent correspondence management applications. Supported all network hardware, server hardware. Configured servers to function in a multi-domain Active Directory environment. Installed and maintained SQL 6.5 and 7 servers. Installed, configured and administrated Exchange 5.5. Configured Terminal Servers. Created and performed security audits. Configured and maintained Cisco routers, PIX Firewalls, Switches.