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Engineering the next generation of Azure AI Cybersecurity services

Encinitas, Ca, Us

Assigned to design solutions and enhance security posture in alignment with corporate objectives.Key Accomplishments:Azure Environment Optimization: Strategized with team members to maximize Azure environment utilization, aligning solutions with business goals. Developed and implemented an Identity Access Management (IAM) policy and roles strategy to enhance security and streamline access control.Data Environment Buildout: Spearheaded the setup of the Data Engineering group's Azure environment, incorporating key components: Azure SQL Managed Instance, Azure Data Factory, Data Watcher, and Defender for SQL Server. Implemented security controls and ensured secure third-party partner connectivity. Troubleshoot data flow and security issues, ensuring smooth operations. Maintained comprehensive documentation covering architecture, inventory, roles, responsibilities, security controls, and monitoring.Automation with Azure Functions: Developed Azure Functions in Python and PowerShell to automate access to third-party information through APIs, improving workflow efficiency.

New York, Ny, Us

 Conducted assessments of the Azure infrastructure, addressing vulnerabilities and implementing security measures. Examined the Azure architecture to resolve infrastructure-related vulnerabilities identified by two independent security assessment firms. Devised and implemented strategies to rectify security issues, presenting them to management for approval. Conducted reverse engineering of operational workloads to facilitate real-time remediation efforts. Led a team in executing strategies and documenting outcomes. Collaborated with the Governance Team to proactively mitigate future vulnerabilities using Azure policies and automated processes. Established a comprehensive identity and access management (IAM) governance policy for the organization.

Albany, Us

Lead Cybersecurity Engineer responsible for architecting, implementing, and compliance of the cybersecurity operations in support of an organization that provides CPA-hosted services in Azure. Major accomplishments: Implementation of a security operation center (SOC) that provides oversight of all production tenants, interfacing with other divisions to provide Azure expertise, assisting development in security integration of products being hosted in Azure, provide the framework to assess regulatory compliance of hosted offerings, continuous SecOps assessment (alerts, secure score, penetration testing) and engineering new solutions to strengthen the security posture of the environments.

Freelance Azure SecOps consulting

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Client: Large U.S. manufacturing firmLead Azure role responsible for the creation of a Cloud-based platform to support the migration of an on-premise Linux-based SAP system.Milestones: Infrastructure – Collaborate w/client’s engineering team to develop a hybrid infrastructure to support multiple Azure environments in (2) regions.SAP – Collaborated with stakeholders to develop a ‘green field’ deployment of a Windows-based SAP system in Azure. Consulting – Interacting with stakeholders to devise a comprehensive strategy to migrate SAP data.DevOps – Develop artifacts and processes to automate deployment of Azure resources for each SAP environment (dev, QA, production failover & production).Integration – Wired up integration point with supporting resources, systems, and partners.Business Intelligent – Deployment of Azure Power BI to allow the client to generate statistic and compliance reports.High Availability/Disaster Recover – Designed and implemented HADR strategies for critical SAP workloads.Monitoring – Established a monitoring and alerting scheme which includes automation resolution of critical issues.Administration – Managed off-shore resources to perform administration tasks.SWAT – Senior member of a team tasked to resolve urgent issues that would jeopardize the project.SecurityRisk assessment and mitigation of security vulnerabilities involving connectivity to external partners.Architecture and implementation of initial Active Directory.Implementation of security controls based on client’s policies and requirements.

Hyderabad, Telangana, In

Client: ConfidentialResponsible for the strategic architecture, implementation, and migration a of a mission-critical application from on-prem to Microsoft Azure. The strategy involved re-platforming a set of reporting applications running on (47) Windows 2003 servers to Windows 2012 R2 servers. This project was labeled high-risk due to the technological uncertainty of migrating legacy applications to the Cloud.Architecture – Tasks included: Requirements gathering, migration roadmap, high-risk assessment of technological hurdles and documentation.Technology - DevOps tasks: Setup of the Azure Key Vault to protect service account’s passwords, creation of PowerShell scripts to automate the migration process, creation of the ARM Templates used to build out the VMs, integrated domain joins of VMs into the provisioning scripts and working with the client’s development team to refactor the application to work in the targeted environment.

Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Responsible for the design and implementation of BSNF's next generation of SharePoint O365 solutions

Veteran Owned Small Business consulting firm specializing in engineering Microsoft Azure and cloud-based solutions.

Assigned to the Integration group responsible for the design, development, implementation and support of the web services initiatives for the U.S. ARMY Synchronized Pre-Deployment and Operational Tracker (SPOT) program.

Mclean, Virginia, Us

Assigned to the U.S. Army Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) responsible for the architecture, development, implementation and administration of a Microsoft SharePoint 2013 platform including Business Intelligence ( SSRS, SSAS, PowerPivot, PerformancePoint, Dashboard, Excel, BISM ). Custom app development of line of busines applications utilizing Microsoft's technologies and best practices ( JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, Knockout, C#, MVC 4, REST, Entity Framework ).

Falls Church, Va, Us

Assigned to the Enterprise group responsible for blueprinting, engineering & implementation of enterprise solutions for the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) division.

Washington, Dc, Us

Assigned to the Standards group responsible for engineering enterprise security & geographic information system (GIS) solution for the Federal Aviation Administration Air Traffic Organization division.

Tampa, Fl, Us

Consultant providing security solutions for Waste Management meta directory services and web applications access management.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, Us

Assigned to the IT security group responsible for engineering enterprise security solutions in support of internal web-based applications.

Arlington, Virginia, Us

US, Korea, Saudi ArabiaServed active ARMY in the infantry, served ARMY reserves as a Military Police Officer. Tour of duties includes United Nation Command's Joint Security Command, Pan Mun Jon, South Korea and 94th Military Police Company in support of Operation Desert Storm, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Certificate, Microsoft Sharepoint Developing 10175

Management Information Systems

Oracle Bpel Process Manager

Gcih, Hacker Techniques, Exploits & Incident Handling

Netpoint Oblix Admin

Siteminder Environment

Mqseries Everyplace Application Implementation

Websphere Application Server Adv. Ed, Development & Studio

Dirxml Technology And Development

Java Technology Architecture Planning And Design

Certified Novell Engineer, Certified Lotus Notes

Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Administration

Associate, Electronics

Associate, Criminal Justice