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Florida, United States

Ascent is the technology consulting partner to SECURE, UNIFY, and MANAGE the enterprise. Our consulting teams understand the demands of today’s modern workplace and the technology hurdles it can create. Ascent provides organizations with the expertise needed to quickly move beyond technical constraints and focus on achieving business results.2023 Microsoft Partner of the Year award for "Security - Endpoint Management"2023 Microsoft Partner Security Trailblazer Award!

Miramar, Florida, United States

Designs, develops, and deploys Azure IAAS solutions to meet our customer’s business service requirements, responsible for datacenter migrations and for driving digital transformation efforts.Design and implementation of Microsoft's Defender and Azure Security Stacks including Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, Defender for Office 365, Defender for Cloud Apps, Defender for Cloud, Privileged Identity Management, and Azure Sentinel.Design and implementation of endpoint management and security solutions utilizing Intune, Configuration Manager (SCCM), and Jamf.Cross Forest Active Directory and 0365 Tenant migrations during business divestitures and mergers.Expertise in performing security assessments and remediations, specialization in securing Microsoft’s Cloud and on-premises services. Excellent soft skills, delivery of technical pre-sales presentations and design workshops, enthusiastic Azure Cloud adoption and M365 evangelist.

Fort Lauderdale

Acted as a Solution Architect and Security consultant for multiple VARs, specializing in Microsoft Azure IAAS, Azure Virtual Desktop, Office 365, Purview, Intune/Microsoft Endpoint Manager, and M365 Defender Security Stack.Expertise in Microsoft Servers and services including Exchange, SQL, Remote Desktop Services (RDS), Configuration Manager (SCCM), Active Directory, Enterprise Certificate Authority/PKI, NPS, and IIS.Led the design and deployment of datacenter compute and storage systems such as Cisco UCS, HPE, Dell/EMC, Pure, Nimble, and Netapp, both ISCSI and Fiber, as well as Hyperconverged Systems including Nutanix and Cisco HyperFlex.Developed proficiency in virtualization hypervisors and container systems including VMware, Hyper-V/VMM, KVM, and Docker.Conducted Active Directory, Windows OS, and Microsoft Cloud-focused security assessments, providing best practices and governance recommendations.Designed and deployed network security solutions, including firewalls such as Fortinet, Cisco ASA, Dell SonicWALL, Untangle, Opnsense/PFSense, and SIEM deployment and configuration including Azure Sentinel, Splunk, and LogRhythm.Light coding and scripting experience utilizing Python, PowerShell, Bash, and C#, with automation utilizing Terraform, Chef, and Ansible.

Recruited to lead infrastructure design and project management to upgrade and replace obsolete technologies.Direct management of a 7-Person technical teamTechnical escalation point for all company IT systems including SAN, vSphere, Citrix, Windows, Voice and Data networking equipment.

Datacenter design and implementation for large corporate clients, includes compute and virtualization, shared storage, network, firewall and load balancing technologies.

Infrastructure Manager and technical lead

Windows Server Administration, Systems and Network Engineering

Windows Server Administration, Systems and Network Engineering

Cybersecurity Bas

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