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New York, New York, United States

• Manage the Identity Services and Workplace Engineering Teams, focusing on Identity Management for 11K+ users and end-point device management for 600 hand-held and 3300 laptops (Windows/Mac) within 4 Major MSG entities.
• Rearchitected the Hybrid Active Directory Infrastructure to optimize on-prem and cloud management allowing the creation of a true Disaster Recovery configuration centered around Security of sensitive users/groups and.
• Reorganized Microsoft licensing for onboarding/offboarding users producing a cost avoidance of 250K or the recovery of 625 Microsoft e5 Licenses.
• Created SOX Audit processes for Identity expanding from AD/Azure to 10+ Financial Applications. Each audit documented with an integrated approval process via ServiceNow that is completed within 15 days by 3 engineers.
• Centralized onboarding automation for FTE, consultants, and affiliates in a Hybrid AD environment consisting of 11K users.
• Implemented MAM/MDM security policies for endpoint management of company-owned devices introducing a least privilege and application management solution for Windows and Mac’s without budget impact.

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

• IT Consultant, Information Technology, August – November 2021
• Manage Migration of 570+ users’ mail services to MS 365 from a 3rd party cloud provider focusing on UPN alignment, Domain Consolidation, branding administration and security compliance.
• Integrated operational support teams from two distinct organizations to a centralized administrative model focusing on most restrictive security.
• Established Identity standards for separation of administration and PIM eligibility in MS365.
• Organized cleanup of PIM and Exchange roles to tighten security
• Accomplishments: Successfully migrated 570+ mailboxes and 7PB of storage within 3 months centralizing administration, collaboration, and user Identity. Created administrative accounts and aligned security with.

Orlando, Florida Area

• Managed a diverse operations team of 123 resources, focusing on service management and operational engineering for a server portfolio of 17K servers and a storage portfolio managing 25PB of Data. Responsibilities.
• Renegotiated HPe support contracts centralizing device support for server and storage under one master contract, avoiding individual support models producing YoY savings of $750K. Successfully added support for an.
• Manage servers for both x86 and RISC, Storage Operations across Dell/EMC, NetApp, Hitachi and HPE Platforms and Supplier services; manage contracts in a combined budget of more than $100M.
• Replaced Data Protection Services platform from Dell/EMC Data Domains with Rubrik, producing an expected cost efficiency of $8M over 6 years. Included a refresh project for 8 SAN Fabrics, reduction of 10 storage.
• Global Systems compliance and application management of 20K devices, using WSUS, BigFix and VRA. Reduced operational support incidents by 10% compared to previous YoY baseline for 2017 to 2018.
• Managed the cloud migration of 8K+ servers to AWS for Digital Services producing a cost avoidance of 15M+ over 3 years.

Orlando, Florida Area

• Managed geographically diverse team of professionals who specialized in operations of Active Directory, DNS, and PKI. Portfolio responsibilities include redesign of DNS architecture, AD migrations and system.
• Designed process for the integration of seven distinct Active Directory Domains into one domain for centralized Identity Management and access to resources. Planning involved new HW infrastructure and alignment with.
• Enforced compliance and mitigated support risks through integration of disparate domain structures resulting from legacy merger activities.
• Established governance for identity standards for contributed assets, integrating seven domains’ identities into one with no business interruption. Footprint of 40K users and 150K objects globally.
• Managed Audits for PCI and SOX in coordination with legal and audit teams to ensure compliance.
• Redesigned DNS global infrastructure in under 10 months along with the risk of separation of DNS ownership from General Electric. Portfolio management consisted of over 9200 domains.

Orlando, Florida Area

• Managed distributed teams responsible for x86-based systems centered on integrations and consolidations of Virtualization and Active Directory. Footprint consisted of 600 physical servers virtualized and 110 domains.
• Enforced compliance through disaster recovery scenarios for Virtualization, Active Directory, DHCP and DNS.
• Managed Peer Review of Project Engineering implementations enhanced collaboration between different IT Departments.
• Managed two-year virtualization of Active Directory project that produced cost savings of $2M (42% reduction). Replaced all physical servers in remote sites with Virtual infrastructure.
• Engineered the centralization of WINS and DNS services for merged or acquired entities into a single namespace, consolidating 600 static entries, 22 DNS Servers, Unix and Windows, and creating reduction of the.