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Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Member of Technical Delivery (TD) team where its mission is to provide technical depth and platform expertise to C+AI’s most important customers and partners through complex projects, internal experiments and technology/scenario validations.* Working with Microsoft's top priority customers through architectural design sessions, complex implementations and POCs to help them succeed in Azure;* Contributing to Azure different product group success by driving customer feedback to be implemented in our products;* Providing data driven ideas and all necessary means to those product groups for new or existing products;* Helping team growth with knowledge sharing sessions;* Helping customers worldwide by developing and maintaining solutions like ARM Templates, Scripts, Powershell modules and documentation like ebooks and whitepapers;* Working closely with Windows Virtual Desktop Product Group on their deployment template and on converting their current Scaling script to a c# Azure Function solution;* Acting as one of the Storage Technical Focus Area leaders, by providing storage feedback to Azure NetApp Files, Avere, Azure Large Files and NFS on File Shares product teams.* Worked closely with Table Storage team in order to implement their upcoming SDK change on my AzureRmStorageTable since it has more than 300K installs from Powershell Gallery.

Redmond, Washington, Us

* Core developer and world-wide leader for Activate Azure with IaaS service since mid-2016 taking it to the next level and making it the 3rd most delivered IP from Microsoft Services in FY 17;* Developed and released two Azure PowerShell related modules, one for Azure Storage Tables and the other for Azure Storage Queues (combined they sum 200K+ installs from PS Gallery);* Created a TechNet Blog dedicated to Azure topics with 18 articles published;* Developed two Azure Automation Solutions, one for weekly schedule VM startup and shutdown and the other to help managing custom VHD images on large customers;* Delivery of customized Azure related services like on-premises to Azure or Azure Service Manager to Azure Resource Manager migrations, Azure Monitoring, Azure Automation and Environment setup;* Developer of two other Microsoft Services offerings called Fast Start for Identity and Onboard Accelerator for Enterprise Mobility Service;* Core developer of publicly available tool (Powershell Module) through Microsoft’s Script Gallery called Runbook Automation for Active Directory.* Responsible for mentoring PFEs that are new to Azure, helping them getting accredited on our Azure related services;* Awarded with 4 awards since transferred from Brazli and one of them is Key Talent in FY16.

Redmond, Washington, Us

* Proven recognized valuable employee due to winning two Great People Great Performance (GPGP) awards in FY14 and FY15 and Key Talent in FY14;* Developer of CPS Inventory Tool as part of CPS Patch and Upgrades module of WSSC product group team in a 1-year job rotation;* Creation a new Premier workshop called “Active Directory: Hands on Troubleshooting Labs”;* Delivery of Risk and Health (AD, GPO and PKI) Assessments for customers helping them reach a greater infrastructure maturity level;* Responsible for bringing Public Key Infrastructure Health Check and Workshop to Latin America thus growing knowledge level in the region and increasing Brazil’s current offerings;* In less than two years became Group Policy Technology Lead in Latin America;* Core member of GPO Health Check and Rap as a service for GPO development team;* Developer of Rap as a Service Runbook Automation Powershell module for Raas AD;* Global support resource for GPO Health Check program related issues;* Member of development teams for some workshops (Active Directory Hands-on Labs, PKI 2008 R2, PKI 2012);* Developer of Lab Framework tool – a tool to create, manage and deploy virtual labs in Hyper-v environment;* Support enterprise customers in what is called CritSits (critical situations) where whole production environments are down or revenue is impacted;* Delivery of Active Directory, PKI and Azure related workshops for enterprise customers helping them to get a deep knowledge of these three technologies;* Development of Powershell scripts to manage SQL Server batch processing in one of the biggest banking customer in Brazil as a PoC;* Responsible for Azure consumption growth for customers in Brazil through Azure related engagements;* Sharing Azure related knowledge with peers to get Brazil ready to fully support Azure due to demand growth;* Worked on CPE recovery engagements related to Azure making unhappy customers trust the platform again.

Munich, De

Employee of Siemens IT business unit, responsible for architectural design of IT projects related to Microsoft Platform, as well as its implementation and 3rd level support.• Babylon project: server consolidation and workstation migration to CAT (Siemens Standard Client) in Latin America (13 countries) and integration of this region inside the global Active Directory Siemens Forest, being responsible by Group Policies, DFS environment, development of all scripts and tools used during the project and workstation migration to the new domain (15.000);• Development of tools and scripts for Active Directory administration that is used by Siemens IT teams world-wide;• Implementation of 802.1x infrastructure at Siemens Latin America using Microsoft technologies (Active Directory, IAS, Certificate Services, VB 2005 and IIS);• Member of a Siemens global tem SWAT (Siemens Workplace Architecture Team) through meetings and conference calls and leading some presentations within these groups;• Actively involved in Microsoft Windows Vista TAP (Technology Adoption Program) and nowadays participating in the Windows 7.0 TAP;• Development of Internet Guest Access concept/software for visitors and deployed at Nokia Siemens company;• Participation on the implementation of Configuration Management ITIL process in SIS Brazil being responsible for it during one year;• Main resource regarding Active Directory technical design and architecture for customer’s projects (Goodyear, Basf and others);• Responsible by the first design and implementation of a new technology inside Siemens IT and afterwards create a standard and make available to SDA department;• Creation and maintenance of “Standard Services” concept for technical proposals;• Development of computer migration management software to manage migrations of thousands of computers to new operating systems (using Visual Basic 2005 and SQL Server 2005);

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Former Mannesmann Dematic Rapistan and former affiliated Siemens Company in logistics area. Responsible for the IT department, third level technical support to users and network administration.• Implementation/Operation of Windows 2000 Active Directory and all servers (SMS 2.0, Exchange 2000, ISA Server 2000, SQL 7.0)• Implementation of their former ERP system and after that for migration to SAP hired from SBS Brazil.• Implementation of all communication links between remote offices in Brazil and the international link within USA Headquarter.• Participation in project design and implementation for customers adding value to the company main products (conveyors).• Implementation of engineering tools by traveling to the Headquarter, learning and working with their development teams to make its tools available to Brazil office• Responsible by the first success case with Veritas Volume Replicator tool in Brazil.

Consulting company specialized in outsourcing. Technical support to Novell Netware, Windows NT servers, Microsoft Exchange and Citrix Winframe, end-user support and development of tools at Anglo American Corp

Start of my professional career in IT when I was 15 years old, teaching programming classes for BASIC and COBOL languages.