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Miami, Fl, Us

Miami, Fl

Contracted to facilitate customers Cloud Adoption Framework of Microsoft digital transformational products and services program subscriptions for Azure and M365 suites: • Lead with assets identity rights management security driven approach based on Microsoft delivery enablement governance best practices.• Assess customer environments and systems to identify actions needed for efficient cloud service onboarding and migration with effective source to target requirements mapping for apps, data, etc.• Firm customer requirements, level of adoption of the service and corporate structure as it applies to launching the Microsoft products, services and drive the adoption with business value explanation. • Showcase expertise of Azure Entra/IAM/MFA/CAP/PIM/SSO, SIEM/Sentinel, Defender for Cloud, etc for SOC, GRC, SOX, PII, security and compliance enhancements.• Guide customers and partners through the valued customer success demo/workshop how-to steps and technical onboarding processes with DevOps boards agile/scrum framework.• Drive adoption and usage values across the customer base for purchased products and remediated risks.• Define and execute deployment roadmap with the customer’s IT staffs and business unit; ensured all migration plan prerequisites were completed timely to guarantee successful velocity migration.• Advocate the voice of the Customer leveraging current M365 toolsets and Power-BI analytics reports.• Serve as technical adviser and own the resolution of issues that arise during the onboarding phases; resolve incidents/problems and changes with Microsoft Support and Product teams.• Provide Findings and recommendations of Microsoft value add services to remediate technical blockers to threats; submit insights enhancement customer request tickets for Product team’s follow-up.• Maintain strong technical knowledge of Microsoft offerings and owned driving service improvements.• Other resume specifics are available for review.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Recruited to lead proposal, enablement and deployment program leveraging the Zero Trust (ZT) Rapid Modernization Plan (RaMP) as included in the Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA) and provides best practices to help prioritize security modernization. RaMP identifies the most effective controls for the most relevant and common attacks that require investment of time, effort, and resources:• Aligned the recommended Azure and M365 security modernization initiatives for client quick wins focus. Enhanced the customer enterprise environment security posture maturity level for the ZT 6 pillars of Identity, Endpoints, Applications, Data, Networks and Infrastructure• Designed and Secured Identities, Devices and Apps Accesses – Enabling cloud-based security capabilities like Azure AD, Intune, Microsoft Defender for Endpoints, and Azure AD App Proxy to rapidly modernize access control to increase productivity and security assurances; boosting customer ZT adoption by 10%• Ensured Data Security and Governance, Risk, Compliance (GRC) – Assessing the organization can rapidly recover from a ransomware/extortion attack without paying attackers and protecting the most valuable business critical data. Consuming Azure and M365 Compliance solutions like DLP, eDiscovery, IRM, etc• Analyzed Modern Security Operations – Streamlining responses to common attacks, getting end to end visibility across the enterprise, and automating manual tasks that slowdown analysts and cause burnout • Enhanced Infrastructure and Development Security – Enabling security hygiene, reducing legacy risk, integrating security into DevOps and development processes, and applying the micro-segmentation concepts to identity and network access control using log analytics via machine language, AI, etc• Orchestrated collection, migration and monitoring of system logs, SIEM tools and network traffic for unusual or suspicious activity; reviewed and recommended resilient processing of alert controls

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Provides General IT Consulting ServicesFacilitated customers Cloud Adoption Framework of Microsoft digital transformational products and services subscriptions for Azure and M365 suites. • Led with assets identity rights management security driven approach based on Microsoft delivery enablement governance best practices.• Assessed customer environments, networks, and systems to identify actions needed for efficient cloud service onboarding, migration, etc.• Firmed customer requirements, level of adoption of the service and corporate structure as it applies to launching the Microsoft products, services and drive the adoption with business value explanation. Showcase strong expertise of GRC, SOX, etc for security enhancement.• Guided customers and partners through the value customer success demo/workshop how-to steps and technical onboarding processes with DevOps framework. Drove adoption and usage values across the customer base for all purchased products/workloads and remediate risks.• Defined/executed deployment roadmap together with the customer’s IT staff and business unit. Ensured all migration plan prerequisites were completed timely to guarantee successful velocity migration. Advocated the voice of the Customer leveraging current M365 toolsets and Power-BI reports.• Served as technical adviser and own the resolution of issues that arise during the onboarding phases. Resolved incidents/problems and changes with Microsoft Support and Product teams.• Identified and recommended Microsoft value add services to remediate technical blockers to avoid threats. Submitted FTC Insights enhancement customer request tickets for Product team’s follow-up and status.• Maintained strong technical knowledge of Microsoft offerings and owned driving service improvements.• Cultivated knowledge share proactively with others in communities, solution documents, and social media to drive strong collaboration across FTC. Captured engagement and improvement feedback regularly.

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

Leading provider of IT Enterprise Solutions (ES) eBusiness services with $30B+ revenue & 5k+ SMEsManaged full lifecycle of various Oracle ES projects six constraints–scope, cost, schedule, resource, risk and quality for new installation, upgrade or migration implementation project infrastructure and applications.• Deployed Oracle cloud applications subscriptions: EBS, ASCP, OTM, HFM, GRC, NetSuite, CRM, EDWM/oBIee & DR for adequate business continuity. Led project teams to firm business requirements and define processes for the end state Oracle cloud solution for the clients. Increased ES revenue by $5M annually.• Enhanced security and compliance in provisioning cloud pyramid setup and configuration with effective access policies/rules and controls in Oracle Cloud OIM & GRC, other IAM/SSO/FS & MFA with OKTA/OAuth. Integrated SIEM solutions Splunk/GCB log analytics. Enabled Privilege Identity Management (PIM) and RBAC. • Managed project plan, costs, risks, incidents, issues / problems, changes / releases and provided status updates with ServiceNow cases and effective program/project management processes; also, managed 3rd party vendors / service providers consistent with SLA, SOPs, SOX, etc.