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Snohomish, Wa, Us

Irving, Texas, Us

After 25+ years in the industry, I decided to take a break. Semi-retirement is delightful!

Redmond, Washington, Us

As a solutions architect within the Customer Success organization, I worked with Strategic customers ($100m+ annual Azure Consumption) as the Subject Matter Expert for Azure Core services. I work with senior leadership on long term cloud strategy; with infrastructure and operations teams on getting the best value from their cloud usage; and with development teams to assist with blending platform services and custom code to create highly scalable and resilient applications.Some highlights include:• I created architectures for a OT (Operational Technology) Network for a global manufacturer• I assisted with a new Retail POS private network and large scale data analytics platform (Databricks)• I modernized the Backup and Recovery methodology across thousands of virtual machines within the Azure platform

Teaneck, Us

I work with global enterprise organizations on their short- and long-term Cloud strategies. My primary focuses are within the Application Modernization and Cloud Transformation spaces. With a proven background leading efforts to:• Modernize globally impacting applications• Create secure, microservice based platform architecture, seamlessly integrated with PaaS components for a 'best of both worlds' approach to overall implementation * Advise and assist in the creation of long-term Cloud strategy I have a deep knowledge of the Azure Platform, and the Microsoft 365 offerings, and the background experience to discuss, design, and implement a broad potential set of solutions for clients of all sizes. I have excellent customer presence, am able to communicate to all levels within an organization, and strive to improve the processes and tools used within the sales cycle to shorten the lead times needed to present various artifacts to the customer.

Chicago, Il, Us

Acquired by Cognizant in 2020

London, Gb

Cloudreach are industry leaders in assisting companies with transforming into cloud first organisations, technologically, professionally and culturally. I help global corporations in the fashion, finance, logistics, media & entertainment, and hospitality industries, to name a few, in their cloud transformation journeys.

As Chief Architect, I am responsible for end to end platform/cloud/application architecture in Azure, growth in cloud platform service adoption and cloud spend; in addition to full stack Office 365/IAM/ Intune configuration.Highlights include:• Created new application and platform architecture moving from an IaaS based application, to a microservice based PaaS platform• Modernized platform stack to utilize Azure native functionality to ensure the application was scalable and highly available• Created full automation managing everything after code check in through full stack new azure environment creation and application deployment and into to production ready state• Created large scale data ingestion platform capable of taking data in a vast array of formats and normalizing it into a common schema allowing for processing by the our custom NLP (Natural Language Processor)• The implementation of real time dashboards in Power BI for application and infrastructure health and current NLP state

Woodinville, Washington, Us

My responsibilities range from assisting pre-sales, advising clients on methodologies for DevOps, and architecting unique solutions using the full stack of Azure services and offerings. In addition to providing traditional IT consulting services such as Active Directory consolidations and migrations, lift and shift to both Azure and AWS, and Application migrations. I have created Proof of Concept architectures for numerous clients, ranging from security appliances to traditional IIS applications migrated to serverless computing. I have also consulted with several national telco’s in how to implement DevOps across their teams and the company.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

My primary responsibility was of the lead game platform architect for the title “Magic the Gathering: Arena” for both cloud services and game microservice architecture.Responsible for defining DevOps for WotC; into a meaningful and useful development methodology.Responsible for defining the definition now adopted by all Hasbro owned companies for what is a Microservice and how to create a Microservice based architecture at global scale.Responsible for designing and creating an ultra-large-scale logging and auditing platform, scalable to handle 100,000+ messages per second. The system is capable of handling not just logging information, but also performance data from any number of sources. It is based on Azure Event Hub, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure App Services, Azure Insight Analytics, OMS and Azure Data Lake Store and Analytics.I have written and developed security models for working in Azure Service Fabric; created usable working definitions of what a Microservice should be in the Wizards ecosystem; Presented game architecture to Microsoft; and created a dynamic and complex cost model calculator to help the business understand the costs associated with every aspect of a very large Azure implementation - to name a few of my achievements in my time at Wizards of the Coast.

Architecting new, or improved solutions to meet the ever changing needs of our client across all of the Microsoft product sets and services, both on premises and in the cloud.Major Achievements:• Architected and implemented full on premise Virtual Server infrastructure replacement, including storage, networking equipment, backup hardware and servers• Architected and implemented Hybrid On-Prem / Office 365 / Azure environment, including Hosted Servers, Hosted Services, complex ADFS infrastructure behind f5 GTM and LTM’s• Full cloud migration of Email and SharePoint to Office 365• Architected and implemented a new company’s Office 365 and Azure environment, including Azure AD joined laptops, full Intune implementation, SSO for third party apps and detailed alerting and monitoring using the latest reporting provided by Intune, Office 365 audit logging and Azure Auditing

Seattle, Wa, Us

Leading an extremely talented group of Engineers looking after the Exchange, SharePoint and OCS/ Lync environments used internally at Amazon. Major achievements at Amazon include:• Complete re-architecture of existing Exchange environment to resolve numerous issues andinstabilities and utilize more up to date design methodologies than were previously being used * Complete re-architecture of SharePoint farms and large scale data migration using a combination of third party tools and native migration techniques• Architected and implemented a Large Scale data and log collector capable of indexing and searchingbillions of entries with an average response time of less than 2 seconds per query• Complete re-architecture of the Edge mail infrastructure using Carrier grade Cisco IronPorts. Thesolution was capable of handling 10's or millions of emails in and out a day, whilst providing the highest level of security to the environment

I consulted on numerous projects, including architecting an Exchange 2010 private cloud for a multinational organization with sites spanning the globe and incorporating cloud based UM and On Premise Enterprise Lync supported by a fully HA and Site Resilient email solution hosted in multiple datacenters.I also consulted with several financial institutions and law firms, on AD issues, Exchange designs, UM and Lync deployments.

Seattle, Wa, Us

• Design, Document and Deploy System Center Configuration Manager and System Center Operations Manager into the Microsoft Video Labs unique environment• Create OSD solutions for Cisco USC environments within the Microsoft Video Labs environment• Train Microsoft Video Labs staff on how to use SCCM and SCOM within their environment• Develop PowerShell libraries for various BPOS groups • Design and Upgrade Lincoln Bay’s internal systems• Develop business relationships with client groups for ongoing partnership

Greenwood Village, Colorado, Us

Daily Operations Lead for the Microsoft Exchange Team:• Manage the day to day deployments, maintenance, issue tracking and staffing for all datacenters involved in outlook.com• Intimate knowledge of Exchange 2010's complete architecture and extensive experience designing and deploying large scale implementation in datacenter environments• Developed all deployment tools that are used across all Microsoft's Exchange 2010 sites to deploy and monitor Microsoft's Exchange in the Cloud implementation• Proposed and Architected major design changes in Microsoft's Exchange 2010 implementation in the• Cloud for managing multiple datacenters centrally• Developed management tools included with Exchange 2010 SP1• Write and maintain deployment documentation for Microsoft's Exchange in the Cloud implementation• Troubleshoot and create bugs for Exchange 2010 builds• Provide Tier 3 and 4 support for all of Microsoft's Exchange 2010 Environments• Train new staff on Exchange and Datacenter procedures• Write and maintain PowerShell libraries for the Exchange Operations Team• Prepare design specifications documentation for future functionality of Microsoft's Exchange in the Cloud datacenter installations

Redmond, Washington, Us

• Subject Matter Expert(SME) for Virtualization and associated Technologies including Windows Server Hyper-V• System Center Virtual Machine Manager System Center Operations Manager SAN hardware (EMC)• Primary Infrastructure architect for an MMO in development in China (10,000+ servers) Experienced with architecting and configuring f5 BigIP solutions• Tier 4 resource for issue escalation New Technology advocate for GamesIT• Mentor to junior team members on hardware and software Presenting new technologies to team via brown bags Architecting solutions using XLSP for GamesIT clients• Assisting Client Game Studios in designing software to utilize specialized networking and server equipment• Consultant for upcoming game titles on all Operational requirements for game studios in several countries• Created Virtual Labs using Hyper-V for multiple MGS studios.• Created custom user portal for SCVMM to use custom Power Shell scripts.• Writing specifications and proposals for current system upgrades and new technology implementations Stand in for IT Operations Manager whilst our group is without a manager.• Run daily and weekly team meetings and manage resource allocation for Project Engineering team• Test functionality of in game services hosted by GamesIT • Participate in On-call rotation• Driving Projects to define new SKU standards for Virtual Server Hosting and SKUs to assist in the adoption of other new technologies• Developed Change and Release Management Tool for use by all GamesIT• Created backend game infrastructure and credit in over a dozen Xbox and PC titles