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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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.

• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.

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

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