Manage, oversee, and direct system architecture, infrastructure, and operations, including M365 and MS Intune. Senior team lead to oversee the architectural design for private, hybrid and public cloud environments. Administer and support cloud infrastructure implementation and migration, leveraging virtualization, automation, and orchestration technologies in Microsoft Azure. Architect DevOps environments using CI/CD pipelines and GitHub. Design and deploy containerization using Docker and… Show more Manage, oversee, and direct system architecture, infrastructure, and operations, including M365 and MS Intune. Senior team lead to oversee the architectural design for private, hybrid and public cloud environments. Administer and support cloud infrastructure implementation and migration, leveraging virtualization, automation, and orchestration technologies in Microsoft Azure. Architect DevOps environments using CI/CD pipelines and GitHub. Design and deploy containerization using Docker and Azure Kubernetes. Provide day-to-day support of overall infrastructure including network, physical and virtual servers, and storage. Provide day-to-day support of enterprise hardware & system needs including procurement, configuration & management. Manage IT/Cloud operations teams’ day-to-day duties as well as strategic team growth and planning as needed as the company scales. Responsible for FinOps for company cloud tenants, including monthly and ad-hoc reporting.Highlights•Managed all company devices using Azure Active Directory and MS Intune with Autopilot. Created all Intune policies and Microsoft Endpoint Security protection policies. Managed all company users and guests with M365.•Created and operated company helpdesk site using SolarWinds cloud solution.•Provide day-to-day support of overall infrastructure including network, physical and virtual servers, and storage.•Provide day-to-day support of enterprise hardware & system needs including procurement, configuration & management.•Manage IT/Cloud operations teams’ day-to-day duties as well as strategic team growth and planning as needed as the company scales.•Architect DevOps environments using CI/CD pipelines and GitHub.•Responsible for FinOps for company cloud tenants, including monthly and ad-hoc reporting. Show less

As the senior cloud solutions architect for the Enterprise Data Center and Azure cloud, I designed a hybrid cloud solution by creating an Azure Landing Zone that supports both the Enterprise and agencies under the Governor’s authority. Responsible for all Commonwealth’s FinOps to include all commercial and government tenants. My responsibility entailed engineering, architecting, cost optimization, budgeting and implementing and maintaining azure resources and services for the enterprise as well… Show more As the senior cloud solutions architect for the Enterprise Data Center and Azure cloud, I designed a hybrid cloud solution by creating an Azure Landing Zone that supports both the Enterprise and agencies under the Governor’s authority. Responsible for all Commonwealth’s FinOps to include all commercial and government tenants. My responsibility entailed engineering, architecting, cost optimization, budgeting and implementing and maintaining azure resources and services for the enterprise as well as the agencies within the state. I created DevOps sites for each agency utilizing CI/CD pipelines and GitHub repositories. Design and deploy containerization using Docker and Azure Kubernetes. Architect, create and manage the Azure networks and Express Route circuit back to on-premises locations. I was responsible for the design, management and troubleshooting of the Azure Firewall, including policies to control the traffic flow in the cloud and back to the on-premises locations. I managed services teams that support SCOM, SCCM, DNS, PKI, KMS, LAPS, Linux servers, Windows servers, antivirus, and monitoring operations.Highlights•Created Commonwealth’s first complete Azure Landing Zone that included FinOps, Enterprise Agreement, accounts, subscriptions, Express route connection, Azure Firewall and policies, hub and spoke network design, app gateways, Defender, Entra ID with sync from on-premises AD, DNS Zones, Management groups, Azure policies, key vaults, storage accounts, recover vaults and sandbox environment. Create and maintain extensive diagrams and documentation to support the on-premises and azure environments for the enterprise as well as the individual agencies. •Engineered and implemented Azure MFA for 80K+ users for multiple Enterprise applications. Managed 80k+ users with M365 and Azure Active directory.•Built same Azure Landing Zone for Azure Gov Cloud as was done for Azure commercial.•Began infrastructure build out in AWS Cloud. Show less

At the largest agency in the state, I was the chief architect for the largest department, Office of Income Maintenance. I created and maintained the DHS cloud infrastructure using the Azure platform. I Managed 500+ servers and 18,000+ users in a Windows XP/Windows 7/Windows 8.1 environment. Highlights•During the Obamacare healthcare rapid deployment, I was able to architect an azure solution to manage the enormous number of citizens wanting to apply for benefits. The… Show more At the largest agency in the state, I was the chief architect for the largest department, Office of Income Maintenance. I created and maintained the DHS cloud infrastructure using the Azure platform. I Managed 500+ servers and 18,000+ users in a Windows XP/Windows 7/Windows 8.1 environment. Highlights•During the Obamacare healthcare rapid deployment, I was able to architect an azure solution to manage the enormous number of citizens wanting to apply for benefits. The commonwealth did not have the bandwidth or internet capacity to service the number of requests. I was able to seamlessly direct all that traffic to our Azure platform and avert a crisis.•Managed multimillion-dollar, prominent, high visibility projects related to servers, desktops, printers, and laptop hardware and software upgrades. •Successfully architected and implemented a Hyper-V infrastructure to over one hundred remote offices around the state of PA. Utilized Hyper-V’s emerging features to provide remote offices with high availability using multiple servers that removed the organizations reliance on single point of hardware failures. This allowed county assistance workers to be able to provide a much higher level of service for their citizens in need of assistance.•Architected and implemented a new Citrix NetScaler infrastructure into the production environment to replace the aging proxy solution, ISA 2006•Partnered with major IT vendors to include but not limited to Microsoft, RedHat, IBM, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Lexmark, Citrix/NetScaler, Cisco, NetApp, and Xerox, to successfully complete various projects on time and under budget.•Architect lead for all large projects such as replacing over 12,500 desktops with Windows 7 (x64) using a single image that excels on both Dell and HP desktops using an automated process that scripted joining the domain and performs post load tasks.•Provided third tier support for all AD, GPO, DHCP, DNS, DFS, KMS and all domain related issues. Show less