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Leidschendam, South Holland, Nl

Promoted to serve as a member of Fugro’s Global IT Leadership team. Oversee a total >45 personnel with 6 managers and leads. Oversee the regional IT budget, including both operating and capital budgets, by making strategic decisions and granting final approval for IT expenditures amounting to millions of dollars.> Lead stakeholder engagement and escalation processes with various business partners, aligning IT operations with organizational objectives and OKRs, as well as managing global contracts (e.g., MS) and strategic direction to practice leads and managers.> Ensure IT adherence to company policies and procedures and direct information management strategy, budgeting, tactical planning, and change management across the Americas region (Canada, US, Mexico, Chile, Trinidad, Brazil).> Manage technical, architectural, and operational aspects of regional business engagement, cybersecurity, data strategy, governance/risk management/compliance (GRC), IT support, technology engineering, and cloud solutions.> Lead stakeholder roadmapping, manage large-scale technical projects driving process improvements and efficiencies, identify user needs and build management information systems (MIS) teams to support all organizational levels.

Leidschendam, South Holland, Nl

Promoted to manage a technical team and various IT projects, providing technical, architectural, and operational oversight for U.S.-specific engineering IT systems, resources, and procedures. Acted as the Global Messaging Lead, responsible for the architecture, configuration, and support of a hybrid cloud-enabled messaging environment, servicing over 13K on-premise and cloud mail users.> Reported to the Regional Head of IT and oversaw 6 Direct Reports; directed a team of 12 mid-to-senior engineering professionals across the United States, ensuring the effective management and deployment of IT resources.> Oversaw public and hybrid cloud infrastructure management, including Microsoft Azure and AWS, with a focus on reducing aging datacenter infrastructure by migrating workloads, computing, and processes to the cloud.Key Achievements:> Led parallel IT project management efforts and engaged deeply with stakeholders across multiple service lines, including Geo-technical, Geo-spatial, R&D, marine, sub-sea, and land.> Managed 5 enterprise on-premise datacenters, overseeing operational efficiency, maintenance, and modernization.> Served as the project lead and advocate for public cloud initiatives, architecting solutions with emerging technologies to optimize operations.

Leidschendam, South Holland, Nl

Served as a Cloud Solutions Engineer (Office 365/Azure), playing a pivotal role in the design and implementation of Azure/O365/Exchange hybrid solutions, including Ping Identity Federation configuration for authentication and SSO. Led regional and global migration efforts to consolidate 150+ segmented domains acquired by Fugro into a single top-level, hybrid-cloud-enabled domain. Identified on-premise server loads suitable for deployment to Azure cloud, enhancing scalability and reducing hardware costs.> Managed a VMware cluster with 150 test, development, and production virtual machines across 8 ESXi 5.5 hosts, overseeing upgrades, configuration, data store management, and capacity planning. > Acted as the lead resource for 10+ remote site ESXi instances, including the DMZ and specialized in Active Directory domain migration and consolidation, successfully managing mailbox, AD user, computer, and server migrations.> Led Directory Services engineering efforts, responsible for configuration and administration of Active Directory service platforms, including Users and Computers, Sites and Services, DNS, DHCP, Domains and Trusts, and Group Policy.Key Achievements:> Selected as one of only 4 IT professionals in 2015 from the Americas, Europe, and Asia to join the global administration team, granted sole enterprise admin/schema rights for the global domain supporting 12,000+ users.> Acted as the Regional and Global Enterprise Messaging Lead Architect and Engineer for multiple Exchange 2010 regional instances, as well as a global Exchange 2013 environment with 3 regional multi-site DAGs (Americas, Europe, and Asia) in a hybrid Exchange online setup.

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