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Seattle, WA, US

Seattle, WA, US

Office 365, Azure, Cyber Security, DLP oh this is going to be fun...Making sure data is protected at rest, in-flight, everywhere! Reporting on how data is being moved, treated. DLP is just a very small piece to an organization's control of its data, its customer data, its employee data.

Kent, WA, US

Kent, WA, US

• Provided Consultation on Office 365
• Enabled Email Encryption using O365 OME Service and Azure RMS
• Reviewed and Advised on several other In-Flight Initiatives such as OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, ArcGIS, Docusign
• Workday HCMA implementation
• O365 Intune Endpoint Security
• Conditional Access Policies for O365 DLP

Everett, WA, US

• Engaged in Information Technology Initiatives as a Consultant
• IT Strategy, Tactical, and Operational engagements
• Listening to business needs and requirements, then turning them into IT Initiatives
• Engaged as Interim Information Technology Manager
• Led projects around Software Transformation Initiatives
• Led projects around Infrastructure Transformation Initiatives

Tukwila, WA, US

Bellingham, Washington, US

• Traveled between Bellingham and Kent Washington building bridges and breaking down silos, being a sounding board for both sides as we prepared and pushed through the changes to become a single organization on the same.
• Managed a team of 15 people in Bellingham and 4 people in Kent
• Led the adoption of the Managed Services methodology over IT Consulting
• Led the transformation of systems and services consolidation efforts
• Captured a 36% increase in revenue during the first 9 months post-merger
• Member of leadership team driving a new organizational strategy

Seattle, Washington, US

• Led Cybersecurity Initiatives
• Led Identity and Access Management discussions proposals
• Participated in O365/Azure migration project working to move forward and get back on track
• Built documentation and Diagram of Infrastructure
• Providing Consulting in various disciplines on an as needed basis
• Assisted with sourcing the Director of Business Development

Vancouver, BC, CA

• Coordinate technical efforts and Change Management for global Privacy compliance activities driven by European Union's Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Engaged several vendors to assist with the GDPR compliance initiative narrowing the vendors down to three then bringing them onsite to perform an assessment; Worked with stakeholders to select a vendor and move forward.
• Engage with external counsel and internal legal teams to create and refine global User Stories and Acceptance Criteria for use by dozens of systems across the portfolio; Worked with a technical writer to translate our.
• Engage marketing teams both internal and external to align with the GDPR requirements on how we collect data, leverage data, present data
• Engaged C-Level executives to push the narrative of creating a Chief Data Officer (CDO) role
• Engaged Cybersecurity and Legal to discuss methods to continue fraud mitigation based on the requirement of deleting user data completely vs. maintaining data for fraud detection; User data is broad which creates a.

Mountlake Terrace, Washington, US

• Consult with Cybersecurity Department Leadership to assess IAM environment.
• Engage internal and external customers to determine current state experience and provide feedback on methods and implementation to increase adoption of the new technology, while repairing and generating new.
• Stabilized current SecureAuth Single Sign On environment, providing immediate relief to struggling service operations team.
• Spearhead the design and implementation of a new SecureAuth topology adding salability, resiliency and disaster recovery for continuous uptime and availability.
• Trained Assigned Application Engineers to manage and operate the new SecureAuth environment
• Participate in discussion planning, implementation and migration of over 1000 internal and external applications and/or services to SecureAuth providing employees and customers with a single identity throughout the.

Bellevue, Washington, US

Bellevue, WA, US

• Reviewed current IT infrastructure at all OKI Properties
• Interviewed OKI IT Staff
• Sourced Managed Services Company to assume management of OKI IT Infrastructure
• Reviewed Information Technology & Communication Expenses
• Architect new Company-Wide Layer 2 Point to Point Network
• Architect, Plan, Proposed, and implemented migration from On-Premise to Cloud

• Assisted with Complete Campus Network failure resulting in sporadic outages and downtime leaving the hospital without access to the EMR during critical events such as surgeries.
• Led the complete audit/review of their IT and Communication systems.
• Review and participate in conversations with EMR provider
• Interview alternative EMR providers both On-Premise and cloud
• Consult in migration plan from On-Premise to Office365 for Exchange, Skype, and
• other O365 offerings to replace the current GMAIL and Legacy On-Premise solutions

Everett, Washington, US

• Architected and Created an Acquisition plan for National LightNET, LLC’s purchase of Kanobe in 2016
• Creation and Management of a $3M annual bookings self-funded company
• Hired, Trained and Managed a resource team of 50
• Built, Owned, and Operated Colocation/Datacenter Facility
• Built, Owned, and Operated West Coast WAN/LAN/ISP backbone
• Built, Owned, and Operated VoIP platform providing telecommunication and video services to clients throughout North America

IT Consultancy bridging the gap between IT Consultants, Business Staff and Company Owners/Executives.Provided subject matter expertise on ROI and Total Cost of Ownership for IT, Data and Voice TechnologiesSuccessfully deployed Microsoft Technologies leveraging the Microsoft PlatformDeveloped VoIP (Private Branch Exchange) for Small Businesses leveraging.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Held various roles within the Microsoft Corporation, moving within the organization to assist multiple teams in need of executional strategy. Microsoft has a strong belief in knowledge transfer between divisions.
• Worked with all teams within MSN & Windows Divisions
• Created Hardware Buying Desk enabling as much as 34% savings for intra-Microsoft buying programs.
• Identified a need for and implemented new technology resulting in 12% power consumption reduction in Microsoft Datacenters.Product Development Manager
• Created Customer Trend and Market Technology Analytics process
• Core Research & Development (R&D) team member, developing prioritized list of projects Software Engineer – Microsoft Dynamics CRM

• Hired as a consultant to Architect and build the Infrastructure for a 1000+ employee business with branch offices throughout the United States. The organization sold Long Term Care Insurance Products to individuals.
• Architect NT4 Server & Workstation Environment (NT4 Server, Exchange 5.5, SQL Server, MS Proxy Server to name a few)
• Architect and built onsite Datacenter
• Architect and procured all hardware leverage Compaq Computer Brand now HP.
• Hired on Full Time as the Sr. Systems Engineer reporting directly to CIO
• Hired and managed the helpdesk staff

While in High School, I started a Paging and Cellphone business which grew into two locations and 20 employees. One location was in a mall while the other location was on a busy street.Provided Pagers and Pager Service locally, regionally, and nationally.Provided Cellular service through CellularOne and AirTouch CellularRecrystallized Pagers for our.

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