Resume
Skills
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) specifically Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
- Azure Entra ID (formerly Azure AD)
- Azure Policy
- Azure Virtual Networks
- Azure Storage
- Security hardening
- IaC (ARM & Bicep)
- Automation
- Intune
- Autopilot
- Windows Update for
- Business (WUfB)
- Software Packaging
- Configuration Policies
- GPO Migration
- Proactive Remediation
- MECM
- Software Packaging using PowerShell
- Task Sequences
- Application Packaging
- Vulnerability remediation
- PowerShell
- Python
- JavaScript
- Bash
- Visual Basic
- SOP Creation
- Mentoring
- Training
- Documentation
- Root Cause Analysis
- Cost Analysis
Nonprofits
- Holly Springs Food Cupboard
- Holly Springs Rotary Club
- WhatGives
- LUMA Projection Arts Festival
- Launch Holly Springs
- Wake Tech Web Tech Committee
Education
SUNY Binghamton
Bachelor’s in Literature & Philosophy
Interests
- Reading -> Business, Self-Help, Literature
- Hiking
- Comedy
- Music -> Rock, Pop, Rap, Folk
- Movies -> Comedy, Thriller
- Meditation
Summary
Positive - Motivated - Always Learning - Customer Focused - Impact Driven
Highly motivated, always learning and growing, customer and customer service focused Systems Engineer with 13 years of experience in IT (4 in Azure).
Perfect fit for an organization looking for a well-rounded endpoint / systems engineer who has extensive technical experience and cares about creating impact, strong communication, and their team – an engineer with a track record of thinking outside the box to create unique and valuable solutions, while at the same time staying team oriented and organizational-
mission focused.
Experience
Systems Engineer
Yale University
2022 - Current
Duties
- Responsible for architecting, engineering, administration of Yale’s Azure Virtual Desktop environment (10 production and 10 test host pools).
- Responsible for the proposal and expansion of virtual endpoint service solutions (AVD, W365, Azure Lab Services)
Projects
- Architected and engineered 25,000 user host pool
- Automated 35% of the host pool golden image creation and configuration process using unorthodox and innovative method
- Developed a unique scaling plan resource tagging automation to create an AVD session host configuration maintenance window
- Authored PowerShell modules to speed up user session administration
- Developed ‘Checkpoint’ and ‘Revert’ functionality a la Hyper-V for Azure VMs using PowerShell
- Proposed and implemented POC of W365 and Azure Lab Services
- Proposed multiple cloud endpoint solutions based on partner or department needs
- Implemented session host maintenance window and scripted and deployed Windows Update PowerShell scripts for automated feature and quality updates.
Client Platforms Engineer
Wake Tech Community College
2020 - 2022
Duties
- Responsible for Wake Tech’s endpoint experience including AVD, Azure Lab Services, Intune MDM, and MECM.
- Interim manager of the endpoint team for 6 months.
Projects
- Architected, implemented and engineering of Intune.
- Architected, implemented and engineering of AVD.
- POC and engineering of Azure Lab Services
- Planning and implementation of transition to hybrid-joined workstation environment.
- Proposed and implemented Autopilot with Zero-Touch and Pre-Provisioning.
- Engineering of MECM.
- Developed MECM packaging PowerShell module that improved team packaging speed.
Specialties
Microsoft Azure
Azure Virtual Desktop
SCCM / MECM
