I’m a software developer with over 20 years of experience in languages (most recently in C#, TypeScript, Go, KQL), identity (authn/authz), x509 certificates and secret management, secure software supply chain, cloud architecture, and helping my teammates grow and succeed.
I am a prominent speaker, best-selling author, and teacher. I am very active within the technical community and a variety of Microsoft technical and strategic teams.
2025-Present - M365 Security Design and implement scalable cloud-based security solutions for Microsoft 365 services. 2021-2025 - IC3 Centrally remediate security issues for and provide horizontal support for 100+ teams responsible for the Microsoft Teams backend microservices. 2018-2021 (PRSS) Software development, deployment, change management, and automation subject matter expert on Gaming Crypto Services team in the Edge & Security Services organization.
(M365 Security) Design and implement scalable cloud-based security solutions for Microsoft 365 services, delivering value to billions of monthly active customers and hundreds of peers.
(M365 Security) Build and maintain host-based agents and cloud services to enforce seucrity policies across Azure on Windows and Linux.
(M365 Security) Develop cloud-scale data platforms to strengthen Microsoft's security posture.
(IC3) x509 certificate management, authentication & authorization (authn/authz) subject matter expert.
(IC3) Mentor and educate teammates regarding software development, x509 certificates, authn/authz, and other areas of subject matter expertise.
(IC3) Lead high impact security change campaigns across the 2000 person organization, delivering value to millions of monthly active customers and hundreds of peers.
(IC3) Empower peers and leaders to make informed, data-driven security decisions by creating concise dashboards and reports based on extremely large, disparate datasets.
(IC3) Inner-source contributions to a variety of Microsoft security products and services.
(PRSS) Responsible for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) platform servicing high security (HBI) environments.
(PRSS) Mentor and educate teammates regarding software development and other areas of subject matter expertise.
(PRSS) Led cultural change from traditional ops to DevOps, achieving goals of delivering more quickly, consistently, and making this paradigm more accessible for every teammate.
Orchestrated robust CI/CD pipelines, automated scalable deployments, and built monitoring tools to streamline operations and elevate cross-team productivity.
Created and led strategies for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) to both on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure.
Developed automated dynamic environments and deployment strategies for existing and new services.
Developed and maintained tools and monitoring systems to improve workflows of other teams.
Contract author, solely responsible for creating and delivering online learning content.
Created learning paths for technology students.
Developed, recorded, edited, and distributed courses.
Undergraduate program instructor covering topics including leadership, network protocols, software development, server operating systems, project management.
Pioneer cultural and workflow changes related to systems administration, software development, and incident response.
Led development and automation efforts, saving organization tens of thousands of hours annually.
Mentored team, led and participated in escalation and major incident handling, key advisor in hiring and technology strategy decisions.
Technical lead, software developer, and business development lead for a small web development company.
Designed and built diverse and varied web services for contract clients, predominantly on Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP (LAMP stack), and JavaScript.
Perform contracted business development, process improvement, marketing strategy, and research activities.
Deliver special projects and provide support for the District’s software development team.
Managed complex projects, worked with users to troubleshoot line of business applications and a variety of Microsoft enterprise products.
Created and delivered training materials for District move to Google Mail/Apps from Exchange.
Built, troubleshot and maintained applications and systems, remotely programmed client systems, worked with customers to resolve specific issues.
Bachelor of Technology
Bachelor of Applied Information Systems Technology
Network Engineering Technology
Awarded Microsoft MVP award for fourth consecutive year. Last award because I joined Microsoft and employees are ineligible for this award.
Awarded Microsoft MVP award for third consecutive year.
From the Honorary Scripting Guy award announcement: What does it take to become an official Honorary Scripting Guy? It takes an extreme commitment to the scripting community, a remarkable dedication that helps to spread the good word about Windows PowerShell, and a relentless pursuit of excellence in producing exceptional content.
Awarded Microsoft MVP award for second consecutive year.
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Discussions and posts on software development and information security.