Azure Security Architect

Professional Profile
Meticulous and motivated specialist with 28 years of experience in the IT industry with strong technical, and people skills. I am structured, outcome-focused, and a big-picture thinker. A strong believer in individual self-ownership of responsibilities and an equally strong believer in the power of teamwork. An enthusiastic supporter of equal opportunity in the workplace.
As an Azure/M365 Solutions Architect freelancer/contractor/consultant; my main objective is to help my customers plan for and achieve their business objectives concerning Azure & Microsoft 365.For the last 12 years, I've been working for Neos IT Services (an IT cloud service provider) which has operations in Munich, Bratislava, Bangkok and Singapore.
Have worked on several projects for large customers such as Amadeus and Siemens Energy, where my most recent engagement was as overall project lead for a large Azure/M365 Tenant-Wide Security & Compliance project, consisting of approximately 40 other IT and Cyber Security experts.
I am of Filipino descent, a British citizen, living in Germany and I would be open to working remotely.

General Skills• Solution Design and Delivery
• Stakeholder Management (inc. C-Level)
• Project Management• Team Leadership
• Customer Focused
• Identity and Access Management• Security & Compliance
• Information Protection
• Threat protection
• Risk Management

& Data Privacy

Azure Skills

• Azure Active Directory
• Azure Landing Zone
• Azure Cloud
• Azure Virtual Desktop
• Microsoft Defender Product Family
• Microsoft Sentinel
• Microsoft Intune
• Microsoft Purview

Recent Experience
• Azure Security & Compliance Project: Increase the security & compliance posture and measure across the whole Azure tenant. I am currently leading a large project team of IT and Cyber Security professionals, consisting of customer employees, Microsoft employees, and contractors too.
• Identity Provider (IdP) Project: Migrating authentication for 800+ applications from a legacy solution to Azure Active Directory.
• Operation Transition Project: Facilitate the transition of Azure operations as part of a company separation. Creation of a new operations team.