Donald L Harris

Profile:

**+ years of experience in a variety of Information Technology leadership roles. acquired exceptional familiarity with Microsoft Azure Public & Government Cloud platforms; MS365; Dynamics PowerApps. Utilizes the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF Framework) and Azure Well-Architected Frameworks.

Performed Migrations via infrastructure-as-code migration toolsets like Hashicorp Terraform, ARM/Bicep templates, Kubernetes workloads, Puppet and/or PowerShell DSC for automaton and infrastructure state management.

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Capabilities & Experiences

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Azure AD

Clouds—Microsoft Azure Commercial Azure Government

Identity Federation AD FS Azure AD B2B/B2C

Azure App Service Azure Logic Apps Azure API Apps

Azure Purview Azure Power BI O365 Management API

Azure Databricks Azure Data Lake Azure Data Factory

Azure Blueprints Azure Loading Zones

Azure Cloud Adoption Well-Architected Framework

Microsoft 365 Dynamics 365 PowerApps

Azure Migration Services Autopilot

Azure DevOps Power Automate

PowerShell ARM Bicep Functions

Azure Policy Kubernetes Service (AKS)

OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect Key Vault

VMWare Solution (AVS) HashiCorp Terraform

IT Career Timeline

2016 —2022 Azure Architect—Independent Contract Consultant (Infratac, Inc.)

2008 —2016 Senior Enterprise Strategy Consultant (Microsoft)

2003 —2007 Account Technology Strategist (Microsoft)

1999 —2002 Senior Consultant (Microsoft)

Education

Applied Mathematical Sciences (BA), DePaul University

Certification

AZ-300-305: Azure Data Scientist Associate Azure Solution Architect

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)

Project Experience:

Title: Lead Cloud Engineer Azure Cloud Migration Dynamics/MS 365 PowerApps CE on-premises

Role— [01/2023] Lead Cloud Data Engineer; conducted IT asset discovery sessions to facilitate migrations to Azure landing zones (platform & Apps); cataloged the current state of targeted data assets, data platform technologies, and identify current data use cases. Assisted multiple projects; establish Created AAD subscription policies for data governance; data analysis and data storage via Azure Databricks and Data Lake, created data taxonomies to help identify and enable cloud compute cost management with policy quota enforcement and automation workflows using Devops pipelines and Dynamics 365 Power Apps.

Title: Sr. Service Delivery Manager Cloud Architect

Role— [04/2022] Sr Azure Consultant; designed technological solutions for healthcare businesses—Cigna Healthcare, Harvard Pilgrim medical Solano County medical –solutions employed Azure landing zones, Azure AD; Azure Data Lake, and Azure Policy for subscription governance, cloud deployment and cost management, Architectures utilized on-prem VNET connections, Hybrid Apps via Azure Service Bus, Azure API gateway, Azure Data Factory SQL, Azure Automation (PowerShell workflows, Log Apps), Function Apps, Azure Monitor.

Role— [10/09/2020] Azure Cloud Architect; Cigna Healthcare – project reequipments: mentor key members of Cigna team responsible for Azure cloud infrastructure design and deployment of new healthcare Payer/Provider system on cloud platforms — Azure public Commercial Azure Government..

Role— [02/2018] Azure Cloud Architect; Cognizant Corp - infrastructure as code (IAS) design with Terraform cloud workspaces and projects; Terraform for Devops CICD pipelines to atomate business app management on-premises Microsoft Dynamics PowerApps for geographically dispersed Datacenters. The solution leveraged Azure components (e.g., VNETS, VMs, Load balancers, application gateways, ExpressRoute circuits, and Azure subscription governance policies.

Role— [11/2018] Azure Cloud Architect; App migration project that defined and implemented an Azure cloud app migration roadmap which proposed native Azure SQL management instances with Elasticsearch integration to facilitate transition of an internally developed commercial app for “e-commerce e-Authorization e-signature and”, and for apps hosted at a 3rd party collocated Datacenters on-premises.

Title: Cloud Architect

Role— [12/2016] Technical Lead: Cloud Migration Suitability Assessment Project—McDonalds. Project objectives - identify and initiate assessments of key IT assets—applications on-premises to determine suitability as potential candidates for migration to a public cloud platform.

Projects Microsoft:

Job Title: Senior Enterprise Strategy Consultant

Multiple - Engagements—Azure Cloud Architect > Public & Government clouds Active Directory Domain Services Azure AD PKI Cybersecurity Architect Designed and directed efforts in variety of Microsoft Active Directory enterprise architecture customer engagements, Azure cloud migrations, and IPsec cybersecurity projects for Microsoft’s largest global corporate enterprise customers.

Project tasks which define cloud services and cloud fabric architectures; migration strategies and roadmaps; information discovery, platform strategy briefings, requirements gathering workshops with key project stakeholders; help identify and define an organization’s hybrid-cloud cybersecurity goals, and business rationale for cloud vendor platform selection.

Role—Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Cybersecurity Architect Designed and developed PKI and IPsec security architectures for 20+ Microsoft global customers and 3 US government agencies within the United States Department of Energy (DoE) and Department of Défense (DoD).

Job Title: Security Lead: Azure Government Cloud Community (GCC) for US Department of Energy; National Institutes of Health; Johnson Controls Inc; U.S. Postal Service; Boeing International

Microsoft Cybersecurity architecture—Formally called - Enhanced Security Administration Environment (ESAE) tasks:

Fulfill International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR FEDRAMP NIST 800-XX) compliance and security clearance mandates.

Restructuring and reconfiguration of existing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)

Development and Configuration of a Tiered level Administrative Account Model employed on Smartcards—Multi-Factor and Certificate Authentication with IPsec network boundaries.

Assisted design and deployment of Privilege Account Workstations (PAW)

Assisted National Institutes of Health’s Big Data Analytics Storage Solution using ADF/ADL Azure Hadoop/Databricks—the solution ingested/processed petabyte data scale pipelines enabling petabyte scale Datawarehouse transformations.

Role—Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect—Target Corp. Designed IPsec “layered security architecture”, authored PowerShell automation defence-in-dept scripts to fully automate an entire hardware refresh of the firm’s highly distributed IT infrastructure including servers, computers, POS registers, kiosks, and mobile devices dispersed among 1,755 retail stores.

Authored and assisted deployment of multiple PowerShell Java scripts, which enabled a fully automated migration of virtual machines hypervisors from competitor VMWare to Microsoft Hyper-V.

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