Enterprise Cloud Architect

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WSP/ORBICON [SEPTEMBER 2019-MARCH 2020]
Enterprise Solution Architect - Project Manager
Enterprise Solution Architect and Project Manager on Acquisition of Orbicon Denmark and Merger of WSP and Orbicon Denmark.
WSP a global professional services firm with 48000 employees acquired Orbicon in 2019, Orbicon is a Danish multidisciplinary engineering consulting firm with expertise in the Environment, Supply & Infrastructure and Building sectors.
As part of the WSP/Orbicon transition strategy, the two companies needed to combine and integrate IT infrastructure, as well as manage software contracts. Network, data center, and applications, that all needed to be either separated or consolidated in a hybrid Cloud Environment and in compliance.

The consultant's responsibilities/actions were:
● The primary task was to ensure quality from the vendor in Server and client migration plans Windows 7 migration
● Roadmap to new Windows 10 platform and server infrastructure in WSP hybrid Cloud including concrete project proposal
● Ongoing customer meeting/status meetings including workshops focusing on analysis and planning
● Vendor- and stakeholder management with focus on quality assurance
● Support customer interests in migration between WSP infrastructure team and external outsourcing companies Hedeselskabet and GlobalConnect.
● Assessment of applications, management and application testing in WSP on-premise AWS and Azure
● Creating and assessing Desktop and server transformation Plans.
● Request new Servers based on application requirements (Bill of materials)
● Plan application assessment meeting with application owner and evaluate application compability with Cloud and new on Prem infrastructure including PaaS, SaaS, IaaS
● Plan for successful Cutover and hyperCare Period, support decommission of legacy source systems
● Project Lead on SharePoint Migration project as part of the migration strategy
● Assessment and plan for Deploying Arcgis using AWS CloudFormation templates or Arcgis azure cloud builder. (on-Premise or Hosted Solution)

Technologies used:
Windows 7, Windows 10, Azure, PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, AWS, Server 2003-2019, VmWare Vsphere, Migration Tools, Databases, Active Directory, Exchange, Exchange on-line, Office 365, networking.

Novo Nordisk and involved vendors NNE + 3 party vendors is building an innovative laboratory Robot automation system and lab automation instruments to help accelerate and streamline discovery of new pharmaceutical products in Novo research Labs.
The project was to provide an assessment, transformation plan and best practice process on how to virtualize and move lab automation instruments clients (servers/Clients) to a cloud solution platform in accordance with the customers Cloud first strategy.


The primary task to ensure an assessment and a holistic cloud transformation plan and best practice process on how to virtualize and move lab automation instruments clients migrating windows 7/Windows 10 and Server platform like Oracle databases to the Cloud.
The consultant's responsibilities/actions were:
● Ongoing customer meeting / status meetings including workshops focusing on analysis and planning
● Creating an assessment, road map, transformation plan and best practice process including concrete project proposal
● Vendor- and stakeholder external and internal management
● Security assessment on existing on premise Solution vs Cloud Platform
● Business assessment of availability, scalability, and agility of cloud resources when compared to on-premises deployments.
● Plan application assessment meeting with application owner and evaluate application compability with Cloud and new on Prem infrastructure including PaaS, SaaS, IaaS
● Design, and overall deployment plan of Lab automation Cloud Solution and test enviroment
● Overall support plan for Operations handover.
● On-demand usage pattern and pay-as-you-go cost management offered by cloud, which helps to convert huge CAPEX to smaller OPEX
● Alternative solutions to replace end-of-life or near end of life hardware/software. (instruments using Windows 7 and older).
● Backup and recovery plan for both workstations and Servers offering larger resilience to software breakdowns
● Effective compliance, security and update management based on Novo standards SOC/CDC
● Ensuring consistency in Practices and documentation (TOGAF)
Technologies used included:
Azure, PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, AWS, Windows 10, Windows 7, Server 2019, Cisco Software Defined Network, Group Policy, Oracle Database

Worked as Azure and Modern Workplace Enterprise Architect and overall responsible on project On Premise to Azure transformation, Danish National supplier Company, 2000 employees.
EnergiNet has a complex environment and high security demands due its responsibility for the national security of supply in the Danish electricity and gas markets and Denmark's emergency preparedness in the electricity and gas sectors. In project Providing a best practice process helping the customer assess and plan workplace migration to new secure Windows 10 modern management platform, ensuring consistency in approach and documentation.
The primary task to ensure the delivery from Windows deployment test phases into production and Technical support in Server and client migration plans (Windows 7 migration to new Windows 10 platform and server infrastructure SCCM and Intune.)

Part of this project included designing and Implementing a Patch and Vulnerability Management Process and strategy (PC/clients, network and servers)

The consultant's responsibilities/actions were:
● Ongoing customer meeting / status meetings including workshops focusing on analysis and planning
● Creating an assessment, road map, transformation plan and best practice process including concrete project proposal
● Vendor- and stakeholder external and internal management
● Support customer in Windows 10 project. Assessment of applications, management and applications testing Office/Office365, Windows 10 Security and rollout.
● Modern Management Desktop platform and server transformation
● Identity and Access Management Windows 10 platform (Zero Trust)
● Security assessment on Windows 10 Platform. (GPO/Office365)
● Windows 10 deployment and upgrade task sequences in SCCM CB.
● Design, development and configuration of Windows Desktop Core Image (Windows 7 to Windows 10).
● Ensuring handover from the Windows 10 project to Energi Net production/Support.
● Patch management and Vulnerability strategy
● Create an asset protection strategy to keep intruders out while enabling authorized users to access and interact with data at the speed, scale and complexity of the business
● Patch and Vulnerability Assessment
● Provide a continuous overview of vulnerabilities in the IT environment and the risks associated with them
● Effective compliance, security and update management based on Energinet standards
● Review, definition and refinement of policies, rules, action plans and compliance
● Identification, classification, decision processes and how to ensure proactive mitigation of different Vulnerabilities.
● Assets categories such as Security Risks, Compliance, Privacy of Data, and data theft
● Implement practices and processes to use right people and technology to protect critical assets, become more agile, upgrade hardware and software and implement more effective policies.
Technologies used included:
Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), Microsoft Intune, Office 365, Exchange, Exchange on-line, Windows Azure, PaaS, SaaS, Microsoft IaaS, Windows AutoPilot, Windows 10 transformation, Microsoft 365, MS CloudApp Security, Advanced threat Protection.


GLOBAL DANISH PRODUCTION COMPANY
ENTERPRISE CLOUD SOLUTION ARCHITECT

Worked as Azure and Modern Workplace Enterprise Architect on project On Premise to Azure transformation, Danish Production Company, 5500 employees.
The customer wanted an assessment of relocation to Azure Cloud from its own internal servers based on a Hyper-V environment. The assignment consisted of moving external locations Core Services in Cloud and assessing business benefits of relocation.
Providing a best practice process that helped the customer assess and plan workload migration to cloud-based IT architecture containing, ensuring consistency in approach and documentation.
• Implementing public cloud Microsoft Azure IAAS Governance
• Identity and Access Management assessment for branch Offices,
• Remote Users Infrastructure Assessment (SCCM, FILESERVERS, PRINT, ACTIVE DIRECTORY)
• Workload Assessment
• Design of Hybrid Environment and Upcoming Cloud Model (Two-Be Scenario) and Transformation Plan.
• Windows Intune and Modern Workplace.
• Windows 10 upgrade including planning strategy and workplace and rollout to Branch Office including IAM
• Application assessment, deployment and management
Branch Office Design and Service Continuity (Disaster Recovery,
User Experience and User Segmentation
• On-premise Office to Office 365 road map
• Desktop and server transformation
• Windows 10 User experience and design
• Regulatory Compliance

Technologies used included:
Microsoft Azure IAAS, File Services, Print, MAPS, Azure Active Directory, Active Directory, Windows 8, Windows 10, System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch+Intune, GPO, Active Directory, Office/Office 365, ADFS, Azure Disaster recovery.

PENSAM PENSION/BANK/FORSIKRING
SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT
Enterprise Architect on Windows 7 migration both server and clients, where the customer moved 2 data centers to a new outsourcing provider (local data center and old outsourcing provider).
The moves were from the traditional platform (V2V, P2V, P2P and physical 1: 1 migrations.
THE CONSULTANT'S RESPONSIBILITIES/ACTIONS WERE:
• The primary task was to ensure quality from the vendor in Server and client migration plans (Windows 7 migration and roadmap to new Windows 10 platform and server infrastructure)
• Creating and assessing Desktop and server transformation Plans.
• Plan application assessment meeting with application owner and evaluate application compability with Cloud and new vendor infrastructure.
• Plan for successful Cutover and hyperCare Period, support decommission of legacy source systems
• Ongoing customer meeting / status meetings
• Vendor- and stakeholder management with focus on quality assurance
• Support customer interests in migration between 2 external outsourcing companies. Assessment of applications, management and application testing Office/Office365,
• Desktop and server transformation
• Security Assessment and Identity Management project assessment
• Disaster Recovery plan and continuity plan for old datacenter.
• Teammate Assessment and Upgrade (on-Premise or Hosted Solution)

Technologies used:
Windows 7, Windows 10, System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch, GPO, Active Directory, Office/Office 365, Omada, Azure Active Directory, ADFS, Teammate
UTLENDINGEDIREKTORATET UDI OSLO NORWAY
SENIOR INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT
Microsoft Infrastructure Solution Architect with focus on designing implementing and managing Desktop upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 Transformation project in a large and complex organization. (1600 users across 45 locations)
The consultant's responsibilities/actions were:
• Responsible for value, scope, impact and cost.
• Develop Migration Approach (User Data Migration, Applications, Image, infrastructure and change Enablement, Identity Management).
• Defining roadmap for the Desktop Transformation with several stakeholders and vendors in and outside the organization.
• Design, development and configuration of Windows Desktop Core Image (Windows 7 to Windows 10).
• Deployment with Configuration Management and deployment tool (MS Configuration Manager Current Branch (Hyper-V and Configuration Manager).
• Design and implementation and integration to 3. party Application Management system.
• Reporting project progress to Management on a weekly basis.
• Project Governance and release planning.
• Application deployment and management
• Office 2016 deployment
• Regulatory Compliance

Technologies used:
Windows 7, Windows 10, System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch, GPO, Active Directory, Office/Office 365, ADFS, Microsoft Company Portal

GLOBAL MEDICAL COMPANY NOVO NORDISK
ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT
Global Medico company based in Denmark. Architect and lead for 8-man consulting team.

Part of the Architect Design Team for new Hosted Private cloud located in 3 datacenter in Europe, America and Asia with 10000 users.

Responsible for designing, development and deployment of integrations in Microsoft Remote Desktop Solutions on Hosted Private Cloud environment and privileged Access management and RBAC, Identity Management and federation between 3 different companies, Regulatory compliance for Pharma industry, Disaster recovery.

Responsible for designing a solution to provide appropriate access to privileged accounts for internal and external consultants between Service providers and customer, across 3 new global datacenters, bolster security, achieve compliance, decrease risk, streamline administration, extend governance.
Technologies used included: Microsoft Server 2012, Microsoft Hyper-V, Active Directory, Group Polices, Microsoft SQL Server 2012, Microsoft System Center Suite. Microsoft Azure.
ADFS, LDAP, SAML, DELL TPAM, (Total privileged access Management, RBAC,

VELUX
ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT
Microsoft Infrastructure Solution Architect with focus on designing implementing and managing Desktop consolidation project on Windows 7 and roadmap planning for a Windows 10 Transformation project (9500 users across 60 locations).
The consultant's responsibilities/actions were:
• Responsible for value, scope, impact and cost.
• Develop Migration Approach (User Data Migration, Applications, Image, infrastructure and change Enablement, Identity).
• Defining roadmap for the Desktop Transformation with several stakeholders and vendors in and outside the organization.
• Design, development and configuration of Windows Desktop Core Image (Windows 7).
• Roadmap planning Windows 10.
• Deployment with Configuration Management and deployment tool (MS Configuration Manager Current Branch (Hyper-V and Configuration Manager).
• Design and implementation and integration to 3. party Application Management system.
• Reporting project progress to Management on a weekly basis.
• Project Governance and release planning.
• Application deployment and management
• Office 2010 and Office 365 deployment
Technologies used included: Windows 7, Windows 10, System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch, GPO, Active Directory, Office 2010/Office 365, Citrix

ERICSSSON GLOBAL MULTINATIONAL PROVIDER OF COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES
Global Swedish multinational provider of communications technology and services. 135000 seats.
Mobile Device strategy. Analyzing current mobile device strategy Pro/Cons and planning for new MDM tool and migration from old. (system and applications).

Lead Architect responsible for designing, and deployment of integrations of Mobile application management system and portal using Mobile devices and Part of design team for Citrix Xen Desktop and Citrix Xenapp.
Technologies used included: Citrix Xen Mobile, Mobility App Packaging (IOS, Android), Xendesktop, Citrix Netscaler.
GLOBAL INVESTMENT BANK SAXO BANK
LEAD SOLUTION ARCHITECT
Global Investment Bank based in Denmark. Lead Solution Architect responsible for designing, and deployment of integrations on Desktop/Server Deployment infrastructure design based on Microsoft technologies for 2500 Servers and 3000 desktops Company.

Design of Configuration Manager (test and production environment) and Application management for highly business critical broker/Equity analyst applications.
Technologies used included: Microsoft Configuration Manager, Active Directory, Hyper-V, Group Policies, Microsoft SQL Server 2012