Azure Architect and Developer in Dallas, TX, United States

A large, well-known organization that sells phone products had a robust Power BI environment that included 40+ servers. When the new iPhone is released every year, they begin to utilize many computing resources, but only for two months. Unfortunately, in a traditional data center, the reserve computing resources were costly and required frequent maintenance.

After intensive investigation, I designed an Azure environment that simplified the company's architecture, condensed the server count, and was highly scalable. The result was an application that was resilient and incorporated automatic scaling. The organization was able to save costs and drastically reduce the number of human hours required to maintain the application environment.

An SMB manufacturing client asked me to help them reduce their Azure spend. After understanding their environment and business needs, I was able to reduce their overall spend by 32% per month. I accomplished this by using some native Azure features and some custom-created features. The implementation included Azure Reserved Instances, autoscaling, tagging, stopping non-production virtual machines during off-hours, and creating custom roles to allow product users to perform cost-reducing actions while having only explicit actions.

An organization that had recently been divested needed to stand up an Office 365 GCC High tenant in a hurry, and it had to be compliant. After the migration, I was the sole design architect and engineer who implemented security and compliance standards across all Microsoft 365 services.