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Michael Tatum

Sr Systems Engineer/Security

Portland United States (Oregon)
Employed Available
Passionate IT Professional with 15+ years of experience seeking to increase my knowledge. A conscientious and hard working team player seeking to leverage my skills in the infrastructure and security.
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  • Established migration plan to complete KCE’s long outstanding mailbox migration to Exchange Online across our nationally spread workforce
  • Assisted the KCE Security team creating and implementing best practice standards with controls.
  • Provide thought leadership and ensure that engagements are aligned to industry Best Practices
Detailed Description
  • Evaluated and recommend tools, processes, and technologies to support and streamline KCE IT operations.
  • Help mentor IT staff on technologies and support of solutions.
  • Maintain current knowledge via webinars, case study, training, Wiki and all other resources available.
  • Conduct forward looking research and testing of Microsoft Cloud platforms, trends, and products.
  • Participate and/or lead department initiatives with other KCE IT staff for new technology introductions/deployments and establishing best-practice recommendations.
  • Assisted KCE IT teams with resolving critical path technical issues and challenges.
  • Worked with KCE IT teams on developing technical solutions and prototyping new initiatives.
  • Worked with IT Stakeholders and provided and understanding of LAPS deployment to all workstations and PCI Servers.
Company Description
KinderCare Learning Centers is an American operator of for-profit child care and early childhood education facilities founded in 1969 and currently owned by KinderCare Education. The company provides educational programs for children from six weeks to 12 years old.
Company website
  • Was consulted on a few Small Project. One Project was Service Now Analytical review to clients. Others were Security Implementation and review. (STIG, CIS, PCI)
  • ITSM data analysis including data reporting and restructure.
  • Was brought in to deploy new exchange servers and preform G-Suites and Office 365 Migration to the on premise Exchange Servers.
  • Was utilized by multiple department due to my abilities and security understanding.
Detailed Description
  • Resolved Multiple Security issues with their existing Exchange 2010 environment and ITAR environment.
    Performed advanced security audit on all ingress points.
    Diagnosed Domain and found multiple security concerns and mitigated concerns.
    Investigated misconfiguration with GPO's and security filtering.
    Correctly added subnets to site and services for use with 50+ domain controllers.
    Designed and started testing of Office Communicator 2007 Migration to Lync and then Skype for Business
    Migrated 5000+ users from Cloud platforms to on Premise servers.
    Performed multiple litigation requests and CIRT related incidents.
Company Description
ON Semiconductor is a Fortune 500 semiconductors supplier company. Products include power and signal management, logic, discrete, and custom devices for automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial, LED lighting, medical, military/aerospace and power applications.
Company website
  • Was brought in during the separation of DCS from the Department of Economic Security. Was tasked with full migration of account and services from DES.
  • Migrated uses and services from DES to New Domain and Architecture using AZURE and Office 365
Detailed Description
  • Stood up services to support the separation from DES.
  • Designed the migration and executed with minimal issues.
  • Implemented security standards.
  • Deployed Mange Engine tools.
  • Originally recruited to build, expand, and manage Active Directory and Infrastructure Systems. Was quickly diverted to assist with the NIST and DISA (STIGS).
  • Deployed Nutanix to support a very aggressive time line to increase the VDI infrastructure to support 8000 new machines.
Detailed Description
  • Created Dedicated DMZ Domain This was to insure constant security setting for all Servers in the DMZ.
    Re-wrote over 100 Batch, VBS Scripts using PowerShell.
    Implemented the DISA STIG in to the environment.
    Diagnosed performance issues in VDI environment using VCOPS.
    Setup load balancing for DHCP with Microsoft Server 2012.
    Implemented Barracuda Content filtering using WPAD.
    Re-Architected Active Directory using Microsoft Standards
Company Description
TriWest Healthcare Alliance is a Phoenix, Arizona based corporation that manages health benefits under the United States Department of Veterans Affairs VAPCCC program
Company website
  • Brought on to expand the businesses and grow the support team.
  • Design, migrate, and manage Active Directory and associated technologies for clients of various sizes resulting in increased productivity, standardization and automation.
  • Help Desk Manger of 3 Tailored Help Desks. Which include handling Corporate and Executive requests and creating SOP’s and internal technical documentation, manages employee’s tasks and responsibilities.

Systems Administrator/Lead IT/IT Manager

The Aces
2007 to June 2011
  • Was brought on to Diagnose Patching and builds. Created a Patching run book with granular testing to make sure nothing would harm production.
  • Maintained Symantec Backup Exec infrastructure.
  • Participated in Data-center Restructuring.
Company Description
Swift Transportation is a Phoenix, Arizona-based American truckload motor shipping carrier, part of Knight-Swift. With over 23,000 trucks, it is the largest common carrier in the United States. In 2017, Swift merged with Knight Transportation, also of Phoenix, effective September 8, 2017
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