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LOL I stumbled on this Cory Doctorow article/rant and had to share. I have long admired both his science fiction and his battles against big tech and…
LOL I stumbled on this Cory Doctorow article/rant and had to share. I have long admired both his science fiction and his battles against big tech and…
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Loving Microsoft’s recent moves into Account Recovery , Identity Verification, use of digital identity (Verified ID) Game changersin terms of…
Loving Microsoft’s recent moves into Account Recovery , Identity Verification, use of digital identity (Verified ID) Game changersin terms of…
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#ThomasWolfe was wrong... You can go home again! 🎉 I am beyond thrilled to announce that I am returning to Okta/Auth0 — back where I belong…
#ThomasWolfe was wrong... You can go home again! 🎉 I am beyond thrilled to announce that I am returning to Okta/Auth0 — back where I belong…
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MIT Sloan - Understanding Complex Business Problems
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Queen's Executive Program
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Projects
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Zero Trust & SASE Deployment
I don't like to share too much about the work I do for my clients but incredibly proud of the work I am doing as part of a talented team at CIBC.
- Global SASE deloyment encompassing 35 Global Access nodes and 47,000 Windows & Mac end point devices
- poised to add 23,000 Android & IOS Devices to the SASE
- Enrolled 61,000 end users in Entra ID MFA, most using MS Authenticator but a significant Yubikey presence as well
- Modernized over 50 applications to utilize Entra ID SSO…I don't like to share too much about the work I do for my clients but incredibly proud of the work I am doing as part of a talented team at CIBC.
- Global SASE deloyment encompassing 35 Global Access nodes and 47,000 Windows & Mac end point devices
- poised to add 23,000 Android & IOS Devices to the SASE
- Enrolled 61,000 end users in Entra ID MFA, most using MS Authenticator but a significant Yubikey presence as well
- Modernized over 50 applications to utilize Entra ID SSO
- Delivered new self service password reset, MFA enrolment, and temporary access pass capabilities -
Enterprise Email Consolidation
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With a large talented team, drive the consolidation of several "outlier" Exchange and Notes environments into a single Exchange infrastructure, and then migrate to a hosted/private cloud Exchange 2013 environment.
At this point in time we have selected Office 365 Exchange as our platform of choice, and will soon choose a new hosted email compliance archive provider to augment this strategy. Once completed this messaging strategy will deliver several hundred per cent more capacity…With a large talented team, drive the consolidation of several "outlier" Exchange and Notes environments into a single Exchange infrastructure, and then migrate to a hosted/private cloud Exchange 2013 environment.
At this point in time we have selected Office 365 Exchange as our platform of choice, and will soon choose a new hosted email compliance archive provider to augment this strategy. Once completed this messaging strategy will deliver several hundred per cent more capacity while saving in excess of $12M annually, and drive an enterprise approach to hardware and software currency that radically simplifies infrastructure planning, removing client side integration with email clients in favour of server side, "web services" integration. -
BYOD Program & Mobility Strategy
Partnered with innovative business leaders, establish the technology infrastructure and capability to support an innovative and aggressive BYOD policy at TD, aiming to convert the majority of our Corporate Liable smartphones to BYOD, while establishing the ability for entitled employees to select a tablet for productivity application use.
Balance investment in new EMM (Enterprise Mobility Management) with continued support of the Blackberry environment and a migration to BB10…Partnered with innovative business leaders, establish the technology infrastructure and capability to support an innovative and aggressive BYOD policy at TD, aiming to convert the majority of our Corporate Liable smartphones to BYOD, while establishing the ability for entitled employees to select a tablet for productivity application use.
Balance investment in new EMM (Enterprise Mobility Management) with continued support of the Blackberry environment and a migration to BB10
Help drive initial laptop BYOD pilots for a mobile Sales team, based on Citrix XenApp .
Establish Google Chromebook as a key element of TD's mobility strategy, using them as mobile thin clients to augment Wyse thin clients installed at all flexible working stations. -
Workspace Optimization Program
Working with a talented team, and supportive executives, build an integrated end user computing support organization and a set of consolidated, modernized end user services
- Via repatriating OutSourced Services, and integrating various IT teams reporting into specific business segments or other IT organizations, build a true North American end user computing organization of approximately 900 staff, supporting 100,000 desktops
- consolidate in excess of 20 separate Windows XP…Working with a talented team, and supportive executives, build an integrated end user computing support organization and a set of consolidated, modernized end user services
- Via repatriating OutSourced Services, and integrating various IT teams reporting into specific business segments or other IT organizations, build a true North American end user computing organization of approximately 900 staff, supporting 100,000 desktops
- consolidate in excess of 20 separate Windows XP desktop images into a single, enterprise Windows 7 desktop image, managed by MS Systems Center, encompassing core MDOP functions such as MBAM, AGPM, and APP-V software distribution
- eliminate Novell file/print, a variety of older desktop management tools, and deliver a single core Windows back end infrastructure based on Windows file services, a consolidated print strategy and common desktop and application "stack"
Lead an approximately $60M program which delivered $29M in annual savings, driving the cost per desktop from approximately $2500 per year to less that $1800. -
Project HERO
Conceive, gain approval for , and lead a $62M project which returned over $38M in annual savings in the end user computing infrastructure space at CIBC, via a combination of repatriating services from HP and optimizing existing email, Active Directory, and Desktop Management practices at CIBC
Establish, with consulting partners, a sound benchmark for the cost per desktop of an integrated suite of desktop end user service costs, instantiated in an automated cost allocation system, that…Conceive, gain approval for , and lead a $62M project which returned over $38M in annual savings in the end user computing infrastructure space at CIBC, via a combination of repatriating services from HP and optimizing existing email, Active Directory, and Desktop Management practices at CIBC
Establish, with consulting partners, a sound benchmark for the cost per desktop of an integrated suite of desktop end user service costs, instantiated in an automated cost allocation system, that established CIBC as best in class for these services. -
Build Shared X.25 based on Satellite connected POP's
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Lead a team of talented network engineers, operating in an entrepreneurial organization, that leveraged POP's in CTC stores connected via satellite to establish a shared X.25 network, based on Motorola PAD's. Along the way we solved
1. a wide array of protocol issues operating SDLC, X.25, and ISO Poll Select over satellite
2. We deployed over $1M of inventory that was at risk of write down by building a tiered service offering that allowed us to utilize older satellite end points…Lead a team of talented network engineers, operating in an entrepreneurial organization, that leveraged POP's in CTC stores connected via satellite to establish a shared X.25 network, based on Motorola PAD's. Along the way we solved
1. a wide array of protocol issues operating SDLC, X.25, and ISO Poll Select over satellite
2. We deployed over $1M of inventory that was at risk of write down by building a tiered service offering that allowed us to utilize older satellite end points
3. We created a variety of network management utilities and solutions to manage end to end service level across modems/PAD's/satellite end points
And we eventually integrated a terrestrial X.25 network operated by Motorola (Vanne) and frame relay networking, in partnership with Unitel. -
Core Infrastructure Services
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Drive a focus on oft ignored but critical elements of the Technology Infrastructure
- Time Services
- DNS consolidation and remediation
- Active Directory Consolidation
Keeping organizations focused on these critical items requires both passion and patience, and I helped get projects approved and executed against all these key infrastructure elements
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If you have time, watch this interview with Kevin Kelly Kevin was one of my hero’s for decades, a great writer on technology, part of the Internet…
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The grifting continues and why not? No one in power ever speaks up and the Trumps never experience any negative consequences
The grifting continues and why not? No one in power ever speaks up and the Trumps never experience any negative consequences
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The disdain for knowledge, craft, expertise and skill will eventually drag the US into chaos.
The disdain for knowledge, craft, expertise and skill will eventually drag the US into chaos.
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Mr Worzel has been consistent in his analysis that the real impact of thoughtless US and Israeli adventuring has not been felt yet.
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For my Canadian contacts and community, Bill Kelly is worth a listen. Much like Charlie Angus, he has been consistent in calling out the corrupt…
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