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Emmanuel Morrison

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Identity and Access Management Engineer at Ascendion, designing validated Microsoft Entra architectures and least-privilege access.

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At Ascendion Inc., I design and support identity and security engagements for Microsoft Unified enterprise customers. I built a two-tenant lab to reproduce a state agency’s partner-access scenario end to end, then produced a reference architecture and external tenant authentication blueprint.

For a large transit authority, I delivered an Active Directory governance baseline, modernization roadmap, implementation lab guide, and 17 staged gate documents. I also diagnosed replication failures across 13 domain controllers, reproduced the topology defect in a lab, and provided a fix the customer applied.

Earlier, at Njuma Consulting LLC, I architected a multi-tenant identity security platform for SaaS and offline deployments, with integrations for more than 20 IAM and identity provider systems. Across my work, I’ve focused on cloud identity, secure access, and architectures validated against real customer scenarios.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Customer Engineer, Security and Hybrid Identity

Ascendion Inc.

May 2026 - Present (5 months)

Delivers proactive and reactive identity and security engagements for Microsoft Unified enterprise customers, from scoping and architecture through implementation guidance and closure. Designed Microsoft Entra Private Access and Internet Access architecture, multi-option Entra ID join and device identity architecture, and led Active Directory modernization for a large transit authority.

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Product Development Specialist / Senior Cloud & Identity Infrastructure Engineer

Njuma Consulting LLC

Feb 2026 - May 2026 (3 months)

Stood up greenfield Azure DevOps environments end-to-end, architected a 300TB+ private cloud backup and recovery platform, and delivered an enterprise-grade identity security platform with multi-tenant zero-trust architecture. Built scalable backend services using FastAPI and PostgreSQL and a modern frontend using Next.js.

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EntraID SE/IAM Lead

Delta Dental

Jan 2023 - Mar 2026 (3 years 2 months)

Assisted in late-hours prod releases to integrate CI/CD pipelines with EntraID Key Vault, implementing automated secret rotation and eliminating static credentials from source control. Designed role-mapping strategies between Entra ID security groups and roles, and debugged token acquisition failures related to Conditional Access, TLS, and corporate proxy restrictions.

Cognizant logoCO

Senior Manager, Corporate Security

Apr 2021 - Jan 2023 (1 year 9 months)

Architected SailPoint Identity Solution, defined and standardized development lifecycle workflows within ADO, and architected a common identity platform using cloud adoption frameworks and Azure RBAC. Coordinated with middleware organizations and delivered risk analysis and compliance alignment reviews.

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Sr. Cloud Identity Engineer

Mindtree Ltd.

Apr 2019 - Apr 2021 (2 years)

Monitored and detected vulnerabilities in Entra ID using various tools, architected cross-cloud identity federation between Microsoft Entra ID and AWS, and supported Entra ID Conditional Access configurations. Successfully migrated over 2,500 users and groups and configured hybrid setups for access to on-prem resources.

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Principal Infrastructure Architect

Secure Sphere Data Center

Jun 2016 - Mar 2019 (2 years 9 months)

Architected a Tier III data center IT stack with N+1 redundancy, designed scalable compute, storage, and network architecture, and governed the end-to-end enterprise Azure DevOps ecosystem. Deployed a redundant OpenStack-CloudStack environment and implemented Cloudflare Zero Trust.

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IT Infrastructure Engineer

Ingenieria Aplicada

Jan 2009 - Jan 2015 (6 years)

Installed and commissioned data center infrastructure, administered Windows Server environments and Active Directory, and built and maintained LAN/WAN networking. Implemented backup, recovery, and system monitoring across physical and virtualized server environments.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Central Washington University logoCU

Central Washington University

BAS, Information Technology & Administrative Management

Pursued a BAS in Information Technology and Administrative Management, completing in September 2023.

Kings College London logoKL

Kings College London

Certified Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurship

Completed a Certified Entrepreneurship program in January 2021.

University of the People logoUP

University of the People

Associate of Business Administration, Business Administration

2017 - 2021

Earned an Associate of Business Administration in Business Administration from September 2017 to January 2021.

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