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Sami W

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Microsoft 365 and identity engineer at California Institute of Integral Studies; led Purview sensitivity label rollout.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I'm open to remote senior engineering and architecture roles in Microsoft 365 and identity.

At California Institute of Integral Studies, I own identity, messaging and collaboration across Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams and Entra ID. I led the rollout of Purview sensitivity labels and run eDiscovery cases, searches, legal holds and exports.

At Emodo, I led IT across multiple time zones and raised system availability to 99.9%. I migrated on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online and NextCloud to SharePoint, and moved Active Directory to Okta Universal Directory.

At EDGE GRAVITY by Ericsson, I created the first Microsoft 365 tenant and migrated users, SharePoint and OneDrive from Ericsson's tenant. Earlier, at Stanford Children's Health, I migrated 6,000 mailboxes to Exchange Online. I've worked in higher education, healthcare and SaaS, and I'm open to remote senior engineering and architecture roles in Microsoft 365 and identity.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Service Manager Identity and Security

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California Institute of Integral Studies

Mar 2023 - Present (3 years 7 months)

Own identity, messaging and collaboration for the institute across Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams and Entra ID.
- Strengthened Exchange Online Protection and Defender anti-spam and anti-phishing policies across the tenant
- Designed and enforced Microsoft 365 retention and archiving policies to meet institutional and regulatory requirements
- Led the rollout of Purview sensitivity label

IT Manager

Emodo

Apr 2020 - Dec 2022 (2 years 8 months)

Led IT for Emodo (an Ericsson company), owning Microsoft 365, identity and end-user systems across multiple time zones.
- Raised system availability to 99.9% through proactive monitoring and fast issue resolution
- Migrated on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online and NextCloud to SharePoint
- Migrated Active Directory to Okta Universal Directory and automated provisioning, SSO, federation and MFA

Enterprise Cloud Application System Administrator

EDGE GRAVITY by Ericsson

May 2018 - Apr 2020 (1 year 11 months)

Built and ran Microsoft 365 for Edge Gravity after its spin-up from Ericsson.
- Created Edge Gravity's first Microsoft 365 tenant and migrated users, SharePoint and OneDrive from the Ericsson tenant
- Consolidated VidScale, an Ericsson operating company, into the new tenant
- Set up free/busy federation with Ericsson for cross-company scheduling
- Migrated Google Workspace (Drive, Sites, Groups) t

Senior Messaging Engineer

Stanford Children's Health | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanfo

May 2017 - May 2018 (1 year)

Senior messaging engineer for a hybrid Exchange and Office 365 environment.
- Planned and migrated 6,000 mailboxes from on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online using cutover and hybrid methods
- Implemented directory synchronization and moved shared, resource and room mailboxes to the cloud
- Automated Office 365 administration, onboarding and offboarding with PowerShell
- Supported Exchange 2010/

Senior Technology Lead

nReslult Inc.

Jun 2013 - Apr 2017 (3 years 10 months)

- Supported a site relocation and data center migration for onsite and remote users
- Managed Exchange and Windows servers, network monitoring and alerting, and system performance
- Led technology governance: upgrades, hardware refreshes and security patching
- Primary contact for managed service providers; turned client requirements into delivered solutions