ABOUT ME

Hi, I'm Ryan McVey, Cloud Solutions Architect by trade at Indiana Office of Technology , single father as a duty and a tinkerer at heart. I will probably ask just enough questions to perk the interest of some and likely just annoy the rest ...

Initially trained as an electronics engineer and systems administrator in the military. Followed with 17 years of experience in the public and private sectors fulfilling Information Technology service support, administration, development, and architectural roles. At each of these progressive stages in the technology services ecosystem I have worked in the capacity of an individual contributor and management. I am technology agnostic yet rapidly adaptable to diverse solution architectures where business initiatives drive technical projects to deliver reliable yet cost-effective solutions.

Understands business challenges and assess the primary organizational goals to guide solutions design to maximize utilization of existing investments while at the same time positioning the organization to leverage modern practices to quantitatively reach a “Business IT Goal”.

Gains the respect and confidence of others by demonstrating leadership tact and the practical application of technical skills needed to be an effective managing architect.

This page is inspired by the Cloud Guru Azure Resume Challenge.

Enhancements

  • Include Cloudflare with Web Application Firewall (WAF) permitting only traffic orginating from the United States of America and blocking known bots / tor nodes.

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

December 2021 - Present

Credential ID I079-6855.

Work

Indiana Office of Technology

Cloud Solutions Enterprise Architect • October 2018 - Present

  • Primary solutions architect responsible for implmenting the management groups/subscriptions Identity Access Management scafolding model within the Microsoft Azure Commercial and Azure US Government clouds being leveraged by State of Indiana executive agencies.
  • Developed and implemented a hub and spoke network model to enable hybrid connectivity between many segmented cloud and on-premises workloads via Internet2 / ExpressRoute private peering.
  • Envisioned the strategy for implementing multiple Azure DevOps organization and project structures in order for executive agencies to deploy programs to cloud and on-premises runtimes.
  • Rapidly implemented a solution and means for operationally managing Azure Virtual Desktops in March 2020 for thousands of state employees to continue fulfilling critical duties throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Functions as a technical advisor and escalation point for dedicated cloud operations engineers.

    • Aprimo

    Azure DevOps Engineer • March 2012 - April 2018

  • Cloud DevOps Engineer that assisted the company modernize a monolithic application architecture from private cloud to Azure Public Cloud.

    • Lockheed Martin

    Information Technology System Administrator • September 2008 - January 2012

  • Tier 2 and then Tier 3 Support of the IT Services for the Federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

    • United State Marine Corps

    Tactical Data Systems Administrator (MOS-5974)• October 2003 - December 2007

  • Subject Matter Expert responsible for maintaining an operational ready Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) and Perimeter Security System (PSS). TBMCS contains: Exchange server, domain controller, terminal server, web host, Oracle database server, and facilitates an up to 40,000 Unix and Windows clients.
  • Responsible for the operation, testing, and cooperative engagement capability of tactical data links in the Marine Tactical Air Command Center in a joint multi-TADIL environment.

    • Azure Services

    Azure Cosmos Document DB

    Some Info

    Reference Architectures

    Implementation

    GitHub

    Repositories • Azure-Resume