I’m a Cloud, Identity and Security Consultant and if you have an opportunity where I can help your project and/or team, please let me know and let’s discuss the possibility.
Currently, I have work visas in at least 3 different continents (Europe, North America and South America), and having and opportunity in a different culture that would pick my interest for sure.
Feel free to contact me through X (former Twitter) or email by clicking on the icons listed on the right side.
Professional Career
I have international experience in different sectors working with medium to large companies across the globe to improve and establish best practices to reduce costs and bring efficiency (Cloud or on-premises) using Microsoft Azure, Entra Id, Azure DevOps, Infrastructure as Code. As well, helping Operations and Architecture teams alike as lead or being part of the team to help them to achieve their goals.
Besides of my professional experience, my certifications with major vendors is a never ending process which I use as an opportunity to learn new things and be up to speed. Nowadays I have more than 50+ Microsoft Certifications, including MCM (Microsoft Certified Master) in Exchange, ISC2 (CISSP and CSSP), Amazon, RedHat, Computer Associates, F5, Hashicorp, and many other vendors.
Microsoft Community
On the IT Community side, I’m a former Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 13 years consecutive years and ending when I decided to join Microsoft as Full-Time Employee.
During the MVP Summits in Seattle. I was lucky enough to be able to seat and listen to key Microsoft figures, such as Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, Satya Nadella, and Mark Russinovich to mention a few.
Bill Gates
Steve Ballmer
Satya Nadella
I was a prolific author writing several articles and blog posts in several major community sites, the main one that still active is Techgenix where I was one of the leading authors for more than a decade. Some of the retired sites, to mention a few are LiveSpaces, AndersonPatricio.org (more than 5000 articles in Portuguese), MsMVPs.org, ITProCentral.com.br, and Culminis.
Besides of the my passion to write technical content. I presented several sessions including Microsoft Teched, wrote a couple of Microsoft Knowledge Base (kb) articles for Microsoft, created a couple of multimedia training around Exchange, books and product reviews.
We (Roberval Sanchez and I) presented a full day of live hands-on in the Exchange Server.
Presenter in Microsoft TechEd South America (Sao Paulo)
Microsoft presentation to MVPs and Community around Exchange Server 2007.