Ricardo M.

I move Microsoft environments to the cloud without breaking sign-in, mail, or endpoints: AD to Entra ID, datacenter to Azure, tenant to tenant, CrowdStrike to Defender. 15+ years, enterprise scale. Top Rated | 100% Job Success | 5,400+ hours on Upwork | MCSD: Azure Solutions Architect WHAT I DO - Active Directory & hybrid identity: AD DS design, cleanup, consolidation, domain migrations, Entra Connect / Cloud Sync, Conditional Access, tenant restrictions - Datacenter to Azure: assessment, Azure Migrate, lift-and-shift, Hyper-V/VMware to Azure, landing zones, Azure Virtual Desktop - Microsoft 365 migrations: tenant-to-tenant, Exchange/Kerio/Google to Exchange Online, file servers and NextCloud to SharePoint/OneDrive, GCC / GCC High readiness - Endpoint & security: Intune, Autopilot, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud Apps, EDR replacement (CrowdStrike to Defender) - Windows Server: upgrades, GPO rationalization, file services, PowerShell automation at fleet scale (including AWS SSM) RECENT WORK (client names withheld) - Canadian energy utility: Entra ID tenant restrictions v1 to v2 migration, current-state assessment through target-state design - US manufacturer: full IT move into M365 GCC Moderate (mail, files, Zoom, Hyper-V workloads) - US SaaS provider: CrowdStrike Falcon to Microsoft Defender across an AWS Windows Server fleet, fully scripted - Caribbean telecom and Canadian reinsurer: Microsoft infrastructure and identity engagements via consulting partners - Global industrial manufacturer: 9+ years in global service delivery, logon automation and Entra-joined device transitions HOW I WORK Assess, design, pilot, migrate, hand over. Every engagement ships with written deliverables: current-state assessment, target-state design, runbooks with rollback, and as-built documentation your team can own. WHY ME - Architect-level design, hands-on execution: I write the design and run the cutover - Central Time (Monterrey, MX): full overlap with US and Canadian business hours; nights/weekends for cutovers - Bilingual English/Spanish Planning a migration or cleaning up identity before one? Message me with your user count and source/target, and I'll reply with an approach and a scoped estimate within one business day.