Michael Wu

The Life of a Cloud Engineer

Professional Experience

Cloud Engineer

The University of Chicago  •  11/2021 – present

  • AWS: Account provisioning/migration, Landing Zone upgrade, Security/Compliance monitoring, GovCloud, CloudFormation automation, Transit Gateway deployment
  • Azure: Subscription provisioning, Azure Policy, Azure Virtual Desktop, BluePrints automation, Billing management (MCA), HIPAA Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud
  • GCP: Billing management, Folder/Project administrations

System Administrator

The University of Chicago  •  11/2016 – 10/2021

  • Server Provision automation with VMWare PowerCLI
  • PowerShell Module to automate repetitive tasks
  • Data Center consolidation, server migrations
  • Exchange 2010, Office 365 migration
  • SCOM 2012 PowerShell GUI tool, SCCM 2012 software updates / Windows patching
  • Azure onboarding, Azure ADFS
  • SharePoint 2016 migration, ADFS 4.0
  • Windows 2016 RDS RemoteApps, FSLogix

System Administrator

University of Missouri – St. Louis  •  6/2013 – 11/2016

  • Coordinated the various tasks of SCCM development – Planning, designing, and integration (including formal testing) and oversaw full transition into production.
  • Automated system monitoring and management tasks using PowerShell scripts.
  • Advanced PowerShell scripting with Module management and DSC.
  • Maintained MS SharePoint Servers – Performed troubleshooting and provided resolutions for server and service problems.
  • Installed of latest versions of Operating Systems on demand, per requirements of the clients.
  • Managed and advised the deployment of new system designs.

Instructor & IT Support Specialist

FangYuan Private GO School , Taiwan•  1/2002 – 12/2009

  • Teaching Go (game).
  • Designed and configured IT network components and assisted in the implementation of designed IT network configuration.
  • Troubleshooting, analyzing and repairing problems of computer elements such as desktop computers, laptops and various components/peripherals of an IT network.
  • Assisted company personnel with desktop operation, including both hardware and software – Provided employee training and instructions (through presentations) regarding basic operation of software and hardware, technical support and quality standards.

Education

Computer Science, Master`s Degree

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale  •  9/2011 – 6/2013

Information Management, MBA

National Yunlin University of Science and Technology •  9/2007 – 5/2010