Andrew Cordray

Experience

1. Cloud Architecture Consultant

   PwC

   Jan 2022 — Present

   Senior Associate - Microsoft Azure Projects: Large Telecommunications Company: Azure Virtual Desktop - Migration of users from a Citrix environment to Azure Virtual Desktop. Designed and implemented a hub and spoke architecture with ExpressRoute connections to multiple data centers. Planned the IP addressing plan for over virtual machines. Set up routing for subnets. Set up monitoring, logging and custom alerting for the AVD platform. Deployed infrastructure through Azure Bicep. Deployed and configured Palo Alto NVAs in Azure. Validated security requirements and prepared a secondary region for DR/failover. Took ownership of billing and budgeting while optimizing costs. Coached a team of 3 associates during the implementation phase. Worked closely with client stakeholders to present project updates, refine architectural decisions and finalize system requirements. Mid-Size Industrial Manufacturer: Implemented a cloud foundations platform and landing zones in Azure. Designed IP Addressing, Networking Topology/Connectivity, Logging, Monitoring, Identity, RBAC, Tagging, Palo Alto Firewall, compliance, and security solutions. Managed project scheduling, budget, deadlines and milestones. Divestiture - Financial Services Firm Designed an Azure Virtual Desktop implementation for a greenfield Azure Platform. Deployed Infrastructure as Code through Terraform and an Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline. Collaborated with a global scrum team to provide feature updates to the environment. Large Aerospace Company: Migration of a Data Pipeline, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning application to Azure. Deployed Azure resources through Terraform. Set up Matlab development environments. Configured Azure Data Factory, Azure Machine Learning and Azure Cognitive Services.