Earle Maharaj

About Earle Maharaj

Earle is an IT Leader with 20+ years of experience leading digital transformation, infrastructure modernization, and cybersecurity operations for enterprise and mission-driven organizations. Earle specializes in aligning technology initiatives with business goals to reduce operational costs—delivering substantial budget reductions while maintaining superior system uptime. Earle’s expertise lies in navigating complex compliance frameworks (NIST, CMMC Level 2), managing multi-million-dollar budgets, and orchestrating cloud-first strategies that ensure business continuity.Key Career Highlights:Financial Impact: Negotiated and restructured Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, delivering a 250% increase in cost efficiency and saving over $200K annually.Crisis Leadership: Spearheaded the rapid transition of staff to secure remote operations during the COVID-19 pandemic with zero downtime.Infrastructure Modernization: Led large-scale migrations of on-premises Exchange, Skype, and SharePoint to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, significantly reducing maintenance costs.Cybersecurity Overhaul: Reduced organizational threat exposure through the implementation of Azure Conditional Access, Defender for Endpoint, and MFA.DR & Resilience: Architected resilient disaster recovery solutions for a portfolio of 400+ clients, slashing data recovery times.Core Competencies:IT Strategy & Governance:OpEx/CapEx ManagementVendor NegotiationNIST/CMMC CompliancePolicy DevelopmentPurviewCloud & Infrastructure:Microsoft 365 (Administrator Expert)AzureEntra IDVMwareHyper-VSAN StorageEndpoint Management:Intune (Endpoint Administrator Associate)Jamf/MosylePDQKACEAutomated workstation deploymentSecurity Operations:DefenderSentinel OneCrowdStrikeRapid7Palo AltoFortiGateRisk ManagementEarle is passionate about leveraging technology to solve complex problems and safeguarding the reliability of global IT environments.

Experience

1. System Administrator

   Resultant

   May 2024 — Present · US

   As a Systems Administrator at Resultant, I design and implement backup and disaster recovery solutions, ensuring minimal downtime and data loss for clients by deploying automated backup strategies and conducting risk assessments to protect critical systems.I lead server virtualization and consolidation initiatives using VMware and Hyper-V to optimize resource utilization, improve scalability, and reduce operational costs, while also managing remote access systems such as VPN, RDS, Citrix, and VMware. Additionally, I automate and standardize workstation deployment with MDT and Intune, enhancing security, efficiency, and consistency across client organizations.I conduct continuous wellness checks and execute remediation tasks on critical infrastructure, including Active Directory (DC, DNS, DHCP, Certificates), M365/Azure AD (Entra, Intune, OneDrive, SharePoint), Azure (MABS, Storage, Networking), network switches, firewalls, and access points, ensuring robust security administration and seamless system performance.

Education

• Joel Elias Spingarn

  High School, Advanced Placement Classes

  1989 — 1992

Skills

• Computer Maintenance
• Juniper Switches
• Dns
• Microsoft Exchange
• Citrix Metaframe
• Dhcp
• Technical Support
• Microsoft Technologies
• Vmware
• Storage
• Wsus
• Backup & Restore
• Vmware Esx
• Research
• Active Directory
• Network Administration
• Windows Server
• Computer Security
• Intrusion Detection
• Citrix
• Infrastructure
• Management
• Networking
• Strategic Planning
• Inventory Control
• Security
• Cisco Technologies
• Compellent
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Cisco Voip
• Wireless Networking
• Servers
• End User Training
• Switches
• Data Analysis
• Help Desk Support
• Vpn