Eric W.

About Eric W.

As someone who has been fortunate to be involved in IT through several different eras, I have always believed that there is a solution to every challenge presented.Originally a Unix Engineer for a regional ISP during the dotcom era, working on and with certain technologies in their infancy. Highlights include the management of DEC Alpha farms with a shared NFS back-end and porting the BSD chroot jail system to Solaris 7.With a pivot to Time Warner Cable, that is when my career with Windows really started. Deploying Active Directory on Server from the ground up for the Northeast Ad/Sales division of TWC. While there was awarded employee of the month in February 2005 for building out a web-based php front-end for searching Active Directory.The next 14 years of my career would be spent working within the NYS Unified Court System, the judicial branch of for the state. Over my tenure became the identity architect for the entire state as well as managed the Windows Server Infrastructure Group, driving all decisions regarding Microsoft technologies. Maintaining a highly resilient on-premises environment, was key in driving cloud adoption and strategies for aggressive moves towards Azure PaaS solutions.Since joining Microsoft, I see a new level of opportunity to bring my expertise, knowledge, and analytical skills to our customers, and have been afforded the ability to work within my passion - identity. Highlights include presenting a Microsoft Tech Talk on Passwordless authentication, contributions to our technical documentation and community articles, working on multiple teams to develop and build out workshops and accelerators consumed by thousands of customers a year to accelerate their own identity journeys.

Experience

1. Chief Identity Architect

   Semperis

   Mar 2025 — Present · Schenectady, NY, US

Education

• Hudson Valley Community College

  Computer Science

• University at Buffalo

  Mechanical Engineering