Josh Lanier

About Josh Lanier

I seek to leverage the skills that I have gained from my career experience and to use those to help customers achieve more in the area of Cybersecurity. •Cloud Trust - Expertise in sophisticated modern identity, security, privacy, and compliance requirements, and experience integrating them into cloud and hybrid solutions.•Sales Professional – Ability to maintain sales excellence/cross-team orchestration to achieve sales goals. •Networking- Built extensive network across Sales, Customer Success, and Account overlay teams.•Cybersecurity Architect - Experienced professional able to design cloud-based modern secure architectures, aligning with security, compliance, and risk management best practices.•Security Practitioner - Committed to knowing not just what solutions can do but the skills required to properly implement in the real world.•Leadership – Ability to influence without authority. Able to lead, inspire, and mentor members of sales and supporting technical teams to achieve a unified goal. •Excellent Communicator - Strong people negotiation, organizational, presentation, deep technical product demo, writing, and verbal communication skills.•Collaborative - Able to collaborate cohesively with customers, members of the sales, services, and marketing organizations as well as partners.•Learner / Growth Mindset – Ability to learn, understand, and work with new and emerging technologies.

Experience

1. Global Black Belt Advanced Identity

   Microsoft

   Sep 2024 — Present · Charlotte, NC, US

   As a Global Blackbelt for Advanced Identity I work alongside our Engineering Teams and Professional Services account teams to explore how Microsoft\'s Advanced Identity capabilities can solve for our customer\'s evolving identity challenges.Spearheaded strategic identity initiatives across the healthcare sector, driving adoption of Microsoft Entra Suite and Secure Service Edge solutions.Delivered high-impact enablement sessions and technical talks, accelerating field readiness and customer understanding of Zero Trust and identity governance.Led proof-of-concept deployments and resolved critical blockers for enterprise customers, improving time-to-value and product feedback loops.Mentored peers and scaled technical excellence through demo lab development, internal tooling, and cross-functional collaboration.Recognized for shaping product strategy and influencing roadmap priorities through direct engagement with engineering and field leadership.

Education

• University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  B.S, Information Systems and Operations Management

  2007 — 2012

Skills

• Windows Azure
• Enterprise Mobility
• Adfs
• Active Directory
• Windows Server
• Windows 7
• Technical Support
• Troubleshooting
• System Deployment
• System Administration
• Information Technology
• Networking
• Os X
• Microsoft Technologies
• Windows
• Servers
• Wireless Networking
• Printers
• IT Strategy
• Desktop Support Management
• Windows 7 Migration
• Integration
• Mac Os X Server
• Software Installation
• Office 2010
• Configuration Management
• Software Documentation
• Visio
• Iphone
• Frontrange Heat
• Adfs 2.0
• Macintosh Applications
• Apple Certified
• Small Business IT Solutions
• Acsp
• Mac Os X
• Directory Sync
• Rms
• Windows 10
• Azure Ad B2c