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Lester Williams Jr.
Azure ACE (Advanced Cloud Engineer), Microsoft
Location: Mary, FL United States
Joined: Nov 15th, 2020

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Bethune Cookman University class of 1999

Undergrad Major: Computer and Information Science

Webster Univ class of 2003

Grad Major: Computer and Information Science

Experience

I currently work with Microsoft as Azure ACE (Advanced Cloud Engineer)
I have 26 years of experience working in the Information Technology industry.

Azure ACE (Advance Cloud Engineer), Cloud & AI | Microsoft Corp.
From March 2022 to July 2025 • 3 year(s)
Led Azure Support teams for critical problem resolution and provided proactive customer engagement for key solutions and workloads on Azure in a 24x7x365 global support environment.

Senior Systems Engineer, Application Operations (Cloud) | Finastra Corp.
From November 2011 to July 2020 • 9 year(s)
Designed, implemented and supported migration of Phoenix and ancillary products from datacenter to Microsoft Azure cloud environment, including systems administration and client support.

Systems Engineer, Sr., Enterprise Business Services (Technical Operations) | Lockheed Martin Corp.
From October 2007 to September 2011 • 4 year(s)
Created secure and reliable architecture solutions for Enterprise IT projects in large-scale systems and interfaced with program managers and technical teams.

Web Developer (Contractor), Information Technology | XOS Technologies, Inc.
From May 2006 to January 2007 • 1 year(s)
Developed and modified PERL scripts for data parsing and import, and worked with Oracle, MySQL and MS SQL databases.

Cisco Engineer (Contractor), Network Engineering | Fidelity Information Services
From January 2005 to April 2005 • 0 year(s)
Monitored network traffic and made configuration changes to customer routers, applied extended IP access lists to prevent unauthorized access.

Senior Technical Associate II, Global Network Operations Planning District/Network Management | AT&T Solutions, Inc.
From January 2001 to May 2004 • 3 year(s)
Provided support for network management applications including HP OpenView and system administration support on HP-UX and Sun Solaris environments.

Senior Technical Associate I, Global Network Premises LAN/WAN Engineering District | AT&T Solutions, Inc.
From June 1999 to January 2001 • 2 year(s)
Collaborated with external vendors to design LAN/WAN networking solutions and provided project management functions for network architecture changes.

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