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Alexandre Fernandes Costa

19 Years of working experience across the Americas, Europe, and Asia and Africa, leading technical communities, influencing Enterprise business transformation and deployment of Global Intellectual Property Strategy.

 

PROFESSIONAL 
experience anchor

• Excellent partner, business decision-makers, C-level relationship, negotiation, business, and program management skills.
• Experienced in innovation strategy implemented at Global level; with specialization on process optimization, customer satisfaction, financial and people impact through comprehensive IP Level/Services/Engineering.

• World-traveled. With native Portuguese. Fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian.
• Experiences with diverse cultures, working styles, and business behaviors.

• Sustained high achiever. 

EXPERIENCE

2018 - Current

@Microsoft

Principal Security Eng Lead

Responsible and accountable for a world-class Red Team (Offensive Security Practice) within CDG (Cosine, Devices, and Gaming) Security that helps ensure a secure experience for hundreds of millions of users all over the world.

2018

@Microsoft

Senior Security Software Engineer Lead

Responsible and accountable for a world class penetration testing team within CDG (Cosine, Devices and Gaming) Security that helps ensure a secure experience for millions of users all over the world. This Red Team is responsible for delivering Red/Purple Teams operations.

2017

@Microsoft

Senior Security Program Manager

Responsible for a world class penetration testing team within WDG that helps ensure a secure experience for millions of users all over the world.

2011

@Microsoft

Principal Premier Field Engineer for Middle East and Africa

Responsible for creation, adoption and enabling a Enterprise Mobility Security and Office 365 Community in Middle East and Africa and worked with our largest, most complex enterprise customers in EMEA to ensure the best experience of our solutions. 

2006

@Microsoft

Senior Premier Field Enginer for Western Europe

Experience managing a wide range of Premier customers and actively contributing to the Premier/PFE community within Western Europe and influencing for WW adoption and creating, leading and driving the adoption new messaging services in Western Europe. 

2003

@Microsoft

Senior Premier Field Engineer | Rapid Response Engineer for Latin America Region

Joined Microsoft as Rapid Response Engineer and later this job position was renamed to Field Engineer and then later renamed globally as a Premier Field Engineer (PFE). When in Latin American region, I was visiting most of times engaged in critical situations or disaster scenarios.

1997

@Hewlett-Packard

Senior Consultant

Experience managing a wide range of Premier customers and actively contributing to the Premier/PFE community within Western Europe and influencing for WW adoption and creating, leading and driving the adoption new messaging services in Western Europe. 

1994

@Itautec

Support Engineer

Working as a support engineer to provide support for Itau Bank Group and their respective Microsoft customers, supporting the old MS BackOffice Platform such as Windows NT 3.1 and 3.5, Windows NT 4.0 and Exchange 4.0. 

SKILLS AND

BACKGROUND 

Cybersecurity
Cloud Security
Azure Active Directory
Cloud Computing
Mobile Devices
Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Technologies
Windows Server
Active Directory
Powershell

Azure Kusto
Azure Sentinel
Azure DevOps
Azure Key Vault
Azure Functions
Microsoft 365
Kali Linux
Python (Programming Language)
Cyber Defense
Cyber Operations

Azure ATP
Microsoft ATP
Logstash
Windows 10
Microsoft Cloud App Security
Microsoft Intune
Mobile Device Management
Technology Evangelist
Customer Presentations
Product Evangelism
Microsoft Operating Systems

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