Michael Melone
Supervisory Committee Member at Microsoft
Tampa, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Melone is a cybersecurity leader with over two decades of experience who currently leads security research for Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR and serves on GTE Financial's Supervisory Committee in Tampa, FL. He helped found and scale Microsoft's DART targeted-attack incident response practice, leading more than 150 global investigations and architecting its Azure PaaS-based incident response toolset and compromise recovery methodology. Combining hands-on threat hunting, Advanced Hunting/KQL training and Power BI-driven BI work with an MBA, he bridges technical operations and executive risk decisions to operationalize security at scale. His early career in DoD and the U.S. Navy—where he managed $1.8B in equipment and drove major enterprise migrations—gives him a rare operational perspective across government and commercial environments.
5 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, 3.97, Master of Business Administration - MBA, 3.97 at University of South FloridaBS, IT Security, 3.4, BS, IT Security, 3.4 at Capella UniversityAssociate in Arts, Focused on IT, Associate in Arts, Focused on IT at Saint Petersburg College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
security10
cybersecurity10
microsoft36510
kubernetes10
microsoft-graph10
power-platform10
cloud-native10
kql10
microsoft10
analytics10
microsoft-36510
intelligent10
powerbi1
office3651
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mjmelone/PowerShell
May 2020 - Apr 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
mjmelone/KQL
Jun 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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