Greg Cusanza
Principal Program Manager Lead at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Cusanza is a Principal Program Manager Lead with over a decade of commercial software experience and a long career in systems and document management stretching back to the 1990s. He blends deep C/C++/C# expertise, COM/ATL/MFC proficiency, and test-driven OOP practices with hands-on platform and networking work at Microsoft focused on Core Networking for Edge OS. Greg has a proven track record modernizing automation and infrastructure—evidenced by contributions to the Microsoft SDN repo where he updated PowerShell and VM configuration scripts for newer Windows Server scenarios and resilient failover. Comfortable learning complex third-party systems quickly, he pairs pragmatic implementation skills with architectural thinking across Documentum, IBM Content Manager, and OpenText environments. Collected experience from roles at Microsoft, EMC Captiva, and Calpoly Research shows an ability to move between low-level systems engineering and program management while keeping delivery and interoperability front of mind. Based in Redmond, he combines institutional knowledge of enterprise content and virtualization systems with a hands-on approach to automation and platform reliability.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (8)
net10
powershell10
automation10
automations10
devops10
windows-server10
sdn10
networking9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/SDN
Jan 2016 - Jun 2022
This repo includes PowerShell scripts and VMM service templates for setting up the Microsoft Software Defined Networking (SDN) Stack using Windows Server 2016
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 99 commits, 36 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily worked on updating and maintaining PowerShell scripts related to setting up the Microsoft Software Defined Networking (SDN) Stack. Their contributions involved modifying scripts for compatibility with newer Windows Server versions and enhancing functionalities, such as failover mechanisms. Additionally, the user made changes to configure network controller VMs, including setting up WinRM and trusted hosts, demonstrating a focus on automation and infrastructure configuration. The commits also showcase involvement in creating and modifying configurations for SLB MUX and Gateway VMs, along with implementing tracing capabilities.
windows-server-2016windows-serverwindowsdefinedsetting
grcusanz/SDN
Nov 2015 - Aug 2022
This repo includes PowerShell scripts for setting up the Microsoft Software Defined Networking (SDN) Stack using Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview.
Contributions:13 PRs, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 9 months
windows-server-2016windows-servermdtwindowsdefined
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