Summary
Jake Dean is a Senior Program Manager and former Microsoft engineer with over eight years of experience accelerating cloud adoption and security for large federal customers, grounded in a prior decade of military IT service. He blends deep technical expertise in Azure IaaS/PaaS/SaaS, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and PowerShell automation with proven program and stakeholder management across DoD and US Army-wide initiatives. At Microsoft he led delivery of STIG-compliant marketplace images, built the SCAR compliance automation tool, and drove projects that saved hundreds of thousands of man-hours and millions of dollars annually. His leadership extends to founding and running a global onboarding and mentoring program that supported over 550 diverse team members and scaled Azure consumption across hundreds of deployments. Comfortable operating between hands-on engineering and executive communication, he has repeatedly translated complex security and compliance needs into automated, auditable solutions. Based in Washington, he is pursuing a business-IT management bachelor’s while continuing to modernize federal infrastructures.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Information Systems and Technology, 4.0, Associate's degree, Information Systems and Technology, 4.0 at Community College of the Air Force
Bachelor’s Degree (In progress), Business - Information Technology Management, Bachelor’s Degree (In progress), Business - Information Technology Management at Western Governors University