Jake Dean
Senior Program Manager at Microsoft
Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJake 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 ForceBachelor’s Degree (In progress), Business - Information Technology Management, Bachelor’s Degree (In progress), Business - Information Technology Management at Western Governors University
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Github Skills (20)
powershell-module10
windows-server10
powershell10
stig9
active-directory9
python8
automation8
dsc8
arm7
compliance6
azure6
sccm6
microsoft5
arm-templates4
microsoft-azure3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/StigRepo
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
Automated PowerSTIG Repository for Active Directory environments
Contributions:4 reviews, 65 commits, 33 PRs in 5 months
windows-serverpowershelldirectorycomplianceenvironments
JakeDean3631/PowerStig
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
STIG Automation
Contributions:2 PRs, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
pythonautomationstig
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