About Me

Career Experience

June 2015 – Present

Microsoft

Principal FastTrack Product Specialist
  • Provide expert guidance for highly complex, blocked, and out-of-scope FastTrack customer scenarios enabling customers to deploy/resume deployment of Microsoft Defender products enabling over 250K user and device licenses to be unblocked and utilized per year.
  • Create and champion scope expansion for Microsoft Defender products & services including common use cases to support, materials necessary for training development, and estimate of impact for customer.
  • Supported the Incubation of Sentinel for inclusion in FastTrack scope and identified gaps in current training, improvements for customer communications, common customer scenarios & concerns.
  • Collect, triage, address, and escalate customer feedback on Security & Compliance products within FastTrack as well as externally to Product Groups with an average acceptance rate of 30%.
  • Automate communication and review of new support requests & feedback triage to improve end user experience and reduce time-to-respond from 7+ days to 1-2 days.
Sr Technology Specialist - Sales
  • Provided Technical Solution Sales support for Microsoft Security, Compliance, Identity, and Management solutions to the US Government System Integrators impacting around $500M in net-new, upgrade, and renewal sales.
  • Created and established a guide for customers with a cross-cloud or multi-cloud adoption scenario that detailed how identity synchronization would occur.
  • Identified competitive risks, regulatory requirements, and customer implementation requires to specify a product enhancement request for Azure Active Directory to natively support Smart Card/Certificate Based Authentication for US Government customers.
  • Helped establish and coordinate a Microsoft & Defense Industrial Base collaboration community to improve requirement gathering, release announcements, and share best practices.
Sr. Consultant
  • Designed, implemented, and migrated the on-premises SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 with a high-availability implementation as well as a multi-geographic disaster recovery and fail over capability.
  • Implemented customer identity synchronization strategies on premises using Forefront Identity Manager as well as synchronizing on-premises identities to Azure Active Directory.
  • Implemented customer identity federation authentication using Active Directory Federation Services to Azure Active Directory, including support for Smart Card/Certificate Based Authentication.
Dec 2012 – June 2015

ICFI

Technology Specialist
  • Performed out-of-the-box and custom Web and Office Application coding with .NET to enable customer Line-Of-Business application automations and solutions.
  • Reviewed customer's existing third-party hosted environment and made recommendations for migrations of Infrastructure and Applications to Microsoft Azure Cloud resources.
  • Reviewed customer's environment for security configuration and risks and provided recommendations for immediate, mid-term, and long-term improvements.
  • Performed third-party review of configurations and software implementation generating a detailed timeline of results where performance bottlenecks existed and recommendations to improve performance.
  • Supported design & art specialists implement SharePoint hosted public web sites using modern reactive HTML 5 techniques for multi-media corporations.
April 2011 – Dec 2012

SNVC

Chief Architect
  • Provided technical solution specialty for Business Development, Pre-Sales, and Contract Capture with Technical Responses to Government and Private Corp Requests for Proposals resulting in multiple multi-year contract awards.
  • Planned and lead the migration of the internal corporate portal including time tracking system to a newer solution without interrupting employee access.
  • Oversaw the migration of internal infrastructure from VMWare to Hyper-V resulting in ~45% cost reduction for the company.
  • Implemented a single sign on solution that integrated over 100 customer micro-applications and reduced end user authentication prompts from ~30 to 1 per session.
  • Performed numerous SharePoint migration assessments for Government and Private Companies and developed and oversaw migration activities.
  • Planned and migrated a multi-classification government data center to a new data center performing both data migration and hardware moves while minimizing downtime.
Sept 2010 – Apr 2011

Advanced Data Providers

Acquired by SNVC
Chief Architect | Partner
  • Worked independently and with other partners to identify opportunities, develop proposals, and present to customers resulting in 3 multi-year contract engagements.
  • Developed and enhanced call center solution for a telecommunication company including custom single sign on implementations reducing system-switch time by over 85%.
  • Developed custom indexing service and pipeline enhancements to augment and improve a multi-national accounting customer's FAST Search platform.
  • Created automation script for installing and deploying SharePoint & FAST Search enabling consistent environments and rebuild in ~1 hour vs. multiple hours.
Oct 2007 – Sept 2010

MicroLink

Sr. Software Engineer
  • Team leader for SharePoint site management and development establishing a coding standard, software review process, and standardized deployment procedure.
  • Developed numerous SharePoint 2007 & 2010 integrations to other applications including Google Maps, Microsoft Virtual Earth, Adobe Connect, and a custom User Management suite.
  • Provided technical expertise to customers as a Microsoft Partner as part of SharePoint Cooperative Research and Development Agreements.
Oct 2006 – Oct 2007

PROSOFT

Principal Software Engineer
  • Implemented, managed, and customized one of the first SharePoint 2007 sites authorized to run on a DOD network.
  • Worked on a Joint Lessons Learned Data Warehouse to provide a self-service center for sharing lessons learned across services.
Feb 2006 – Oct 2006

TCNI

Sr. Engineer I
  • Performed C++ development, code refactoring, and code reviews using Boost templates as part of an Open-Source system initiative to reduce cost and improve maintainability of current proprietary military system.
Jun 2002 – Feb 2006

NAVSEA Dahlgren Division

Scientist
  • Responsible for reviewing, instrumenting, and testing software written in C.
  • Developed specialized software testing tools to allow testing of unique test cases including difficult to verify error conditions.
  • Supported the development of a new C++ based simulation model designed to replace two existing models and developed testing framework to compare results against existing simulation models.
  • Performed C++ development with Qt to create a testing tool that could run on a Windows laptop for on-board analysis of systems and was directly responsible for passive capture, re-assembly, and recording of network communications.
David McWee

David McWee

Principal FastTrack Product Specialist at Microsoft

About

I am a relentless Technologist and have held a variety of positions ranging from Coding & Testing to Sales & Services where my focus on simplifying and demystifying complex problems for customers has resulted in a track record of success.

Summary

I work at Microsoft as a FastTrack Product Specialist (FPS) with a focus on Security & Compliance solutions, and a lot of the posts here are based on experiences with my customers. Everything here is my own personal opinion, recommendations, etc. and should not be confused with official guidance from Microsoft.

Certifications

  • CEH 2019
  • Security+
  • GIAC Certified Intrusion Analysts (GCIA)
  • GIAC Certified Enterprise Defender (GCED)
  • GIAC Enterprise Vulnerability Assessor (GEVA)

Social Media

How I Got Here

I've reached the 20-year mark in my career and the journey has been wide ranging and interesting. I began in Software testing not realizing that what I was actually doing and finding would eventually fall into the security vulnerability categories (buffer overflow, malformed packets, etc.). I later moved on to being a developer, a developer team lead, a small start-up that was bought, and eventually I arrived at Microsoft about 7 years ago and I've been a Consultant, a Technical Seller, and now an FPS.

My career has spanned a variety of environments from Public Sector to Private Sector, Military to Civilian, and Mainframes to Mobile Devices. No matter what, I have always been and remain curious about technologies. I experiment a lot, play a lot, and break stuff (A LOT) but that keeps me engaged and interested.