About Lucien
Senior Microsoft 365 consultant with 7+ years of experience designing and implementing modern workplace solutions
for organizations with up to 50,000 users. Specializing in Microsoft 365, Microsoft Intune, Zero Trust Security, and complex
migrations. Proven track record of technical leadership, delivering projects within scope and on schedule.
High customer satisfaction and minimal downtime and disruption.
Dutch
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
Experience
- Nova CollegeSolution ConsultantEDUCATION AND E-LEARNINGJanuary 2024 - January 2025 (1 year)Haarlem, Netherlands
- Design & Implementation: Responsible for designing and implementing a complex modern workplace solution based on Windows 11 and Microsoft Intune for students, teachers, and knowledge workers.
- Leadership: Led a team of 8 internal employees with diverse expertise, ensuring project tasks were understood and executed while providing extensive support. Kept the project within agreed parameters and adjusted where necessary.
- Analytical Skills: Gained insight into the current situation by utilizing various data sources, then translated these into actionable tasks and budgeting, such as purchasing hardware and hiring external resources.
- Communication: Organized and prepared meetings with external suppliers to gain new insights and enable design development. Drafted communication for the project manager regarding device replacement. Kept the project team informed of status and challenges.
- Technical Expertise: Configured and tested the designed solution according to best practices from manufacturers and practical experience from previous migrations. Products included: Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Entra ID (Connect), Microsoft Defender for Endpoint P1, P2, ADFS, Conditional Access, SCCM/MECM.
- Composure & Confidence: When processes changed or incidents occurred, communicated from expertise about why we do this, how we solve it, and what it delivers short and long term, ensuring issues were not dwelt upon too long. This brought calm to the project team, client, and end users.
- Knowledge Transfer: Established clear agreements on documentation so design choices could be referenced through Low and High Level design documents. Organized multiple workshops for the internal team on working with the new product at first and second line support levels.
- Forward Thinking: Delivered a report with future improvements, outlining how the client could further develop technology to enable end users to work more productively and securely.
- Rapid CircleTechnical ConsultantDIGITAL AND ITJanuary 2023 - January 2024 (1 year)Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Design & Implementation: Designed and implemented modern workplace environments based on Microsoft 365, Intune and Azure Virtual Desktop for organizations from 1,000 to 50,000 users nationally and internationally, considering functional, compliance and security requirements.
- Translating Client Needs: Gathered and translated functional requirements into concrete designs. Balanced user-friendliness, security and manageability. Early decision-making made projects predictable with minimal execution questions.
- Assessment & Reporting: Conducted structured assessments using best practice checklists to map clients' Microsoft 365 environments. Deployed automated scans to analyze configurations. Identified showstoppers and created phased action plans.
- Mobile Device Management: Designed and configured management platforms for Android, iOS and iPadOS via Microsoft Intune including application protection and MAM.
- Security & Compliance: Developed comprehensive security designs including WDAC, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Sentinel, Windows Hello for Business, LAPS, ASR and CIS Baselines, significantly reducing attack surfaces.
- Tenant Consolidation & Migration: Executed tenant consolidations and splits for merging or splitting companies with minimal downtime.
- Advisory Role: Acted as senior partner providing technical insights and demonstrations of latest innovations, identifying opportunities for account management and sales teams.
- Proposition Development: Contributed to renewal of internal Modern Workplace proposition, integrating new Microsoft 365 functionalities and best practices.
- Workshops & Knowledge Sharing: Delivered workshops and training on Microsoft Intune, security hardening and Microsoft 365 adoption for clients and internal teams.
- Conditional Access Architecture: Implemented advanced Conditional Access policies based on Zero-Trust principles, protecting corporate data through user and device compliance.
- SLTNTechnical ConsultantDIGITAL AND ITJanuary 2020 - January 2024 (4 years)Hilversum, Netherlands
- Technical Leadership: Lead technical consultant for large-scale End User Computing projects at organizations with 3,000 to 5,000 employees. Determined technical direction for project teams ensuring implementations followed best practices within scope. Resolved complex challenges and supported teams with in-depth knowledge.
- Healthcare Transformations: Implemented Modern Workplace solutions at two major Dutch healthcare organizations based on Microsoft Intune, Liquit Workspace, Conditional Access and A&M Impact Social intranet.
- Third Party Products: Designed technical architectures for Microsoft and third-party products including VMware Workspace ONE, Printix Cloud Printing, Liquit Workspace and Intel vPro.
- Presales & Client Advisory: Participated in pre-sales discussions examining and explaining functionality and technical feasibility. Communicated clearly about possibilities, risks and client value.
- Application Packaging: Packaged and tested over 50 complex applications at an engineering consultancy using E-Plan and CAD packages. Resolved compatibility issues and packaged for deployment via Intune and Liquit Workspace.
- Cloud Printing Transformations: Executed transformations from traditional print environments to Printix Cloud Printing and Microsoft Universal Print.
- Tenant Consolidation & Migration: Designed and executed MS365 tenant migrations including OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams, Exchange Online and Intune devices via Quest on Demand.
- Mobile Device Management: Configured and designed Intune MDM for Android, iOS and iPadOS devices and fully implemented at various clients. Configured MAM to protect corporate data on personal devices.
- MSP Onboarding: Developed architecture and framework for Liquit Workspace as new SLTN product. Standardized solution for efficient Managed Services client onboarding, making the service scalable.
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Education
- Client Managed ServicesIntel Corporation2021Client Managed Services
- VMware Certified Professional Digital WorkspaceVMware2020VMware Certified Professional Digital Workspace