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Byron Howell

Senior Systems Administrator

Experience

Senior Systems Administrator

Healthpilot Technologies · San Diego, CA
Feb 2021 – Present
  • Solo IT and security engineer at a 70-person HIPAA startup, reporting to the VP of Engineering. Own M365, Intune (Mac + Windows), Entra/identity, Sentinel XDR, Drata, and the internal tools around them.
  • Built BLAST, an in-house URL shortener with API and cookie-based A/B-test routing for landing pages. Runs on Azure Functions (Node.js), Cosmos DB, and APIM.
  • Deployed and managed Azure Virtual Desktop for the seasonal workforce across 4 operating regions running Windows 11 Enterprise multi-session; FSLogix used for profile storage enabling rapid VM scaling.
  • Enforced passwordless privileged access using macOS Platform SSO and Windows Hello for Business platform keys, with Admin by Request managing all admin sessions in a HIPAA environment.
  • Led end-to-end SOC 2 Type 2 audit, coordinating across security, engineering, and compliance.
  • Automated major business processes — including onboarding/offboarding and incident-response workflows — reducing manual work and improving operational consistency.
  • Launched a virtual contact centre with integrated telephony, routing, and analytics; managed vendor security reviews and Meta/Google data integrations for product and marketing.
  • Managed data integrations across Snowflake, RudderStack, Fivetran, Power BI, and BambooHR as part of the broader data and HR infrastructure stack.

Data Protection & Collaboration Consulting

PROJ1 · Financial Industry
Apr 2024 – Present
  • Configured Microsoft Purview and Zscaler ZIA for a medium-sized organisation in the financial industry.
  • Migrated legacy WordPress intranet to a SharePoint Modern site, modernising content architecture and improving governance and access controls.

IT Support Analyst

Health IQ · San Diego, CA
Sept 2018 – Dec 2020
  • Served as lead IT on the contact centre system, overseeing platform operations across InContact and Five9 for a hybrid/remote workforce of 230 employees and 120 contractors.
  • Debugged and troubleshot Salesforce custom integrations and scripts, becoming the primary internal resource for Salesforce platform issues.
  • Migrated company identity platform from Okta to OneLogin.
  • Cut macOS MDM spend by 50% by migrating device management from Jamf to Kandji.
  • Redesigned Jira Service Desk workflows and automation logic, becoming the in-house expert for Jira Cloud development.
  • Awarded Health IQ MVP for 2019.

Skills

Security Engineering

KQL · Sentinel XDR · Defender XDR · Purview · Zscaler ZIA · Drata · Detection Engineering · Incident Response · Zero Trust · DLP · SOC 2 · HIPAA

Identity & Access

Entra ID · Conditional Access · FIDO2 / Passwordless · macOS Platform SSO · Windows Hello for Business · Admin by Request · Okta · OneLogin

Endpoint Management

Intune · JAMF · Kandji

Cloud & Infrastructure

Azure · Azure Functions · Cosmos DB · APIM · Azure Virtual Desktop · FSLogix · AWS · Cloudflare Workers · D1 · Durable Objects · Serverless

Automation & Scripting

PowerShell · Node.js · Bash · Power Automate · Zapier · GitHub Actions (CI/CD)

Software Development

React · TypeScript · Tailwind · Vite · PWA / Service Workers · IndexedDB (Dexie) · Clerk · REST APIs

Data & Analytics

Snowflake · RudderStack · Fivetran · Power BI · Google Analytics · Google Tag Manager

Business Systems

Jira · Salesforce · Talkdesk · Amazon Connect · BambooHR

Selected Projects

Rallypoint — rallypt.app

Offline-first festival-planning PWA
  • Built end-to-end on Cloudflare's edge stack: Pages Functions, D1, KV, R2, Workers AI, and Durable Objects for per-crew WebSocket fan-out.
  • React 19 + TypeScript + Tailwind frontend with Dexie-backed offline cache, vite-plugin-pwa service worker, and a sync queue that replays mutations when the connection returns.
  • Operated like production: Clerk auth, PostHog exception capture + autocapture analytics, structured error logs in KV, and a scaling-canary cron that pages at 80% of Workers Paid plan budget.

Education

M.S. Cybersecurity Engineering

University of San Diego

B.S. Cyber Forensics

University of Utica

Certifications

CompTIA IT Operations Specialist, CompTIA Network+, CompTIA A+