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Myron Johnson Consulting, LLCPrincipal Consultant & Founder
Aug. 2025Chicago, ILIndependent consultancy specializing in Azure cloud architecture, cybersecurity strategy, and infrastructure modernization for mid-market and enterprise clients. Built secure lab environments simulating enterprise Azure and Entra ID deployments — including Sentinel integration, governance policy frameworks, and CI/CD security validation — maintaining hands-on currency across rapidly evolving cloud and security platforms. Developing vCISO and security assessment service offerings for organizations seeking fractional security leadership without full-time overhead. Available for consulting engagements and open to senior full-time infrastructure, cloud architecture, and cybersecurity leadership roles.
National Restaurant AssociationLead Infrastructure Architect
Apr. 2017 - Aug. 2025Chicago, ILBrought in as a 3-month consultant to fix a broken network. Did the job well enough that they restructured around the engagement, replaced the existing Senior Network Engineer, and kept me for eight years. During that time I was one of two Global Administrators for the entire Azure environment and the sole authorized creator of Azure resources for 4-5 years. Built Azure from zero to $100,000 monthly OpEx — 250+ App Services, multiple regions, Service Fabric, APIM, ExpressRoute, NVAs, and more. Later independently collapsed 30 subscriptions to 6, migrated 30 VPN connections to ExpressRoute, and reduced the external IP footprint from hundreds to one. Managed dual-site VMware infrastructure — 5 UCS chassis, ~32 blades, 550+ virtual servers across colocation and on-premises. Self-taught Check Point NGFW after a 20-year gap, Ping Identity on RHEL from scratch, and executed a solo QRadar-to-Sentinel migration — engineering a Squid Proxy solution to control ingestion costs without losing visibility. Managed Microsoft Defender evolution from endpoint through full XDR suite. Led complete Willis Tower headquarters buildout — full floor, 400 users, single weekend cutover. A year later when flooding took the building offline, intimate knowledge of that infrastructure enabled emergency workarounds that restored operations before the building reopened. Navigated three major crises: CDN vendor bankruptcy with 30-day migration window, Willis Tower flood, and COVID-19 remote access expansion — delivering continuity under pressure each time.
Solution PartnersInfrastructure Architect
Dec. 2016 - Mar. 2017Chicago, ILContractor for National Restaurant Association
General AssemblyStudent
Jun. 2015 - Sep. 2015Greater Chicago Area
Network Data SystemsPrincipal Consultant
Dec. 2004 - Dec. 2015Schaumburg, ILSpent 11 years as Subject Matter Expert in routing, switching, Cisco Unified Communications, and Contact Center Express — leading critical infrastructure and security projects for enterprise clients across financial services, healthcare, aviation, manufacturing, retail, and government. Part of a career total of $100M+ in delivered solutions across 500+ projects. Named client work includes: Grainger — Lead engineer for new Lake Forest headquarters. 3,000+ users, 30+ wiring closets, multi-million dollar Fore Systems ATM core deployment. MillerCoors — Lead Architect for 8-9 month national deployment covering the newly merged company's Chicago headquarters, 9 breweries, and 10 remote sales offices. Led team of 6 engineers. Crate & Barrel — Led datacenter migration to new Niles headquarters. 300 users, 30-40 WAN circuits, Cisco 7500 core. Full cutover in a single 48-hour weekend window. Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation — Cisco UC across 3 facilities including active hospital floors. 500-700 endpoints with CUCM, Unity, and Cisco Emergency Responder for life-safety 911 compliance. Ronin Capital / IMC Trading / Citadel — Cisco UC for Chicago's major financial trading firms. IPC Systems turret integration, ring-down circuits, multicast voice networking in zero-tolerance trading environments. United Airlines — Cisco UC for multiple locations including main Chicago operations hub. Custom AS400/UCCX Integration — Architected custom integration between Cisco UCCX and IBM AS400 with no out-of-the-box pathway. 10-12 IVR flows, ~10,000 lines of script logic. Solution remained in production use years post-deployment. Additional engagements across CVS/CareMarks, City of Chicago, Walgreens, VA Medical Center Chicago, and various financial, manufacturing, healthcare, and government clients.
Anixter | SBC Datacom | AT&TEmerging Technologies Engineer
Jan. 1997 - Dec. 2004Arlington Heights, ILSeven years leading enterprise LAN/WAN implementations, Cisco Unified Communications deployments, and security integrations across major Chicago-area and national enterprise clients. Earned CCNA, CCNP, CCSP, and CCIE No. 6757 during this period while executing production-level engagements. Implemented 100+ Microsoft environments including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, Exchange, and MSSQL. Repeatedly trusted with first-of-kind deployments where no precedent existed: Cray Research (Eden Prairie, MN & Chippewa Falls, WI) — Major role in one of the first Cisco CallManager 3.0 deployments nationally. 600 endpoints across two facilities immediately post-Cisco acquisition of Selsius. No established TAC support or precedent at the time. VA Medical Center (Chicago) — Performed the first known Cisco ICS 7750 version 1 to version 2 replacement nationally. Active federal healthcare environment, two-week window, no established procedure. Complexity elevated by a difficult backup extraction from the legacy system requiring real-time problem solving. ICS 7750 Pioneer — Among the first to deploy Cisco ICS 7750 IP Telephony blade server technology nationally. Super Bowl XXXIV (Atlanta, January 2000) — Selected as backup infrastructure engineer for live event operations. Required rapid mastery of Alcatel-Xylan proprietary switching architecture to ensure readiness for contingency support. Y2K Remediation — Infrastructure audits and firmware compliance upgrades across dozens of enterprise client engagements under hard calendar deadline. Multi-vendor depth across Cisco, Bay Networks/Nortel, Fore Systems, Alcatel-Xylan, Ascend, 3Com, and HP. Installed HP OpenView, CiscoWorks, and SolarWinds network management platforms.
UUNETCircuit Activation & Implementation Engineer
Jan. 1996 - Dec. 1997Fairfax, VAJoined UUNet during the explosive early growth of commercial internet infrastructure — part of a field team building out backbone capacity for AOL and MSN networks at a time when dial-up internet was scaling from thousands to tens of millions of users nationwide. Built out three major internet infrastructure sites across New York, Dallas, and San Francisco — each approximately 2 rows of 10 racks supporting 20,000-30,000 simultaneous connections. Managed full deployment lifecycle from unboxing through turnup — racking, wiring, connecting, testing, and activating Cisco 7500 series routers and Ascend Max TNT remote access servers. Among the first Ascend Max TNT deployments in the country. Activated DS1 and DS3 circuits for AOL and MSN — the primary internet service providers serving millions of subscribers during the formative era of commercial internet. On a single New Year's Eve push to meet year-end targets, activated 500 T1 circuits across multiple sites — working through midnight to deliver against a hard deadline.
United States Air ForceCommunication System Control Specialist
Jan. 1993 - Dec. 1996The Pentagon, Washington, D.C.Served 3 and a half years in the U.S. Air Force supporting communications infrastructure at the highest levels of the United States military — operating across the Pentagon Communications Agency, National Military Command Center, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Joint Staff, and Defense Intelligence Agency. Security Clearances: TS/SCI, NMCC, JCS, JS, and DIA. Supported facilities running thousands of voice and data circuits and thousands of communications equipment devices across multiple classified and unclassified environments. Progressed from maintenance, troubleshooting, and break/fix into the engineering group — installed equipment and built 40-50 circuits spanning the Air Force, JCS, NMCC, JS, DIA, and DISA networks. Served as Node Site Coordinator for DISA NIPRNet and Assistant Node Site Coordinator for DISA SIPRNet — supporting the transition from legacy MILNET and DSNET1 to modern military network infrastructure. Early hands-on experience with Cisco AGS routers and Sun Solaris in classified computing environments.
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