Goodbye Microsoft, Hello Caradigm - Alik Levin's - Site Home

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein.

I am moving on. I am leaving Microsoft and joining Caradigm, a Microsoft/GE joint venture, as security engineer. I won’t be updating this blog going forward. I will keep blogging on my personal blog at www.PracticeThis.com.

I was with Microsoft for 8 years, 6 years as a Principal Consultant with MCS (Microsoft Consulting Services) in the field working with enterprise customers and 2 years as Senior Programming Writer in Server and Cloud Division creating content for identity related technologies – WIF, AD FS, ACS, Graph API – and how they fit in the cloud dev story.

Here are few highlights related to my tenure at Microsoft.

Principal Consultant at Microsoft Consulting Services (2004 - 2010)

On-hire took on struggling big project (hundreds of billable hours) and drove to customer’s success and as a result signing up for another three years retainer.
Created and delivered Security Engineering delivery kit, generated pipeline to allow to hire two more security consultants.
Created and delivered Performance Engineering delivery kit, generated pipeline to help another consultant to get off the bench beyond my utilization and capacity.
Received WW Services CTO award for services community contribution in security engineering space.
6 years of utilization consistently above the target without burnout. This is how (slides avail here).
Contributed for several patterns&practices guides: Improving Web Services Security, Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control (2nd Edition)
Made ton of friends at Microsoft, with Customers, and within the Industry.

Sr. Programming Writer at Server and Cloud Division (2010 - 2012)

Developed Information Architecture (IA) for developers content. Applied the IA for WIF, ACS, Graph API, AD FS SDK and RMS SDK content.
Developed and applied Agile Content Engineering practices.
Drove delivery and created original content for ACS 2.0.
Drove delivery and created original content for WIF 4.5 through BUILD, Beta, and RC milestones.
Drove AD FS SDK content improvements.
Drove delivery and created original content for Graph API.
Created original content for Windows Azure Security Guidance.