STSebastian Thorne
Washington State · Open to remote opportunities

Enterprise technology.
Without the buzzwords.

I’m Sebastian Thorne, a Senior Systems & Integration Engineer who connects infrastructure, identity, SaaS, cloud, and security—then makes the result understandable, supportable, and reliable.

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10+Years across enterprise technology
180K+Users in a single migration
<10 minProduction cutover downtime
GlobalUS · Europe · Middle East · APAC

Selected enterprise engagements

Experience earned in environments where the details matter.

Supported organizations through technology providers and employers, working directly on the products, infrastructure, migrations, and technical enablement behind their operations.

Featured case study

One coordinated cutover.
Every UC location.

A 180,000-user PaperCut environment needed new production infrastructure without disrupting a statewide university system.

01 / Scope180,000+

users across the University of California system

02 / Delivery≈ 6 hours

from implementation start through production validation

03 / Continuity< 10 min

of downtime for the final production cutover

01

Scope

Defined requirements and infrastructure parameters for production, print, and sandboxed Web Print servers.

02

Validate

Reviewed the delivered servers, dependencies, permissions, network paths, and cutover readiness.

03

Execute

Built the implementation plan, performed the migration, coordinated network obstacles, and cut over production.

04

Confirm

Tested application services, directory synchronization, print paths, and production behavior with stakeholders.

Outcome Successful first-attempt migration with no reported post-cutover issues.

Global SaaS · Four Winds Interactive

Enterprise support across four continents

Four years supporting complex digital-signage deployments, handling high-volume escalations, training technical teams, and translating platform behavior into practical resolutions.

75–100 tickets / weekTier 2 escalationsGlobal coverage

Distributed education

Infrastructure across the Gulf Islands

PaperCut support in a geographically dispersed school district where remote locations, network paths, and physical access all shaped the technical solution.

Complex WANRemote schoolsPaperCut

Enterprise gaming

Troubleshooting across a segmented network

Worked through deeply trunked enterprise infrastructure, aligning application behavior with network realities and coordinating across technical teams.

Network segmentationEnterprise escalationStakeholder trust

Technical expertise

I build the connective tissue.

Systems work best when architecture, operations, and people are designed together.

01

Identity & cloud

Connect users, policy, and cloud services without losing sight of operational reality.

  • Entra ID
  • Active Directory
  • Azure
  • Microsoft 365
  • AWS fundamentals
02

Enterprise systems

Design, migrate, and stabilize the infrastructure that applications depend on.

  • Windows Server
  • Linux
  • VMware
  • Hyper-V
  • Group Policy
03

SaaS & integrations

Move between vendor platforms, APIs, networks, and customer environments to find the actual fault line.

  • PaperCut MF / Hive
  • Digital signage
  • APIs
  • Implementation
  • Technical enablement
04

Networks & security

Trace problems end to end, reduce ambiguity, and build security into normal operations.

  • TCP/IP
  • DNS / DHCP
  • VPN
  • SonicWall
  • UniFi
  • Zero Trust
05

Automation & operations

Turn hard-won fixes into repeatable workflows, documentation, and leverage.

  • PowerShell
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Runbooks
  • AI-assisted workflows

Industries supported

01Government02Healthcare03Higher education04K–1205Financial services06Gaming07Hospitality08Legal09Automotive10Professional sports11SaaS

Curiosity became a career

From a Radio Shack kit to enterprise systems.

It began with a soldering iron, an AM/FM radio kit, and the need to understand how things worked. Nintendo turned that curiosity toward computers. The path since then has moved through support, systems, networks, robotics, cloud platforms, identity, security, and AI.

“Become who you are.”— Friedrich Nietzsche
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ORIGIN

Built a Radio Shack AM/FM kit; learned that systems can be understood.

CURIOSITY

Nintendo and early computing turned electronics into a lifelong direction.

FOUNDATION

Support, networks, Windows, and the discipline of solving for the user.

ENTERPRISE

Global SaaS, distributed infrastructure, robotics, finance, and public sector.

ARCHITECTURE

Cloud platforms, identity, integrations, migrations, and secure operations.

NOW

Building clearer systems and practical AI-enabled workflows.

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Engineering principles

How I approach the work.

01

Solve root causes, not recurring symptoms.

02

Design for the team that will inherit the system.

03

Security belongs in the architecture, not at the end.

04

Document the decision, not only the procedure.

05

Choose the simplest solution that reliably meets the requirement.

Credentials

Experience first.
Credentials to support it.

CompTIASecurity+ · A+

ISC2Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)

MicrosoftMCP · Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions (70-535)

WGUB.S. Cybersecurity & Information Assurance pathway in progress

Field notes

Technical insights, grounded in the work.

Long-form notes on migrations, supportability, identity, documentation, and the engineering decisions behind reliable systems.

Enterprise migrations

Designing Cutovers That Minimize Downtime

Coming soon

Operations

Documentation Is an Engineering Skill

Coming soon

Identity

Identity Is the Foundation of Enterprise Security

Coming soon

Let’s connect

Complex environment?
Let’s make it make sense.

Email Sebastiansebastian.thorne.01@gmail.com