Ascend Technologies

Project Manager

• Responsible to oversee and guide project teams through project initiation to project close, ensuring the teams follow organizational best practices.
• Own overall schedule, budget, and deliverables for assigned project(s).
• Use waterfall and/or agile methodologies and practices to plan, manage and deliver technology solutions, as defined by the project scope/SOW.
• Schedule and facilitate project events and ceremonies.
• Create strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
• Plan and organize project deliverables, goals and milestones.
• Liaison with stakeholders such as clients, end users, vendors and project personnel regarding defining and documenting project requirements and processes.
• Monitor and report project progress, issues and risk to internal and external executive sponsors and stakeholders.
• Assist in owning and executing change management processes.
• Guide project teams through go-live and warranty phases.
• Provide ongoing and post-project evaluations/retrospectives.
• Ensure knowledge transfer or project to appropriate support teams.
• Partner with various IT management teams to ensure appropriate prioritization and resource allocation of projects.
• Own prioritization processes for assigned projects against overall enterprise backlog to ensure teams are focused on highest value work.
• Train, mentor and support other project managers and project teams to follow PMO best practices.

Senior Project Manager

Business Development Rep

• Develop new business leads through referrals, networking, and prospecting.
• Guide leads through the sales process and help them find business success by utilizing the Salesforce platform.
• Manage relationships with existing customers and their projects through Account Reviews.
• Achieve Sales Quota: Meet and exceed sales quotas while accurately forecasting and managing the sales pipeline.
• Generate New Business: Actively pursue new business opportunities via community networking, marketing efforts, and referral generation.
• Execute Sales Process: Highlight Ascend's key differentiators throughout the defined sales process.
• Collaborate with Sales Engineering: Lead team of resources to uncover project scope.
• Conduct Account Reviews and maintain relationship awareness of strategic plans with customers.
• Expand Account Reach: Nurture relationships with existing customers.
• Complete Project Oversight: Oversee communication during all project stages.
• Develop Salesforce Relationship with channel partners.

Salesforce Business Development Executive

Infrastructure Engineer

• Provide escalated support and operational maintenance to client environments.
• Work on project-based initiatives for clients, including upgrades to existing infrastructure and deployment of new technology.
• Serve as escalation point for the Ascend Technologies Network Operations Center (NOC) and support engineers

Senior Infrastructure Systems Engineer

Security Engineer

• Design and lead enterprise Azure solutions across compute, networking, identity, storage, logging, and monitoring.
• Architect secure Azure landing zones and hybrid cloud environments aligned with Microsoft best practices and organizational standards.
• Lead cloud migration and modernization initiatives from on-premises or legacy platforms to Azure.
• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using ARM, Bicep, and/or Terraform.
• Design and support CI/CD pipelines to enable automated, repeatable, and compliant infrastructure deployments.
• Embed security-by-design and Zero Trust principles into all Azure architectures.
• Design and implement Azure-native security controls, including Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Microsoft Sentinel, identity protection, and conditional access.
• Perform cloud security posture reviews and environment readiness assessments.
• Serve as a senior advisor for cloud security and compliance initiatives aligned to ISO 27001, SOC 1/2, GDPR, TISAX, and similar regulatory frameworks.
• Lead the interpretation, design, implementation, and operationalization of security and compliance controls within Azure environments.
• Conduct compliance and risk gap assessments and translate regulatory requirements into Azure-native technical and operational controls.
• Support audit readiness activities, including evidence preparation, control validation, and remediation planning.
• Act as a trusted advisor to engineering teams, business leaders, and executive stakeholders.

Senior Project Manager

Salesforce Business Development Executive

Senior Infrastructure Systems Engineer

Azure Solutions, Security Architect