Nafi Chaudhury

Nafi Chaudhury

Assistant IT Manager | IT Consultant | Microsoft 365 & Endpoint Manage
Canada
English

About Me

Results-driven IT professional with hands-on experience spanning IT consulting and in-house infrastructure management, supporting over 300 users across a multi-company enterprise environment. Skilled in Microsoft 365 adm…

Experience

Senior IT Consultant

Kilobytes Data Solutions (Client: Drive Auto Group) — GTA
Aug 2023 - Present · 2 years 11 months

Deployed and managed Azure / Entra ID, Intune, and Microsoft 365 across multi-site dealership environments, ensuring compliance and uptime.
Automated employee onboarding and offboarding workflows using PowerShell and Azure Automation, reducing manual effort and errors.
Strengthened vendor partnerships and optimized hardware procurement strategies, reducing costs by 15%.
Customized CDK configurations to meet client dealership needs, improving client satisfaction scores by 15% and reporting efficiency.
Authored IT manuals and troubleshooting guides that reduced average ticket resolution time by 80% (from ~1 day to ~5 hours).
Conducted weekly KnowBe4 cybersecurity awareness sessions, reducing security incidents by 40%.
Administered virtualization environments (Hyper-V/VMware) and provided onsite/remote support across multiple locations.
Created Power BI analytics protocols to enable real-time KPI tracking and support informed leadership decisions.

Senior IT Consultant

Kilobytes Data Solutions (Client: Drive Auto Group) — GTA · Toronto, Canada
Aug 2023 - Present · 2 years 11 months

Deployed and managed Azure / Entra ID, Intune, and Microsoft 365 across multi-site dealership environments, ensuring compliance and uptime., Automated employee onboarding and offboarding workflows using PowerShell and Azure Automation, reducing manual effort and errors., Strengthened vendor partnerships and optimized hardware procurement strategies, reducing costs by 15%., Customized CDK configurations to meet client dealership needs, improving client satisfaction scores by 15% and reporting efficiency., Authored IT manuals and troubleshooting guides that reduced average ticket resolution time by 80% (from ~1 day to ~5 hours)., Conducted weekly KnowBe4 cybersecurity awareness sessions, reducing security incidents by 40%., Administered virtualization environments (Hyper-V/VMware) and provided onsite/remote support across multiple locations., Created Power BI analytics protocols to enable real-time KPI tracking and support informed leadership decisions.

IT Engineer

Stagwell GTG — Toronto
Jun 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 years 2 months

Redesigned and managed IT infrastructure for 400+ employees across multiple locations, achieving $100K in annual cost savings.
Led migration from G-Suite to Microsoft 365 for 800 users, reducing costs by 20% and improving performance by 15%.
Led a team of 5 IT engineers, resolving 95% of issues within SLA across the organization.
Managed Microsoft 365 Admin portal including Defender for Business and compliance and contributed to ISO audit processes.
Streamlined device deployment using Apple Business Manager and JAMF Pro, improving onboarding efficiency.
Utilized Azure Active Directory and Group Policy Objects to enforce security policies and manage dynamic groups.
Developed unified onboarding procedures to harmonize IT operations across multiple business units.
Packaged and deployed applications via SCCM and Intune; wrote SQL scripts to support data migration and custom reporting.

IT Engineer

Stagwell GTG — Toronto
Jun 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 years 2 months

Redesigned and managed IT infrastructure for 400+ employees across multiple locations, achieving $100K in annual cost savings., Led migration from G-Suite to Microsoft 365 for 800 users, reducing costs by 20% and improving performance by 15%., Led a team of 5 IT engineers, resolving 95% of issues within SLA across the organization., Managed Microsoft 365 Admin portal including Defender for Business and compliance and contributed to ISO audit processes., Streamlined device deployment using Apple Business Manager and JAMF Pro, improving onboarding efficiency., Utilized Azure Active Directory and Group Policy Objects to enforce security policies and manage dynamic groups., Developed unified onboarding procedures to harmonize IT operations across multiple business units., Packaged and deployed applications via SCCM and Intune; wrote SQL scripts to support data migration and custom reporting.

Desktop Support Analyst

Metrolinx
Feb 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 year 4 months

System Administrator

AstraZeneca — Mississauga
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 year 5 months

Supervised a 10-person IT team overseeing a $500K budget; negotiated vendor contracts to save 15% while improving service quality.
Managed 50+ client installations with 99% uptime SLA; provided remote and onsite technical support.
Administered user accounts, roles, and access controls using AD best practices and administration tools.
Enhanced asset tracking with barcode technology, improving inventory accuracy; developed secondary database for flexible reporting.
Coordinated migration of 1,000+ Windows machines across domains with zero errors, on time and within budget.
Handled user requests and escalations via ServiceNow ticketing system.

System Administrator

AstraZeneca — Mississauga · Mississauga, Canada
Jan 2020 - Jun 2021 · 1 year 5 months

Supervised a 10-person IT team overseeing a $500K budget; negotiated vendor contracts to save 15% while improving service quality., Managed 50+ client installations with 99% uptime SLA; provided remote and onsite technical support., Administered user accounts, roles, and access controls using AD best practices and administration tools., Enhanced asset tracking with barcode technology, improving inventory accuracy; developed secondary database for flexible reporting., Coordinated migration of 1,000+ Windows machines across domains with zero errors, on time and within budget., Handled user requests and escalations via ServiceNow ticketing system.

IT Support Analyst

St. Michael's Hospital
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020 · 7 months

Digital Technology Specialist

Envision
Jan 2019 - Jun 2019 · 5 months

Technical Support Analyst

Seagate Technology
Jan 2018 - Jan 2019 · 1 year

Technical Analyst

Staples
Feb 2016 - Jan 2018 · 1 year 11 months

Skills

Power BI PowerShell SCCM ServiceNow Azure / Entra ID Azure AD Connect Microsoft 365 Admin Conditional Access Autopilot Intune PDQ Deploy PDQ Inventory JAMF Pro Apple Business Manager Defender for Business KnowBe4 Field Effect Covalence CompTIA Security+ FortiClient VPN (IKEv2/IPsec) Azure Automation SQL Bash Freshdesk ConnectWise RMM Fortinet Hyper-V VMware G-Suite Azure Active Directory Group Policy Objects Active Directory
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