Mihai-Valer KATO
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Mihai-Valer Kato

IT Senio Engineer - Web Designer - App Developer

Microsoft 365 / Exchange / Identity & Security Architect

Timișoara, Romania

mihai@kato.ro 40 728 581 093

Romanian & German Nationality

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Work Experience

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Senior IT Engineer with extensive experience in Microsoft 365, Exchange Hybrid/Online, Entra ID (Azure AD), Identity & Security, automation, and enterprise infrastructure. More than 10 years operating and modernizing business-critical platforms including email, collaboration, endpoint management, and security systems.

IT Senior Engineer – Elektrobit Automotive
January 2024 – Present (Romania) | October 2015 – December 2023 (Germany)

Technologies:

Microsoft 365 Exchange 2013/2016/2019/Online/Hybrid/SE Entra ID PowerShell Teams Intune SharePoint Email Security MFA SSO SCIM Defender Copilot Apple Business Manager

Projects:

  • Exchange Hybrid architecture & migrations to Exchange Online
  • Mailbox migration program & monitoring dashboards
  • Mail flow & SMTP modernization
  • Email security (SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
  • Conditional Access & Zero-Trust rollout
  • MFA, Windows Hello for Business, FIDO2
  • SSO integrations (~100 apps)
  • SCIM provisioning automation
  • Teams global rollout & Skype migration
  • OneDrive backup & SharePoint Online assets
  • Microsoft Intune MDM/MAM
  • PowerShell & Power Automate automation frameworks
  • GDPR/CCPA compliance
  • Copilot readiness
  • Phishing campaigns & security awareness
  • n8n workflow automation PoC
Windows Server Administrator – Atos (delegation to Siemens Erlangen, Germany)
May 2012 – September 2015
  • Administered ~2000 Windows servers
  • Hardware refresh & infrastructure upgrades
  • Security patching & vulnerability remediation
  • SCOM, SCCM, EMC, NetApp operations
  • Developed PowerShell & C# internal tools
  • Improved monitoring, SLA performance, ticket reduction
  • Second-level support & incident management
Software Developer / IT Specialist / Freelancer (Romania)
2011 – 2012
  • Windows Forms & WPF development (C#)
  • WordPress websites
  • Software maintenance for SMEs

Technical Skills

Cloud & Messaging

  • Microsoft 365
  • Exchange Online/Hybrid
  • Teams
  • SharePoint Online
  • OneDrive

Identity & Security

  • Entra ID (Azure AD)
  • Conditional Access
  • MFA
  • SSO (SAML/OIDC)
  • SPF/DKIM/DMARC

Automation

  • PowerShell
  • Power Automate
  • Dashboards & Reporting
  • Workflow Automation (n8n)

Endpoint

  • Intune MDM/MAM
  • Apple Business Manager
  • Device Compliance

Education

  • Master – Automatics & Computer Science – Politehnica University of Timișoara
  • Bachelor – Informatics – Politehnica University of Timișoara

Languages

  • Romanian – Native
  • English – C1
  • Hungarian – B2
  • German – B2/B1

Additional Information

Driving License: Category B
Hobbies: Sports, gym, snowboard, wakeboard, cars, DJ-ing, travelling.

Education

Active Directory

Netlogix
Germany, Nurnberg

 
17 Feb 2020 – 19 Feb 2020
 
AD Basics unde Windows Server 2016: Base, Instalation, DNS, FSMO roles, Virtual Domain Controllers, Group Policies
 
02 DEC 2018
 
Certificate of Completion

Google Analytics for Beginners​

Google

Microsoft Office 365

Comparex Academy
GERMANY, HANNOVER
 
19 NOV 2018 – 23 NOV 2018
 
Administration from A to Z
 
7 March 2017 – 13 March 2017
 
Netlogix, Microsoft Parter

MOC 20345-1 Administrating Microsoft Exchange Server 2016

Germany, Nurnberg
 
MASTER OF AUTOMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE/ INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

POLITENHICA UNIVERSITY TIMISOARA
ROMANIA

 
OCT 2010 – JUN 2012
 
Artificial Intelligence, Mobile development, Stenography
 
OCT 2007 – JUNE 2010
 
Software development, foundation and architecture of computers, networking, several programming languages (C, C++, VB, C#, Java, Assembler), Cryptography algorithms

LICENCE OF AUTOMATICS COMPUTER SCIENCE / INFORMATICS

POLITENHICA UNIVERSITY TIMISOARA
ROMANIA
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