With over 24 years delivering managed infrastructure services, Michael Dorfman has honed an impressive ability to architect highly secure, resilient technology platforms on limited budgets. He first demonstrated this talent shortly after joining the Dallas-Fort Worth area’s first hosted services provider in the early 2000's. Within a year, Michael was promoted to senior engineer, trusted to deliver projects ahead of schedule while keeping customers fully satisfied.

This reputation for excellence is what caught the attention of Justin Johnson, who recruited Michael to join the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) IT team. TxDOT had struggled for years with a compromised certificate authority deployment plaguing their infrastructure. Michael led a rapid 6-month replacement project that finally restored normal operations – with no outages along the way.

Throughout his career, Michael has become known as an expert in hardened infrastructure design leveraging hypervisor virtualization and multi-layer security controls. Even when working with tight budgetary constraints, he still manages to deploy resilient platforms, often involving at least three or four tiers of storage redundancy while compartmentalizing systems and network access.

His rare mix of infrastructure security knowledge, practical budget sensibilities, and steadfast dedication to customers has made Michael a crucial contributor on every team he’s joined. Any organization looking to modernize their technology stack while optimizing uptime and risk mitigation would benefit greatly by having Mr. Dorfman on their side.