Senior Information Systems Engineer Manchester, NH · Remote  /  14+ yrs in IT

Fourteen years building solutions across endpoint management, scripting, and automation — and increasingly, I automate the whole thing.

OPERATIONAL · IN SERVICE 14Y
(01) — About

Make it
go away.

I'm Alexander Mecca — the engineer teams bring in when a problem needs to actually go away.

For fourteen years I've worked across endpoint management, scripting, and automation — consulting wherever a system is misbehaving and building the fix so it stays fixed. I don't hand back band-aids; I root-cause what nobody else could crack.

Increasingly, automation is the throughline. I turn manual, error-prone, repeated work into governed systems that run themselves — auditable, repeatable, reversible.

“I don't just chase symptoms — I gather the data, work out the real solution, then automate it.”

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(02) — Datasheet

The spec sheet

AM-1 · Systems Engineer
Senior Information Systems Engineer — solutions across endpoint, scripting & automation
Rev. 2026.06
Manchester, NH · Remote
● in stock — qty 1
Experience14+ yrcontinuous
Fleet scale10,000+endpoints managed
Commits authored1,06816 repos
Endpoint sensors90+live checks on every machine
Automation packages57one-click fleet-wide actions
Daily ops eliminated4,300+via automation
OS supportWin · macOS · Linux
Response time< 1business day, typ.

Consults on

Endpoint managementScripting & toolingAutomation IntegrationsRoot-cause engineering

Operating Principles

  • Root-cause, not band-aids
  • Auditable, repeatable, reversible
  • Automate the repeatable
  • Leave it better than I found it
(03) — Capability

Where the
work lives

Weighted by real commit & content volume across my repos — not self-rated percentages.

Endpoint Management & MDMTanium · Intune · Jamf · 90 sensors · 57 pkgs
AI Agents & ToolingCopilot Studio · MCP · 417 commits
Automation & ScriptingPowerShell · Node · Python · 245 commits
Platform & IaCProxmox · Packer · Ansible · Git · 192 commits
Telemetry & Observability90 sensors · dashboards · health scoring
Security & PostureSecure Boot · BitLocker · EDR · Zero Trust
Identity & ITSMServiceNow · Graph · Entra · 35 recovery paths
(04) — Toolkit

Stack & craft

01 Languages

  • PowerShell
  • JavaScript / Node.js
  • Python
  • Bash / ZSH
  • REST + GraphQL

02 Endpoint & MDM

  • Tanium
  • Intune
  • Jamf
  • Dell Command Update
  • EDR · Zero Trust (UZTNA)

03 Platform & Identity

  • ServiceNow · Microsoft Graph
  • Entra ID
  • NetBox · Proxmox
  • Packer · PXE / FOG
  • Git · Ansible

04 Security & AI

  • Secure Boot · BitLocker / FileVault
  • Copilot Studio
  • Claude Code / CLI agents
  • Custom MCP servers
  • Certs: MDM-102 · Jamf 100
(05) — Selected Work

What I build

01
Driver & Firmware
Automation Platform
Rebuilt how a whole fleet gets safe driver/firmware updates — modular, tested, with blacklist/restore and safety gates. Formal driver management where there was none; day-one updates for new machines.
Safety-gated
02
Network Discovery
to CMDB Sync
Keeps source-of-truth network data and endpoint inventory in lockstep. Eliminated 4,300+ redundant daily operations; turned a multi-minute job into ~20 seconds.
4,300+ ops cut
03
Endpoint Health
Telemetry
30+ custom cross-platform sensors and clean dashboards — including a 100-point Mac health score. Moved a team from reactive firefighting to measurable health.
30+ sensors
04
Cross-Platform Software
Removal Framework
Safe, audited removal across Windows, macOS, and Linux at fleet scale — 40+ safety features and a full regression suite.
40+ safeguards
05
Identity Lifecycle
Modernization
Rewrote onboarding / offboarding onto Microsoft Graph and certificate auth with resilient retries — backed by 35 recovery scripts.
Graph + cert auth
06
IT Service Desk
AI Assistant
Took a Copilot Studio assistant from idea to deployable — knowledge structure, workflow integration, and a real testing / evaluation framework.
Copilot Studio
07
Image & Boot
Pipelines
Automated Windows golden-image builds with Packer on Proxmox, plus a network-boot stack for unattended multi-OS provisioning.
Packer · PXE
08
Platform Governance
& IaC
Version control for 442 endpoint packages, a safe update framework, a custom automation server, and 16+ operational CLI tools.
442 packages
(06) — Experience

Track record

Extreme Networks
Senior Information Systems Engineer
2023 — Present
Extreme Networks
Service Desk / Desktop Systems Specialist
2018 — 2023
Extreme Networks
Information Security Analyst
2017 — 2018
Extreme Networks
Desktop Systems Specialist
2017
Elbit Systems of America
IT Helpdesk Analyst
2015 — 2016