It has been a while since I’ve had a new ‘primary’ contract so I thought a post on the old and new is in order.
Since 2007, I’ve been the IAM Program Manager for the Alberta Government department of Innovation and Advanced Education. We assembled a development team to build a new IAM solution for the department’s growing online services. Web applications for post-secondary students were the main priority but business partner access to online services and SharePoint sites was also required.
The solution was built on top of Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) and was developed in .Net. The services developed include self-service registration, authentication, authorization, identity proofing, access administration and reporting. We call it the Secure Identity and Access Management System, or SIAMS for short.
Today, that IAM solution has 650,000 identities, processes over 100,000 logins per month and supports 35 business applications. It supports a host of self-service features like password reset via SMS, and can deliver up to LoA 2 identity proofing.
I’m proud of the team that put the system together and very appreciative of the support I received from Innovation and Advanced Education’s management over the years. Code Technology will remain on the job with Dallas Gawryluk taking over the reins in an expanded project management role.
My new position is as a Systems Integration Project Manager with Alberta Health Services. The IAM solution on this project is quite different, and the job I’m being asked to do is already both interesting and challenging. Working with multiple teams, I am hired to plan and deliver an implementation of an enterprise IAM solution for clinical users and access administrators.
New faces, new issues — and after seven years, a slightly different commute to work. I’m looking forward to the next year!
Mike