Architect-led Azure governance and security, with hands-on delivery.

I’ve spent years as a senior IT infrastructure architect, delivering Azure implementations, network solutions and hybrid architectures for large enterprise customers. In those projects I’ve owned the overall delivery — architect, project manager and accountable lead — across the full lifecycle: proposal, design, implementation, go-live, production handover and ongoing operations.

Experience

• Several Azure implementations, governance models and environments

• Network and hybrid architectures: vNet hub and spoke, VPN, SD-WAN, ExpressRoute, DNS, Private Endpoints and on-premises integrations

• Azure migrations

• Security assessments

• Development of operational IT processes

• Azure Virtual Desktops, from proof of concept to full production

• On-premises infrastructure: Windows Servers, Hyper-V and VMware.

• Active Directory and hybrid identity: design, operations and migrations, including DNS, Group Policy, PKI, AD FS and Entra Connect

• Hybrid server management with Azure Arc, Azure Backup and Azure File Sync

• Security and resiliency design, including Defender for Cloud and disaster recovery architectures

• Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), delivering public Azure courses and enabling customer IT specialists

Certifications

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert

• Azure Security Engineer Associate

• Azure Administrator Associate

• Azure Network Engineer Associate

• Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty

• Security Administrator Associate

• Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT)

There’s no need to sound polished or corporate. What matters is clarity and honesty. If something doesn’t make sense when you read it back, it probably doesn’t make sense in practice either — and that’s usually a sign there’s more work to do.