IT Infrastructure Architect
Hybrid cloud, virtualization, identity and storage designed to stay up: planned for growth, built for failure, and documented so the next person can run it.
- vSphere 8
- Hyper-V
- Azure
- Entra ID
- Windows Server 2025
- HA clusters
Work
Infrastructure, networks and IT leadership
A career spent mostly inside other organizations' IT: national health agencies, research funders, defence, film studios, and a multinational spread across Europe, North America and Asia. The common thread is infrastructure that holds up and teams that know how to run it.
Enterprise Network Engineer
Multi-site networks from the switch port to the firewall: routing, VLANs, site-to-site VPN, wireless and voice.
- Cisco Secure Firewall
- Meraki
- HPE Aruba
- WatchGuard
- UniFi
- Teams Phone
Executive IT Leader
Strategy, budget, vendors, risk and people. Sitting with leadership to pin down what the business actually needs, then making sure it gets built.
- IT roadmaps
- Virtual CIO
- Vendor management
- Security posture
- AI governance
Career
- Independent IT consulting2026–now
Cloud, security, AI and SaaS rollouts for organizations that want senior help without a full-time hire.
- Corporate IT and cloud architecture2023–now
Enterprise infrastructure, Microsoft 365 and security leadership for a national health agency and an animation studio.
- Managed services and virtual CIO2012–2023
Infrastructure, cloud migrations and IT strategy for dozens of organizations, some spread across 26 countries.
- Web and software development2007–2012
Accessible websites and applications for the federal government, national museums and an arts festival.
- IT services, cabling and commercial AV2003–2012
Founded and ran an IT services company for businesses and homes: networks, hardware installs, cabling and web hosting, then commercial AV system design and installation.
- School IT and LAN parties1998–2003
Kept school computers running across Halifax and ran charity LAN parties on networks built from scratch.
- Live events and festival stages2023–now
Vancouver parties and festival stages across BC, from the build and the budget to sound, light and lasers.
- Interactive art and games2016–now
Interactive installations, browser games and a 24/7 vaporwave stream, made under my own studio.
- Aerial film and photography2016–now
Drone and landscape work under Transport Canada permits, some of it licensed on Shutterstock.
- Van life on film2018–2021
Crossed the continent in a van and documented the whole trip in film, photographs and drone footage.
- Video production2002–now
Shooting, editing and colour, from short films and time-lapses to event and travel pieces.
- Web and graphic design2003–now
Sites, logos, posters, brand kits and stage visuals, for my own projects and plenty of other people's.
- Music production1999–now
Electronic music written, produced and played out since 1999.
The day-to-day toolkit, grouped the way the work actually splits.
Microsoft 365 & Azure22
AI & agents20
Servers, directory & messaging17
Virtualization, storage & backup16
Networking & firewalls19
Security & forensics25
Web, hosting & applications34
Management & business platforms14
Vendor certifications across Microsoft, VMware, networking and service management, plus a couple of people-side ones that matter just as much.