Professional Experience

About Me…

Certifications

  • (ISC)2 Certified Information Systems Security Professional (Expired due to lack of CPE)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate
  • Microsoft Specialist: Implementing Azure Infrastructure Solutions
  • Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist: Server 2008 Network Infrastructre and Configuring
  • Microsof Licensing Solutions Specialist - Lite
  • Dell SonicWALL Advanced Administration (Including Basic Administration)
  • CompTIA A+ / N+
  • Microsoft Certified IT Professional: Enterprise Desktop Support Windows 7

Windows Server - Administration, Design and Build

  • Server 2003 -> 2025 (Remember Small Business Server…?!)
  • Active Directory
    • Certificate Services
    • Group Policy
    • Migrations and upgrades
    • Entra ID Connect
  • Microsoft Exchange 2003+
  • Hyper-V
  • WSUS
  • IIS
  • File and Print Services
  • DFS (Including many FRS to DFS migrations)

Networking - Administration, Design and Build

  • DNS (It’s always DNS…)
  • DHCP
  • Content Filters / Proxies / Load Balancers (F5 etc.)
  • VPN (SSL, IKEv2, IPSec etc.)
  • SonicWALL / PaloAlto / FortiGate / Ubiquiti
  • WiFi analysis, mapping and design (Including P2P)
  • Wireshark / TCPDump / Squid Proxy / Burp Suite

Microsoft Azure - Administration, Design and Build

  • Virtual Machines
  • Azure SQL (Server, MI, SQL VM etc.)
  • Networking
    • Virtual WAN (Including S2S / P2S VPN)
    • ExpressRoute
    • Virtaul Networks
    • Network Security Groups
    • Network Manager
    • Route Tables and Routing
    • NAT Gateways
    • Network Virtual Appliances (FortiGate / PaloAlto)
  • Storage
  • Log Analytics / Application Insights
  • Azure Policy
  • Cost Optimisation
  • Azure Migrate
  • Recovery Services Vaults (Backup and Replication)
  • Identity (Entra ID / Office365 / Exchange Online)
  • Private / Public DNS
  • IaC (Bicep and ARM)
  • Load Balancing (Load Balancer / Front Door / Application Gateway)
  • + Many other things!

General Experience

  • VMware ESXi (vCenter Server / Clustering / HA / DRS)
  • Backup and Replication (DR Planning and Testing / Veeam)
  • General Hardware (RAID Configration / Build / Datacenter Racking / Network Cabling)
  • Basic Scripting (PowerShell / Bash / Python)
  • Linux Administration (Ubuntu Server / RHEL / Kali)

Professional Experience

  • Professional Document Authoring (SoW / HLD / LLD / Advisories / Technical Writing / Knowledgebase Articles / Runbooks / Operating Procedures)
  • Delivered technical documentation and consultancy across all levels of organisaions, from engineers to C-level stakeholders
  • Bridged technical and executive audiences in high-pressure situations (P1 incidents / Complex Change Requests / Diaster Recovery Scenarios)
  • Mentoring (Junior Engineers / Upskilling / Training Sessions)
  • Acted as a primary technical point of contact for customers, balancing business requirements with technical constraints
  • Reporting (Basic PowerBi / Analysing and Presenting Technical Data and Logs)

Infosec Experience and Knowledge

  • Proficient in Kali install, customisation and base tools
  • WiFi attacks (WPA2 / WPS)
  • Enumeration (Nmap / Active Directory Enumeration / CrackMapExec / Sharp(Blood)Hound)
  • Basic Post Exploitation (Metasploit / Hash Cracking)
  • Pivoting / Tunneling (SSH Port Forwarding)
  • Watch this space…!