I’m 32-years-old and live in the beautiful town of Dundas, Ontario, Canada. I often joke that I’m the only consultant that doesn’t live in Toronto. I once owned a record company and enjoy anything outdoors especially mountain biking and running.

I’ve been working in systems management for more than 10 years with experience in managing everything from 100 to 100,000 systems. I primarily spend my days designing and implementing Microsoft System Center and Windows deployment solutions for Microsoft Canada.

I started on this computer-y journey when I got a VIC 20 for my 7th birthday. From that point on I’ve enjoyed programming as one of my main hobbies and have worked with many languages and technologies. I wrote a 3D graphics library in Turbo Pascal when I was about 14, and at my first job at 18 wrote a customer management system with automated credit card billing to the banks as well as a program to automatically generate the routing and configuration information for a Province-wide voice-over-IP frame relay network.

I ended up moving into systems management where I found I had a big advantage being able to apply a programming mindset to managing large numbers of systems. The ability to create programs to act as the “glue” to integrate a variety of systems led to breakthroughs in the efficiency, reliability, and cost to manage networks of Windows devices.

Before moving into the realm of consulting full-time I was responsible for global standards, design, and implementation of systems management and deployment for 100,000+ Windows clients at a Global Fortune 100 company.

I decided to try blogging as a way to share some of the ideas I’ve been working on, the solutions I’ve developed, and hopefully to learn from others in order to improve those solutions.