Selected work
Long engagements, real outcomes. Each of these is an infrastructure I designed, built and then stayed on to run.
Peoples Trust · Payments · 2018–2023
Canada's first new Direct Clearer since 1984
Technical Lead on the ACSS project that took Peoples Trust from Indirect to Direct Clearer for exchange, clearing and settlement. Built the Azure payment platform, the datacenters and networks joining the Payments Canada network, and the security controls that exceed its requirements. Live June 2022.
- IBM Connect:Direct implemented and automated with custom code
- End-to-end validation with Payments Canada and the existing direct clearers before go-live
- AWS and Azure network estate: Palo Alto Transit VPC pattern automated with Terraform, GlobalProtect with SAML MFA, PCI compliance and audit
Colliers · Real estate · 2022–present
Global Azure network lead
Hub-and-spoke with active-active firewalls across Canada, the US, EMEA and APAC, then Azure vWAN. Network design patterns for every application team, networking for a new Google Cloud environment, and an Aruba CX spine-leaf datacenter with Palo Alto 5410s and F5.
QuadReal · Real estate · 2016–present
Greenfield estate to Azure
Designed the datacenter, head offices, remote sites and DR from scratch, then led the exit from physical datacenters into Azure and a WAN redesign on SD-WAN, Prisma Access and Equinix Network Edge. GPON for smart buildings; 5G and wireless offload for commercial and residential properties.
VCC · Education · 2024–present
Two campuses to Aruba AOS 10
Migration from AOS 8 mobility controllers to AOS 10 on Aruba Central with 9106 gateway clusters and inter-campus site clustering, so the APs at one campus fail over to the other. A year earlier, a Palo Alto redesign so the downtown campus runs independently of Broadway.
