Triston Line

• Led design, planning, procurement, and project management of data centre and IT infrastructure for an 85,000-member union with SOX-regulated investment portfolio reporting
• Co-managed a $3.2M budget ensuring efficient resource allocation
• Doubled infrastructure team size through end-to-end hiring; restructured department and identified key missing resources
• Led configuration, tuning, and day-to-day operation of Microsoft Sentinel as the organization's SIEM; engineered KQL detection queries, mapped detections to the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and responded proactively and reactively to live incidents over two years
• Hardened the Microsoft 365 and Azure environment using Conditional Access, Azure WAF, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and Microsoft Purview for data classification and DLP
• Conducted current-state and target-state assessment of the legacy Hyper-V to Azure failover architecture; recommended and executed re-architecture to a sovereignty-compliant Proxmox VE platform after risk-based evaluation of cloud lock-in, data residency, and cost
• Developed and renewed majority of department policies reinforcing cybersecurity practices, authoring 20+ standards covering acceptable use, identity, access control, vendor management, incident response, and supply chain
• Led adoption of governance structures anticipating the evolution of NIST CSF, bolstering cyber resilience
• Applied NIST SP 800-161 principles to identify and address supply chain vulnerabilities
• Performed Cloud Security Posture assessments for SaaS and hybrid-edge procurements; evaluated vendors against NIST SP 800-53, ISO/IEC 27001, and CIS Benchmarks
• Built proof-of-concept laboratories and taught staff new technologies including KVM and Ceph
• Expanded off-site backups and data centre capacity for disaster recovery and business continuity
• Performed penetration testing of internal applications and coordinated external vendor pentesting

• Designed and implemented VDI for High Performance Computing private cloud environments
• Developed turnkey highly available backup appliance
• Tested and developed proprietary HPC and storage solutions
• Replaced core routing equipment with OPNsense; architected private cloud routing and switching infrastructure
• Led recovery and rebuilding of two customer data centres after catastrophic data loss
• Developed business strategy and solutions; extensive client engagement from brainstorming to implementation

• Migrated core virtual infrastructure from Hyper-V to KVM/QEMU with hyperconverged HA stack
• Managed IT requirements across 14 locations including networking, printing, phone, workstations, and VPN
• Renegotiated contracts with Shaw & Telus; coordinated Shaw Smart Voice implementation
• Designed and implemented in-house off-site backup solution and distributed managed wireless
• Designed and operated cloud-hosted VPS workloads on Digital Ocean and OVH for in-house services
• Produced and presented risk assessments to leadership team; maintained department budgets

• Planned and executed start-to-finish renovation of company data centres; recabled multiple branch offices
• Administered VMware vSphere & ESXi hypervisors
• Architected new Windows Server 2019 domain and RDS infrastructure
• Deployed Ubuntu and Debian based in-house services; updated and secured surveillance systems

• Architected centralized ZFS storage with tailored business permissions and off-site backup solution
• Developed Proxmox cluster integrated with SAN and GlusterFS
• Designed core networking infrastructure with open-source firewalls, virtualized access control, and secure zoning
• Deployed Windows Server domain (WSUS, WAC, File Server) and MeshCentral remote management
• Maintained PCI-DSS-aligned controls across the e-commerce and point-of-sale payment environment

• Developed and deployed iOS applications using Apple Xcode
• Digitized and designed emergency management database for Island Health's Emergency Operation Centres
• Maintained and tested radio communications equipment; monitored weather events via spatial satellite technology

Technical Advisory Services

Volunteer technical advisor for local businesses in Sooke and Victoria, helping small organizations with infrastructure decisions and IT strategy.

Distributed Computing & Archival

Contributing storage and compute resources to World Community Grid (top 0.01% contributor), Archive Warrior, FlightRadar24, and Anna's Archive (over 20TB) for nearly a decade.

Wikipedia Contributions

Primary author of the Walbran Valley article (~99%), the Jordan River Diversion Dam article (90%) and a major contributor to the Fairy Creek blockades article (~60%). Focus on environmental, infrastructure, and BC geography topics.