Joel Watson Email & Phone Number

As a life-long technologist, I have always tried to stay on the "bleeding edge" of technology, both in my professional and personal life. Professionally, whether that was deploying and supporting Hosted Exchange SaaS in the early 2000's, running POCs for Hybrid Cloud in the 2010's or investigating Cloud Security Posture at scale in the 2020's, there have always been common themes - a large, sensitive user base, business criticality and working without a net. This has bred a security-first approach, with strong understanding of the impacts of my actions. These in turn inform design and change decisions to ensure a mindful approach to any given situation. My strengths lie in my desire to solve problems with technology. I'd rather learn a new thing, a new approach, than settle for less than the result I wanted. Over the course my career, this has led to surprisingly deep dives into a number of unexpected areas - but gaining these new skills and experiences is what drives me. A side-effect of this approach is that I have learned to communicate clearly and naturally at all levels from the boardroom to the shop floor - Because of the niche nature of a lot of the technologies I have worked with, I have frequently found myself presenting to, documenting for and even training people at every skill level - But at the same time, I know when I am not the expert in the room, too.Key experience:Microsoft Windows Server, particularly 2003,08,12 in production settings and at scale. Some production experience with 2016, too.Exchange/Office 365/Productivity - Extensive experience in this area, particularly around migration, adoption and security.Virtualisation - I have worked extensively with VMWare in large-scale (1000+ VM) multi-homed environments. I have also deployed several small Hyper-V clusters and maintain a personal lab running Proxmox (KVM)Storage/SAN - A subject I am passionate about. I've worked with NetApp, SolidFire, Dell/EMC, HP and various opensource products.MS SQL - Not as a DBA, rather a Sysadmin, I have built, maintained and supported standalone and clustered SQL services incorporating SQL versions 2000 through 2016.Firewalls - Full solution implementation from proposal through to design and support of enterprise level devices such as Fortigate.On-premise IT - "The cloud" hasn't been around for most of my working life, so on premise and traditional datacentre is where I built my career. Unix-like OSes - Whilst I wouldn't market myself as an expert in this area, I am almost as comfortable working with these technologies as Microsoft/others.

Listed skills include Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange, Sharepoint, Servers, and 45 others.

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