Former Senior Premier Field Engineer at Microsoft with 25+ years in SharePoint and Microsoft 365. I design and implement scalable intranet and information management solutions, focusing on automation, governance, and maintainability.
Experience spans on-premises SharePoint, hybrid environments, and Microsoft 365, with heavy use of PowerShell for automation and lifecycle management.
Key areas:
- SharePoint (on-premises & Online) with PowerShell automation
- Microsoft 365 solution design with security, governance, and usability
- Scalable intranet and digital workplace architectures
- Automation with PowerShell, Azure DevOps, and Python
Current interests: PowerShell, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, SQL Server, Azure, AI, and building practical Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.
A Retrieval-Augmented Generation pipeline in a Proxmox-based lab environment.
- Ingesting and processing ~100k AI/ML/Math/Stats research papers with metadata
- Chunking, embedding, and storing vectors for semantic search
- Exposing a FastAPI microservice for querying
- Lightweight Streamlit UI for testing and React prototype under development
- Experimenting with prompt engineering, re-ranking, and fine-tuning workflows
- AuthZ microservice integrates SharePoint and M365 ACLs
Documentation and updates: lanterna-lab
- SharePoint Online Site Provisioning Module – Built on the PnP Provisioning Engine. Automates site, list, content type, and page deployments.
- Automated M365 Purview Risk & Compliance Deployment – End-to-end automation of compliance tooling setup.
- Azure DevOps Repository Deployment – Module scaffolding and deployment using PowerShell, Plaster, and Git integration.
- SharePoint Online Migration Module – Bulk migration automation with ShareGate PowerShell and PnP modules.
