Engineering is an art. An art that’s to be learned, cultivated and mastered. This takes time and practice. So many pitfalls to avoid if you want to work successfully with the operations team, security officer and IT decision maker. Pitfalls like creating a mess in Azure by not governing it properly, forget to clean-up the test environment, choosing the wrong SKU for Azure services, forgot to optimize licensing in M365, didn’t implement conditional access. I could name many more but want to emphasize that it’s exactly the errors we make from what we should learn.
Through life long learning we can come close to mastering a craftmanship. And that’s the path I want to continue to go down. I provide honest consulting work and will always tell what we could do to improve. To then ultimately close the gap between today and your long-term goals.
A team needs a solid foundation to enable other teams to do their work. That’s the reason I would always start with a clean governance definition.
With that one in place, the team is ready to be enabled. Because the internal engineers are the ones that know best what your end users need. Through this enabling, a lot of new ideas emerge.
Those are then implemented through the fine art of collaborative engineering (naturally after a prioritization and calculation of the value add).
Azure Consulting
Foundation
Implementation of an Azure Governance Process, that prevents a mess in your environment and enables your teams to share best practices and define clear naming conventions, configuration guidelines and processes.
Enabling
Coaching of an Azure Platform Team that ensures the implementation of the defined governance guidelines, Azure Policies, core services like S2S VPN Azure Bastion et al.
Engineering
Collaborating with you on your Azure solution that uses the right services for the right tasks.
Entra ID/ADD Consulting
Foundation
Implementing of a Governance Process that hooks optionally into the Azure Governance Process and ensures a clean and tidy Entra ID.
Enabling
Coaching of a Team that ensures the implementation of the defined governance guidelines and processes.
Engineering
Collaborating with you on implementing Zero Trust by configuring Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management, lice cycle processes for groups and guests and many more.
M365 Consulting
Foundation
Implementing of a Governance Process that hooks optionally into the Azure Governance Process and ensures a clean and tidy M365.
Enabling
Coaching of a Team that ensures the implementation of the defined governance guidelines and processes.
Engineering
Collaborating with you on the implementation of business processes, automation (license assignment, setup of a migration center), life cycle processes for Teams and other M365 artifacts.
And that’s me. Do not hesitate to contact me:
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More on the About Page
Universität Bern
Task: Together, we figure out the right path to Azure and Teams.
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds SNF
Task: Cloud Governance and Entra ID processes are my main focus at SNF.
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