Senior Systems Engineer · Project Team
Lead project and escalated engineering work across Microsoft 365, Azure, servers, endpoints, networks, and security environments.
About Derrick
Built from the work of making IT work.
A career spanning field support, in-house IT leadership, MSP project engineering, and independent consulting—from the user experience to the systems underneath it.
Career story
Technical breadth with practical ownership.
My approach combines hands-on engineering with the context that comes from supporting users, managing budgets and vendors, leading change, and maintaining systems after the project ends.
IT Manager
Owned day-to-day IT operations, infrastructure, budgeting, documentation, vendors, end-user support, and technology modernization.
IT Technician
Built a foundation in onsite and remote technical support, installations, troubleshooting, and user-focused problem solving.
Independent consulting & vCIO support
Help small and midsize organizations make practical technology decisions around risk, cost, security, modernization, and lifecycle planning.
Education · B.A. in Computing and Informatics, Rowan University
Capability inventory
Skills across the full IT operating environment.
Strategy, user experience, change delivery, technical implementation, and the systems that keep running after launch.
01Strategy & delivery
- IT strategy
- vCIO consulting
- Technology roadmaps
- Budgeting & lifecycle
- Vendor selection
- Security planning
- Project ownership
- Documentation
- Onsite cutovers
- White-label engineering
02Microsoft cloud & identity
- Microsoft 365
- Azure
- Entra ID
- MFA
- Conditional Access
- Exchange Online
- SharePoint
- OneDrive
- Microsoft Graph
- Google Workspace migrations
03Endpoint & device management
- Microsoft Intune
- Addigy
- macOS management
- Windows management
- Device enrollment
- Application deployment
- Certificates
- Printers
- Remediation
- Endpoint standards
04Infrastructure & recovery
- Windows Server
- Virtualization
- Proxmox
- VMware
- Hyper-V
- TrueNAS
- Synology
- Storage
- File services
- Backup
- Disaster recovery
05Networking & security
- Firewalls
- VLANs & segmentation
- VPNs
- Wi-Fi optimization
- VoIP networking
- Monitoring
- Troubleshooting
- Security hardening
06Automation & independent lab
- PowerShell
- Bash
- NinjaOne automation
- Ansible
- n8n
- Zabbix
- Linux
- ZFS
- Docker
- Containers
- PostgreSQL