📍 Alabama, USA | ☁️ Microsoft 365 × Data Protection | 🏆 21× Microsoft MVP. Exchange Hall of Famer. Still reading Message Center posts.
Started writing Space Shuttle payload software in FORTRAN. Built crypto for the NSA. Somehow ended up spending 25+ years explaining Exchange to people. Life takes you places.
Senior Director, Product Management → Keepit · enterprise SaaS data protection for the multi-cloud world
Content & Community → Office 365 for IT Pros · co-author
I've spent the better part of three decades deep in the Microsoft ecosystem — Exchange, Microsoft 365, Azure, and the sprawling world of enterprise collaboration. Before that I was a working developer (ranging from Ada compilers to Shuttle payload software to Windows management tools).
Along the way, I've written books, built products, led teams, and helped some of the world's largest organizations move to the cloud.
These days I'm at Keepit, working on data protection solutions for SaaS and multi-cloud environments. I've also been having a blast returning to my developer roots (but with modern tools!) digging into building MCP servers, using local LLMs, and exploring the AI world.
When I'm not on a computer, I'm probably walking my two beagles, working on my airplane, or thinking about the beach.
- 🛡️ Product Management @ Keepit — building enterprise-grade data protection for SaaS workloads
- 🎙️ Co-hosting the Practical 365 Podcast — weekly deep dives into M365 news, Exchange Online, and admin life
- 🤖 Tinkering with AI + enterprise tools — MCP bridges, Claude skills, and automation experiments
- ✍️ Writing — still doing it after all these years, just with fewer page counts and more blog posts
🏆 22× Microsoft MVP (Exchange / Office Apps & Services) — awarded since 2003
🏛️ Exchange Server Hall of Fame — inducted 2014
📚 Published author — multiple books on Exchange Server via Microsoft Press
🖥️ KeepitMenuBar - simple macOS menubar extension for checking on the state of your Keepit backup connectors.
🛩️ FlightMap - simple web utility that plots great-circle maps showing flights you've flown: copy your logbook content, paste it, and get a cool map.
🤖 ClawdSkills — Skills for Claude Code (Clawdbot). Because AI assistants should know how to do useful things.
📘 azure-docs (fork) — Contributing to the open source documentation for Microsoft Azure.
Random facts
- Wrote FORTRAN for the Space Shuttle before most developers were born. Still can't explain why FORTRAN uses ALL CAPS.
- Spent time writing crypto software for NSA. Can neither confirm nor deny that it was fun.
- Has been explaining Exchange Server to people since before Gmail existed.
- Currently fascinated by MCP, local LLMs, and the idea that AI agents could handle the boring parts of IT administration.
- Lives in Alabama. Fueled by coffee, curiosity, and avgas.