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I'm an IT consultant with 7+ years running the infrastructure of multiple companies. I get new offices online, deploy Microsoft 365, Google Workspace or Zoho, migrate your email without downtime, lock down devices — and then keep it all running.
Services
Fixed-scope projects when you need it done, monthly retainers when you need it staying done.
Tenant creation or cleanup, Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Entra ID (Azure AD) with SSO, Intune device management and licence right-sizing so you don't over-buy.
Business Starter through Enterprise, Gmail and Drive configuration, shared drives, groups, Chrome and Endpoint Management, plus Google Vault for retention and eDiscovery.
Zoho Mail, Workplace or the full Zoho One stack — the best value option for lean teams. Mail, Calendar, Cliq, WorkDrive, CRM hand-offs and admin rules configured properly.
Moving between Google, Microsoft, Zoho, cPanel/IMAP or an old on-prem server — mail, calendars, contacts and files, with cutover planned outside your working hours.
A practical hardening baseline for startups: MFA everywhere, admin least-privilege, phishing protection, BitLocker/FileVault, backups and an incident "who to call" plan.
New office or a move: internet handover, firewall/router, Wi-Fi that actually covers the room, VLANs, VPN to your cloud, NAS, printers, meeting rooms and cabling coordination.
Laptops bought, imaged, encrypted and enrolled before your hire starts. When someone leaves, access is revoked the same day and their data is preserved — not deleted.
Ongoing support for your team — monitoring, patching, ticket handling, vendor chasing and a monthly report your founders can actually read. You keep the strategy, I keep the lights on.
No IT manager yet? I'll act as your part-time Head of IT: budgets, tooling decisions, vendor negotiation, security roadmap and hiring/handover when you're ready to build a team.
Engagements
Licence costs are billed by Microsoft/Google/Zoho directly or at cost — you always own your own tenant and accounts.
For teams of 1–15 setting up their first proper IT stack.
Fixed quote
Scoped after a free 30-min audit call.
For 15–80 people who need IT handled month to month.
per user / month
Transparent per-seat pricing, no long lock-in.
For scaling companies without an internal IT manager.
Monthly retainer
A set number of days per month, agreed in advance.
Process
You always know what happens next, what it costs, and what "done" looks like.
30 minutes on what you have, what hurts, and what you're planning. You leave with honest advice — even if you don't hire me.
I review your current setup, then send a fixed-scope plan: tasks, timeline, dependencies, risks and a price. No surprises added later.
Work is done in planned windows with rollback points. Migrations run out of hours, and we verify mail flow, permissions and backups before sign-off.
You get documentation, admin access and a short training session. Then either I hand over cleanly, or I stay on retainer to run it.
Compare
The honest answer is "it depends" — here's the short version I give clients. I deploy all three and I'm not paid by any of them.
| What matters | Microsoft 365 | Google Workspace | Zoho Workplace |
|---|---|---|---|
| Email & calendar | Outlook + Exchange Online | Gmail + Calendar | Zoho Mail + Calendar |
| Files & docs | SharePoint, OneDrive, Office apps | Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides | WorkDrive, Writer, Sheet |
| Identity & SSO | Entra ID — very deep | Google identity — solid | Zoho Directory / OneAuth |
| Device management | Intune (best-in-class) | Endpoint Management | MDM available, fewer controls |
| Meetings | Teams | Meet | Zoho Meeting |
| Approx. entry price | from ~$6–7 / user / mo | from ~$7–8 / user / mo | from ~$1–3 / user / mo |
| Best when | You live in Office files, need compliance depth, enterprise vendors expect it | Your team is browser-first, collaborative and mostly remote | You're pre-seed / very cost-sensitive and want a full business suite cheaply |
| Watch out for | Licence tiers balloon fast; admin learning curve | Weaker on-prem/Windows management | Smaller partner ecosystem; fewer admins know it well |
Pricing is indicative list price at time of writing and excludes taxes and annual-commitment discounts. Always confirm current vendor pricing before buying.
Not sure which fits? Tell me how your team works and I'll recommend one — with a migration plan and a cost comparison.
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I've spent the last 7+ years managing IT infrastructure for multiple companies — from single-office startups to multi-site teams with hundreds of endpoints. That means I've done the unglamorous parts too: the 2am migration, the misconfigured SPF record, the laptop that arrives the day before a new hire starts, the ransomware scare that makes everyone finally care about backups.
I work as an independent consultant, so you get one accountable person instead of a ticket queue. I don't resell hardware for commission, I don't lock you into proprietary tooling, and I document everything so you're never hostage to your IT provider — including me.
FAQ
For most teams under 50 users: 3–7 days from kickoff to cutover, with the mailbox move itself done out of hours. Larger or messier environments — old IMAP servers, multiple domains, years of mail — can take 2–3 weeks. You get a timeline in the written plan before anything starts.
No. I migrate to the new platform first, verify it, then change DNS at a low-traffic time. Mail keeps flowing during the switch, and I keep the old environment readable for a period afterwards as a safety net. Nothing is deleted until you confirm you're happy.
You buy direct from Microsoft, Google or Zoho, or I can procure at cost — either way the tenant and billing stay in your name. That's deliberate: if you ever stop working with me, nothing breaks and nobody holds your data.
It's the most common starting point. The audit exists exactly for this: I inventory accounts, domains, licences, devices and admin access, then produce the docs you should have had from day one. You'll know what you're paying for and who has access to what.
Yes. I often act as the escalation point or the project hand for an internal generalist who's stretched thin, and I document handovers properly rather than hoarding knowledge.
It changes the priorities, not the service: identity, device management and zero-trust access matter more than physical networks. Everything I deploy is designed for distributed teams, and I support them remotely across time zones.
Managed clients get an emergency contact path with agreed response targets. If you're not on a retainer, I'll still help where I can — but priority goes to clients who've planned for it.
Most work is delivered remotely. For office setups, network installations and hardware deployments I can attend on-site depending on your location — travel is agreed and quoted up front.
Contact
Tell me where you are today. I'll reply within one business day with an honest read on your setup and what I'd fix first — no obligation, no sales script.