Michael Askins
Architect - CTO
Results-orientated IT Professional with a proven history of 22+ years of management, budgeting, design, configuration, and implementation of technology necessary to initiate and maintain business connectivity and productivity.
Founder of MA-ITPro, Michael finds the building and enablement of people and technology to be the most fulfilling aspect of his career.
A lifelong woodworker, amateur astronomer, and photographer, Michael blends his passions with spending time with his wife and two children as much as possible.
Accomplishments
•Microsoft Intelligent Cloud Architect
•Solutions Architect Data Center
•Microsoft DevOps
•Microsoft IoT Expert Competency
•Microsoft Azure Cloud Competencies
•SCRUM Master
•ITIL v3 Practitioner / Microsoft MOF
Languages
•PowerShell
•BASH
•JSON
•.NET
•Python
•Arduino (related to IoT)
•C (related to IoT)
Community and Accolades
•Secure IoT Speaker
•Microsoft Evangelist
•Secure IoT Speaker
•Microsoft Evangelist
•Security Posture Management
Core Competencies
Security, Cloud Security, Cloud Technologies, Azure, Microsoft365, Microsoft Power Platform, Leadership, budgeting, Management, Network & Systems Administration, Security, Compliance, Architecture, Systems Design and Deployment, Active Directory, Group Policy, Virtualization, Disaster Recovery, Backup Management, Database, and Application, Messaging.