Notes from the work.

July 14, 2026

7 min read

Segmenting an OT network without buying a shutdown

Most segmentation programmes stall because the design assumes a maintenance window nobody will ever approve. Here is the sequencing that works instead.

June 2, 2026

5 min read

Cloud costs are a process problem, not a pricing problem

Reserved instances will not save an organisation that cannot say who owns a resource. Start with ownership, then negotiate.

April 19, 2026

6 min read

Why strong African experience reads as junior on a Canadian résumé

The gap is rarely competence. It is scope language, evidence and the screening layer between you and a human reader.

February 27, 2026

5 min read

Technical companies cannot explain themselves, and it costs them contracts

When the person who understands the work will not write, the writing falls to someone who does not, and the proposal reads generic.