Summary
Tim Owens is a seasoned systems engineer with nine years of hands-on experience designing and operating hybrid infrastructure, storage and backup platforms, and Microsoft 365/Azure environments from roles across local government and enterprise IT. Based in Chicago with UK ties, he blends deep practical skills in VMware, Commvault, Azure AD hybrid deployments, and Cisco networking with a habit of scripting and automating repeatable tasks to improve reliability. He has a strong track record migrating workloads to public cloud and stitching on-prem datacenters to Azure via ExpressRoute/DMVPN, and regularly steps in as an L4 escalation point for complex incidents. Tim’s background includes full life-cycle private cloud and data center builds, disaster recovery planning, and mentoring teams—an engineer who pairs infrastructure design rigor with a knack for clear operational documentation. Not obvious at first glance: he’s equally comfortable configuring voice solutions like Teams Calling and running multi-context ASA/NetScaler load-balancing, making him a practical bridge between networking, telephony and platform teams.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of Network Engineering (Distinction), Diploma of Network Engineering (Distinction) at East Maitland TAFE