Selected projects

Work that had a deadline and an audience

A mix of FSI engagements and career highlights from senior architecture roles. Some clients are named where the work is public; others are described by sector at the client’s preference.

Career highlight · Metropolitan fibre service provider

Secure enterprise & data-centre architecture

Design and long-term strategy for secure enterprise network architecture across access, VPN and data-centre environments, plus a metropolitan public Wi-Fi service.

  • Defense-in-depth: endpoint protection, perimeter / internal / DMZ firewall architecture, RBAC across 10+ VRFs and acquired networks
  • Geo-redundant and virtual HA firewall clustering for DDoS resilience
  • Data-centre fabric on MPLS-EVPN with all-active multihoming and distributed anycast gateway
  • Custom enterprise-grade secured public Wi-Fi service, with large-scale NAT and address-exhaustion protection

FSI engagement · Exhibition Place

A conference Wi-Fi job that became a campus network transformation

What began as a single conference Wi-Fi engagement grew, over eight years, into a full cross-campus network rebuild — with FSI acting as technical consultant, project manager, sales engineer and account manager throughout.

  • 3,870 m² of high-density Wi-Fi across two major venues, with seamless roaming and VRF-based segmentation
  • Roughly $1.7M in hardware: firewalls, ~80 switches and routers, enterprise servers, service-provider-grade wireless controllers, 350+ APs and 250+ phased-array antenna systems
  • ~$760K in services including dual 10G internet links — now eight years running — and consulting
  • Network capability that helped the venue attract Google, Microsoft, Shopify, Salesforce and the Collision tech conference

Career highlight · Toronto 2015 Pan Am / Parapan Am Games

One WLAN design, 40+ venues, no second chances

Lead Wi-Fi architect for high-density wireless across the Games’ competition and non-competition venues, on a single unified controller-based design, with AAA / NAC for wired and wireless access and integration of inherited controller estates.

  • Unified design on Cisco WLC 8500 controllers across 40+ venues
  • AAA / NAC for wireless and wired access with Cisco ISE; integration of legacy controller platforms
  • LAN designer for the West Zone; Wi-Fi designer for all venues

Career highlight · Global smartphone manufacturer

Campus and global-office Wi-Fi at fleet scale

Wi-Fi design, deployment and advanced troubleshooting — including pre-release client devices — for a manufacturer’s head-office campus and global office estate on a centralised controller architecture.

  • 100+ controllers, 3,000+ access points on a centralised design
  • Tooling that cut multi-controller configuration time roughly eightfold and kept builds consistent
  • Wireless behind a flagship launch’s live video-call demonstration between two continents; conference Wi-Fi at major industry events

Career-highlight projects were delivered in senior architecture roles at the named or described organisations, not as FSI engagements. They are included to show the depth of experience behind the practice.