WRITING

FIELD NOTES

The migration workbook: how I make risky network changes boring

About 900 access points, 190 WLANs, sixteen Catalyst 9800 controllers across four regional datacenters, and an AAA migration to a parallel-built ISE 3.x environment nobody noticed. The method: audit first, pre-stage everything, cut over with the radios.

How I moved 45,000 endpoints to 802.1X without anyone noticing

Founding a Cisco ISE initiative from scratch, the architecture decisions that carried it from a 4-node cluster to 14 nodes across five global datacenters, and the monitor-first rollout that grew into 60K+ endpoints behind 802.1X.