AdvancedEC delivers infrastructure projects end to end — a new site built from nothing, a platform migration, an 802.1X and segmentation rollout, a virtualization estate, or the one project that stalled and needs finishing. Network, server, and cloud treated as a single system rather than three separate vendors, and handed over documented when it is done.
The person who scopes the work is the person who does it. No bench assignment, no project manager relaying questions, and no discovering on day one that the senior engineer from the pitch is committed to another account.
AdvancedEC resells nothing. That means an assessment here can legitimately conclude that your existing switches are fine and you should spend the budget elsewhere — a finding a reseller cannot reach profitably.
Aruba and Cisco, wired, wireless, and access control on each. Nothing in the recommendation depends on which vendor wins, because there is no partner tier riding on the answer.
Scoped projects with a beginning and an end — greenfield builds, migrations, and the work that stalled halfway. Whole-stack when that is what it takes: the network, the servers under it, and the cloud services above. Not a support contract, and not a body in a seat.
An empty building to a working floor — cabling standards, wired and wireless design, addressing and segmentation, servers and identity, written down so the tenth site matches the first.
Aruba to Cisco, Cisco to Aruba, or a generational refresh in place. Planned cutovers with a tested fallback, staged by site rather than attempted in one night.
802.1X, certificates, and segmentation from policy model through enforcement. Most rollouts stall in the same place — going from monitor mode to enforcement without locking out the building — and that phase is the work.
What is actually deployed versus what the documentation claims, where the two drifted, and what it will cost to close the gap. Delivered as a written report you keep either way.
VMware and Hyper-V estates, Windows Server and Active Directory, DNS and DHCP — designed and consolidated alongside the network rather than as someone else's separate project.
Azure and Microsoft 365 as infrastructure rather than a subscription — tenant design, hybrid identity, and workloads moved off-premises with the network path and the access model designed together.
AI projects arrive assuming the infrastructure underneath them is already adequate. It usually is not. This is the unglamorous part — establishing what a GPU cluster or an inference workload will actually demand of your network, storage, and power, before the hardware is on a purchase order.
Configuration generation, source-of-truth reconciliation, and reporting built against your systems — so the repetitive part of the last project doesn't have to be repeated by hand on the next one.
Enterprise campus stacks carried end to end, the small-business platforms that fit a smaller building and budget, and the server, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure underneath both. Not certification-deep — deployment-deep. The distinction matters when the window is four hours and the fallback has to actually work.
Enterprise campus
The complete stack, from access layer to policy enforcement.
The parallel stack, for organizations standardized on Cisco.
Small business & multi-site
One dashboard across wireless, switching, and the security edge.
Capable hardware at a price a small business will approve, designed properly.
Secure access & segmentation
| Capability | What that means in practice |
|---|---|
| 802.1X | Wired and wireless supplicant config, EAP-TLS and PEAP, RADIUS design and redundancy |
| Certificate-based auth | EAP-TLS with device and user certificates, PKI design, SCEP / NDES / Intune auto-enrolment, renewal before expiry becomes an outage |
| MPSK / iPSK | Per-device pre-shared keys for printers, medical devices, and anything that will never run a supplicant |
| Identity sources | Active Directory, Entra ID, LDAP, and local databases — including the group structure the policy actually depends on |
| MAB & profiling | Fingerprinting for devices that cannot authenticate, with a policy that does not become a permanent allow-list |
| Dynamic segmentation | Colourless ports, downloadable roles, VLAN and SGT assignment from policy rather than from patch-panel labels |
| Guest, BYOD & contractor | Self-registration, sponsorship, onboarding portals, and time-bound access |
| Enforcement rollout | Monitor mode first, phased by site and device class, with an exception process before anything is switched to enforce |
Infrastructure — designed, built, operated
| Domain | Platforms |
|---|---|
| Wireless | Aruba Central & Instant, Cisco Catalyst, Meraki MR, Ubiquiti UniFi |
| Wired & switching | Aruba AOS-CX, Cisco Catalyst / IOS-XE, Meraki MS, Ubiquiti UniFi |
| Security edge & SD-WAN | Meraki MX, UniFi gateways, site-to-site VPN |
| Network access control | Aruba ClearPass, Cisco ISE |
| IPAM, DNS & DHCP | BlueCat, Infoblox, Windows DNS / DHCP |
| Virtualization | VMware vSphere / ESXi, Microsoft Hyper-V |
| Server infrastructure | Windows Server, Active Directory, file & print services |
| Cloud infrastructure | Microsoft Azure — IaaS, virtual networking, site-to-site |
| Cloud identity | Microsoft 365, Entra ID, Exchange Online |
| Cloud-managed networking | Aruba Central, CNX Cloud, Cisco Cloud Command, Meraki Dashboard |
| AI workload infrastructure | GPU host networking, high-throughput fabric, storage data paths |
Integrated in automation work
| Domain | Platform |
|---|---|
| OT & device visibility | Claroty, Ordr |
| Certificate lifecycle | AppViewX |
| ITSM & CMDB | ServiceNow |
| Monitoring | SolarWinds |
| Endpoint management | Workspace ONE |
| Power & environmental | EcoStruxure |
| Physical security | Avigilon |
| Enterprise print | LRS, Microsoft Print Services |
Client names, locations, and identifying details are withheld under confidentiality. The projects below are described by their shape rather than their logos.
Designed and built an internal platform that generates switch and access-point configuration from documented standards, then reconciles it against the systems that are supposed to agree — IPAM, NAC, monitoring, and the CMDB. Replaced a build process that ran on spreadsheets and institutional memory.
Reworked that platform so it is not welded to one organization's vendor choices. Each capability — network management, access control, IPAM — sits behind a driver interface, so a site on one vendor stack runs the same product as a site on another, with the inapplicable pieces switched off rather than half-built.
Built the tooling to migrate between IPAM platforms without trusting either one blindly — reconciling fixed leases against reservations by IP address, enriching each record with its device profile, and producing the exception list of what genuinely had to be resolved by hand.
Packaged the platform to install into an environment with no outbound connectivity at all — delivered by copied bundle rather than by URL, with signed updates, automatic snapshots, and rollback. No agent phoning home and no standing inbound access into the protected network.
Three stages, whether the engagement ends in a design document, a built-out site, or a completed migration.
What is actually deployed, what the standards say, and where the two have drifted apart. You get written findings — ranked, costed, and yours regardless of whether the project continues.
Design and implementation against a fixed scope. Build order, migration path, rollback, and maintenance windows agreed before anything is touched — not improvised at 2 a.m.
Documentation, diagrams, and any automation built along the way, transferred to your team. The measure of success is that you don't need to call me about it again.
A migration you would rather not run alone, a NAC rollout that stalled in monitor mode, or a network nobody has documented in six years. Based in Katy, working across Cypress, Sugar Land, Houston, and The Woodlands — and remotely where the work allows. First conversation costs nothing.