
§ Stability-First Infrastructure
Stable, documented, and recoverable. The way it should have been built the first time.
Strategic Fit
Expertise that transfers. Your team gets stronger, not more dependent. Healthcare, manufacturing, professional services, and multi-site operations across Arizona and beyond.
Client Outcomes
Real engagements. Anonymized details.
Matthias found 340 days of missed backups on a production SQL server in the first hour. The full report gave us leverage to renegotiate our support contract with actual evidence (Ops Director, 140-person manufacturing company).
He mapped every resource to a cost center, killed $2,800/month in orphaned infrastructure, and set up alerts so it cannot happen again. The engagement paid for itself in the first billing cycle (IT Lead, regional healthcare group).
Turns out our RTO was closer to five days than four hours. That is the kind of thing you want to find out on a Tuesday, not during an actual outage (CFO, 60-person financial services firm).
Matthias built the migration plan, we executed it over two weekends, and we are running the same workloads on Proxmox for a fraction of the cost. No drama (Ops Director, logistics company).
Founder
I design for predictable operations, not heroic 3 AM recoveries.
I am Matthias. For over 25 years, I have stabilized hybrid systems, built landing zones, and designed recovery architecture for organizations across Arizona.
After a decade as the sole IT leader who took a regional healthcare group from peer-to-peer networking and paper charts to a fully integrated VMware environment across 21 sites, I now return as their fractional partner. Current projects include stabilizing and modernizing their entire digital platform (Next.js multi-brand website with SEO, localization, and patient portals), leading patient communication API integrations, and evaluating portal upgrades, all while working side-by-side with their internal technical specialist.
I run this practice with a simple focus: fixed-fee engagements that deliver documentation and skills your team actually owns. When my project ends, I hand you the keys and exit.

A short, repeatable process designed for low-risk change.
Define outcomes, constraints, and risk surface.
Map dependencies, drift, and operational gaps.
Clear tradeoffs and phased implementation paths.
Small, reversible steps with validation.
Restore testing, cutover checks, stability verification.
Docs, diagrams, and runbooks you can operate.
Monday mornings where nothing is on fire. A team that handles what comes next without calling for backup.
Stabilize vSphere and hybrid dependencies so your team stops firefighting and starts operating.
Quarterly restore tests with documented results. Not assumptions that fail when it matters.
Hardening baked into the baseline, so compliance checks become routine instead of scrambles.
Clear ownership boundaries and documented procedures that survive staff turnover.
Services
Project-led work for teams that need stability now and a clear modernization path.
Your vSphere environment drifted from its baseline and nobody noticed. I map the dependencies, score the risk, and hand you a runbook so your team can keep it from drifting again.
Migrations fail when someone skips the dependency map and hopes for the best. I move workloads in phased waves with a rollback path at every stage. If something breaks, I roll back. No drama.
Your backups run every night. Have you ever restored from one? I run the restore test, document the RTO and RPO, and hand you the proof that your recovery plan actually works.
Azure spending tripled and nobody can explain why. I set up the guardrails: policy baselines, RBAC, cost alerts, and a landing zone your team can build on without creating the next mess.
IT Provider Collaboration
Project-scope work your MSP or internal IT doesn't have bandwidth for. Migration engineering, backup redesigns, drift remediation. Everything goes back to your team with full documentation.
Ongoing support stays with your team. I come in for scoped projects with clear start and end dates.
Architecture docs, runbooks, and validated configs your team can own and operate from day one.
I've built the process around clean collaboration, not competition.
Credibility
What I actually deliver, and what it looks like when it works.
Azure foundations aligned to Microsoft CAF so your cloud doesn't become another source of drift.
Veeam immutability plus quarterly restore testing. Because untested backups aren't backups.
Runbooks and ownership boundaries that survive the next reorg.
Reduced unplanned downtime from weekly incidents to quarterly maintenance windows. Their team stopped dreading Mondays.
First successful restore test in 3 years. Recovery time dropped from 'unknown' to 4 hours. They finally know their data is safe.
Stabilizing their Next.js multi-brand platform, leading patient communication API integrations, and evaluating portal upgrades while collaborating with their internal team.

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