// Endpoint Solutions Architect

I build systems that
manage themselves.

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The person behind
the automation.

I'm Mark Ringo — I've been building, breaking, and fixing IT infrastructure since the late 1980s. What started with early networking and systems work evolved through three decades of increasingly complex environments: from retail networks at Pier 1 Imports, to joining Hitachi Consulting as a founding-day Senior Systems Engineer, to running North American infrastructure for Citi's Credit Cards Business Operations as SVP.

Along the way I served as CTO at Triencon Services for seven years — designing hybrid public/private clouds, deploying pervasive encryption across the firm, building multi-node DirectAccess IPv6 VPN infrastructure, and hardening Active Directory for electric grid control networks under NERC CIP requirements. I went on to lead infrastructure architecture at Simmons Bank and AccountabilIT before landing at Steeves & Associates, Canada's first certified Microsoft Cloud Partner.

Today my work lives at the intersection of cloud-native endpoint management, DSC v3, and AI-augmented operations. I build tools that let tens of thousands of Intune-managed endpoints configure, secure, and remediate themselves — and I'm training custom LLMs on the domain knowledge to make that even better.

I hold a BS in Management Information Systems from the University of Texas at Arlington. I live near Alberta Beach, Alberta, where my home lab mirrors the enterprise patterns I deploy professionally — and where my cat Chaos continually stress-tests my exit door sensor automations.

35+
Years in IT
10K+
Endpoints at Scale
DSC v3
Early Adopter
IaC
Everything as Code
Career Path
Current
Principal Infrastructure Architect
Steeves & Associates / RingoSystems
2019
Enterprise Design Architect
AccountabilIT
2017
Director, Infrastructure Architecture
Simmons Bank
2016
Global SVP, Infrastructure
Citi — NA Credit Cards Business Ops
2009
Chief Technology Officer
Triencon Services
2005
Associate Director, IT
ORIX USA
2002
Senior Systems Engineer
Hitachi
1996
Lead Network & Technical Analyst
Pier 1 Imports

A talented technologist with a rare gift for identifying waste and inefficiency in complex IT environments. Unlike many highly skilled technologists, he doesn't pursue technology for technology's sake — he brings a business-based perspective to infrastructure. He has a passion for security, stays current on emerging threats, and understands technical security at an expert level.

Randy Green — Retired CTO, via LinkedIn

What I bring to
the stack.

Enterprise endpoint management, from silicon to cloud — automated, secured, and built to outlast the next reorg.

Endpoint Management

Cloud-native device management at scale. Intune-first architectures with zero-touch provisioning, compliance policies, and automated remediation across large enterprise and retail fleets.

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PowerShell & Automation

Production-grade modules, Proactive Remediations, custom DSC resources, and CI/CD pipelines. If it can be scripted, it should be — and it should run unattended.

PowerShell 7+DSC v3WinGetPesterAzure Functions
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Security & Compliance

Application control, conditional access, certificate-based auth, and security baselines that actually ship. From NERC CIP to retail PCI — security at every layer.

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AI & LLM Engineering

Fine-tuning domain-specific models, building local inference infrastructure on consumer GPUs, and integrating AI into operational workflows. Not chatbots — real utility.

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Cloud & Hybrid Architecture

Azure-first infrastructure design. From hybrid public/private clouds at energy companies to Azure Functions for config delivery — always with cost discipline.

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Infrastructure & Home Lab

Unraid servers, Ubiquiti networking, smart home automation, ESP32 embedded projects. The home lab is where enterprise patterns get tested before they ship.

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Things I'm working on currently.

Tools and platforms born from real problems in endpoint management.

Active

DscForge

DSC v3 Configuration Authoring Platform

Full-stack PowerShell SPA for building, validating, and deploying DSC v3 configurations. Multi-provider AI assistance, GPO import, ADMX knowledge base, and live package search.

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In Progress

RingoLLM

Your endpoint management co-pilot.

Domain-specialized LLM fine-tuned on Windows endpoint management data. Custom training pipeline with synthetic Q&A generation, quality filtering, and local GPU inference.

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Active

IntuneGovernance

PowerShell module for Intune fleet operations

A governance module for managing Intune at enterprise scale. Firewall remediation, fleet analysis, risk scoring, compliance reporting, and automated policy generation.

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Architecture

RINGO Platform

DSC v3 Pull Architecture

Azure Function-based middleman for DSC v3 configuration delivery. SCEPman cert auth, tiered processing, and Proactive Remediation compliance bridge. Under $7 CAD/month.

Azure FunctionsSCEPmanBlob StorageDSC v3Entra Groups
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