{"id":3195,"date":"2011-11-09T01:13:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T01:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=3195"},"modified":"2025-09-02T23:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:29:12","slug":"about-mark-wilson","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about-mark-wilson","title":{"rendered":"About Mark Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An experienced IT architect, with recent experience in technology leadership, IT strategy and practice management roles, Mark Wilson currently spends his days helping UK businesses to digitally transform through the exploitation of Microsoft software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark has gained widespread recognition as an expert in his field including both industry and national press exposure<\/a>. In addition to certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat and The Open Group, Mark held a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for three years. Mark is also an award-winning blogger and recognised influencer on a variety of technology topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently employed at Node4<\/a>, Mark would like to stress that\u00a0 any views expressed online are his own and are not endorsed by his employer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he’s not working or spending time with his family, Mark enjoys cycling, photography and generally messing around with technology – all of which appear in various places on this blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a full view of Mark’s professional experience, take a look at his profile on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An experienced IT architect, with recent experience in technology leadership, IT strategy and practice management roles, Mark Wilson currently spends his days helping UK businesses to digitally transform through the exploitation of Microsoft software. Mark has gained widespread recognition as an expert in his field including both industry and national press exposure. In addition to certifications from … Continue reading About Mark Wilson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3195","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nAbout Mark Wilson - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about-mark-wilson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About Mark Wilson - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An experienced IT architect, with recent experience in technology leadership, IT strategy and practice management roles, Mark Wilson currently spends his days helping UK businesses to digitally transform through the exploitation of Microsoft software. Mark has gained widespread recognition as an expert in his field including both industry and national press exposure. In addition to certifications from … Continue reading About Mark Wilson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about-mark-wilson\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-02T22:29:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@markwilsonit\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/about-mark-wilson\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/about-mark-wilson\",\"name\":\"About Mark Wilson - markwilson.it\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2011-11-09T01:13:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-02T22:29:12+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/about-mark-wilson#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/about-mark-wilson\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/about-mark-wilson#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"About Mark Wilson\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"markwilson.it\",\"description\":\"get-info -class technology | write-output > \\\/dev\\\/web\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468\",\"name\":\"Mark Wilson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/uploads\\\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/uploads\\\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/uploads\\\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1\",\"width\":800,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"Mark Wilson\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/uploads\\\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1\"},\"description\":\"A Chartered IT Professional, with recent experience in technology leadership, IT strategy and practice management roles, Mark Wilson is an Enterprise Architect in the Advisory and Management Group at risual. During a career spanning more than two decades, Mark has gained widespread recognition as an expert in his field including both industry and national press exposure. In addition to certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat, The Open Group and Axelos, Mark held a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for three years and is now part of the MVP Reconnect programme. Mark is also well-known on social media and maintains an award-winning blog.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/markwilsonuk\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/markawilson\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/markwilsonit\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/channel\\\/UCWHlZCoHRTocdvtrOJ2IL4A\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"About Mark Wilson - markwilson.it","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about-mark-wilson","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"About Mark Wilson - markwilson.it","og_description":"An experienced IT architect, with recent experience in technology leadership, IT strategy and practice management roles, Mark Wilson currently spends his days helping UK businesses to digitally transform through the exploitation of Microsoft software. Mark has gained widespread recognition as an expert in his field including both industry and national press exposure. In addition to certifications from … Continue reading About Mark Wilson","og_url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about-mark-wilson","og_site_name":"markwilson.it","article_modified_time":"2025-09-02T22:29:12+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_site":"@markwilsonit","twitter_misc":{"Estimated reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about-mark-wilson","url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about-mark-wilson","name":"About Mark Wilson - markwilson.it","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-11-09T01:13:44+00:00","dateModified":"2025-09-02T22:29:12+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about-mark-wilson#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about-mark-wilson"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about-mark-wilson#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"About Mark Wilson"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/","name":"markwilson.it","description":"get-info -class technology | write-output > \/dev\/web","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468","name":"Mark Wilson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/uploads\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/uploads\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/uploads\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","width":800,"height":800,"caption":"Mark Wilson"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/uploads\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1"},"description":"A Chartered IT Professional, with recent experience in technology leadership, IT strategy and practice management roles, Mark Wilson is an Enterprise Architect in the Advisory and Management Group at risual. During a career spanning more than two decades, Mark has gained widespread recognition as an expert in his field including both industry and national press exposure. In addition to certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat, The Open Group and Axelos, Mark held a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for three years and is now part of the MVP Reconnect programme. Mark is also well-known on social media and maintains an award-winning blog.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/markwilsonuk\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/markawilson\/","https:\/\/x.com\/markwilsonit","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCWHlZCoHRTocdvtrOJ2IL4A"]}]}},"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3200,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about-mark-wilson\/press","url_meta":{"origin":3195,"position":0},"title":"Press and other commissioned work","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Wednesday 9 November 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"As well as writing this blog, Mark Wilson has contributed articles to a number of other publications and the following are examples of his external work: risual White Paper (April 2017): Securing the modern productive enterprise with Microsoft technology. Fujitsu White Paper (January 2013): Technology standardisation - creating consisistency in\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":721,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about","url_meta":{"origin":3195,"position":1},"title":"About this site","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Sunday 4 March 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This website was created by Mark Wilson in Olney (England). Originally created as a place to store some notes, the blog comments on Mark's daily encounters with technology and aims to share some of this knowledge with fellow systems administrators and technical architects across the 'net. Amazingly, it's become quite\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Uncategorised"","block_context":{"text":"Uncategorised","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/topic\/uncategorised"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3317,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/home-electricity-usage","url_meta":{"origin":3195,"position":2},"title":"Home electricity usage","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Saturday 26 November 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Current reading History","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1552,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/contact\/guest-contributors","url_meta":{"origin":3195,"position":3},"title":"Guest contributors","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Thursday 22 October 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Writing posts for this blog is a time-consuming exercise and occasionally the site has featured guest posts from some of Mark's most trusted colleagues. Please do not contact me asking me to feature your content on this site. Garry Martin Over the last 25 years, Garry has worked with some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Uncategorised"","block_context":{"text":"Uncategorised","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/topic\/uncategorised"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":718,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/about\/legal","url_meta":{"origin":3195,"position":4},"title":"Legal notice","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Sunday 4 March 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"The owner and author of this website (http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/ and subdirectories thereof - also available via http:\/\/www.markwilson.me.uk\/ and http:\/\/www.markwilson.it\/) is Mark Wilson. This work is Copyright \u00a9 Mark Wilson 2004-2025, All Rights Reserved. (Some parts of the site were previously licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Uncategorised"","block_context":{"text":"Uncategorised","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/topic\/uncategorised"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":789,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/contact","url_meta":{"origin":3195,"position":5},"title":"Contact","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Tuesday 15 May 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks for visiting the site. If you would like to get in touch then you can contact me by\u00a0email or\u00a0Twitter. If I don't get back to you, I'm sorry - it's just that a job, a family and all the time I spend blogging doesn't leave much free time! Please\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Uncategorised"","block_context":{"text":"Uncategorised","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/topic\/uncategorised"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9143,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3195\/revisions\/9143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}