I’m thrilled to announce that I’m joining Solution Foundry as a Senior Technology Advisor, starting January 5, 2026. This expanded role represents an exciting opportunity to combine strategic planning, hands-on development, and team training in ways that build on my nearly two decades of SharePoint and Microsoft 365 experience.

What Solution Foundry Does

Solution Foundry is a technology-focused management consulting firm providing full-service Microsoft SharePoint evaluation, implementation, customization, and training. They’ve been proudly serving government and corporate customers for over 20 years, building solutions that meet the unique demands of enterprise environments.

The Opportunity

This role allows me to use my extensive experience in SharePoint, M365 development, and Power Platform to create a strategic roadmap that continues the modernization of Solution Foundry’s solution capabilities. I’ll be helping the team adopt the latest tools and practices for both SharePoint Framework (SPFx) and Power Platform, then leading the training effort to integrate these tools into the delivery teams’ workflows.

This benefits everyone involved: the company expands its solution offerings, employees grow their development capabilities, and customers get modern, enterprise-ready solutions.

My Background

I’ve been building SharePoint solutions for almost 20 years, starting with MOSS 2007 and evolving into the broader M365 ecosystem with the introduction of SPFx in 2016. Recent years have provided opportunities to learn the Power Platform and how to use it to build enterprise-level solutions that scale to tens of thousands of users. This 20-year journey has prepared me for exactly this kind of role at Solution Foundry.

Most recently, I served as an Enterprise Solutions Architect at Encora, where I designed solutions for large commercial clients and oversaw implementation with delivery teams. While much of that work centered on Power Platform, one of the appeals of this new position is getting back to my core strengths: designing and writing custom coded solutions, both server-side and client-side.

The Role: Senior Technology Advisor

My responsibilities will span several key areas:

Strategic Planning
I’ll start by observing and participating in the current development strategies at Solution Foundry. This will allow me to help design a roadmap from current solutions to an approach using the latest tools and practices, as well as identifying where Power Platform can enhance and accelerate solution development.

Technology Advisory
My work will include advisement on Microsoft 365 technologies (especially SPFx and Power Apps), providing direct support to tech leads, accelerating Technology Roadmap implementation, developing reusable software applications and components, supporting code reviews and standards assurance, and improving Azure DevOps organization and usage.

Modernization Vision
“Modernized” means using the latest version of SPFx, optimizing the use of Microsoft Graph Toolkit, modern React controls, and open-source solutions like PnPjs and other M365 and Power Platform Community libraries. Power Apps and Power Automate solutions will be enterprise-ready, with the ability to scale to large user bases. All solutions will leverage modern DevOps approaches to build, test, and deploy.

Training and Mentorship
The training approach will be determined in collaboration with Solution Foundry’s senior leadership, but I anticipate providing hands-on training workshops along with online classes as needed. Documentation of company standards will be accomplished through collaboration with technical leads on the delivery teams. I will also be available for questions and mentoring from any team members who need those services.

Community Involvement Continues

A major attraction for me joining Solution Foundry is their commitment to supporting my continued community involvement. To be clear: my contributions to the M365 developer community will continue, with plans to expand in several areas. I’ve been a Microsoft MVP in M365 Development and Microsoft Graph for over 5 years, speaking at events of all sizes about custom professional development strategies, Power Platform, and community involvement.

SPFx Advisory Committee

I’m honored to be one of the original members of the SPFx Community Advisory Committee, introduced by Microsoft to strengthen partnership with the community. This group of non-Microsoft employees, consisting of some of the most experienced Microsoft MVPs, interacts on a regular basis with the Microsoft product teams and actively participate in product capabilities and release planning for SPFx.

As Microsoft stated in their announcement:

“We will be using this new community advisory committee as our initial strategic review board for our future investments and community representatives for the future platform changes.”

Participation in the committee gives me unique insights into where Microsoft is planning to expand SPFx capabilities and allows me to steer Solution Foundry to make the most of offerings from Microsoft and other M365 vendors. It also provides an avenue to give feedback directly to the Microsoft product teams on how their tools are being used and what development teams and customers think of the capabilities – helping shape the future of Microsoft offerings. One of the most exciting parts of this role is discussions about how AI can be used to enhance developer capabilities using Microsoft products.

Looking Forward

Since interviewing for new positions can be limited by the company’s NDA obligations, setting definitive timeline goals is nearly impossible. That said, I’m excited to learn more details about the specific work SF is doing with its customers. My personal goal is to have the core of the strategic roadmap built in the first 90 days and start implementing as quickly as possible. I’ve been promised I’m joining a “train going full speed,” so it should be exciting and challenging to jump right in.

I’m excited to know my community involvement will continue and expand. This new position will enable me to have a broader perspective on the overall extensibility options in the M365/Power Platform space.

Embracing the Future of AI on the Developer Journey

While there’s a lot of speculation about how AI will result in developers losing their jobs, I will continue to embrace the capabilities of AI to make myself a better developer, along with my team and the community of professional developers I interact with daily. The future of development isn’t about AI replacing developers — it’s about developers leveraging AI to build better solutions faster.

I’m excited about this new chapter and look forward to continuing to interact with customers to help them be excited and more productive in the solutions we provide.

Stay tuned!

See ya soon & happy coding!

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Resources

• Solution Foundry
• Microsoft MVP Program
• M365 and Power Platform Community
• SPFx Community Advisory Committee Announcement
• PnPjs Library
• Microsoft Graph Toolkit

Disclosure: This blog post was created by in collaboration with the Ghostwriter AI platform. While AI assisted in drafting the content, all opinions and insights are my own. For more details about Ghostwriter written by fellow MVP Elio Struyf, visit Getting interviewed by AI to write better blog posts.