Microsoft MVP Program
Microsoft’s 2021 Reconnect profile documents four MVP awards, SharePoint User Group UK leadership, consulting and conference speaking.
THE HUMAN BIT
Mark Stokes
Solution architect, builder, occasional experimenter, and someone who has spent a long time trying to turn new technology into useful systems.
Hello.
I’ve worked across software development, SharePoint, Microsoft 365, cloud architecture, Power Platform, digital workplace products and now AI/agentic systems.
Along the way I ran a consultancy, worked as a CTO, led a regional technical community, spoke at conferences and user groups, and was recognised as a Microsoft MVP four times.
I am more interested in the practical edge of technology than in collecting labels for it. I like the point where a promising idea meets constraints: security, governance, maintainability, people, cost, integration and the annoying edge case that destroys the clean demo.
That is why this site is built around artefacts rather than a polished biography. Old decks, videos and articles are imperfect, sometimes dated and occasionally much longer than necessary. They are also evidence of what I was actually thinking and building at the time.
A few external receipts
Red Plane
Independent 2014 coverage of the consultancy launch and earlier enterprise consulting work.
Attollo / Keysight
Nielsen Norman Group’s 2021 Intranet Design Annual winners page includes the Attollo team on the Keysight project.
Independent trail
A compact page of third-party references from Microsoft, business press, Collab365, NN/g and community archives.
Autonomous software, bounded authority.
DaemonCore is the main expression of that work; Semantic Publishing Protocol looks at the other side of the agentic web — how information itself should carry meaning, attribution and intent.
I still like weird experiments. Apparently that bit survived.
Elsewhere
The conventional professional profile, if that is what you came looking for.
GitHub
Current repositories and engineering work.
Medium
Technical notes, AI/web pieces and occasional excursions into stranger questions.
SlideShare
Twelve old presentation decks that the internet has kindly refused to lose.