TECHNOLOGY / PEOPLE / REAL IMPACT

Building things.
Trying things.
Explaining things.

For more than two decades I’ve followed new technology from enterprise collaboration and cloud, through automation and immersive experiments, to autonomous AI systems.

Same curiosity. Bigger playground.

Mark Stokes at workthe actual human

MY JOURNEY — IDEAS TO IMPACT

Connect.Build.Explore.Share.Repeat.

FEATURED WORK

Different eras. Same instinct.

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01

2014 · transformation

Office 365 beyond the marketing

Trust, privacy, service continuity, hybrid architecture and the messy reality behind cloud adoption.

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02

2017 · experiment

I built a PowerApp from inside VR

Not because it was sensible. Because somebody had to find out whether it was possible.

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03

community

Learning in public

MVP years, user groups, PowerUp365, PnP, workshops, conferences and hundreds of conversations.

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04

2026 · now

Governed autonomous software

DaemonCore asks the same old enterprise question in a much more powerful world: who stays in control?

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THE THREAD

The tools change faster than the questions.

What is useful? What is safe? What survives the demo? Who keeps authority when the system gets more capable?

That question runs through the whole archive — from SharePoint governance to Power Platform maintainability to autonomous agents.

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KEEP DIGGING

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