Into the MSP environment
Joined Commercial Networks Ltd in technical support, working inside a small, growing team.
I like finding the thing everyone keeps working around — and building a better way to do it.
I’m Sam, the Systems Automation Engineer behind Scope Automation, based in Newcastle-under-Lyme. Scope Automation brings together my RMM and automation services with a portfolio of the engineering behind them. I have over six years’ experience in IT, including nearly four years at Commercial Networks Ltd.
I joined the MSP in November 2022 in technical support and progressed into a dedicated automation engineering role. Along the way, the managed estate grew from around 200 to more than 1,000 endpoints, supporting over 100 business customers.
Working across first- to third-line support gave me an understanding of the pressure on service desk engineers. It also taught me why good automation needs to account for different customers, awkward exceptions and the person who has to maintain it next.
My focus is effective RMM engineering: useful monitoring, reliable patching and maintainable automation. My hands-on ConnectWise experience underpins that approach, while the same principles guide how I assess and design improvements for platforms such as NinjaOne and Datto RMM — around their own capabilities and your operational needs.
Joined Commercial Networks Ltd in technical support, working inside a small, growing team.
Worked across first- to third-line support, projects, Microsoft 365 and endpoint operations in an estate that grew beyond 1,000 endpoints.
Designed, built, maintained and optimised automation across the MSP environment.
Supporting hands-on engineering across monitors, searches, parameterised scripts and operational workflows.
Platform certification alongside practical experience developing and maintaining MSP automation.
Completed Jonathan Edwards’ training and applied its principles in real MSP security projects.
Experience on this site is described in my own capacity. It does not imply endorsement by a former employer, customer or vendor.
Tell me where your RMM is creating work.
Let’s look at what could run better —
and how to get there.