Leonie Gothard

Leonie Gothard has over 40 years of work experience, starting with Rochford Thompson (Int) Ltd in 1979, where they held various roles in a security printing company specializing in OCR and MICR printing techniques. Leonie then worked at Norsk Data Ltd as a Software and Application Support Specialist from 1988 to 1993. After that, they served as a Network Manager and Company Buyer at Castleton Data Services from 1994 to 1996. From 1996 to 2002, Leonie worked as a Microsoft Certified Trainer at Azlan. Leonie then joined Vodafone as a Technical Implementation and Support Manager for Microsoft from 2002 to 2006. In 2006, Leonie started their career at Microsoft, first as a Premier Field Engineer and later as a Senior Premier Field Engineer until 2018. Leonie then worked at Roc Technologies as a Technical Architect from 2018 to 2021. In 2021, they briefly joined Atech Cloud as a Cloud Consultant before returning to Roc Technologies in 2022 as the Microsoft Cloud Practice Lead, their current role.

Leonie Gothard attended Newbury College of Further Education from 1986 to 1987, where they obtained a City and Guilds degree in Computer Programming, Specific Applications. Prior to that, there is no information available about their education.

In terms of additional certifications, Leonie obtained the following certifications from Microsoft: MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional (1996), MCSE1: Windows NT 4.0 (1998), MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet (1998), MCSE1: Windows 2000 (2001), MCSA1: Windows Server 2003 (2007), MCSE1: Windows Server 2003 (2007), MCTS: Microsoft Windows Vista, Configuration (2007), MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Network Infrastructure, Configuration (2009), MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Active Directory, Configuration (2009), MCTS: Windows Server 2008 Applications Infrastructure, Configuration (2009), MCITP: Enterprise Administrator on Windows Server 2008 (2009), MCSA: Windows Server 2008 (2012), MCSA: Windows Server 2008 (2012), MCT: MCT Enrollment (2013), MS: Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (2015).

Additionally, Leonie obtained non-Microsoft certifications for ITIL Foundation (2006) and Prince2 Foundation (2006). It should be noted that there are two certifications related to Microsoft Azure (Azure 203x: Microsoft Azure Virtual Networks and Azure 204X: Microsoft Azure Identity), but the obtained date is not available.