Meet the team behind Aurora MSP
Aurora MSP is built around practical technical guidance, clear communication, and dependable delivery for businesses that need IT support they can understand and trust.
Senior Technical Leadership
Craig Uwins is Aurora MSP’s founder and Senior Technical Specialist, leading technical service delivery, consultancy, solution design, and client infrastructure support.
Craig Uwins
Focused on network infrastructure, cloud, security, Microsoft 365, technical delivery, and practical service improvement.
Founder & Senior Technical Specialist
Craig brings hands-on technical depth, managed service experience, project delivery knowledge, and regional delivery awareness to Aurora MSP’s support, consultancy, and solutions work.
His role focuses on helping clients design, implement, support, monitor, document, and improve secure, reliable IT environments that are practical to manage and aligned with business needs.
Background, experience, and verified credentials.
Learn more about Craig’s working style, technical experience, and selected vendor-backed certifications.
Personal background
Craig started Aurora MSP with a clear purpose: to help businesses use IT as a practical advantage rather than a source of frustration. Calm under pressure, detail-focused, and hardworking, he enjoys seeing client solutions come to life and helping businesses experience the efficiency, reliability, and confidence that well-delivered technology can provide.
After moving to Cayman in early 2023, Craig has built a life on island with his fiancée Mary and his dog Millie. Outside of work, he enjoys travelling, following Formula 1, supporting Manchester United and hometown club Aberdeen, playing golf and pickleball, and being part of the local community.
Craig began working in IT in 2013 through a summer apprenticeship during his final year of secondary school, at an international oil and gas supply company. He later gained early service desk experience, worked in in-house IT support at an offshore premier training company, and continued developing his technical foundation while studying Computer Networking.
After moving into the managed service provider space, Craig built experience across customer support, systems engineering, network engineering, service desk leadership, project implementation, and senior technical escalation roles. That background now shapes Aurora MSP’s practical, customer-focused approach to support and consultancy.
Craig holds a first-class honours degree in Computer Network Management and Design from Robert Gordon University and a Higher National Diploma in Computer Networking/Computing from North East Scotland College. His academic background helped build a strong foundation in infrastructure, networking, systems support, and technical problem-solving, which he has continued to develop through hands-on industry experience and vendor-backed certifications.
Together, these qualifications support the practical, structured approach Craig brings to client infrastructure, troubleshooting, documentation, and service improvement.
Experience
Developed through hands-on technical, leadership, and advisory roles.
Craig’s career has developed through in-house IT, service desk, systems engineering, network engineering, technical specialist, service leadership, and senior technical roles. Within the MSP space, he has also contributed beyond day-to-day delivery, including as an employee representative within an employee-owned MSP.
- Progressed through service desk, systems, network, and senior technical roles.
- Built experience across both in-house IT and managed service provider environments.
- Contributed to team culture, service improvement, and operational decision-making.
- Developed a practical understanding of what clients, technicians, and service teams need from dependable IT support.
Delivering complex projects across real-world client environments.
Craig has supported and led technical delivery across complex client environments where reliability, communication, and supportability matter. His project experience includes multi-site networks, wireless infrastructure, Microsoft 365 migrations, disaster recovery planning, backup deployments, and collaboration improvements.
- Delivered and supported building and public-space network environments for visitors, tenants, operations, and critical services.
- Worked on backup and recovery deployments across distributed organisations, remote operational sites, and international retail locations.
- Supported Microsoft 365 and SharePoint migrations from legacy platforms to improve collaboration and manageability.
- Contributed across discovery, scoping, implementation, vendor coordination, documentation, handover, and post-go-live support.
A constant drive to improve service experience and business outcomes.
Across his roles, Craig has consistently looked for ways to improve how clients experience IT support. That includes clearer communication, stronger documentation, better service processes, more reliable systems, and practical guidance that helps businesses move forward with confidence.
- Improving support quality, ticket notes, documentation, and client communication.
- Helping clients understand risk, options, priorities, and sensible next steps.
- Using automation, standardisation, and process improvement to make support more consistent and repeatable.
- Applying lessons from MSP delivery to shape Aurora MSP’s customer-focused approach.
Verified certifications
Selected vendor-backed certifications, exams, and training badges are shown below. Where available, each badge links to its public Credly verification page.
Fortinet Certifications & Exams
Fortinet FortiGate 7.4 Administrator
Fortinet FortiGate 7.6 Operator
Fortinet Certified Associate Cybersecurity
Fortinet Certified Fundamentals Cybersecurity
Cisco Certifications & Specialist Training
Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist
Cisco Certified Specialist – Enterprise Core
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Cisco Small and Medium Business Engineer
Security Architecture for System Engineers
Understanding of Cisco Network Devices
Microsoft Certifications & Exams
MCSA: Office 365 – Certified 2019
MCSA: Windows 10 – Certified 2017
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