build · automate · innovate
Enterprise platforms,built like they matter.
Power Platform, Azure and AI consulting from Josh Day: Microsoft Senior Consultant, USAF veteran. Independent practice, practical delivery.
- years in tech
- 15+years in tech
- apps shipped
- 60+apps shipped
- veteran
- USAFveteran
Four capabilities, one engineer scoping and building all of them.
Software development
Full-code .NET and React, or low-code Power Platform: this is the deepest bench. Typed contracts, component libraries, secure APIs, governed ALM.
Cloud solutions
Azure architecture and migration. Static Web Apps, serverless Functions, and .NET APIs built to scale and hold up under audit.
AI and automation
Copilot Studio agents and M365 Copilot adoption, Power Automate underneath. Practical AI, built for the constraints that are actually there.
Digital products
Design, ship, run. Sites, portals, and internal tools built and operated end to end, not handed off at launch.
recent impact
Outcomes from regulated and enterprise environments.
- legacy forms modernized
- 60legacy forms modernized
- Power Apps delivered
- 50+Power Apps delivered
- environments governed
- 12environments governed
- telemetry coverage
- 100%telemetry coverage
federal · azure ai
Core engineer on a federal AI platform
Core engineer on Azure and development for a multi-year federal AI platform program, built on Azure AI services. Current engagement.
day labs · hospitality
A booking site and CMS, live in production
Production booking site and owner-managed CMS for a historic Queen Anne Victorian. Next.js on Azure Static Web Apps, Functions API, Cosmos DB, Entra-gated admin. Day Labs' first shipped delivery.
federal · power platform
60 legacy forms, modernized and in production
Converted 60 legacy InfoPath forms into governed Power Platform solutions for a U.S. federal agency, replacing paper-era process with Dataverse model-driven apps.
federal · applied ai
Copilot adoption in government cloud
Leads Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption for federal civilian agencies, including GCC environments where commercial features lag and solutions get engineered around real constraints.
federal · copilot studio
Copilot Studio agents, built and proven
A portfolio of Copilot Studio agents grounded in Power Platform and Azure: access reviews, intake triage, reporting scorecards, service-desk automation.
about
USAF veteran, Microsoft Senior Consultant, independent by choice.
Day Labs is a founder-led Microsoft practice, launched in 2026 and based in Mount Vernon, Indiana.
Twelve years from help desk to Microsoft: desktop support, SharePoint and ECM, cloud engineering at Planet Technologies, then Power Platform, Azure, and Copilot for federal civilian agencies since 2022.
Current focus: Microsoft 365 Copilot adoption and Copilot Studio agents, including government cloud environments where commercial features lag and solutions get engineered around real constraints. Practical AI, not demos.
the road here
- 2004
United States Air Force
Information management, tech school at Keesler AFB, 3rd Communications Squadron at Elmendorf. Honor Guard.
- 2004
Deployed, Baghdad, Iraq
Operation Iraqi Freedom II.
- 2010
The civilian ladder starts
Desktop support at Dell. Help desk to Microsoft in twelve years.
- 2013-18
ECM and SharePoint years
Old National Bank, Midtown Athletic Clubs, Gallagher. Forms, workflows, and the platforms behind them.
- 2018-22
Cloud architecture at Planet Technologies
Cloud Engineer III to Cloud Solutions Management Architect. 50+ Power Platform apps, App-in-a-Day host.
- 2022
Microsoft, Senior Consultant
Power Platform, Azure, and Copilot for federal civilian agencies. PL-900 certified, 2023.
- 2026
Founded Day Labs LLC
Veteran-owned, based in Mount Vernon, Indiana. Cloud solutions, software development, AI and automation, digital products.
Information management, tech school at Keesler AFB, 3rd Communications Squadron at Elmendorf. Honor Guard.
Operation Iraqi Freedom II.
Desktop support at Dell. Help desk to Microsoft in twelve years.
Old National Bank, Midtown Athletic Clubs, Gallagher. Forms, workflows, and the platforms behind them.
Cloud Engineer III to Cloud Solutions Management Architect. 50+ Power Platform apps, App-in-a-Day host.
Power Platform, Azure, and Copilot for federal civilian agencies. PL-900 certified, 2023.
Veteran-owned, based in Mount Vernon, Indiana. Cloud solutions, software development, AI and automation, digital products.
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