Leadership & Experience
A 20+ year trajectory bridging complex enterprise architecture, commercial SaaS delivery, and mission-critical program execution.
Managed technical intake pipelines and program governance across enterprise defense portfolios. Served as Key Personnel driving multi-team cloud modernization efforts and cross-functional release readiness.
Key Outcomes & Technical Depth
- Directed quarterly engineering roadmaps and delivery cycles from discovery through release for 20+ distributed development teams, owning dependency tracking, risk mitigation, and cross-system alignment.
- Built program-wide data capture strategies using Azure DevOps and Power BI for executive reporting, improving integrated delivery schedules by 30% and reducing post-release defects by 15%.
- Managed technical intake pipelines and established enterprise change control standards to ensure multi-team cloud modernization efforts tracked directly to intended business outcomes.
- Served as Key Personnel driving the $370M Army IPPS-A deployment, overseeing capacity planning frameworks and post-launch value realization.
Accelerated the multi-billion-dollar MHS Genesis deployment by replacing heavy DoD governance with lean execution playbooks, aligning 60+ distributed product teams to sustain rapid engineering velocity.
Key Outcomes & Technical Depth
- Accelerated the multi-billion-dollar MHS Genesis deployment by replacing heavy DoD governance with lean execution playbooks, aligning 60+ distributed product teams.
- Used delivery metrics to clear blocked initiatives and upskilled 100+ developers, boosting overall software release velocity by 20%.
- Won a FedHealthIT Innovation Award for designing a digital playbook that aligned technical construction methods with the organization's evolving maturity goals.
- Coached engineering leads and product managers, establishing standardized sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospective cadences.
Established a Technical Delivery Office for cloud-native applications at FINRA. Managed distributed engineering teams at Capital One to accelerate legacy monolith-to-microservices migrations. Led executive steering and AWS cloud integrations for The Carlyle Group.
Key Outcomes & Technical Depth
- FINRA (System-of-Record Governance): Established a Technical Delivery Office for cloud-native applications and built dashboards to track release burn-up, code quality, and backlog health.
- Capital One (Technical Orchestration): Managed delivery across distributed engineering teams, clearing API blockers to accelerate legacy monolith-to-microservices migrations.
- The Carlyle Group (Executive Steering): Led executive steering and managed vendor cloud (AWS) integrations to proactively escalate risks and deliver actionable recommendations.
- American Red Cross: Managed the end-to-end lifecycle replacement of on-premise document repository systems, migrating 30TB of data for 60K users to cloud infrastructure.
Built a foundation in enterprise scale integration, delivering a $10M classified VPN deployment for Joint Forces, executing NIST vulnerability assessments, and managing $11M enterprise Knowledge Management COTS solutions across multiple federal agencies.
Key Outcomes & Technical Depth
- Data Architecture (VA): Delivered an $11M enterprise Knowledge Management COTS solution, establishing integrated master schedules and managing performance metrics for project risk-related events.
- Enterprise Compliance (DTRA): Executed DoD 8510/NIST 800-series vulnerability assessments to maintain continuous system authorizations and authored foundational risk management policies.
- Enterprise Scale Integration (AT&T): Delivered a $10M classified VPN deployment and 60+ secure network projects for the DoD with a 100% success rate (zero downtime) in 3 years.
- Federal IT Governance (PwC): Directed federal IT control remediation and business process reengineering for the FBI, reducing FISMA compliance deficiencies by 40%.
Exercised mission command and technical mentorship over 60+ active-duty engineers. Engineered secure, tactical infrastructure for 25K+ warfighters during forward-deployment missions in Afghanistan and Qatar during the initial months of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Key Outcomes & Technical Depth
- Expeditionary Systems Delivery: Exercised mission command and technical mentorship over 60+ active-duty engineers, managing over $123M in network assets.
- Engineered secure, tactical infrastructure for 25K+ warfighters during forward-deployment missions in Afghanistan and Qatar during the initial months of Operation Enduring Freedom.
- Directed a $3M network backbone upgrade and a $2M multi-vendor wireless VPN deployment, receiving the USAF Achievement Medal for successful implementation.
- Performed 24x7 computer network defense (CND) incident handling and co-authored the USCYBERCOM Network Watch Officer standard operating procedures.
Education & Certifications
Postgraduate Program in AI Agents
UT Austin (In Progress)
Focusing on multi-agent architectures (LangGraph), Agentic RAG, and AI evaluation metrics for enterprise business applications.
M.S. in Leadership (Strategic Mgt)
Boston University
Advanced study in strategic management, organizational behavior, and cross-functional leadership methodologies.
B.S. in Computer Information Systems
University of Detroit Mercy
Foundational degree in software engineering, database architecture, and systems analysis.
Professional Certifications
PMO & Engineering Delivery
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Scaled Agile Practice Consultant (SPC)