Engineering leader with 35 years of experience building reliable platforms, modernizing complex SaaS environments, and improving engineering execution in regulated, high-availability production systems.
My work sits at the intersection of platform strategy, operational discipline, architecture, and engineering leadership. I help organizations reduce technical and operational drag, clarify ownership, improve release reliability, and turn reactive engineering cultures into durable execution systems.
Leadership Capabilities
- Engineering Operating Model Design
- Platform Strategy & Infrastructure Modernization
- Reliability, Incident Response & Operational Governance
- Release Discipline, Change Management & Delivery Predictability
- Technical Debt Reduction & Capacity Reclamation
- Cross-Functional Alignment with Product, Engineering & Executive Leadership
- Architecture Governance without Bureaucratic Drag
- Mentorship, Team Enablement & Engineering Standards
Technical & Operational Foundation
- Leadership & Operating Systems: Incident management, release governance, platform strategy, ownership models, engineering standards
- Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, AWX
- Architecture & Systems: Distributed systems, event-driven architecture, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Redis
- Application Platforms: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, React
- Security & Reliability: OAuth2, IAM, SSO, HIPAA-aware systems, observability, production monitoring, SRE practices
This site is intended for engineering leaders, platform teams, and organizations working through reliability pressure, modernization, operational drag, and the challenge of scaling execution without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
Featured Projects & Systems
View All ProjectsASSRT — Advanced Systems & Services Response Team
Founded and architected ASSRT (Advanced Systems & Services Response Team), a dedicated critical-response function responsible for handling high-severity production incidents across the platform
Platform Observability & SRE Enablement
Designed and implemented platform-wide observability and SRE practices across FMS Engine systems and supporting infrastructure
CITADEL — Platform Operations & Access Control Gateway
Designed and built CITADEL, a Ruby on Rails application serving as a central server directory, operations hub, and access control gateway for client infrastructure
Censify — Census Tracking & Billing Event Engine
Designed and implemented Censify, a Ruby on Rails engine embedded within FMS Engine applications to track census changes for consumers and providers and publish authoritative events for PMPM billing accuracy
Event-Driven Architecture with Apache Kafka
Designed and implemented event-driven communication patterns using Apache Kafka to decouple core platform services and reduce synchronous dependencies
Multi-Tenant Platform Architecture & Modernization
Led architectural modernization of a large-scale, multi-tenant SaaS platform supporting regulated healthcare workflows
Large-Scale Server OS Upgrade & Migration
Architected and executed the migration of 250+ production server instances across AWS and GCP from CentOS 7 (end-of-life) to Rocky Linux 8
Beyond Work
Outside of professional work, I’m drawn to disciplines that reward preparation, situational awareness, and respect for fundamentals, including electronics and microcontroller projects, amateur radio, scuba diving, and aviation as a student pilot.