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Huntsville, AL, US

New York, New York, US

• Responsible for the strategy, design & engineering, implementation, operationalization, improvement, and ongoing lifecycle management of Pfizer’s global portfolio of cloud hosting solutions.
• Encompass traditional and transitional private cloud and modern, public cloud and IaaS and PaaS capabilities across a variety of cloud service providers.
• Lead design and delivery of internal customer requests, while maintaining strict alignment to established security and compliance guidelines for new engineering solutions.
• Ensure that designs are “fit-for-use” and achieve not only the desired outcomes but deliver an experience that is delightful (fast and easy).
• Managed the transition of engineered solutions to steady-state operations (Digital Command Operations) and ensure operational support through documentation, effective handovers, training, and direct assistance.
• Applied a DevSecOps approach to engineering, embedding security into each design, utilizing a standardized pipeline for code release, making significant use of automation in testing, and bias towards repeatability and.

• Founded an employee owned and operated technology firm providing subject-matter expertise and principal engineering services to organizations of all sizes.
• Specialize in skunkworks projects, featuring small, elite teams delivering high-impact, innovative solutions via rapid prototyping mechanisms.
• Our team of experts comes from around the globe, covering a vast array of industries; each person with a wealth of knowledge and unique experiences.

Madison, Alabama, US

• IT and Engineering consulting and best practice for small-to-medium businesses looking to accelerate their technology footprint. Specializing in SaaS applications and public cloud infrastructure.
• Fully automated infrastructure management, backed by AWS services.
• Consulting and Advisory board participation
• Providing part-time CTO role / responsibilities
• Staff & manage technical and engineering contract employees
• Domain management & website hosting solutions

Seattle, WA, US

• Lead and support rapid innovation projects across key & strategic accounts,including Pfizer, Bayer, Moderna, BMW, Mercedes, GE, 3M, Siemens, and more Fortune 500 companies.
• First Technical Program Manager hired for Prototyping - helped scale the prototyping team 200% (15 to 31 and growing) over a 2-year period.
• Drive planning and technical discovery of customer-specific solutions.
• Architected and co-led development of internal tool for automated demo launches, providing push-button, customized, functional demos of highly technical solutions.
• Support and accelerated Sales and Business Development customer discussions, including on-site workshops and ideation sessions.
• Standardization of engagement planning, development, and closeout; Automated data collection and reporting for executive feedback.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Organization-wide, multi-team engineering management of a global workforce of 60+ engineers
• Conceptual product line scoping and design
• Production roll-out planning and execution
• Driving product features and UI/UX design
• Organization-wide, multi-team, multi-disciplinary engineering management with mixed resources - employees, consultants, and contractors.
• Product conceptualization, scoping, and design

Huntsville, Alabama, US

• Advice in technical roadmap & leadership initiatives
• Support product and strategy planning
• Executive-level technical engagement & pre-sales

Huntsville, Alabama, US

• Organizational strategy for company growth and market expansion.
• Executive leadership, budget analysis, and organizational planning
• Alignment of Engineering & Product Management leadership teams.
• Deployment of Agile software development tools & methodology.
• Modernize and revolutionize IT infrastructure and business-supporting tools.
• Evangelize and implement migration to AWS and related cloud infrastructure (where appropriate) for both production systems and engineering support.

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Form & Lead Platform Core Team
• Responsible for infrastructure & orchestration over multiple providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Coordinate with project management, executive sponsors, and key stakeholders.
• Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Docker
• Identify & evangelize standards and best practices
• Part of a top-tier team of DevOps Engineers and Cloud Architects from around the world, building a new, fluid application PaaS built around federated Kubernetes using distributed system design: Trebuchet™

San Antonio, Texas, US

• Part of Monitoring & Eventing team focused on building microservices for handling logging, eventing, and monitoring of internal and external components for a large-scale platform.
• Elasticsearch / Kibana
• Kubernetes deployment using Helm charts
• Influx TICK stack
• Kafka
• Designed & prototyped highly-scalable service for event routing & alerting.

Huntsville, AL, US

• Creation and successful launch of robust Kailos (https://www.kailosgenetics.com) E-Commerce platform written in Ruby-on-Rails customized on top of Spree and Shopify.
• AWS-backed bioinformatics platform for genotyping and phenotyping next-generation sequenced (NGS) DNA.
• Development of gene-based suspect profiling application for Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office (CTTSO)
• Management / oversight of comprehensive multi-tenant, multi-tier AWS infrastructure hosting robust HIPAA / HITECH compliant healthcare applications and large-scale sequencing operations.
• Security Architecture / Operations & DevOps of HIPAA-compliant AWS-backed services
• Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Operational Reporting using modern BI tools such as AWS Quicksight and Tableau Online

Huntsville, AL, US

• Research, Scope, and Architect high-speed data Internet of Things (IoT) processing platform for the M2M (Machine-to-Machine) industry capable of capturing, transforming, analyzing, reacting, and presenting high-speed.
• Capable of processing up to 300,000 messages per second, with sub-second TTP (time-to-process).
• Distributed computing platform made up of next-gen queueing systems, multiple database technologies, real time & batch computation engines, and presentation layers.
• Push-button, automated PaaS deployment into agnostic IaaS using Docker, Ansible, and other technologies.
• Plan, hire, and manage new cross-functional platform engineering team from scratch to 14 engineers strong.
• Responsible for software technology building blocks for entire engineering organization.

Huntsville, AL, US

• Lab Information Management System (LIMS) developed for use by CLIA lab personnel.
• Custom application development in Force.com (Salesforce) platform.
• Administration/Management of Salesforce and Financialforce applications.
• Ruby and Ruby-on-Rails (RoR) development for bio-analytical system for processing raw DNA sequencing data.
• Management of cloud-based virtual servers using the Opscode chef platform.
• Custom-built Bio-analytical system for analyzing human genome sequencing data.

Huntsville, AL, US

• Multi-tiered web application development for both internal & external use.
• Architect reporting solutions for historical sales & business workflow analysis.
• Creation of content management systems for internal & external websites.
• Creation of application/resume tracking system for HR.
• Decision-maker for technology direction and infrastructure changes for the company.
• Created development infrastructure for source control, bug tracking, release scheduling/tracking.

Madison, AL, US

• Visual Basic and.NET design and development for large enterprise GIS system.
• Strong interdependence with Oracle and MSSQL databases
• Advanced multi-process, multi-host debugging.
• Defect resolution and verification testing.
• Advanced COM library development.

Huntsville, Alabama, US

• Developed multiple server-client applications (C#, Java)
• Lead Web developer: PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, JavaScript, and Web Services.
• Project Lead for multiple mission-critical software projects.
• Lead developer on multiple mission-critical software projects.

Huntsville, Alabama, US

• Development of server-client applications -- including security modules, workflow management, and database interfaces.
• Responsible for company’s push towards.NET in current and future projects.
• Interfaced Java with existing C++ libraries utilitizing Java Native Interface (JNI)

Huntsville, Alabama, US

• Thin client front-ends for query of both database & proprietary solutions.
• Managed day-to-day operations of the IT department.
• Evaluation and testing of new development tools, including training of programming team for their use.
• Re-designed network infrastructure and implemented design to overhaul company’s intranet/internet presence.
• Administrated all network services, including, but not limited to, all internal employee support.
• Design and implementation of IP telephony PBX system with full administration of that system.

Huntsville, AL, US

• END Technical Support
• Responsible for support of ISDN, T1, and other product lines through telephone support and email support.
• END Product Qualification
• Testing of new TA3000 DS3-CSM module
• Gained knowledge of following: ATM, T1, ISDN, T3, PBX Systems, Cisco Routers, Multiplexers, and many other related telecommunication terms and technologies.
• Packet Switched Design Engineering

Huntsville, AL, US

• Responsible for on-site administration and installation of Windows NT Servers.
• Support for ImageFirst Library product which is used to handle archiving of check / bill images onto CD’s for large national banks.
• Support for image technology products - particularly document management to large-scale clients.
• Represented Book Systems’ Image Technology Division to customers, in charge of Public relations for this department.
• Phone support for other products (MLS, Concourse, P-link, etc.) that are used in Library automation (Used in place of card catalogs in libraries, for searching books, checking in, checking out, etc.)

• GENERAL MANAGER (1996 - 1998)
• Facilitated formation of partnerships between CS&SI and other corporations.
• Purchasing, Receivables, Payroll, Taxes, Contracts, and all other aspects of running the corporation.
• Personnel management of 10+ employees.
• Increased profit margin by cost reduction and management of current revenue.TECHNICAL SUPPORT LEAD (1994 - 1996)
• Creation and support of home and business networks from 2 to 50+ computers.