Consultant, Enterprise Architect, and Coach• Business capture and proposal development including solutions architecture, technical writing, orals coaching, and strategic analysis for small to large (Fortune 5) companies. (30+ opportunities)• Provided enterprise architectural leadership and technical coaching for 3 software development DevSecOps programs totaling over 300 staff under SAFe for immigrant identity records management, biometrics/biographic information, and multi-document type ML/AI based data fusion system. (2 yrs)• R&D evaluation of new technologies for the US Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) CIO and senior leadership including enterprise and cross-agency coordination, solution visioning, technical R&D, data alignment/ingest/warehousing, team development, and continuous program improvement. (9 mos)Founder and Principal• Founded 3 Trees Digital including incorporation, payroll, compliance, benefits, financing, recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and managing engineering and office support staff to grow an organization. • Developed strategic business partnerships and executed business capture activities driving corporate growth and winning multiple government contracts as a key technology leader. Technologies/Tools/Processes include Enterprise Systems, SAFe, Agile, DevSecOps, CI/CD, Custom Development, PaaS, SaaS, IaaS, Cyber, HCD, Microservices, Data ETL/Warehousing, COOP, Cloud/Hybrid, Digital Modernization, and Shipley Proposal Process.

• Lead all technical aspects of Federal business capture efforts including technical solutioning, architecture, writing, and driving corporate growth.• Directed internal strategy to support corporate expansion and increase strategic adaptability in responding to emerging opportunities by focusing and growing core technical capabilities.• Created an internal product development team of 15 to create a commercial cloud-based mobile application. Activities and responsibilities included overall strategy, interviewing, staffing, and initial product architecture which included designers, scrum master, and front-end, full stack, DevSecOps, cloud, and site reliability engineers.• Led technical and architectural efforts with teams, ensuring appropriate and efficient processes, and developing excellent relationships with business and technical leadership. • Created key technical partnerships with Amazon, Microsoft, Databricks, and ServiceNow to drive technical excellence. • Drove technical and Agile certification programs in Amazon, Azure, Databricks, and Service now to enhance overall corporate technical mastery in key target markets.Technologies/Tools/Processes AWS, Enterprise Architecture, Azure, Databricks, Cybersecurity Solutioning, Multi-Cloud Solutioning, CI/CD pipelines, DevSecOps, Agile/SAFe 5, IaaS, Microservices, Containerization, Shipply Process, ServiceNow

Chief Technologist• Managed technical aspects of business capture efforts including technical solutioning, architecture, writing, and creating strategic partnerships to drive corporate growth.• Directed an engineering culture that embraced innovation and change by mentoring junior staff, driving process efficiencies, adopting new technologies to improve execution, leading continuing education efforts, and driving proprietary internal corporate software projects and libraries. • Directed internal R&D strategy to support corporate expansion and increase strategic adaptability in responding to emerging opportunities.Program Technical Lead• Successfully managed operations and maintenance activities for 11 USCIS production systems (125+ staff) including JAVA and.NET based systems, ServiceNow, and other technology stacks deployed on-prem and in AWS exceeding service level agreements and receiving 2 enterprise awards for excellence. • Developed, deployed, and managed operations of four (4) microservice applications in AWS supporting 10,000+ users/system with over 30+ enterprise and cross agency API integration points. • Led technical and architectural efforts with teams, ensuring appropriate and efficient processes, and developing excellent relationships with customer business and technical leadership. Technologies/Tools/Processes include Angular, Java (microservices), Spring Boot, Hibernate, Oracle, Alfresco, AWS (RDS, S3, EC2, DMS), Docker, OpenShift, Jenkins, Agile Scrum/Kanban, and CI/CD

Vice President • Managed Cohere Solution's P&L center, led execution of commercial and government contracts, managed engineering teams’ development efforts, and executed business development and capture efforts.• Created a new engineering organization through strategic and tactical talent acquisition efforts, creating an outcome focused culture, staff mentoring, and effective leadership. • Advised Fortune 100 commercial partner on cyber corporate acquisitions providing strategic capability evaluation as they expanded their government cybersecurity practice.Chief Engineer• Designed and built a ML/AI based cyber intrusion detection and analysis platform for a Fortune 100 company, a large-graph visualization platform to revolutionize human interpretability of node/edge data, and managed R&D projects in machine learning, social media analytics, and internet of things (IoT) sensor fusion. Technologies/Tools/Processes include Java, Python, Spark, Scikit, Elastic Search, Spring Boot, AWS (RDS, S3, EC2, DMS), Jenkins, Agile Scrum/Kanban, APIs, and CI/CD

Program Lead• Directed and led the development of a streaming ETL ingestion system to merge, clean, and disambiguate 100+ different data documents/formats to feed a natural language processing system on a private cloud for the US Army. • Managed a combined team of 12 engineers from multiple companies to meet all the development, information assurance, and security goals of the project using Agile processes. • Led and managed a multidisciplinary team (15 staff) for the US Army creating a JavaScript and server-side community source project (Army, Navy, and Intelligence Community) and developed statements of work, managed employees, tracked budgets, and delivered value enhancing systems to ensure end user needs were met. • Directed efforts to meet with potential adopters across government and private companies, prepare and present at conferences/tech gatherings, and ensure the adoption process was successful.Solution Architect • Created architectures and system designs and managed full lifecycle development of a production scale application with over 30,000 users for the US FBI. • Developed, led, and executed plans to transition a large government program (55+ staff) from annual releases to monthly releases using improved Agile processes, creating CI/CD pipelines, enhancing early defect detection, removing team inefficiencies, and code base componentization. • Researched, evaluated, and recommended various emerging technologies for program adoption including cloud data stores, AWS, open-source databases, document stores, and system monitoring and analysis tools. Technologies/Tools/Processes include Java, Storm, Kafka, Accumulo, Hadoop, ElasticSearch, Zookeeper, Redis, AWS, OpenStack, JavaScript, JQuery, WebGL, Websockets, ETL, PostgreSQL, REST, APIs, Agile/Scrum, and CI/CD

• Enhanced and supported software development of a high-volume banking services platform processing over $5B of transactions per day.Technologies/Tools/Processes include JSP’s, JavaScript, AJAX, Spring, Stored Procedures, and SQL Server

• Developed, supported, and enhanced multi-tier J2EE web applications for Fortune 100 corporate partners and external customers using API driven web services and user interfaces.Technologies/Tools/Processes include Java, JBOSS, Stored Procedures, Oracle, XML, AJAX, REST

• Developed and supported two (2) web applications to support student registration and online learning. Technologies/Tools/Processes include Java, Tomcat, Apache, JBoss, IIS, XML, Oracle