• Hired by Toa Re to develop a unified data strategy and direct the design and execution of a Data Lake and analytics platform.• Engaged by Merck to drive AWS cost reductions via architectural adjustments and automation, achieving $700k in YoY savings.• Retained by a health tech company to build an LLM-based chatbot trained on their proprietary data to be sold as a consumer Q&A product.

Hired to modernize aging systems and engineering department to support the corporate goal of doubling revenue within five years.• Presented a strategy to executives for platform modernization and cloud transition, securing increased annual budgets and staff expansion.• Revamped a global initiative by reorganizing the engineering team and adjusting architecture, rescuing the project and saving $1.3MM yearly in licensing costs.• Led a multi-year cloud migration to AWS, focusing on DevOps and infrastructure automation, enabling a lean team to maintain and enhance functionality, reducing the operational budget by 15% and staff needs by 2 FTEs.• Led the re-platforming of a 17-year-old Enterprise Data Warehouse, reducing the overnight batch process by 10 hours and increasing overall reporting performance by 20%.• Identified a deficiency in business ownership for corporate initiatives and established a quarterly governance structure with C-level executives improving buy-in, prioritization, accountability, and communication gaps.

Responsible for building an engineering culture focused on modern development practices, automation, and delivery of business value.• Invested early in automation and DevOps practices in building the enterprise cloud implementation, allowing a much smaller team to support and expand functionality keeping budget and FTE headcount low.• Documented and codified engineering best practices and created model repositories and practices across the enterprise standardizing coding standards, deployments, and observability, allowing engineers to focus on delivering business value and accelerating the onboarding of new engineers.• Assessed skills of 80 FTEs and 100+ contractors, leading to restructuring and custom training, boosting morale, and closing technology skill gaps.

Consulting practice helping large companies embrace digital technology.• Retained by Merck to rescue a failing Accenture project. Completed it on time with a lean team, full test coverage, automated development pipeline, and deployment process.• Hired by Vault Insurance to lead the implementation of Unqork as their core underwriting platform resulting in over $100M in written premiums.• Hired by Allied World to build a proof-of-concept validating their organizational readiness to start a cloud migration resulting in a plan to fix their skill gap and operational deficiencies.

Hired to fix an underperforming engineering team and broken prototype to keep the company alive long enough to secure the next round of funding.• Tasked with an architecture review to eliminate platform instability and performance issues resulting in a new technology roadmap and engineering team restructuring.• Rebuilt the engineering team to bolster the current prototype enabling investor demos without stopping progress on a new, HIPAA-compliant platform securing 3.5MM in funding.

Contracted to help companies adopt DevOps and Cloud Computing practices.• Contracted by Merck to establish a “startup within a company,” creating a software development and DevOps model that formed the foundation for a 250+ person development hub in the Czech Republic.• Retained by First Data to add observability and DevOps practices for their Payeezy product resulting 5x increase in deployment frequency and cutting the change fail percentage in half.• Contracted by ProExam to modernize their engineering team and platforms, up-skilling engineers, and migrated two SaaS platforms to AWS, saving thousands in yearly licensing costs.

Sole founder of a SaaS-based startup providing paperless board meetings.• Developed all aspects of the product, including the iPad app, web-based management portal, and backend APIs.

Responsible for managing all architecture, development, and support aspects of AWAC's Enterprise Data Warehouse.• Designed and built an interactive P&L performance dashboard so widely adopted that it became the primary global source of truth for executives’ quarterly review of targets to actuals.• Managed and expanded a global SQL developer and DBA team to support the EDW and reporting tools, reducing downtime and enhancing overall reporting performance by 25%.

Responsible for building a .NET WCF-based SOA pilot architecture that provides real-time data access to the Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Promoted to lead and build finance and data integrations to keep up with the company's rapid growth and expansion.• Responsible for managing and implementing all phases of the SDLC for backend and downstream financial systems.

• Developed a C# workflow app to automate the monthly financial close, posting over $5 billion in written premium annually, reducing the process by four days per month.• Wrote an RPA .NET library for Genius, an AS/400-based system, automating policy, endorsement, and claim entries laying the groundwork for a modern web interface for a legacy platform.