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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

Led the cloud platform team at GE Healthcare. Current focus is on building out a new strategic cloud platform on Azure while supporting existing enterprise footprint on AWS and private cloud. Led a team of 20 engineers to set strategy, standards, and processes for dev ops, cloud native migrations, re-platforming, and cloud operations to support more than 1200 enterprise apps at GE Healthcare. Defined a new enterprise Azure Landing Zone using Bicep and Microsoft's ALZ-Bicep framework. Migrated 600 applications from a legacy Azure tenant to a new corporate tenant. Drove adoption of Microsoft's virtual network manager technology, combining it with landing zone vending, Azure policy, and Github Actions to enable rapid migrations of applications while democratizing ownership of application landing zones and simplifying interactions with application teams. Drove adoption of artificial intelligence technologies including Azure Open AI, machine learning, and retrieval-augmented generation frameworks. As a global administrator of an enterprise Entra ID tenant, managed GDPR, SOX, and Finops capabilities to manage security, costing, and billing for more than 300 Azure subscriptions comprising more than 6000 IaaS and PaaS resources.

Chicago, Us

Led the AWS platform team to establish new processes and practices to manage immutable infrastructure and "infrastructure as code" using Terraform, Terragrunt, Github, Packer, Ansible, and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Implemented a new "landing zone" strategy that enables team autonomy while increasing security and reducing blast radius of breaches. Established enterprise standards in tagging, key management, secret management, and cost management. Enabled secure storage of highly confidential patient health information using Palo Alto firewalls. Enabled cost savings of more than $2million through rightsizing of cloud and data center resources.

Chicago, Us

- Focused on application of contemporary technologies and methods to design, implement, and improve systems. Developed elastic, scalable micro-services architecture to provide capabilities that formerly required ERP, CRM, or MDM system customization using Predix, CloudFoundry, Node.js, Oracle, Docker, Scalr, Nginx, and Amazon AWS, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Prometheus. Applying architecture to automate finance, supply chain, service, and commercial processes. Formed global DevOps team responsible for everything from conceptualization to design, development, deployment, monitoring, and support of micro services. - Developed integrated capabilities to enable Universal Device Identification (UDI) for medical devices designed, manufactured, and distributed by GE. Capabilities spanned more than a dozen strategic IT systems spanning engineering, supply chain, sales, service, post-market, and regulatory affairs functions. Architecture ensures compliance with FDA UDI regulations for almost 2000 Class II and III medical devices, and enables compliance with future global UDI regulations. - Developed RESTful API framework to provide access to order and shipping data in an Oracle EBS ERP extension. Delivered APIs that eliminated the need for synchronization of order data and provided a foundation for improving fulfillment and order management activities, demonstrating sustained performance at 75ms per request, with up to 20 million invocations per day, running on low-cost single-processor Linux VM’s. Defined continuous integration, deployment, and delivery processes using Docker, Github, Jenkins, JMeter, Mocha, Istanbul. - Formerly managed software development for the Sales Workbench, a custom CRM system based on the Selectica configurator and pricer components. Hired and managed offshore (India) development team consisting of 100+ software engineers. Established system design, scalable infrastructure, and development process.

- Founded Internet start-up focused on distributed object applications and system interaction using the Extensible Markup Language (XML). Designed, developed, and launched Visual XML, an extensible XML authoring tool, and tools for HTML and XML parsing, generation, and processing used by leading web robot tools. Provided strategic consulting services for clients in financial services, insurance, banking, and advertising industries. - Raised seed capital to launch a subsidiary B2B marketplace for the packaging industry. Hired development, sales, and marketing teams, bringing multiple products to market within 12 months.

Dublin 2, Ie

- Led technology for a DOD-sponsored applied research project focusing on component-based software engineering. This Technology Reinvestment Project, established to fulfill contract awarded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), aimed to modernize software development practices of a major defense contractor. - Managed development team of 20 software engineers, established extensible architecture for integration of multiple analysis and design tools. Authored Component Specification Language, an extension of OMG IDL for component development. Contributed to Rational's Unified Modeling Language (UML) specification. Represented firm at the Object Management Group (OMG). Led design efforts for a new core transaction processing environment for a major financial services client.

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

- Served as the principal engineer for a software start-up offering financial application frameworks and a new application development tool. - Established conceptual architecture, formed strategic relationships with technology providers, including Taligent, Hewlett-Packard, and SAIC. Led technical due diligence activities for acquisitions. Hired and managed development team, launched new development processes.

Engineered graphical application design tools for a software start-up. Responsible for technical product development of object-oriented frameworks and code generation. Developed products bundled with Microsoft and IBM C and C++ compilers.

Amherst, New York, Us

Software development for clients such as IBM, Digital Equipment Corp, Chandler Hospital, Georgia-Pacific. Concentration on PC, Unix, and VAX VMS Systems. Developed system based on the Andrew hypertext toolkit, a pre-cursor to HTML and the worldwide web.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Developed distributed telephone directory publishing software for a BellSouth Media Technologies, a BellSouth subsidiary. The product was one of the first transactional publication design systems on the market. Designed X-Windows and transaction processing frameworks, delivered new image processing frameworks, developed the first integration between DECWindows and VAX ACMS transaction processor.

Melbourne, Florida, Us

Developed UNIX and PC systems to manage import/exports for this manufacturer. Hired as a Sperry mainframe programmer, quickly transitioned to development of PC and UNIX system and application programming.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Led development of the Combat Ammunition System at the Air Force's Standard Systems Center, Gunther AFS, AL. Responsible for design, construction, team leadership, and field deployment of this classified munitions logistics system used to manage operations for major deployments for multiple branches of the military in later engagements.

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