I am an approachable IT executive and engineer with breadth and depth of experience across all aspects of technology. My career spans diverse, global B2B and B2C organizations with expertise in building efficient and resilient 24/7 business driven platforms and processes. I solve difficult business problems with effective application and management of technology for both start-ups, and well established organizations.I excel at providing senior leadership for infrastructure, information security, and IT audit, as well as executive counsel for successful merger/acquisition due diligence, and value capture activities. Working in concert with financial and legal teams, I've driven major cloud vendor, software, and hardware platform negotiations, while managing multi-million dollar budgets. As an IT infrastructure leader and CISO, my teams build secure, modern, automated hybrid infrastructure that delivers agility and value in IT services.My approach as an individual contributor and leader is foremost a focus of humble service to the team and the organization. I foster a culture in which teams are empowered, engaged, and leveraging their expertise and creativity to pursue modern IT approaches such as DevOps, Agile, and site reliability engineering. As an individual contributor or as part of the leadership team, I am effective translating technical complexity into business solutions. As an engineer, I bring a the depth of experience at a broader business level together with facile and open willingness to learn, share, respond and solve technical problems.