Helping individuals and tech giants leverage schema-driven design to solve real-world API and stream problems with data shapes, dependency resolution, evolution over time, and data governance.

Recruited to provide leadership and take ownership for improving products at SaaS provider with flat growth and stalled development; delivered over 100% five-year growth by driving organizational change, strategic alignment, and a platform shift to Java / Spring Boot.Grew engineering team to 9 employees, replacing five consultancies. Mentored and motivated junior staff, coached project managers, and conducted performance reviews, resulting in lowered labor costs and faster time to market for essential features.Oversaw entire SDLC: fostered collaboration skills amongst upper management, used data-driven decision making to plan work with product owners, ensured regulatory compliance, and managed process through Scrum, with results demonstrated by increased sales and decreased churn.Led digital initiatives in online scheduling and telehealth providing zero-downtime, 100x scaling during COVID.Embedded SRE/operations practices, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code to ensure reliable deployment of new features and architectures. Shortening release cycles from weeks to hours resulted in 23 major releases and 1000+ minor deployments over five years.Instituting secure code development practices/training and authoring Java, Groovy, and SQL security libraries, I decreased patient records impacted by privacy incidents to 0 for the past 3 years.Migrated 4M+ digital health records from legacy systems to unified platform through event-driven, distributed data pipelines, halving operational costs by sunsetting legacy system.Saved $100k annually (vs. outsourcing) developing serverless Spring Boot microservices for appointment reminders, SaaS invoicing/billing, and payment processing/financial management.

Recruited to lead R&D investments for IOS/Android mobile SDKs and real-time Java backend systems to influence first responder and homeland security programs.Authored proprietary Java Cross-Platform Mobile SDK, presenting use cases and demonstrations to Booz Allen leadership, identifying vision and near/medium/long term plans resulting in multiple new projects within the U.S. Navy and Department of Homeland SecurityCourse-corrected biometric case-management systems for POW/MIA recovery efforts through technical guidance and API optimization. Learning C# to collaborate with engineers, I remained on the team to complete the delivery and Department of Defense accreditation for this deeply meaningful task.Mentored team of legacy ColdFusion developers, evolving them into cloud-native Java/Spring Boot engineers during rearchitecture of U.S. Presidential grant programs, wildfire management, and cabinet-secretary dashboards. Key subject matter expertise was retained while modernizing their skills.

Developed Slack-like workforce collaboration platform using Java, Spring, AWS, JBoss, XMPP, and Salesforce APIs.Invited to represent engineering, communicate direction, and persuade investors during Seed and Series A funding.Promoted from Lead Engineer to VP of Product Development.

Provided systems design, development team mentorship, and software development to Mayo Clinic, Sherwin-Williams paint, and Hewlett PackardResulted in JEE architectures for award-nominated Web applications

Leading the technical development of multiple enterprise ColdFusion applications, using software frameworks like Model-Glue and agile project methodologies such as Scrum.

Developed ColdFusion content management systems, Flash-based Rich Internet Applications and Games, as well as provided Web-Services (SOAP) based integration with third party vendors across ColdFusion and .NET platforms.