Drawing on my experience leading technology for startups and deep technical expertise, I serve as a fractional CTO for clients with emergent technology needs.I specialize in aligning product management with Agile off-shore engineering teams to deliver meaningful results quickly. I have technical expertise in AWS solutions architecture, building LLMs and RAG applications, ETL and data, and system security. If you know someone struggling to get their startup off the ground or into the next gear, I’d love to chat with them.

Saving the planet and increasing margins through innovative P2P returns system.

I led two teams of fantastic folks: an information systems team and a development team. On the information systems side, we ensured our fully remote company never had to think too much about information systems. On the development side, we built a platform that our analysts could use to mine intelligence from sources in order to stop adversaries.Specifically, I work on:- Evaluating, negotiating, and integrating intelligence vendors.- Designing a data model for disparate data sources.- Automating the stand up AWS services to support the data model and the APIs and services that access it.- Writing job descriptions, interviewing (including both in the US and Northern Ireland), and hiring a very talented team.- Establishing a Lean software development lifecycle.

As a small but rapidly growing firm, we all wear many hats. Mine include:- Automating and hardening internal IT infrastructure.- Technical aspects of business development.- Leading product development.- Business life-cycle process improvement.- Recruitment with an emphasis on fostering a inclusive workforce.

Designing multi-tenant, multilevel security solutions within Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.

Designed, developed, and deployed an entirely autonomous data processing system operating preserving data confidentiality yet meeting mission priorities.Architected private cloud with open source tools including Kickstart, Puppet, git, KVM, and encryption tools.Developed system security plan (SSP) including NIST 800-53 SCTM.Guided projects through critical control gates, including briefing senior INFOSEC boards.

INFOSEC ArchitectDesigned and implemented critical data processing environment for sensitive data. - Architected extensive security infrastructure for securing data and systems. - Full life cycle administration of Linux and Windows systems. - Integrated multiple file systems, network and local storage solutions across platforms, GOTS and COTS software. - Deployed Active Directory implementation including group policies, DNS, NTP, remote desktop provisioning, user and group management, patch and update management. - Configured and debugged secure network. Applied Extract Transform Load (ETL)Designed and developed end-to-end ETL, data model, and analysis web site/tool for extremely large, complex, real time data sets. - Processed multiple languages and character sets in heterogeneous input formats (database dumps, csv, XML, etc).- Authored extensive Pentaho and PERL ETL framework. - Developed multiple Oracle and MySQL SQL queries, stored procedures- Developed analysis web tool in PHP, AJAX/Javascript, CSS/HTML etc. Big data intelligence analysisFilled role of analyst, developer, systems engineer, and subject matter expert. -Programming ECL LexisNexis/Seisint's DAS. -Architected data model for extremely large and varied data. -Designed highly efficient, innovative analysis techniques and algorithms briefed to multiple IC partners.

All-source intelligence analysis generating reports and follow-up investigations. GOTS/COTS integration to develop financial data search solution.

Analyzed software development projects to identify IV&V testing needs. Created over 26 service level agreements. Negotiated agreements worth large amounts of money. Briefed senior project managers of progress against test plans.