I drive client development and implementations across enterprise and multi-cloud architecture, GenAI, hybrid networking, modernization & transformation, microservices design, containerization, database platforms and integrations. I help clients unlock value and impact through security, performance, resiliency, and cost optimizations on a global scale.

Advisory member on the Board for Strategic AI

Lead a team of cloud Technical Account Managers / Solutions Architects; coaching, mentoring, serving clients, redefining, maturing and optimizing one process at a time to be the best MSP out there!

https://locusinnovations.comLocus is a convergence of intense focus and activity. This is how we innovate at Locus Innovations — with intense focus in doing whatever it takes to keep our clients’ environment up and running smoothly.We’ve heard one too many horror stories of clients being taken advantage of or not receiving the personalized attention and quality of service expected from a managed services firm.That’s why it is a high priority for us to scale slowly, at a pace that will continue to deliver quality solutions and service to our clients. As certified AWS Professionals at Locus Innovations, we specialize in small, mid-sized, and start-up client environments. We pride ourselves in providing quality solutions with continuous oversight of our clients’ environments to ensure optimal delivery, performance, security, reliability and collaboration.

MIE is one of the country's first sustainable HIEs (Health Information Exchanges), which is still operating in Indiana today which serves client ranging from family practices to Fortune 100 clients.Implemented highly secure, fault tolerant, “encapsulated” multi-tiered environment segmented by IPTables and VLANs spanning two co-located data centers; the environment can be stood up and tested on a local machine PXE booting with Cobbler, bootstrapped with Vagrant, Virtualbox, and Saltstack.Scripted and stood up OpenStack environments for POC, including Vagrant + DevStack, and Mirantis OpenStack using their Fuel deployment module to demo capabilities.Performed role of MySQL DBA, root caused (RCA) issues, ensured configurations were ‘salted’, Percona tools installed, backup scripts deployed, under source control, and scheduled with event notifications.Integrated CentOS Linux servers with Active Directory SSO using SSSD with both Kerberos and LDAPS authentication models. Deployed integrated Atlassian product line; JIRA, Bitbucket, Confluence.Served as technical lead on various corporate projects; defined roadmap, architecture, technical project plan, schedule and resource management. Ran DevOps team meeting every week, built roadmap, discussed issues, planned, coordinated and followed up on initiatives.

Security Innovation is a leader in IT Security, specializing in application development security eLearning courseware, instructor led training, security consulting, and automotive embedded system security. Managed AWS (Amazon Web Services) infrastructure and environmentsProvided support and implementation for eLearning clients, LMS platforms, SCORM (1.2/2004) compliant coursewareFocused on Customer Success by serving, automating, and streamlining processes.Developed programs and scripts to automate and optimize systems and processes using Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, JQuery, SQL, BashBehavior/Test-Driven Full-stack web development on both Node.js/Express.js and Django platforms Created and implemented process improvements and product documentation

American Family Insurance has provided peace of mind to customers by being a leader in the insurance industry for more than 80 years. I managed and coordinated multi-tiered integrated technology implementations at a program level through multiple test environments and into production without disruption; while ensuring fun and exhilaration! Some of the technologies involved in the cross-platform deployments and releases for multiple app stacks, using CVS, Git, and Harvest, included: GuideWire PolicyCenter / BillingCenter, J2EE apps, SOAP & RESTful services, Mobile Iron App Store, Oracle 11g, JBoss 4/5, Informatica PowerCenter v9x, WebSphere MQ v7x, DB2, COBOL, WSO2 Enterprise Service Bus, IBM z/OS 4.1, HP-UX 11i, Windows Server 2008, SUSE Linux v9/10, RHEL v5x.

I brought Gateway Seekers to life so that I could pursue my passion to see nonprofits succeed in achieving their mission to change the world and impact lives. Served as a grants management consultant for nonprofit entities. Worked with CitiIMPACT Ministries, Stillwater School District in MN, and Taproot Foundation on various initiatives. Evaluated organizational needs, researched the field and funding opportunities for programs, projects, departments, and organization as a whole, wrote grants.

WEA Trust is a non-profit organization which provides insurance and financial services to Wisconsin public school employees and their families since 1970.Ensured my team was set up for success by working toward buy-in on our vision, setting the direction, being a leader who serves, and representing the team.Collaborated with Development and Release teams to build more mature DevOps processes using Hudson/Jenkins, SVN, scripting and automation. Migrated clustered (WAS) WebSphere Application Server/Apache tiered environment to a JBoss/IIS architecture. Served as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on multiple platforms, architectures, and troubleshooting efforts.Provided oversight of the entire EDI domain (Electronic Data Interchange; industry standard transaction sets required by the ACH network (NACHA; the Electronic Payments Association) for various industries to be compliant) including hands-on scripting, troubleshooting, analysis, triaging appropriately to both IT and Business resources.

Led project teams and managed deployments and releases during all phases of the SDLC. Focused on continual improvement and working toward maturing our DevOps build and deploy disciplines via continuous integration using Hudson/Jenkins, CVS, Git, various scripts and processes.Continued consulting as Sr. Infrastructure Engineer on various projects and systems: WebSphere Application Server to JBoss 5 Migration, Microsoft IIS 7, Microsoft SQL 2K5, 2K8, SharePoint 2010, WebSphere MQ v6/7, Informatica PowerCenter v8.5, iWorks Macess CMS, and various other systems, scripts, system analysis and troubleshooting efforts.

Led teams and architected various IT implementations such as Informatica Upgrade, WebSphere App Server (WAS) and WebSphere MQ (WMQ) Upgrade, all critical components to mult-tiered integrated service-oriented enterprise architectures. Served as Deployment Coordinator and Technical Project Manager on a variety of I.T. and corporate initiatives.Architected and engineered the Secure File Transfer and Messaging project which migrated ~150 EDI trading partners to the new system and increased security, flexibility and scalability with the primary claims processing and payment systems. Focused on continuous improvement of infrastructure environment, working toward more agile DevOps processes, engineering scripts and automation to ease the administration load.

Infrastructure / Network / Systems Administration; Cisco PIX/ASA, Catalyst 2900/3500 series, 6500 series core switch, Brocade Fibre Channel, IBM Storage Volume Controller (SVC), SharePoint, WebSphere Application Server (WAS) v.5/6/7x, WebSphere MQ (WMQ) v.5/6/7x, WebSphere Business Integration (WBI), Informatica PowerCenter 7/8.5, MS SQL 2005/2008, VMWare ESX/ESXi v2x/3x, J2EE, VB Script, PowerShell, SVN, Hudson, Jenkins, SVN, Git, various other languages, platforms and technologies. Process Improvement & Maturation; ITIL v3 Foundation.

Managed, optimized, administered network infrastructure with 1100+ nodes, coordinated network migration from legacy 3com to all Cisco switched / routed network. System / server administration.

Managed teams of 15+ employees, traveled to various Midwest locations to help start new call centers, trained managers and staff to ensure their ability to run the center on their own within 2-4 weeks.