• Healthcare, government, and energy sector clients.• Platform & ecosystem assessments. Recommending both technical and organizational improvements.• AI Chatbot Expansion - Expanding from 1 RAG source to 4 overlapping domains. Providing index to 3rd party AI Voice interface. AI-driven automated testing of the text responses.• Services Integration - Migrating a complex government agency domain-specific application to a shared foundation with a cross-agency centralized service.

Side hustle container. Connecting engineering leaders with employers @ EngMgrJobs.com. Building marketplace apps @ Atlassian & AzDo. DenRedWolf.com

• Final role: Director of AI Strategy. Harness generative AI to practically solve business problems.• CTO for Nelnet Community Engagement. Grew into this role from the startup's Software Architect, VP of Engineering, SVPE, and eventually CTO as the team’s and product’s needs grew.• Delivered a massive, critical 2 year product roadmap acceleration project on budget and on time.• Created & managed the platform’s unified roadmap, spanning 7 brands across 9 verticals.• Scaled Engineering and Product teams from 0 to 81 headcount while maintaining a >80% retention rate.• Navigated this acquired startup’s team to full integration with the parent corporation with minimal attrition.• Built a diverse team of 38% women, 32% POC, 8% LGBTQQIP2SAA, 5% veteran, & 17% neurodiverse.• Member of the AI Stewards and Innovation Advocates councils. Initiated and led our CoPilot implementation.• Rebuilt the data pipeline for ingestion of customer data from 3 disparate sources into our platform.• Established the data warehouse HVR ETL replication for Snowflake for our 14 most useful data models.• Created the company’s UX and DevSecOps teams and practices.• Increased test coverage from 13% to 53% across all 7 languages used by the teams. Grew from 4 suites to 14.• Led the automation of the iOS & Android app store build & submission workflow for 1,000’s of mobile apps.• Migrated infrastructure to AWS from virtual hosting with near-0 downtime.

• Scaled the Fireworks team from 1 to 36 headcount.• Architected & MVP’d the SaaS software (as Architect), then architected the team (as VP of Innovation).

Creative Technology, Augmented Reality, Small Computing, Physical & Digital Colliding, Panoramic Photography, Atomic Design, Requirements authoring, wireframe and prototype design, vendor management.

Wrote technical requirements documents. Authored an extensive library of WordPress plugins. Created and ran automated deployment schemes, redundant backup systems, and stable hosting platforms.

Side hustle startup. A unique demand-driven real-time-bidding experience, then an Amazon price tracking site.

Small creative agency. Responsive web design, CodeIgniter, Zend, osCommerce, and a home-brewed CMS.

Software Engineer, Solution Delivery Consultant, & Software Specialist for the FirstNet EMR.