Leading multi-disciplined engineering teams innovating in the customer experience space on critical path, high traffic, customer facing product pages for well known brands. Accountable for delivery of revenue generating engineering work, continuous quality improvement at scale, and team dynamics/performance. Responsible for coaching engineers, preventing or solving problems, and improving systems.

LTC, Military Police, U.S. Army reserves.Instructor at the Command and General Staff College.Infantry platoon leader, Operation Iraqi Freedom 2006-2007.

Forged an environment of psychological safety which allowed me to coach engineers to improve performance, correct deficiencies, and achieve promotion while maintaining accountability for the teams.Aligned engineers with company process and decisions, clarified context and achieved buy-in.Led a product team to create the first in market solution for automating Prior Authorization that enables patients to receive the care they need faster and with less worry.Championed and built a new platform engineering team from the ground up that reduced time to deploy older versions by 90%, reduced deployment times by 75%, enhanced security while earning HITRUST certification, stood up/supported self hosted UIPath and Decisions instances, implemented infrastructure as code through Terraform, stood up secrets management, and various other initiatives.Achieved buy-in from stakeholders and led a legacy team to plan and execute a transition from ongoing development to maintenance three months ahead of schedule.

Led, coached, and developed ten software engineers through an inflection point where the company scaled from ~300 to 500 people, and ~1.6M-3M+ SKUs.Led the creation, adoption, and implementation of our first engineering skill matrix and career ladder.As a TPO, led the effort to replace the existing Product Information Management system, migrating ~3.7M SKUs within 9 months.

Led multiple engineering teams working for Global 500 companies implementing mobile and cloud digital initiatives.Performed the roles of lead engineer and product owner on various projects.

Core contributor on the company’s only iOS team building Relativity Binders.Member of the production support team responsible for troubleshooting client issues and fixing core areas of the .net codebase.

Ran large Windows based network, web and database servers.Responsible for $500k+ US yearly budget technology investments for several years.Provided support to teachers in classrooms, facilitating learning.