Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Arvada, Colorado, United States · On-site

• Equity investor in Talnua Distillery recently named ‘America’s greatest whiskey’ at international spirits competition.
• DOUBLE GOLD, 97 pts: 2024 San Francisco World Spirits Competition
• DOUBLE GOLD, 95 PTS: 2024 San Francisco World Spirits Competition
• GOLD & BEST OF CATEGORY: 2023 & 2025 ADI International Spirits Competition
• GOLD & BEST AMERICAN POT STILL: 2025, 2023 World Whiskies Awards
• GOLD & BEST OF CATEGORY: 2021 American Distilling Institute
• SILVER AMERICAN BLENDED: 2025 World Whiskies Awards
• SILVER: 2024 San Francisco World Spirits Competition
• SILVER: 2024 American Craft Spirits Association
• SILVER: 2023 San Francisco World Spirits Competition

Nov 2024 – Jun 2025 · 7 mos · United States · Remote

• Lead development at a pre-seed AI startup. Responsible for all infrastructure including AWS Bedrock, S3 and RDS. Own all structured and unstructured data, database management, ETL jobs and data aggregation. Develop most python middleware API's. Manage all commits, merges and deployments from all team members. Handle all infrastructure security.
• Built RAG system a few times and showed incremental improvements with each iteration.
• Used AWS Bedrock for self hosted models.
• Integrated into external models including Gemini, ChatGPT and others (huggingface)
• Used embedded models to chunk, vectorize. store and retrieve data in vector databases
• Wrote most of the prompts and stored in a easily updatable way.
• Wrote tests for model accuracy and consistency between releases
• Created an agentic framework for complex tasks and to layered data within the context
• Worked through odd bugs in some of these models, like temperature settings issues

May 2022 – Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Denver, Colorado, United States

• Head of IT, responsible for all software, hardware and networking systems across retail, office, cloud and vendor infrastructures. Handle helpdesk, EDI and eCommerce operations and support. Work with logistics, marketing, sales, HR, finance and additional teams to meet end users' technology needs.
• Reduced IT OpEx spend 14% in 4 months and 32% in 8 months while overhauling legacy systems, improving overall usability, stabilizing custom projects and increasing security.
• Decreased AWS spend by 80% while improving infrastructure stability, adding monitoring, increasing security and implementing a fully automated DevOps pipeline.
• Outlined and launched company wide digital transformation effort that will impact every department. Through the course of the next 12 months, we will revamp our point of sales, store internet services and hardware, corporate office hardware, cloud based systems, ERP systems, CRM and loyalty programs.
• Upgraded full fleet of point of sales systems in 4 months, reducing processing fees by more than 80%, brining terminals into PCI compliance and increasing sales by adding payment channels like apple pay.

Apr 2017 – May 2022 · 5 yrs 1 mo

• Lead a team of 16, with 2 direct reports, that are responsible for coordinating the strategy and delivery of multiple in-house teams and vendor partners covering web, eCommerce and customer care technologies, microservices and API’s, cloud and on-prem infrastructure, and SEM and SEO sales tactics. This includes managing a $50M annual budget.
• Built eCommerce funnel that is the largest sales channel (pre-covid) and continue to maintain the lowest cost-per-sale and highest customer retention rates.
• Leading digital transformation of all web properties owned by Altice USA, moving them to a standardized technology platform, architecture and cloud infrastructure.
• Tasked by senior leadership to build out the SEO and SEM sales channel from the ground up. This included onboarding new vendors and building out a team over 18 months.
• Used continuous improvement and agile methodologies on SEM to create the shortest cycle time for testing new paid search marketing tactics.

Apr 2013 – Apr 2017 · 4 yrs

• Led a team of 5 onshore and 10 offshore developers that were responsible for building out the eCommerce platform including databases, API, billing system integration, CRM, and order automation.
• Oversaw development and implementation of the most advanced ecommerce platform of its kind in the industry, pushing ecommerce sales from non-existent to the number one sales channel in under 5 years.
• Participated as the SME, collaborating with senior leadership, in the development and implementation of the eCommerce strategy.
• Created the data architecture and reporting suite for monitoring platform uptime, API response times, network traffic, conversion rates, and product performance.
• Provided leadership to the most diverse development team (gender and ethnic) for the company, overcoming potential culture pitfalls.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs · Pensacola, Florida

• Led a team of 7, including 2 direct reports, responsible for the daily operations of every department including a call center, support, inventory management, onsite installs, new product development and outbound sales.
• Developed first Android point of sale with full integration into registers and printers making company’s product line the best in the industry.
• Managed all call center operations for both outbound sales covering normal business hours and inbound technical support covering 24/7 shifts.
• Focused efforts on delivering new products and features from the I.T. staff that were designed to meet customer needs while targeting aggressive delivery timelines.
• Responsible for install fleet covering the Southeastern United States with two operational hubs.
• Monitored and tracked inventory operations and supply chain management from ordering through to customer installation.