Oct 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States · Remote

Jan 2023 – Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Nashville, Tennessee, United States · Hybrid

• Achieved significant organizational and technical milestones by leading cross-functional teams, improving delivery practices, and strengthening infrastructure and security operations. Assisted CTO in executive responsibilities including budget preparation, resource planning and architectural decisions.
• Key Accomplishments:
• 1. Collaborated with the Compliance Officer to guide the engineering team toward achieving HITRUST Certification, implementing new infrastructure and enforcing controls and policies.
• 2. Restructured the team to adopt a platform-centric approach, aligning with domain-oriented teams to increase functionality reuse and reduce costs.
• 3. Partnered with Product to refine the Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), advancing the transition to a product-led organization to support scalable growth.
• Responsibilities:
• Software Delivery: Managed a team of 15 software developers and testers, along with 2 managers, developing customer-facing and internal applications using Java, Postgres, and React.js.
• Site Reliability/Infrastructure: Oversaw a team of 4, including 1 manager, responsible for AWS infrastructure, production pipelines, and monitoring.
• Information Security: Led a team of 2 security analysts and 1 manager, executing HITRUST-certified operations.
• ITS: Supervised a team of 2 focused on application and desktop support.

Dec 2021 – Nov 2022 · 11 mos

• Oversaw strategic growth initiatives and delivery management, driving alignment and efficiency across product and engineering teams within the Government Services division.
• Led a team of Launch Leaders and Business Analysts/Product Owners, collaborating with Product Managers to deliver strategic projects in partnership with enterprise engineering teams.
• Managed the delivery of $8 million in capital projects to support multiple product lines within the Government Services division.
• Spearheaded the transformation from a project-oriented to a product-oriented delivery model, leveraging the enterprise Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC).
• Directed the implementation of Aha! Roadmap Delivery software across the Government Services group to enhance planning and execution.

May 2017 – Dec 2021 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• Directed large-scale engineering teams and managed substantial budgets, driving transformation and cost-saving initiatives through agile practices and technological innovation.
• Led a team of up to 80 engineers, including onshore, offshore, and full-time employees.
• Managed a $5.1 million operating budget and $4 million in capital projects, supporting divisions generating $190 million in annual revenue.
• Transformed a waterfall-based delivery organization into agile scrum teams, resulting in higher business partner satisfaction and improved time-to-market.
• Implemented DevOps practices, automating costly operational processes and establishing CI/CD, yielding $250,000 in operational cost savings within the first year.
• Deployed AI solutions using OCR and NLP, projected to save $6 million in operational costs over three years, with patent applications under review.

Oct 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos · Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States

• Primary investor and partner.
• Roles include:
• Validating quality through occasional taste testing
• Providing consultative services to Founder / Operator on an as needed basis.
• Perform quarterly financial reviews, prepare P&L / Balance Sheet / Cash Flow statements as well as prepare taxes.

Jan 2017 – May 2017 · 4 mos · Franklin, TN

• Drove key initiatives to enhance infrastructure and architecture practices, focusing on strategic cloud migration, pragmatic delivery, and team leadership.
• Led the program to migrate PureSafety and PURE OHS applications to Amazon Web Services, including defining backend networking, managing cost controls, and implementing the application stack.
• Established a pragmatic architecture practice for the EHSS division of UL, emphasizing rapid business value delivery while aligning with long-term strategic goals.
• Mentored and guided a team of three architects, fostering a collaborative and effective working environment.
• Assumed leadership of a team of five infrastructure and network engineers as part of the AWS migration effort, retiring one data center by the end of 2017 and three by the end of 2020. Responsibilities included creating cost and ROI estimates and designing the final AWS implementation.

Aug 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Established architecture practices for Payment Solutions group, including architecture review process and decision repository
• Was the lead architect for creation of a new print platform supporting 1 billion+ pages of documents per year and $150MM in revenue. This included leading the RFI process for vendor selection, performing TCO analysis and crafting of logical architecture.
• Created continuous delivery strategy to be used in new and existing applications using Chef, Jenkins, Git and other DevOps toolsets.
• Implemented Amazon Web Services (AWS) based development and testing environments that realized effective cost savings by reducing the dependency on locally hosted infrastructure for non-production.
• Partnered with Enterprise Architecture on a number of global solutions including API Management, ETL and Cloud (AWS).

Jan 2015 – Jul 2015 · 6 mos · Greater Nashville Area

• Led a team of 15 full-time developers and 10+ offshore developers.
• Developed a strategy to migrate to more Agile based SDLC. This included establishing Scrum teams, implementation of management tools such as JIRA and coaching the teams on proper Agile processes.
• Implemented a Continuous Delivery strategy to move from manual releases to fully automated. This included utilization of Continuous Integration software and automated testing.
• Led an initiative to modernize the existing ASP.NET MVC application to a set of Single Page Applications utilizing Bootstrap.js, Backbone.js and other modern technologies and frameworks.
• Designed and led a project to expose all business functions via Web API using REST and ASP.NET Web API 2.2.

Oct 2013 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Established the enterprise vision for services grounded in strong SOA principles. Responsibilities included developing a maturity model, creating and executing a roadmap based on that model, and providing technical guidance along with the practical application of defined architectural principles.
• Introduced the first service governance process, currently documenting over 100 services from various areas across the enterprise.
• Pioneered the concept of API Management and led efforts to implement it across the organization, evaluating vendors such as Apigee, CA/Layer 7, and Tibco APIx.
• Developed a comprehensive Service Reference Architecture for enterprise-wide implementation.
• Defined an architecture supporting real-time operational visibility of services in production using an event-based model.

Jan 2013 – Oct 2013 · 9 mos

• Improved the quality of enterprise integration services at Asurion by implementing advanced software engineering practices. Led a team focused on reducing technical debt and directed the Center of Excellence in establishing clear standards and best practices for integration services. Introduced methodologies such as Continuous Integration/Deployment, enhanced code quality through rigorous testing and engineering principles, and simplified systems to increase operational support capabilities. Utilized technologies including Tibco, .NET, and Java.

Jul 2012 – Dec 2012 · 5 mos

• Evaluated multiple vendor products such as Informatica, Composite and Ab Initio.Defined the enterprise canonical data model and service layer to expose the data using WCF / .NET Services. Continually worked with Enterprise Architecture to set vision and recommend solutions.

Jun 2010 – Jul 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Established a new team of engineers focused on developing enterprise data services. This included budget, hiring and planning roadmap.

Feb 2010 – Jun 2010 · 4 mos

• Developed an advanced technology solution to provide enterprise-level data access services. Provided technical expertise to architect and design a SOA-based system achieving 99.999% uptime and sub-second response times for a wide range of consumers. Designed a user-focused solution emphasizing rapid “time to market” delivery, enabling the creation of new services within 8 hours and maintaining zero downtime during maintenance and updates.

Jun 2008 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr · On-site

• Developed custom, web service-based APIs to provide CRM data access for internal application teams. This included creating .NET 3.5 web services using the CRM SDK and implementing a custom caching mechanism to ensure efficient, time-sensitive data retrieval. Responsibilities included system architecture design and resource management to deliver a high-quality product efficiently.
• Delivered enhancements to a Delphi-based system used by customer service associates for claim fulfillment. Tasks included participating in requirements gathering sessions to understand business needs, designing suitable solutions, and overseeing the implementation of product enhancements. Required collaboration with multiple development teams across the enterprise.

Jun 2009 – Feb 2010 · 8 mos

• Designed and implemented an improved workflow process for international shipment booking and tracking at Freightquote.com. Introduced Windows Workflow and WCF as potential solutions, captured all requirements, and developed a detailed design to maximize value within a short timeframe.
• Contributed to multiple large-scale projects involving a complete redesign of the web-based shipment booking and tracking system. This system enabled public consumers to receive quotes, book and track shipments, and make payments to service providers.
• Utilized WCF and .NET 3.5 to develop a Business-to-Business service layer, allowing third-party providers to interact with Freightquote.com’s quote engine. Created complex, asynchronous web pages using AJAX and jQuery within ASP.NET pages.

Dec 2007 – Jun 2008 · 6 mos

Aug 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 4 mos

Jan 2006 – Aug 2006 · 7 mos

May 2001 – Jan 2006 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Sep 2000 – May 2001 · 8 mos

Jul 2006 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr 6 mos

• Assisted with Sharepoint based website development.

Oct 1999 – May 2001 · 1 yr 7 mos