Jan 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · United States · Remote

• Led Mission Control and Platform systems for autonomous trucks operating in live freight environments where safety, uptime, and regulatory compliance are non-negotiable.
• Converted emerging AI and autonomy research into production-grade systems, aligning experimental breakthroughs with real-world operational constraints and customer-facing reliability expectations.
• Defined Human-Machine Interface workflows that became the operational face of AI, shaping how fleet operators supervise, trust, and intervene in autonomous systems at scale.
• Modernized cloud, on-vehicle, and on-road platforms by evolving microservices to reduce friction, improve modularity, and support expanding autonomy without destabilizing live operations.
• Raised operational maturity through improved observability, on-call practices, and incident response, reducing alert noise and accelerating resolution for internal and external stakeholders.
• Accelerated engineering throughput by streamlining CI/CD and validation pipelines while preserving strict safety, compliance, and production-readiness standards.

Aug 2014 – Jan 2022 · 7 yrs 5 mos · Chicago · Hybrid

• Led and scaled a 25+ person engineering organization supporting high-volume enterprise logistics systems that had outgrown their release and delivery model.
• Reset the delivery operating model by leading the transition from a monolith to microservices, moving the organization from infrequent, high-risk releases to 1,250+ production releases per year.
• Made release engineering a first-class leadership concern, establishing clear standards for CI/CD, testing, and production readiness to control risk as velocity increased.
• Directed the adoption of Internal Developer Platform to eliminate manual release coordination, approval bottlenecks, and dependency on release-day heroics.
• Removed structural bottlenecks across engineering, QA, and operations, replacing ad-hoc coordination with automated workflows and clear ownership boundaries.
• Chose sustainability over heroics, standardizing and automating release practices to reduce after-hours work, stabilize on-call expectations, and lower cognitive load for teams.
• Reoriented engineering capacity toward higher-value product and platform work by systematically eliminating operational toil through automation and operating discipline.

May 2010 – Aug 2014 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Directed global testing teams for Commercial and Corporate Investment Banking products, overseeing complex release cycles and cross-functional dependencies.
• Achieved near-zero defect releases and sustained 90% automation coverage for three consecutive years, improving delivery confidence and reducing risk across business-critical applications.
• Planned and executed large-scale system integration, regression, and UAT cycles, ensuring seamless delivery across distributed teams.
• Introduced automation frameworks that modernized testing practices and enhanced efficiency enterprise-wide.

Jan 2008 – May 2010 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Increased automation test coverage to 70%, significantly reducing manual testing overhead and accelerating release readiness.

Sep 2005 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Designed statistical test runs to measure and analyze QA process performance
• Performed automated compatibility testing on various desktop and web applications

May 2003 – Sep 2005 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• -Identified key elements and simulated a manufacturing process flow, and developed an AI application to interface semiconductor manufacturing process with C# .NET—to enhance productivity and cut machine idle time.