Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos

• Founded fractional CTO consultancy providing strategic technology leadership to growth-stage companies and technical due diligence services to investors
• Product Stabilization: Delivered production stabilization for cross-platform AR application (iOS/Android) in
• Unity/C#. Hands-on development that enabled client's contract renewal with their end customer.
• Systems Integration (ongoing): Leading technology implementation for homebuilder client, integrating Sage Intacct, Smartsheet, and CRM systems.
• Strategic Advisory: Guided pre-seed founder from no MVP to 100 paying customers in 3 weeks by
• recommending no-code platform over costly React/cloud architecture, enabling sustainable bootstrap growth.
• AI Strategy: Applying MS in Artificial Intelligence (UT Austin, in progress) to provide practical AI adoption
• guidance and ML infrastructure design.

Aug 2022 – Jun 2025 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Remote

• Led technology transformation that turned $4-5M annual losses into profitability on $24M revenue through strategic system stabilization, architectural innovation, and customer retention initiatives.
• Crisis Leadership & Contract Retention: Directed emergency rewrite of failing system and delivered camera integration platform, saving $24M multi-year contract and delivering critical feature 70% faster than estimated (2 months, 1 engineer vs. 6 months, 5 engineers)
• Product Stabilization & Revenue Impact: Led Xamarin/Android app rehabilitation improving stability significantly and unblocking millions in revenue
• AI Strategy & Team Leadership: Directed AI tooling implementation while establishing fully distributed engineering team across multiple time zones with Growth-Oriented, High Trust culture
• Architecture & Process Innovation: Directed resilient C#/Linux re-architecture with service-oriented design and automated SDLC processes including remote hardware access.

Jan 2022 – Aug 2022 · 7 mos

• Architected next-generation distributed platform for real estate investment technology
• AWS Architecture: Designed distributed architecture maximizing team delivery independence with scalability and disaster recovery
• Strategic Alignment: Ensured architectural decisions aligned with business objectives and organizational goals, facilitating cross-functional collaboration and learning initiatives
• Team Building: Managed engineering team growth through structured hiring processes and mentorship programs
• Key Technologies: AWS, distributed systems, microservices architecture

Jul 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Cincinnati, OH

• Directed multiple engineering teams across business lines for retail analytics giant
• Multi-Team Leadership: Directed engineering teams across multiple business lines, coaching in design patterns and architectural principles
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partnered with business leaders to deliver value-driven solutions, evaluated business needs for optimal team composition, and drove project allocation decisions
• Talent Development: Created leadership curriculum for engineer advancement to management and director
• levels. Directly coached multiple team members into team lead, manager, and director roles.
• Innovation Programs: Founded an innovation program that generated 12 shipped improvements.
• Cross-company hackathon with Kroger exceeded participation expectations and produced ideas that replaced existing roadmap items.
• Enterprise Initiatives: Led cross-cutting initiatives requiring organization-wide collaboration to improve program and company efficiency across multiple domains
• Key Technologies: Enterprise-scale systems, various programming languages and frameworks

Oct 2017 – Jul 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Portland, Or

• Spearheaded multi-team technology initiatives and educational program development
• Dual-Team Leadership: Managed two cross-functional teams totaling 14 members - a client-facing delivery team (9 members: developers, SDETs, PM) and an internal web platform team (5 members: developers, BA, PM)
• Technical Excellence: Promoted software development best practices including SOLID principles, design patterns, code reviews, unit testing, and CI/CD implementation
• Solution Architecture: Architected company website in AWS ensuring responsiveness, high availability, fault tolerance, and security
• Curriculum Development: Proposed, designed, and led creation of comprehensive Software Engineering curriculum teaching fundamentals of software engineering and system architecture to junior and senior developers
• Key Technologies: AWS, various development frameworks, educational curriculum design

Jun 2016 – Oct 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Beaverton, OR

• Spearheaded platform modernization and payment system architecture
• Cost Optimization: Led platform redesign initiatives delivering significant cost savings through architectural improvements and MVP approaches meeting tight deadlines
• Technical Modernization: Modernized application stack toward microservices and highly available architectures, performed Azure migration analysis and proof-of-concept implementations
• Project Leadership: Served as technical lead on call center in-house migration, re-architecting payment service platform using C#/WebAPI and dependency injection principles
• Team Development: Mentored senior and junior engineers in SOLID principles, dependency injection, and CI/CD practices
• Documentation & Communication: Created comprehensive system architecture documentation and participated in technical reviews with investment stakeholders
• Key Technologies: C#, JavaScript, Angular, WebAPI, Azure, microservices architecture

Jul 2013 – Jun 2016 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Lake Oswego, OR.

• Performance Optimization & Development Process Innovation
• Big Data Analytics: Applied predictive modeling techniques to resolve BizTalk performance issues, demonstrating data-driven problem-solving capabilities
• DevOps Innovation: Revolutionized database deployment processes using .NET database project DacPac files with deployment filters to control artifact deployment based on simple installer rules, achieving 80%+ reduction in developer effort for database upgrades
• UI Modernization: Contributed to Angular 2 UI rewrite, creating animated sliding drawer components with custom JavaScript ease-out algorithms
• Testing Infrastructure: Designed and documented phased controller refactoring approach enabling comprehensive unit testing through repository and service locator patterns, successfully implemented allowing developers to easily build unit tests using MOQ to mock repositories
• Build Optimization: Re-wrote developer desktop MSBuild scripts to support parallel builds and created custom C# build tasks, reducing desktop and server build times by 60% to support gated check-ins and improve developer productivity
• Continuous Delivery: Led effort to re-write and improve product installers in C# using task-based approach with simple homegrown engine, implemented automated application deployment package construction and continuous testing, promoted continuous delivery principles across development and management teams
• Key Technologies: Angular 2, TypeScript, .NET, MSBuild, C#, MOQ, SSRS, CI/CD tools

Feb 2003 – Jul 2013 · 10 yrs 5 mos · Bonneville Power Administration

• Innovation: Architected and implemented more efficient bond repayment simulation system using C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript/jQuery with MS-SQL database and SYBASE Anywhere integration. Created algorithm that saved organization tens of millions annually
• Legacy System Modernization: Led reverse engineering and conversion of municipal bond repayment simulation program originally written in APL, converting to C#/ASP.NET, JavaScript and AJAX using MS-SQL database with SYBASE Anywhere integration
• Automation & Efficiency: Constructed Windows service in C# providing admins ability to execute arbitrary commands for starting and stopping non-service based systems (currently used to support PeopleSoft), reducing maintenance overhead enabling headcount reduction and eliminating off-hours work for certain jobs
• Enterprise Architecture: Designed secure, fault-tolerant B2B transaction processing and automation platform using BPA-specified scheduling system to execute C# command line programs communicating with internal and external web services, with ASP.NET/C# external interface, MS-SQL backend, and SSRS reporting
• Infrastructure Tools: Created Active Directory and WMI query, performance and network quality measurement tools in C# and VB.NET used to monitor the configuration of every machine in the enterprise
• Process Improvement: Served as Technical Lead for CMDB implementation including requirements collection, project scoping, COTS package analysis, and ensuring technical and cyber security questions were answered. Consulted on quality control and change management processes, advised on Subversion repository implementation for enterprise version control
• Key Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, PERL, PHP, XML, XSLT, Oracle, MS-SQL, SSRS, WMI, Active Directory, VB.NET

Sep 2000 – Dec 2001 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Pioneer internet company and web browser developer during the early commercial internet era
• Web-Scale Systems & Personalization
• Content Management: Designed and implemented automated news feed system on Linux using C++ and PERL for automating news publishing to Netscape website using LDAP and Sybase
• Security Systems: Helped create authorization system in PERL/ePERL for internal web publishing tools
• Personalization Engine: Designed, implemented and maintained Netscape Personalization Engine plug-in and caching server on Linux in C++ for retrieving stock and financial data across the internet
• Traffic Analytics: Researched and designed web site tracking system for real-time monitoring of all web traffic and data
• Key Technologies: C++, PERL, Linux, LDAP, Sybase, web-scale systems

Aug 1996 – Sep 2000 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• E-Commerce Security & Database Systems
• Encryption Systems: Designed secure tunneling solutions for banking systems using multiple public key encryption algorithms with dynamic key rotation
• Database Architecture: Designed Oracle schemas and maintained PERL-based web applications for e-commerce platforms
• Enterprise Development: Maintained and enhanced C++ applications across OS/2, Windows NT, and AIX platforms with SYBASE database integration
• Key Technologies: C++, PERL, Oracle, SYBASE, Linux, Windows NT, AIX, encryption algorithms