Executive Summary

• Engineering Leadership Scope: Director-level software leader with 25+ years of overall technical experience and 13+ years specializing in cloud platforms, security compliance, large-scale data processing, and multi-cloud FinOps.
• AI & Developer Velocity: Active practitioner driving team adoption of AI-assisted engineering workflows (Node.js/Next.js, LLMs, Graph-backed tooling) to accelerate software delivery and developer output.
• Data & FinOps Impact: Proven track record architecting enterprise systems handling $1 Million to $2 Million+ in monthly cloud spend and processing telemetry for 500+ customer environments.
• People & Process Strategy: Experienced managing 10+ cross-functional direct reports (US & offshore India), establishing engineering progression frameworks, and enforcing audit-ready CI/CD pipelines (HITRUST, SOC 2).

Core Competencies

• Leadership & Target Roles: Director of Engineering, Software Development Leadership, Engineering Manager, Global Team Leadership (10+ Directs, Offshore India), Career Progression Matrices.
• AI Integration & Productivity: AI-Assisted Workflows, Prompt Engineering & Vibe Coding, LLM Applet Integration, Graph-Backed Telemetry, Developer Velocity.
• Cloud Architecture & FinOps: AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes (K8s), Serverless (AWS Lambda), Multi-Cloud Cost Analytics, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Microservices.
• Data Systems & Processing: Large-Scale Data Pipelines, High-Throughput Data Processing, SQL / Relational Databases, Graph Databases, Enterprise Reporting Infrastructure.
• Languages & Frameworks: C# / .NET, TypeScript / Node.js / Next.js, Go, SQL, GraphQL, Python (proficient building with or without AI assistance).
• Delivery & Compliance: Automated CI/CD Pipelines, TDD, Feature-Flagging & Soft Launches, HITRUST / SOC 2 / HIPAA Audit Readiness.

Professional Experience

• 150+ Safeguards Migrated: Orchestrated the cross-cloud migration of 150+ AWS safeguards onto a next-gen engine (Go, Python, K8s) monitoring millions of resources across 500+ customer accounts for HIPAA, HITRUST, and SOC 2 compliance.
• AI Tooling & Applet Development: Built custom operational tools using Node.js/Next.js and GraphQL, including a Safeguard Explorer for data telemetry and an automated Deployment Manager for audit verification and process enforcement.
• AI Workflow Adoption: Pioneered team adoption of AI-assisted engineering patterns, establishing internal guidelines for prompt engineering, LLM integration, and developer velocity.
• 11 Direct Reports Managed: Directed multi-disciplinary teams across the US and India, overseeing performance reviews, regular 1-on-1s, and career progression frameworks.
• Zero-Downtime Releases: Standardized departmental feature-flagging and soft-launch frameworks, enabling live production validation without impacting customer compliance scores.

• $1M to $2M+ Monthly Spend Processed: Architected ClearDATA’s multi-cloud billing engine, automating custom data pipelines to integrate spend analytics across NetSuite, Zuora, Salesforce, and Slack.
• Dual IC / Management Role: Led core billing and foundational platform teams while maintaining hands-on contribution across US and India engineering personnel.
• Immutable Audit Tracking: Engineered a consolidated software delivery tracking pipeline giving stakeholders pre-release visibility while generating compliance logs for annual audits.
• Process Standardization: Authored and maintained internal product architecture documentation across platform and assessment engineering teams.

• SaaS Portal Architecture: Designed and deployed ClearDATA’s foundational customer portal (.NET/C#) and primary SaaS integrations on the AWS Marketplace.
• Serverless Billing Inception: Built the company’s original cloud usage billing engine using AWS Lambda and Redshift data warehouses.
• Technical Mentorship: Established department-wide coding standards, established initial TDD practices, and mentored junior-to-senior engineers.

• Millions of Daily Records: Engineered high-throughput data processing engines ingesting and parsing millions of daily input records against enterprise SQL database clusters.
• CI/CD Infrastructure: Deployed continuous integration server pipelines and mentored staff on Agile software development and data design.
• Architecture Council: Co-founded the departmental Architecture Review Board to establish organizational development and data governance standards.

• Apollo Group (2008–2012) | Senior Software Engineer & Solutions Architect — Architectural Council across 900+ engineers; SOA activity streams.
• Solid State Networks (2006–2008) | Senior Developer & Team Lead — Data warehousing (SSIS/SSAS cubes), analytics engines, CI pipelines.
• Ethix Media & Intrasight Technologies (2001–2006) | Senior Developer — Enterprise .NET/C# web apps and SQL Server architecture.
• KPMG Consulting (2000–2001) | Manager, Microsoft Practice — Managed e-business teams delivering data-driven solutions.
• quepasa.com inc. (1998–2000) | Director of Software Development — Managed 10 developers and core server/database infrastructure.
• United States Army (1990–1993) | Infantryman — Army Achievement Medal & Expert Infantryman Badge.

Certifications & Education

• Historical Certifications: Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Certified Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Developer – Associate, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD for .NET), MCSE. (Open to acquiring active re-certifications as required).
• Education: Arizona State University & Phoenix College