Experienced people and technical leader with over 18 years of industry experience across a wide range of companies and environments. Background in working with both established and breakthrough technologies, across industry verticals and company sizes ranging from IOT to Medtech and from Startup to Fortune 100. Experienced engineering who remains hands-on ready to jump into the fray  

VP, Professional Services Rhythmic Technologies. February 2024 - Present

• Team lead and chief technical architect for multiple engagements planning & implementing best-practices cloud infrastructure for clients, spanning engagements in AWS, OCI, and Azure.

Founder & Chief Architect Better Than Services. November 2022 - February 2024

• Founder of Better Than Services, a new type of consulting firm.
• Delivery of initial technical engagemnets with Python, AWS, Terraform and Elasticsearch.
• Developed infrastructure automation tools in Golang, Python and Shell
• Stood up multiple programatic Elasticsearch clusters, and managed CI/CD pipeline to cover deployment story.
• Lead team architecting a migration of legacy infrastructure to AWS

Director Ackolyte Consulting. June 2022 - November 2022

• Came on board on as the first employee of Ackolyte Consulting to build the delivery team & process from the ground up.
• Hired and lead an all-star delivery team that excelled in technical ability and client satisfaction.
• Directly responsible for P&L through aligning engineering talent to client engagements.
• Engagement lifecycle management through pre-sales, team modeling, staffing,management of client relations and delivery.
• Project delivery in Terraform, AWS, Azure, ArgoCD and Jenkins.

Practice Director Triumph Tech. March 2022 - May 2022

• Lead major AWS partner delivery team of approximately 100 engineers across multiple disciplines.
• Managed relationship between Sales & Delivery, revamping the handover process increasing customer satisfaction with engagement kickoffs, operations, and outcomes.
• Revamped hiring process, increasing corporate transparency and employee retention, as well as lowering turnover.
• Lead client relations efforts on large engagements.
• Project delivery in Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, Stable Diffusion

Service Delivery Manager Caylent. May 2021 - February 2022

• Building and managing platform engineering teams from the ground up across multiple infrastructure and software engagements in a diverse set of verticals including Real Estate, Healthcare and Logistics.
• Developed customer solutions focusing on Kubernetes, AWS, and Blockchain.
• Created and standardized hiring, interviewing, pre-sales, technical, and staffing standards leading to an improved employee screening and onboarding process.
• Standardized client relations practices leading to a significant uptick in client satisfaction with engagement outcomes
• Project delivery in Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes

Solution Principal, Slalom. July 2019 - May 2021

• Building, leading and managing a high-performance cross-functional distributed delivery team across multiple software and infrastructure engagements for major Fortune 100 and fortune 500 clients
• Engagement lifecycle management through pre-sales, team modeling, and staffing.
• Developing offerings and capabilities focusing on Kubernetes, AWS, MLOps, Blockchain, Kubernetes

Solution Architect, Slalom. May 2017 - July 2019

• Architecture for Cloud & DevOPs client solutions with a focus on AWS, Terraform, and Docker.
• Lead Cross-functional teams of Cloud, Developer and QA engineers.
• Managing high-performing technical teams
• Conference presence organizer & lead

DevOps Engineer, Fuze. July 2015 - May 2017

• Built out existing infrastructure, doubling customer capacity.
• Built automation tools for system deployment and management, automated bringing up of server stacks.
• Managed the monitoring solution and built out analytics platform to allow the infrastructure team to understand platform challenges.
• Embedded within core development team working on continuous deployment of stack components.

IT Manager, Fuze. July 2014-July 2015

• Support of the entire corporate IT infrastructure as the company grew from 200 to over 500 users
• Built out the department and team.
• Managed the creation on offboarding/onboarding processes for IT.
• Built out new support tools in Jira and Confluence.

Technical co-founder, Friending Group. September 2013 - May 2014

• Technical product development building an IOT system.
• Worked on the initial prototype, then closely with dedicated development team to deliver a functional product within four months.
• Built out automated testing infrastructure in AWS.

Support Manager, Temperature@lert. April 2012 - August 2013

• Management of all customer & internal support operations.
• Built tools and processes to integrate customer feedback into current development cycle.
• Hardware & Software development & testing of an embedded Linux-based IOT device

 Core Technologies: Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, Chef, Ansible, Git, ELK, Graphite, MySQL, nginx, AD, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Splunk, Graphite, InfluxDB

 Programming and scripting languages: Golang, Bash, Python, Ruby.    

 Process: DevOps, Agile

Harvard University - BA History.