Resume

Objective

Software architect and engineering leader with twenty-five years of experience taking products from conception through development and delivery.

Solutions Engineer / Architect April 2021 - Present

Primary technical lead for a large wealth management firm's top strategic initiative: end-to-end development and launch of a modernized investment advisory proposal activation system, coordinating integration and testing across 25+ teams, delivering MVP go-live on schedule.
Elevated to Solutions Engineer on recommendation from client product and architecture leadership after sustained high-velocity delivery and cross-team technical influence.
Led technical orals for a client RFP that resulted in a new contract award.
Championed Java modernization and Azure Kubernetes adoption, standing up a greenfield AKS cluster and leading Weblogic-to-cloud migration.
Developed and socialized a product technology roadmap with senior architecture and product leadership, aligning digital, product, and delivery teams.
Mentored engineers, product owners, and scrum masters. Raised code quality through review standards and improved agile processes, emphasizing AI.
Earlier in tenure, architected and led MVP delivery of a payroll modernization system for a Fortune 500 insurance client, serving as solution architect and delivery manager through production launch across multiple vendor dependencies.

Director, Software Engineering April 2018 - April 2021

Directed development of an Emmy Award-winning digital media servicing platform: 4K HDR ingestion, audio normalization, IMF support, and flexible output compositions for major OTT platform libraries.
Led agile planning and execution of studio client integrations in a high-volume operational environment.

Principal Engineer / Architect October 2015 - August 2017

Delivered an automated well-condition analysis and risk assessment system for a major oil & gas customer, adapting legacy AI into a new data pipeline for geophysical inference with explanation traces.
Built an MVP conversational agent platform for healthcare use cases. Developed crowdsourced model retraining approaches for user intent classification.

Research Project Co-PI / Computer Scientist January 2005 - October 2015

Managed development of an award-winning virtual training platform for medical education, owning architecture across NLP, virtual patient simulation, authoring tools, and intelligent assessment.
Conceived and led delivery of the Simcoach conversational agent platform for veteran mental health support.
Led technical development of an award-winning bilateral negotiation training system from design through government fielding (Army Best Trainer Modeling & Simulation Award, 2008).
Built supervised ML tooling to optimize language understanding across a large medical taxonomy using maximum entropy classifiers.

Languages: Java/Spring, Python, SQL, JavaScript/Node.js, React
Cloud & Infrastructure: AWS, Azure (AKS, landing zones), Kubernetes, Kafka, MongoDB, Linux
Process: Agile delivery leadership, PI planning, technical roadmapping, architecture governance
Expertise: Agentic computing, distributed systems, data migration & modernization, media processing, NLP/ML