Experience

Executive Perspective

Executive leadership is the ability to align people, technology, governance, and investment decisions around organizational priorities. Across nonprofit, higher education, managed services, federal cloud, and enterprise consulting environments, I have been entrusted to stabilize complex operations, shape strategy, develop teams, and translate technical realities into practical executive decisions.

Core Leadership Competencies

• Enterprise strategy and roadmap development
• Organizational transformation
• Executive and board communication
• Technology investment and budget stewardship
• Program governance
• Vendor and stakeholder leadership
• Change leadership
• Workforce development

Representative Transformations

• Built an enterprise technology organization and six-year strategic roadmap at RECAP.
• Directed geographically distributed infrastructure teams across a multi-client enterprise portfolio at CGI.
• Managed approximately $600K in annual cloud assessment and compliance-related expenditures at CGI Federal.
• Led the launch and growth of a regional HMIS collaborative spanning multiple agencies and programs.
• Managed institutional systems operations and technical staff development at Mount Saint Mary College.

Organizational Impact

The recurring outcome is stronger organizational capability: clearer governance, better investment decisions, more resilient operations, improved accountability, and technology programs that remain sustainable after the initial transformation.

Executive Perspective

Cybersecurity leadership requires more than control implementation. It requires translating risk into decisions, creating governance that engineering teams can operate, and maintaining confidence among executives, regulators, assessors, and mission stakeholders.

Core Leadership Competencies

• FedRAMP and NIST authorization governance
• Enterprise risk translation
• Policy and SSP architecture
• Audit and assessment leadership
• Security impact analysis
• Incident and vulnerability governance
• Identity and access governance
• Privacy and regulated-data controls

Representative Transformations

• Sustained a federal IaaS cloud through eight consecutive ATO renewals.
• Led the transition from NIST SP 800-53 Revision 4 to Revision 5.
• Authored governance documentation for regulated IaaS environments and acquired SaaS platforms.
• Established HIPAA, privacy, network-security, and policy foundations at RECAP.
• Designed centralized security baselines and Group Policy enforcement at Mount Saint Mary College.
• Supported SOC 1 and SOC 2 audit activities within CGI managed services.

Organizational Impact

These efforts reduced findings, improved audit predictability, strengthened control ownership, and enabled modernization without sacrificing authorization, service continuity, or stakeholder trust.

Executive Perspective

Infrastructure transformation is most valuable when it improves resilience, scalability, security, and the operating model at the same time. My work spans cloud governance, data-center transformation, virtualization, identity modernization, network architecture, high availability, and disaster recovery.

Core Leadership Competencies

• Cloud platform governance
• Enterprise infrastructure modernization
• Virtualization and platform standardization
• High-availability engineering
• Identity and directory architecture
• Network and security architecture
• Disaster recovery and business continuity
• Infrastructure lifecycle planning

Representative Transformations

• Guided modernization within a continuously authorized federal cloud platform.
• Led Windows and clustering work across IBM enterprise transformation programs.
• Designed and implemented the first integrated multi-site infrastructure at RECAP.
• Led the core conversion from a Linux/Samba backbone to Windows and Exchange at Mount Saint Mary College.
• Virtualized Active Directory and reduced federal managed-hosting recovery time from more than five days to under 48 hours.

Organizational Impact

The result has consistently been more resilient, supportable, standardized, and scalable platforms with lower operational risk and stronger continuity for mission-critical services.

Executive Perspective

Operational excellence is created through disciplined service delivery, proactive problem prevention, clear accountability, and repeatable practices—not through constant escalation. I focus on building operating environments that can sustain high availability while continuing to improve.

Core Leadership Competencies

• Service delivery leadership
• High-availability operations
• Incident, problem, and change governance
• SLA and performance management
• Proactive monitoring and prevention
• Resource and capacity coordination
• Audit-ready operational practices
• Distributed team leadership

Representative Transformations

• Eliminated recurring unplanned downtime by shifting CGI operations from reactive response to proactive monitoring.
• Standardized service delivery across geographically distributed infrastructure teams.
• Reduced disaster-recovery exposure from more than five days to under 48 hours.
• Created ticketing, asset, monitoring, and service-record practices at RECAP and Mount Saint Mary College.
• Developed build checklists, health checks, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer practices at IBM.

Organizational Impact

These operating-model improvements increased reliability, reduced risk, improved scalability, and redirected staff capacity from recurring firefighting toward strategic modernization.

Executive Perspective

Executive technology leadership is stronger when it is grounded in real architectural and engineering depth. My technical foundation enables me to evaluate complex proposals, challenge assumptions, diagnose high-consequence failures, and connect strategic decisions to the practical realities of implementation.

Core Leadership Competencies

• Enterprise architecture
• Windows and VMware engineering
• High-availability clustering
• Active Directory and Group Policy
• Network, firewall, SAN, and DNS dependencies
• Automation and scripting
• Platform hardening and configuration standards
• Technical escalation and root-cause analysis

Representative Transformations

• Designed and executed an in-place recovery of a live production SQL Stretch Cluster after prior vendor escalations failed.
• Designed Windows cluster standards, checklists, firewall requirements, SAN requests, and knowledge-transfer materials at IBM.
• Built ESXi hosts, blade chassis, vCenter configurations, and repeatable VMware build practices.
• Designed Active Directory, Exchange, VLAN, VPN, PKI, and storage architectures across RECAP and Mount Saint Mary College.
• Modified scripts and automated health-check reporting against enterprise security baselines.

Organizational Impact

This depth supports better executive judgment, faster risk evaluation, credible technical leadership, and stronger alignment between architecture, governance, operations, and business outcomes.

Executive Perspective

Transformation is sustainable only when people understand the purpose, the operating model, and the skills required to maintain it. I treat communication, knowledge transfer, and workforce development as core elements of technology leadership.

Core Leadership Competencies

• Executive and technical communication
• Security awareness and user education
• Technical mentoring
• Knowledge transfer and runbook development
• Certification and workforce development
• Stakeholder training
• Change adoption
• Documentation and instructional design

Representative Transformations

• Delivered annual federal cloud security training and tracked completion.
• Trained global support teams on Windows clustering, stretch clustering, and troubleshooting at IBM.
• Achieved full CompTIA A+ and Lenovo technician certification across the Mount Saint Mary College systems team.
• Taught VMware and Linux within CGI service delivery teams and supported certification attainment.
• Created an employee training classroom and recurring software education program at RECAP.

Organizational Impact

The result is greater internal capability, reduced dependence on external support, stronger adoption, more consistent operations, and teams better prepared to own the environments they support.

Executive Perspective

My professional foundation combines technical curiosity, disciplined problem solving, financial awareness, service orientation, and a willingness to learn whatever is necessary to solve the problem in front of the organization.

Core Leadership Competencies

• Continuous learning
• Cross-functional adaptability
• Financial and business awareness
• Mission alignment
• Hands-on credibility
• Ethical stewardship
• Resilience and persistence
• Community and service orientation

Representative Transformations

• Built a career spanning accounting, finance, infrastructure, security, governance, cloud, and AI.
• Completed graduate education in computer science and business administration alongside two business-focused bachelor’s degrees.
• Rapidly acquired web and application development skills when nonprofit budgets could not support commercial solutions.
• Applied financial analysis, procurement strategy, and vendor negotiation to technology investment decisions.
• Supported workforce and community development through training, mentoring, and youth technology initiatives.

Organizational Impact

This foundation shapes how I lead: understand the mission, learn the environment deeply, communicate clearly, act responsibly, and leave the organization more capable, resilient, and self-sufficient.