Expertise

Executive Application

Aligning technology investments, architecture, and modernization priorities with long-term organizational objectives while translating complex current-state conditions into practical future-state direction.

Core Expertise

• Enterprise architecture
• Technology roadmaps
• Platform modernization
• Identity architecture
• Infrastructure lifecycle planning
• Solution evaluation
• Strategic planning
• Business and technology alignment

Demonstrated Through

• Six-year enterprise technology strategy at RECAP
• Federal cloud modernization governance at CGI Federal
• Campus core conversion at Mount Saint Mary College
• Global data-center transformation programs at IBM
• AI modernization platform architecture

Business Value

Creates coherent technology direction, reduces fragmented investment, and gives executives a practical path from current-state risk to sustainable future-state capability.

Executive Application

Establishing governance, control frameworks, and risk decision models that protect the enterprise without obstructing modernization, service delivery, or mission execution.

Core Expertise

• FedRAMP
• NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 4 and Rev. 5
• ISO/IEC 27001
• ISO/IEC 38500
• ISO/IEC 42001
• FERPA
• PCI DSS
• SOC 1 and SOC 2
• HIPAA and privacy
• SSP and policy architecture
• Incident and vulnerability governance
• Security impact analysis
• Identity and access governance

Demonstrated Through

• Eight federal authorization cycles
• Revision 5 transition
• Audit-finding and audit-cost reduction
• RECAP enterprise security architecture
• Campus policy and baseline standardization
• AI lifecycle guardrails

Business Value

Turns compliance into an operating discipline, strengthens control ownership, and enables informed risk decisions rather than annual audit-driven reactions.

Executive Application

Designing and modernizing secure, highly available platforms that support scale, resilience, operational continuity, and mission-critical performance.

Core Expertise

• Cloud platforms
• VMware
• Windows Server
• Active Directory
• High-availability clustering
• SQL stretch clusters
• Networks, firewalls, VPNs, and VLANs
• Disaster recovery
• Backup and warm-site architecture
• Capacity and lifecycle planning

Demonstrated Through

• Federal cloud platform oversight
• IBM clustering and data-center programs
• CGI Active Directory virtualization
• RECAP multi-site infrastructure modernization
• Mount Saint Mary College domain conversion

Business Value

Improves availability, recovery performance, scalability, supportability, and executive confidence in the platforms supporting critical operations.

Executive Application

Building repeatable operating models that replace reactive support with proactive, accountable, audit-ready service delivery.

Core Expertise

• ITIL practices
• Incident, problem, and change management
• SLA governance
• Monitoring and telemetry
• Escalation management
• Asset and configuration management
• Audit-ready operations
• Runbooks and quality assurance
• Distributed-team delivery

Demonstrated Through

• Elimination of unplanned downtime at CGI
• Recovery-time reduction from more than five days to under 48 hours
• Consulting dependency reduction at RECAP
• Mount Saint Mary College service-center transformation
• IBM build standards and health checks

Business Value

Reduces downtime, improves predictability, strengthens accountability, and redirects staff capacity from recurring firefighting toward strategic modernization.

Executive Application

Applying data, automation, and AI to improve decision-making, compliance, workflow, reporting, and organizational performance.

Core Expertise

• AI strategy
• AI governance
• Secure SDLC
• Data lineage
• React
• FastAPI
• PostgreSQL
• Docker
• Automation and scripting
• Reporting and evidence generation
• Workflow and application design

Demonstrated Through

• AI modernization SaaS platform
• NIST, SOC 2, and ISO control mapping
• RECAP client-data modernization
• Website and workflow development
• Mount Saint Mary College deployment automation
• IBM security-baseline reporting
• Graduate AI constraint-satisfaction Sudoku solver — interactive project

Business Value

Converts fragmented technical information into faster, explainable, and more actionable decisions while improving consistency and reducing manual effort.

Executive Application

Managing technology investment, sourcing, vendors, and operating expenditures to maximize value, reduce dependency, and support sustainable modernization.

Core Expertise

• Technology budgeting
• Capital planning
• Procurement
• Contract negotiation
• Licensing strategy
• Vendor management
• Audit expenditure management
• Cost avoidance
• Investment prioritization
• Business-case development

Demonstrated Through

• Approximately $600K in annual audit and compliance-related expenditures
• Approximately 60% external audit-cost reduction
• More than $300K in RECAP software savings
• Consulting reduction from more than 200 hours per month to approximately five
• Technology proposals and board funding decisions

Business Value

Ensures technology decisions are financially disciplined, strategically sourced, and aligned with organizational priorities rather than driven by isolated technical preferences.

Executive Application

Developing people, standards, and internal capability so transformation remains sustainable after implementation and organizations become less dependent on individual experts or outside support.

Core Expertise

• Distributed-team leadership
• Workforce development
• Mentoring
• Certification programs
• Knowledge transfer
• Executive and technical communication
• Security awareness
• Stakeholder alignment
• Change adoption
• Organizational design

Demonstrated Through

• Full CompTIA A+ and Lenovo certification across the Mount Saint Mary College systems team
• VMware and Linux staff development at CGI
• Global cluster training and knowledge transfer at IBM
• Federal cloud security education
• RECAP employee training classroom
• Internal capability replacing consultant dependency

Business Value

Leaves organizations stronger, more self-sufficient, and better prepared to sustain operational, technical, and cultural change.

Engineering Perspective

Deep technical fluency supports better executive judgment. My background spans software development, systems engineering, databases, virtualization, infrastructure, automation, and security tooling, allowing me to connect strategic decisions with implementation realities.

Programming & Development

• Python
• JavaScript
• HTML/CSS
• SQL
• Java
• Node.js
• React
• R
• Visual Basic and VBScript
• PowerShell
• Bash
• DOS and Windows batch
• WMI

Databases & Data Platforms

• PostgreSQL
• Microsoft SQL Server
• MySQL
• MongoDB
• Database design and administration
• SQL clustering
• Data migration
• Reporting and workflow databases

Cloud, Systems & Virtualization

• AWS
• Windows Server and desktop
• Linux
• macOS
• VMware ESX/ESXi
• vSphere and vCenter
• Citrix
• Docker
• FastAPI

Infrastructure & Security Engineering

• Active Directory
• Group Policy
• PKI and certificate services
• SIEM
• Firewalls, DMZs, and LAN/WAN
• VLANs and VPNs
• SAN and storage
• High-availability and stretch clustering
• Disaster recovery
• Security hardening
• Automation and baseline monitoring

Executive Value

This technical breadth enables credible architecture review, stronger vendor oversight, informed risk decisions, faster escalation leadership, and practical alignment between strategy, governance, and delivery.