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SYSTEMS ENGINEER · INNOVATOR · OPERATOR
LOG_ENTRY · SUMMARY
Thirty years shipping software across telecom, ad-tech, and finance. Four granted patents. Currently focused on AI systems and what they do to team architecture. Comfortable as IC, architect, or org-level operator.
YRS_ACTIVE30
PATENTS02
COMPANIES05
ORGS_LED80+ ENG
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Experience.

01NOW
RANGE
2025 — PRESENT
DUR
1y
Vanguard
Senior Software Tech Lead
  • Helped technically lead the enterprise agentic platform team, architecting and scaling the foundational infrastructure that enables AI agent deployment across all business units.
  • Served as the technical AI advisor for Corporate Systems, defining the strategy and tooling that transformed how teams approach process development — shifting from traditional automation to AI-driven design.
  • Worked with business clients across every vertical to assess existing workflows, identify high-impact opportunities for AI integration, and guide the transition to AI-first operating models.
02
RANGE
2023 — 2025
DUR
2y
Wells Fargo Bank
Vice President of Data Analytics

Led data engineering organization delivering analytics solutions to 300,000+ users globally.

  • Onboarded and trained teams on an enterprise-wide data platform with AI interoperability.
  • Mentored junior engineers, establishing knowledge-sharing programs and fostering skill development across teams.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional departments to align data strategies with enterprise business goals.
  • Enabled automation in enterprise risk and compliance reporting.
03
RANGE
2021 — 2023
DUR
2y
Red Ventures
Senior Director of Engineering
  • I retrofitted the Call Center technologies helping migrate to a new platform and re-architected aspects of the stack. Doing so saved 500K+ and allowed us to remove millions of telephone numbers. This architecting also allowed us to reduce the size of the team and operationalize the platform.

  • I created a shared services team. This team created a new federated API layer to connect multiple systems. We designed and developed a Neo4J based system for determining what services are available at a specific geo location. We were able to make a direct 2M+ direct impact in < 5 months from scratch.

04
RANGE
2005 — 2021
DUR
16y
Comcast
Senior Drector of Project Engineering

In this role, I developed and evangelized a serverless strategy. We were in the midst of needing to re-write some legacy systems and my team was tasked to create the new "go-to" architecture. We developed tools and serverless patters that would act as guides for teams to break apart monoliths into smaller serverless micro-services. As part of this, I needed to help garner trust in the new direction and build faith in the architecture. The success of this is seen through the promotion of our strategies by AWS, we have been featured at re:Invent 2017 and numerous other AWS events.

Director of Project Engineering

In this role, I was asked to create metrics and data awareness for teams. We did this by creating the M.A.D team (Machine Learning, Analytics, and Data Gathering). This team led the separation, recording, and pipelines for Metrics and Business Events inside of the Comcast eCommerce ecosystem. We were able to create a robust system at AWS that allowed all applications to push data to a stream and we then consumed and moved the data to different places, this fueled dashboards, KPI's and a better understanding of our processes and want might be wrong with them. I mentored leaders and this team still exists and is doing great things in the ML/AI spaces

Director, Shared Services Produce Development

In this role i lead the COAME (Customer Owned And Maintained Equipment) engineering and product efforts, this included Xfinity TV on Xbox, Samsung Smart TV, Apple TV, Roku and more. I was responsible for the product management as well as the technical leadership of the backend systems we built. Aspects of this ecosystem were: API's for the devices, Backoffice services, Editorial and Promotional services, Traffic Routing/Shaping and Metrics/Reporting. These were highly revered systems that we demoed at CES, NAB and other tradeshows. Due to some of the technical limitations of the devices we created very robust systems to handle the data and flows. Some of these led to patents i created.

Senior Product Manager

I was the Product Manager responsible for our syndication products. This involved business development with entertainment properties in San Fran and Los Angeles. We created syndicated products like DVR from any website, DVR from a billboard/poster QRCODE, Sharing of local entertainment guide information, see what's on your DVR, etc. My role merged together the Engineering teams with Product and Business Development into one solution.

Senior Software Engineer

As a Sr Engineer, I was part of a multi-person R&D team. We were focused on new technology and how to bring benefits to the consumer with the vast amount of broadband available to the home. Some of the items we focused on were: Download Management, Media Consumption, Online Tools, Virus Protection, Speed Boosting. Many of these seed projects were turned into full businesses under the Comcast umbrella. I was also used as a consultant by the Comcast Office of the CTO as new products and ideas were pitched to Comcast.

05
RANGE
2003 — 2005
DUR
2y
Cox Communications
Senior Engineer

I was responsible for helping an emerging development team to grow. We were tasked with creating applications all over the Regional office area. This included applications for Call Center, Quality Control, Cable Serviceability and Project Management. This role involved working with many different people and backgrounds. Since we did not fully utilize a project management organization we had to handle some of those roles within the team. Agile methodologies were not fully adopted yet but I helped apply some of the methodologies inside of the small ream environment.

COMPETENCY MATRIX0x10
/ AI / ML
LLM orchestration & evals95%
RAG & agent systems90%
Classical ML / scoring82%
Applied research translation88%
/ SYSTEMS
Distributed systems94%
Event-driven architecture92%
Platform engineering90%
Observability & SRE85%
/ LEADERSHIP
Staff / principal IC95%
Engineering org design90%
Exec briefing & strategy88%
Hiring & performance92%
/ STACK
Python, Go, TypeScript92%
Kubernetes, AWS, Kafka88%
Postgres, Redshift, Snowflake85%
C, C++, Java (legacy)78%
PATENTS · GRANTED0x11
201801318972018 · GRANTED
Optically Readable Codes in a Content Delivery System
201400408242012 · GRANTED
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DATA NAVIGATION
EDUCATION0x12
1996
OCEAN SHORES HIGH SCHOOL
General Education
1998
PALOMAR COLLEGE
Arcitecture
2023 — present
SELF-DIRECTED
Applied ML, evals, LLM systems (ongoing)
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