Principal Consultant | Systems & Data Architecture at Zag Consulting Group (2024 – Present)
Provide executive technology advisory and transformation leadership to a large enterprise client, focusing on enterprise operations, systems modernization, security, data architecture, automation, and operational performance.
- Advise technology and business leadership on systems architecture, operational risk, security controls, and technology priorities.
- Lead remediation of complex production, application, integration, and data issues across business-critical systems.
- Strengthen service reliability, identity and endpoint governance, incident response, and operational controls.
- Develop automation and process improvements that reduce manual effort, improve data quality, and increase operational efficiency.
- Support enterprise application modernization, systems integration, data migration, and optimization across legacy and cloud platforms.
Chief Technology Officer at Counsel Press Inc. (now Proceed Legal) (2019 – 2024)
Owned technology strategy, budget, teams, and delivery for a national legal services firm, with accountability for core platforms, engineering, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and business outcomes.
- Led design and integration of custom CRM and ERP platforms, modernizing core operational systems and improving reporting, workflow, and data quality across the business.
- Directed legacy-to-cloud migration onto virtualized AWS and remote-datacenter infrastructure, reducing physical hardware cost ~40% while strengthening resiliency and disaster-recovery posture.
- Led end-to-end technical due diligence on acquisition targets — assessing architecture, data integrity, cybersecurity posture, and integration complexity to quantify risk and valuation impact.
- Built machine-learning automation for repetitive processing workflows, cutting processing time 30%+ and redirecting capacity to higher-value work.
- Guided technology through a private-equity acquisition, realigning roadmap and priorities to new ownership objectives and leading change across technology and business teams.
Vice President of Technology at Counsel Press Inc. (now Proceed Legal) (2013 – 2019)
- Led phased process-improvement, consolidation, and virtualization initiatives across the IT estate, sequencing delivery to limit business disruption.
- Rationalized redundant systems and vendor contracts, cutting overhead and sharpening operational focus.
- Delivered real-time web dashboards for sales, finance, and operations, embedding data-driven decision-making into daily workflows.
- Owned IT budgeting, staffing, and reporting; served as strategic liaison across business units.
Information Technology Director at Counsel Press Inc. (now Proceed Legal) (2006 – 2012)
- Designed and deployed a custom web-based CRM/ERP that became the company’s operational backbone, owning the platform end to end from architecture through enterprise rollout.
- Architected and standardized hardware, software, networking, and connectivity across nationwide offices, establishing a secure national WAN and scalable technology foundation.
- Consolidated infrastructure, reduced software licensing costs 50%, and implemented redundancy across storage, web, email, and database services to improve reliability and business continuity.
WebLogic Systems Administrator / Project Manager at Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (DOE) (2003 – 2006)
Built and operated clustered WebLogic application infrastructure for a national DOE research laboratory, including security, SSL, proxy servers, networking, and databases.
- Delivered the lab’s first WebLogic clustered architecture (proxy front-end to clustered back-end over SSL).
- Owned departmental systems and a $250K budget; built custom uptime/metrics monitoring and managed multiple concurrent projects.
