Hands-on Technology Executive | Platform Architecture, Engineering & Operational Recovery
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Hands-on technology executive and principal architect with 20+ years designing, stabilizing, and scaling business-critical platforms. Trusted to enter fragmented or underperforming environments, establish ownership, recover production systems, and deliver under fixed deadlines. Leads across software engineering, hybrid cloud architecture, enterprise integrations, cybersecurity, QA/DevOps, and high-risk operational cutovers.
Partners directly with founders, boards, and operators while remaining technically engaged in architecture, code quality, releases, and incidents. Former U.S.
Ranger known for calm execution, high standards, and accountability under pressure.
CTIO & Principal Consultant - Voss Alan, LLC - Texas
(2022-04)
Hands-on technology, architecture, engineering, and transformation engagements. Partner with founders and executives to translate business objectives into architecture, product/technology roadmaps, operating models, delivery plans, governance, and secure production systems. Remain directly engaged in technical discovery, engineering review, integrations, release readiness, and recovery.
Design and deliver software platforms, backend services, APIs, enterprise integrations, data workflows, AI-enabled automation, and hybrid infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and on-premises environments. Work in regulated and security-sensitive settings (healthcare workflows, secure communications, identity/access, compliance, cybersecurity, data governance, operational resilience). Recover underperforming initiatives by mapping codebases, infrastructure, data flows, vendors, ownership, QA, security, and deployment dependencies; establish practical modernization plans without unnecessary rewrites.
Representative work includes healthcare Salesforce + HIPAA modernization, secure communications architecture, enterprise integrations, technical due diligence, and delivery recovery.
Chief Technology Officer - Flite Golf & Entertainment / Atomic Golf - Las Vegas, NV
(2023-08 - 2024-09)
$100M+ venue technology recovery and platform ownership. Re-engaged as Pathfinder during major technology reset. Mapped the fragmented organization, proposed CTO-led operating model, and was selected to lead platform recovery and technology delivery for the $100M+ Atomic Golf venue.
Rebuilt engineering team and delivery structure. Re-engineered core platforms under fixed launch deadline: reservations, payments, venue management, customer/operational applications, APIs, game & tracking integrations, ball-dispensing workflows, POS, ticketing, ERP, and data services. Directed 100+ contractors, vendors, staff, and operational contributors.
Established ownership, Jira-based delivery governance, disciplined pull requests, release controls, UAT, vendor accountability, and source-code/cloud-access protections. Stabilized architecture, rebuilt critical APIs and single-source-of-truth services, removed 200,000+ lines of redundant code, and collapsed deployment cycles from hours to ~5 minutes. Designed and operated hybrid Azure / AWS / Azure Stack / on-premises architecture (SQL Server, containers, data lakes, blob storage, APIs, gateways).
Personally led production diagnostics, telemetry, co
Principal Architect & Lead Full Stack Engineer - Flite Golf & Entertainment
(2022-07 - 2022-10)
Hands-on principal architect supporting shared golf and venue-management platform.
Full Stack Engineer II - Brink's Home Security
(2021-03 - 2022-07)
Enterprise financial, asset, sales, commission, and field-operations systems.
Applications Developer & QA Lead - UPS
(2020-01 - 2021-03)
Global shipping platforms used by millions of customers.
Director of Strategic IT & Engineering - Voss Alan Consulting
(2018-01 - 2019-12)
Enterprise infrastructure, hybrid-cloud, networking, security, and large physical/logical migrations with zero operational downtime.
RF & Communications Engineer - BearCom
(2015-01 - 2018-12)
Mission-critical RF, wireless, networking, and communications infrastructure for airports, public safety, government, pharma, enterprise, and large public events.
Integrated Logistics Support Manager - ManTech International
(2010-01 - 2014-12)
Led ~35 personnel supporting Army Materiel Command readiness across $30M+ equipment and ~1,000-vehicle fleet with zero losses. Maintained 90–98% operational readiness.
C4ISR Field Engineer & Military Analyst - Cubic Corporation
(2008-01 - 2009-12)
Deployed and maintained tactical training-range, communications, and C4ISR systems supporting joint-force exercises across multiple theaters.
Airborne Ranger & Platoon Sergeant - U.S. Army
(1997-01 - 2008-12)
Led 42-person airborne infantry element across five combat deployments. Maintained 100% accountability for $7.5M+ in equipment with zero loss. High-consequence leadership under pressure.