Master Principal Solutions Architect at ORACLE (2026-02 – Present)
- Architect and deploy complex cloud topologies supporting Intelligence Community OCI regions utilizing OCI Compute, VCN, FastConnect, and secure infrastructure services.
- Lead technical discovery, requirements gathering, and enterprise architecture planning for classified multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.
- Design scalable reference architectures supporting high availability, disaster recovery, and secure workload migration.
- Provide technical sales leadership, opportunity reviews, customer planning sessions, and strategic resource prioritization.
- Advise government customers and senior technical stakeholders on cloud transformation strategy, operational readiness, and secure enterprise adoption.
Lead AI Solutions Architect at C3.AI (2025-08 – 2026-01)
- Worked directly with Intelligence Community customers in a post-sales engineering role supporting deployment and operational use of AI-driven mission solutions.
- Led architecture and engineering discussions demonstrating the capabilities of the C3 AI Application Platform.
- Integrated enterprise data flows into standardized C3 AI data models supporting performance monitoring and anomaly detection.
- Supported AI and analytics initiatives involving large-scale data migration, transformation, and operational data handling.
- Designed scalable and reusable AI reference architectures supporting customer mission requirements.
Staff Solutions Architect at VMware/Broadcom (2021-10 – 2025-05)
- Led architectural strategy and technical oversight for IL5/IL6 VMware Cloud deployments supporting classified government workloads and FedRAMP-aligned environments.
- Served as the lead Solution Engineer supporting approximately $100M in strategic defense opportunities alongside a single account executive for two major defense agencies.
- Guided customers through VMware Cloud Foundation product packaging, cloud adoption strategy, and capability expansion efforts to increase platform consumption and mission adoption.
- Directed cross-functional coordination with AWS, Sequoia, BAE Systems, and government stakeholders to replicate air-gapped cloud environments.
- Designed secure monitoring and oversight architectures leveraging AWS Cross-Domain Solutions.
- Advised Intelligence Community stakeholders on migration readiness, enterprise transformation efforts, and cloud adoption strategy.
- VMware Certified Professional (VCP VCF 5.2, VCP-vSphere Data Center Virtualization).
Solutions Architect Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) (2020-05 – 2021-10)
- Managed and mentored a team of seven Solutions Architects supporting Intelligence Community customers and mission-critical federal programs.
- Led hiring efforts resulting in 15 successful technical hires into AWS.
- Conducted performance reviews, promotion evaluations, mentoring, and performance improvement planning activities for engineering team members.
- Led customer engineering engagements focused on cloud migration, modernization, security, scalability, and cost optimization.
- Supported migration of five major mission-focused applications and projects from on-premises environments into AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Led executive and technical architecture reviews, customer planning sessions, sales reviews, and advisory engagements with government leadership and Prime Contractor organizations.
- Worked with senior government executives and mission leadership to help shape early cloud adoption strategy and operational policy alignment for classified cloud environments.
- Partnered with government organizations during AWS expansion into air-gapped regions to modernize policies and operational approaches incompatible with cloud-native environments.
- Developed proof-of-concept solutions utilizing Lambda, Aurora, Kubernetes, and modern cloud-native technologies.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, Developer Associate, and DevOps Professional.
Senior Technical Staff at Yankee Cloud Consulting (2018-07 – 2020-05)
- Formed and led multi-partner engineering teams supporting U.S. Government cloud modernization initiatives.
- Designed and implemented modern enterprise applications and automated CI/CD delivery pipelines supporting secure mission operations.
- Led cloud infrastructure architecture, deployment automation, operational engineering, and accreditation support activities.
- Presented architecture recommendations and enterprise transformation strategies to community-wide review boards and leadership stakeholders.
- Supported deployment of AI-enabled translation technologies into classified government infrastructure.
- Designed Kubernetes-based deployment architectures using EKS and KOPS while supporting migration efforts from Google Cloud to AWS.
- Representative Customers & Programs: CACI, Raytheon, Lilt
President & Senior Consultant at ITPath Consulting (2003-07 – 2018-06)
- Led secure cloud transformation, enterprise modernization, systems integration, and architecture initiatives across the Intelligence Community.
- Directed architecture, deployment, accreditation support, operational rollout, and technical delivery activities for numerous mission-critical systems.
- Guided engineering teams on cloud migration strategies, distributed systems design, ATO processes, and secure enterprise architectures.
- Worked closely with senior government leaders, partner organizations, and executive stakeholders to shape technical strategy and modernization roadmaps.
- Supported customer-facing transformation initiatives involving secure collaboration platforms, enterprise integration, biometrics, distributed systems, and large-scale operational infrastructure.
- Participated in executive briefings and technical strategy discussions focused on cloud adoption and modernization within classified environments.
- Representative Customers & Programs: Raytheon, SAIC, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, United States Army, Titan Secure Systems
Engineering, Architecture, Technical Leadership, and Program Management roles at Lockheed Martin, GroupServe, Qwest Communications, Digital Focus (1995 – 2003)
Held progressively senior engineering, architecture, technical leadership, and program management roles.
- Key contributions included distributed systems engineering, enterprise platform architecture, secure infrastructure design, operational support systems, customer-facing enterprise applications, and large-scale systems integration.
- At Qwest Communications, led a geographically distributed organization of approximately 70 personnel across six locations delivering customer-facing B2B enterprise platforms and large-scale integration initiatives.
