Leadership résumé
Select the version that matches the role you are evaluating. I am focused on remote leadership roles across platform engineering, engineering management, director-level scope, and technical team leadership.
Current role focus
Open to remote-only engineering leadership opportunities.
- Platform Engineering Manager
- Engineering Manager
- Director Opportunities
- Software Engineering Team Lead
- Platform Engineering Team Lead
Summary
Platform engineering manager with 15+ years across fintech, software delivery, infrastructure, support automation, and operational leadership. Strong fit for teams that need a hands-on leader who can build developer platforms, improve reliability, reduce cloud cost, mature incident response, and keep compliance-sensitive systems moving. PCIP certified with direct experience in payment systems, API modernization, DevSecOps, Azure, CI/CD, observability, and cross-functional engineering leadership.
Experience
Platform Engineering Manager
2021 - PresentBuilt and led platform engineering capabilities for regulated fintech systems, managing 3 engineers directly and influencing 30+ stakeholders across engineering, product, support, operations, security, and executive teams.
- Designed GitHub-based CI/CD paths to VM hosts, Azure App Services, and Azure Container Apps, reducing deployment time by 40%.
- Owned platform reliability practices for critical payment systems, including monitoring, alerting, status page operations, incident command, and RCA discipline.
- Maintained 99.999% platform stability while supporting API integrations, card issuing, ACH/NACHA workflows, and customer-facing payment operations.
- Reduced Azure spend by 20% through cost optimization, workload review, and architecture improvements.
- Rebuilt server infrastructure after a ransomware event in under two weeks while restoring secure operations and preserving critical business continuity.
- Re-architected core API authentication and authorization flows without customer-disrupting migration windows.
- Created support automation, documentation habits, and ticketing practices that reduced resolution time by 90% and customer wait time by 80%.
- Partnered with CEO, CTO, CPO, and VP-level stakeholders to prioritize technical debt, platform modernization, developer experience, and compliance-sensitive delivery work.
Software Support and Security Engineer
2019 - 2021Developed support tooling, reporting automation, migration plans, and security-minded operational improvements for business-critical systems.
- Built CRM automation with C#, JavaScript, SSRS, and T-SQL, cutting inventory processing time by 25%.
- Automated billing, tax document, and report generation workflows, reducing preparation time by 60%.
- Improved reporting performance through SSRS and T-SQL optimization, reducing report generation from minutes to seconds.
- Helped lead colo-to-Azure migration planning for Linux, Windows, and SQL Server workloads.
- Implemented monitoring and network security improvements after a ransomware event to improve long-term resilience.
VP of Operations and IT
2010 - 2019Modernized IT, operations, fleet workflows, hardware lifecycle planning, and business systems for a family logistics business.
- Modernized dispatch, logistics, and accounting workflows with FleetManager, QuickBooks, Microsoft Access, C#, and JavaScript.
- Digitized paper-heavy operational records and improved visibility into fleet, accounting, and customer workflows.
- Built practical hardware and 3D-printed replacement components that reduced maintenance cost and improved fleet availability.
- Managed hardware lifecycle, vendor decisions, budget planning, and internal support needs for distributed operations.
Skills
Technical Skills
- Platform Engineering
- Internal Developer Platforms
- Developer Experience
- DevOps and SRE
- Incident Management
- Disaster Recovery
- CI/CD Strategy
- Cloud Cost Optimization
- PCI DSS
- Card Issuing
- ACH/NACHA
- API Lifecycle Management
- Security Reviews
- Technical Debt Roadmaps
Tools & Technologies
- Azure
- Azure App Services
- Azure Container Apps
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- GitHub Actions
- New Relic
- Cronitor
- Postman
- Zendesk
- Power BI
- MSSQL
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
Soft Skills
- Engineering Management
- Mentoring
- Hiring
- Stakeholder Management
- Executive Communication
- Roadmap Prioritization
- Risk Management
- Budget Ownership
- Incident Command
- Process Design
- Team Development
Programming Languages
- Go
- C#
- Python
- PowerShell
- SQL
- T-SQL
- JavaScript
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js