Security-cleared Cloud & DevSecOps Architect with 20 + years of software engineering and mission-critical delivery experience — driving the design and deployment of resilient, cloud-native, and AI-enabled systems.

With deep expertise across AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud, I’ve led enterprise transformations for the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Transportation Security Administration. My work spans containerization, infrastructure automation, zero-trust security, and CI/CD optimization — enabling faster, more secure, and more autonomous mission outcomes.

I’m passionate about advancing the intersection of artificial intelligence, automation, and secure cloud infrastructure to strengthen national-security capabilities and accelerate data-driven decision-making.

A career highlight was representing Matillion at AWS re:Invent 2016 conference in Las Vegas, where I presented on cloud data integration to a global audience of engineers and innovators.

Today, I’m focused on building next-generation defense and intelligence platforms — integrating AI, data pipelines, and DevSecOps principles to deliver agility, trust, and operational advantage.

Technologies Overview

☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS (GovCloud, ECS, EKS, Lambda, CloudFormation),
Azure (AKS, App Service, Policy, Sentinel),
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OKE, IAM, Networking),
Terraform | Pulumi | Helm | Kustomize,
Kubernetes (multi-cluster, hardened, air-gapped),
Serverless & Edge Computing,
Observability (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch)

💡 AI / Data Infrastructure

Data Pipelines & Integration (Matillion, Glue, Airflow),
MLOps & Model Deployment (SageMaker, Kubeflow, Vertex AI),
Vector Databases (Pinecone, FAISS, pgvector),
GPU & Containerized Training Environments (NVIDIA Docker, EKS with GPUs),
Generative AI Integration (OpenAI APIs, LangChain, LlamaIndex),
Data Governance & Classification (DoD CUI/IL Compliance)

</> Programming & Scripting

Go (Golang), Python, JavaScript/TypeScript,
Bash, PowerShell, SQL, YAML/JSON,
REST & GraphQL API Design,
Cloud SDKs & CLI Automation (AWS CLI, Azure CLI, OCI CLI)

∞ DevSecOps & Automation

CI/CD with GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Argo CD,
Container Security (Trivy, Aqua, Anchore),
Infrastructure Compliance & Policy-as-Code (Open Policy Agent, Conftest),
Secrets Management (Vault, AWS Secrets Manager),
Configuration Management (Ansible, Packer),
Shift-left Security and Zero-Trust Implementation

🔒 Security & Compliance

DoD STIG Hardening, CIS Benchmarks, FedRAMP Moderate/High,
Identity & Access Management (AWS IAM, Azure AD, Okta),
Network Security (VPC Design, PrivateLink, Service Mesh),
SIEM & Threat Monitoring (Security Hub, GuardDuty, Splunk, ELK)

🎯 Leadership & Delivery

Cloud Architecture Review Boards, A&A process alignment,
Cross-functional Team Leadership, Mentorship & Capability Uplift,
Agile & DevSecOps Transformation, Cost Optimization, Executive Stakeholder Engagement

Work Experience

Specialist Leader

Deloitte, Charleston SC, June 2021 - Present

Serving as the DevSecOps Lead Architect for a DoD client, I provide strategic guidance and hands-on implementation of DevSecOps best practices. My responsibilities include designing cloud architectures, optimizing system configurations, and driving automation initiatives. I also lead the development and management of CI/CD pipelines supporting approximately 200 applications across multiple Kubernetes environments in Oracle Cloud, ensuring secure, scalable, and efficient operations.

Senior Cloud Architect

Booz Allen Hamilton, Charleston SC, January 2019 - June 2021
Through many decades supporting the Federal Government, Booz Allen Hamilton blend in-depth mission understanding and digital technical expertise with a consultative approach. As a senior cloud architect, I help architect and migrate client applications and infrastructure to Azure and AWS cloud native solutions. My position also aligns to consulting on a complete DevOps culture and automating infrastructure and code delivery pipelines.

Senior Cloud Engineer

Omatic Software, Charleston SC, May 2017 - January 2019
Omatic Software is redefining the Integration Platform as a Service for non-profit organizations. As part of a new cloud-focused engineering team, I provide overall architecture design of Azure services, focusing on minimizing infrastructure management by utilizing server-less resources for platform design. As part of a small team, automation and scripting of resource creation and configuration management is paramount in designing an automated CI/CD build and release pipeline across dozens of independent services and multiple environments. I also continuously refine our monitoring and alert functionality to proactively identify and address platform and application errors, rolling back to stable states when necessary. We ship new features multiple times per day with a philosophy of break things fast.

Solutions Architect

Matillion, New York City NY, November 2016 - 2017
Matillion provides fast, modern and powerful ETL/ELT tool for Amazon Redshift.  As the first hire for their US office, I have the pleasure of evangelizing the product in pre-sales demos, presenting at national conferences, creating digital content, and providing additional support for our clients.

Solutions Architect

Equifax Workforce Solutions, Remote, August 2013 - November 2016
Lead developer and subject matter expert for the award winning Affordable Care Act Management Platform. Serve as liaison between professional services and product development. Team lead responsible for training and mentor/support new team members. Tech consultant for complex enterprise clients.

Principal Consultant / Consultant manager

Blackbaud, Charleston SC, May 2006 - January 2013
Enterprise technical consulting group team lead for the Blackbaud Enterprise CRM platform. Responsible for the team growth and resource allocation. Integration of offshore development team. Lead developer of internal proprietary team toolset. Technical consultant serving enterprise customers and solving complex implementation challenges.

Information Systems Manager

Durand-Wayland, LaGrange GA, August 2003 - May 2006
Applications developer quickly promoted to information systems manager. Responsible for all systems, networks, and servers operations. Key decision maker creating and reviewing RFP and working with external technology vendors.

Education

Clemson University

Bachelors of Science, Computer Information Systems, 2003