Resume

Chantilly, VA

• Lead cross-functional engineering execution across cloud-native mission services, CI/CD pipelines, multi-repo delivery, release readiness, and integration risk management.
• Guide team execution, onboarding, coaching, and delivery discipline while strengthening engineering quality, ownership, and accountability.
• Coordinate multi-environment release readiness across isolated and integrated systems, reducing late-stage integration risk and improving baseline alignment and traceability.
• Establish and enforce engineering standards — repo and branch governance, PR/review practices, Definition of Done, and documentation — to reduce integration risk across multi-repo and multi-environment systems.
• Drive DevSecOps and release governance through CI/CD, automated testing, quality gates, and security checks to shorten feedback loops and improve system reliability.
• Translate mission and operational needs into roadmaps and sequenced delivery plans, communicating status and tradeoffs clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.

Greenbelt, MD

• Architected NASA's cloud-based Flood Mapping System on AWS, delivering near real-time, satellite-derived flood products to support disaster response.
• Built a high-performance file and metadata platform on Ceph, improving virtual directory mapping and accelerating discovery and access for large scientific datasets.
• Rebuilt NASA Earth Observatory's high-traffic web platform, supporting ~1.5M monthly visitors while improving performance, UX, and SEO.
• Delivered an automated content registry workflow, boosting data collection efficiency by ~60% and accelerating researcher access to new datasets.
• Implemented DevSecOps delivery with GitLab CI/CD, Docker, and Kubernetes, enabling automated deployments, repeatable releases, and reliable stakeholder approvals.
• Led Agile delivery across teams and stakeholders, translating mission needs into roadmaps, sequencing dependencies, and driving consistent delivery.

St. Petersburg, FL

• Architected and delivered a Laravel-based case management platform, reducing operational costs by $30K/year.
• Led CRM enhancements that improved retention and contributed ~15% revenue growth through better lifecycle workflows and reporting.
• Built and optimized APIs to improve database efficiency, reduce operational overhead, and increase application performance and reliability.
• Spearheaded platform upgrades and security process improvements, doubling incident response efficiency and strengthening operational readiness.

Washington, D.C.

• Delivered SugarCRM solutions for 20+ clients (including Virginia Department of Transportation, Washington Redskins, and Kastle Systems), improving sales operations, visibility, and team productivity.
• Drove execution discipline to cut backlog ~90%, improving delivery predictability, product quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Built a lightweight opportunity-identification application that helped customers surface and prioritize new business opportunities.
• Collaborated effectively on distributed teams — clear async communication, strong documentation, and reliable cross-time-zone delivery.

• Sabre Corporation · Dante Inc. · Visitar Inc. · Verizon Business

  Software engineering & principal roles · 1997–2012

  Held software engineering and principal engineering roles across travel, enterprise CRM, telecommunications, managed security services, and large-scale client platforms. Built Java, PHP, CRM, telephony, and internal operations systems for enterprise clients including Comcast, Mastercard, Verizon/MCI, and global travel customers — including Finium, the multi-tenant managed-security platform that enabled a $105M acquisition. Case study Helped mature engineering practices through Scrum adoption, testing discipline, code quality, junior developer mentoring, and cross-functional delivery.