Technologist | AI Strategy & Implementation | Cloud Expertise
I am a technology leader, change agent, and innovator with over 20 years of experience in delivering intelligent, customer-focused products and solutions that drive exponential business growth and measurable value. Leveraging AI, advanced analytics, and agentic solutions, I transform complex business challenges into scalable, autonomous systems that deliver predictable outcomes and sustainable advantage across diverse industries and global markets.
With a Masters degree in Engineering Management and Business Administration from GWU, complemented by a certification in AI for Business Leaders from Udacity, I am positioned uniquely at the intersection of technical excellence and strategic business acumen
Throughout my career, I have scaled some of the fastest-growing startups by architecting and delivering cutting-edge, cloud-native, and full-stack computing platforms that seamlessly incorporate AI and machine learning solutions. I have delivered mission-critical, modular infrastructure solutions across Azure, Azure GovCloud, and AWS to support high-stakes missions for the U.S. CBP, U.S. DoD, Alaska DoT/Public Facilities, and Saudi Aramco. My deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, intelligent networking, and DevOps automation has empowered more than 45 globally distributed development teams to build and deploy production workloads with exceptional reliability, minimal mean time to failure (MTTF), and zero-regression deployment pipelines.
Previously, I led a world-class team of data scientists, ML engineers, and software architects to build AI-powered solutions enabling enterprise customers to maximize ad performance and ROI through intelligent automation. Collaborating directly with executives, TAMs, and strategic consultants, I successfully managed VAS pipelines exceeding $1.1 billion in estimated value. I consistently deliver production-ready, enterprise-grade solutions to AWS, Azure, and Azure Government Cloud for Fortune 500 companies and top-tier agencies, unlocking over $142 million per month in additional platform spend through my proven expertise in customer enablement, big data architectures, and cloud-native AI technologies.
My super power lies in translating my deep technical knowledge and customer empowerment focus into actionable strategies that drive measurable success. I excel at fostering a culture of cross-functional collaboration and innovation among globally and culturally diverse teams, consistently delivering enterprise-grade platforms to harness the full potential of the cloud, edge, and artificial intelligence.
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At Armada, I oversaw the design, deployment, and operation of our Azure cloud infrastructure and multi-region architecture. Spanning Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Brazil, and Bellevue, I ensured our Kubernetes platforms remained fault-tolerant and highly available—powering our web services, management console, and Armada’s industry-leading hybrid edge computing platform. Skills: Kubernetes · Microsoft Azure · Cloud Computing · Executive Leadership

Leading a world-class team of data scientists and software engineers, I created custom, client-enabling solutions which allowed customers to maximize advertising performance and spend on The Trade Desk’s global buy-side advertising platform. With team members in California, Denver, New York, Toronto and London I unlocked over $142 million per month in additional customer platform spend. Collaborating with account execs, TAMs and consulting I managed a pipeline of over $1.1 billion in custom, client focused, and value added solutions. Delivered high quality production ready solutions to both AWS and Azure for brands such as Walmart, Diageo, Mazda, Progressive, P&G, Disney, Apple, Unilevier, and agencies such as, Dentsu, Publicis, Omnicom Media, and Butler/Till. Managed over $200,000 in yearly AWS spend budget across 5 regions and 3 different accounts. Technologies include: Lambda, S3, EKS, Databricks, EMR, AWS Config and other management tools, etc.

As Sr. EM of the US engineering team we worked to transform existing SaaS architectures from Elastic Beanstalk, RDS and Lambda to Kubenetes utilizing Terraform and CI/CD automation workflows. With an international team we improved on site reliability policies and procedures resulting in improved operational efficiencies and downtime. Worked to introduced formal incident management processes, created platform management tools and solutions, and decreased downtime. With counterparts in India I built foundational level infrastructure for Esper's SaaS offering, improved stability and reliability across all metrics and supported on-call incident management for multi-tenant and single tenant deployments. Worked to build resilient systems across multiple geos and availability zones. Utilized domain driven design to build microservices on Kubernetes and break apart legacy python monoliths. Developed performance test frameworks with golang and python.

Led the transformation of the architecture team of ~35-40 to adopt modern customer focused technology patterns and practices to enable growth to 2.3M customers. Responsible for overseeing ownership of Symetra product, business and service architectures including AWS, on-prem and Mainframe services. Led a team of enterprise, business, infrastructure, and solution architects; including network engineering and operations to create a robust community capable of driving enterprise strategy.

Ownership, innovation, and development of multiple AVOD applications for Android and iOS. Including clients pre-installed on Metro PCS and T-Mobile devices.

Provided technical management, development, and innovation for MetroPlay and T-Play applications on Android. Partnered with business owners to support more than 75M customers across dozens of supported devices. Lead architect and technical director for AVOD solution; integrating a 3rd party CMS platform and multiple Android-based clients to provide video on demand services to more than a dozen Android devices. Technical management for a team of eight CMS and Android developers and technical implementation of UI/UX designs to enable pre-installation on customer devices and deployment through Google Play Store. Oversaw advertising growth from $3M in revenue to $20M over two years by leveraging the carrier pre-installation process in partnership with Google.
Architected and provided technical leadership for cross-functional teams of up to 80 building the first party applications Visual Voicemail, T-Mobile MyAccount, T-Mobile Tuesdays. Managed development partner resource centers in Finland, Romania, and Taiwan in addition to T-Mobile resources to build Android apps and configure CMS backend platforms. Led the development and delivery of the T-Mobile and MetroPCS homepage for all Android devices, which increased advertising revenue by $50M year over year. Provided technical management of data science resources including Hadoop (Hive, Spark) experts to generate anonymized and privacy-friendly digital advertising segments and demographic info.

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Responsible for domain specific customer experience on T-Mobile’s portfolio of Android devices. Coordinated with OEMs and development teams to ensure proper integration of requirements. Oversaw the requirements and integration elements for mobile browser device acceptance on multiple Android devices. Coached teams to adopt Agile methodologies which improved application delivery metrics and time to market/value.
Owned and managed in-flight applications and provided technical leadership for T-Mobile’s Video Calling service on the myTouch 4G flagship device. Partnered with ODMs and OS Vendors to deliver industry best peer-to-peer video services. Managed group of 8 contingent staff developers to build multiple Android apps to be compatible with different devices.