Executive Profile
Technology executive with 30 years architecting and leading enterprise digital transformations across healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, and hospitality. Hands-on practitioner from factory-floor electrical engineering through C-Suite digital transformation advisory; has personally built, migrated, secured, and modernized enterprise systems at scale. Led multi-year platform migrations, cloud adoption strategies, and legacy-to-microservices transitions while managing distributed teams and multi-million-dollar budgets. Reduced enterprise IT costs by $1.2M annually, improved knowledge-worker capacity 28%, and led 60-day ransomware recovery - pairs strategic vision with operational credibility because both have been executed at scale, under pressure.
Experience
- Embedded structured AI/ML practices across software engineering operations; transitioned teams from ad-hoc prompting to reusable context-engineering frameworks
- Defined KPIs linking AI adoption to measurable productivity and code-quality outcomes; established governance for responsible AI deployment
- Advised executive sponsors on AI roadmap, change management, ethical AI, and long-term strategic adoption
- Led cross-functional incident response team through full ransomware recovery cycle (threat assessment, containment, negotiation, restoration) in under 60 days
- Re-architected core information systems with segmentation, monitoring, and resilience frameworks to prevent recurrence
- Delivered post-incident playbooks, business-continuity standards, and team training to harden enterprise security posture and disaster-recovery capability
- Led enterprise modernization for healthcare and business clients; aligned executive sponsors, IT leadership, and operations on multi-year transformation roadmaps
- Architected omnichannel digital workplace solutions integrating Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, line-of-business systems, and analytics platforms
- Managed cloud migration programs (Azure, AWS, M365) across distributed teams; established cost-optimization, governance, and security standards
- Co-authored automated SharePoint migration toolset using Portainer, Terraform, Balena, Ansible, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Delivered HIMSS information architecture modernization producing 28% knowledge-worker capacity improvement
- Executed zero-downtime, no-disruption migration across five SharePoint server farms at University of Chicago Medicine
- Defined cloud-first technology strategy for statewide service organization; established technical standards, modernization roadmap, and security posture
- Improved IT operations, staffing, support processes, and technology governance across distributed offices
- Owned enterprise collaboration platform serving 5,000+ users; led upgrades, migrations, and integrations with Salesforce.com and ERP analytics
- Designed information architecture and consolidation strategy that reduced annual IT spending by $1.2M
- Established governance via steering committees; built automation tools and executive Power BI dashboards on AXIOM ERP and Salesforce data
- Led modernization assessments and transformation strategies for healthcare clients; created standardized methodology used across 20+ engagements
- Designed SharePoint and cloud migration strategies (lift-and-shift, re-platforming) with zero operational disruption
- Led modernization of business systems supporting expansion from regional to national operations
- Implemented unified identity management; completed enterprise Microsoft 365 deployment; built dashboards and analytics tools; authored 200+ knowledgebase articles
Skills
Retail & Omnichannel Platforms
Point-of-Sale (Lightspeed Retail evaluation) · E-Commerce (Shopify, BigCommerce evaluation) · Order Management Systems (OMS) · Inventory Visibility · Customer Experience Platforms · Loyalty & Identity Platforms
Enterprise Architecture & Modernization
HubSpot · Salesforce · Microsoft Dynamics · Zoho · Microsoft 365 · SharePoint (2010 – Online) · Microsoft Teams · Exchange Online · ERP Integration · Microservices · API Strategy
Cloud & Infrastructure
Azure (App Services, SQL DB, Data Warehouse, Migrate, DevOps) · AWS · Google Cloud · Hyper-V · VMware · Docker · Kubernetes · Terraform · Ansible · CI/CD Pipelines · Infrastructure as Code
Data, Analytics & Business Intelligence
Azure Data Warehouse · Power BI · Tableau · SQL Server · MySQL · PostgreSQL · MongoDB · Cosmos DB · ETL Pipelines · Real-Time Dashboards · Demand Forecasting
AI / ML & Emerging Technology
AI Adoption Frameworks · Context Engineering · Prompt Engineering · LLM Integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, Local) · Workflow Automation · Power Automate · UiPath · Robotic Process Automation
Cybersecurity, Risk & Compliance
HIPAA · PCI · SOC 2 · GDPR · ISO 27001 · Zero Trust Architecture · IAM · MFA · SSO · Disaster Recovery · Business Continuity Planning · Incident Response · Vulnerability Assessment
Software Engineering & SDLC
Agile · Scrum · Waterfall · CI/CD · REST APIs · GraphQL · Microservices · LAMP Stack · Node.js · React · TypeScript · PHP · Python · PowerShell · Bash
Financial & Vendor Management
IT Budget Ownership · SaaS Strategy · Cloud Cost Optimization (FinOps) · ROI Tracking · Strategic Partnerships · Systems Integrators · Hardware Vendor Relationships