Strengthen platform reliability
Build observable, supportable platforms with clear ownership and capacity discipline.
DevOps, Cloud Operations and SRE Leader
DevOps, Cloud Operations and SRE Leadership for Reliable, Scalable Platforms
Hands-on technology leader with 30+ years of infrastructure and operations experience spanning AWS platform engineering, DevOps transformation, production reliability, incident response, observability, automation, and internal capability building.
Leadership focus
- AWS platform engineering and modernization
- DevOps and release governance
- SRE, observability, and incident leadership
- Vendor-to-internal capability transfer
Leadership mandate
The Operating Mandate
Hands-on leadership that connects platform engineering decisions to reliable operations, disciplined delivery, and stronger internal ownership.
Improve delivery and release discipline
Standardize CI/CD, automation, production readiness, and safe release controls.
Lead incidents and prevent recurrence
Align teams, stabilize service, communicate clearly, and drive root-cause elimination.
Build durable internal capability
Mentor engineers, improve runbooks, and transfer platform knowledge into internal teams.
Strategic capabilities
Leadership Across Cloud, DevOps, SRE, and AI-Enabled Operations
Cloud Operations and Platform Engineering
- AWS-led cloud operations
- Platform modernization and OpenSearch migration leadership
- Capacity planning, security, and production readiness
DevOps and Delivery Governance
- CI/CD standardization
- Infrastructure automation and release orchestration
- Canary, blue/green, and rolling deployment practices
SRE, Reliability, and Incident Management
- Monitoring and observability
- Incident command, RCA, and post-incident learning
- Runbooks, escalation discipline, and recurrence prevention
AI-Enabled Operational Improvement
- AI-assisted technical research and documentation
- Human-reviewed diagnostic workflows
- Governed operational automation with approval boundaries
Agentic SRE and self-healing operations are presented as illustrative architecture and strategic direction, not as completed autonomous production deployments.
Reliability leadership
How I Lead Reliable Operations
A repeatable incident model for stabilizing service, aligning stakeholders, and reducing recurrence.
Establish service impact, signal quality, severity, and immediate risk.
Verified operational impact
Evidence from Platform and Reliability Leadership
Plexus Worldwide
DevOps Reliability Transformation
- Reduced MTTR by 30% through improved monitoring, diagnostic runbooks, root-cause analysis, recurring-issue prevention, and faster escalation response.
- Helped sustain 99.9% uptime for global e-commerce platforms through proactive monitoring, automation, and disciplined production support.
Choice Hotels International
AWS Platform Modernization
- Led an Elasticsearch-to-Amazon-OpenSearch migration through architecture, security, testing, cutover, and stabilization.
- Established monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, access controls, documentation, and internal platform ownership.
Selected work
Verified Leadership Experience
Publicly appropriate summaries focused on leadership scope and operating outcomes, without confidential internal architecture.
Verified leadership experience · Choice Hotels International
Amazon OpenSearch Platform Migration
Led migration discovery, compatibility analysis, target architecture, security controls, testing, production cutover, stabilization, and the transition to internal operational ownership.
AWSOpenSearchCross-functional deliveryInternal ownership
Verified leadership experience · Plexus Worldwide
DevOps Reliability Transformation
Established CI/CD practices, infrastructure automation, monitoring dashboards, diagnostic runbooks, RCA discipline, engineer mentoring, and operational ownership for global e-commerce platforms.
CI/CDObservabilityIncident responseMentoring
Hands-on execution
Builder Portfolio
Selected platforms that demonstrate the operating discipline behind the leadership narrative.
Operating
Hivoltg Technology Services
Technology operating company and builder platform for cloud applications, AI-enabled workflows, and operational systems.
hivoltg.com ↗Operating
Guardian Home Check
Home-watch and inspection platform with a client portal supporting seasonal homeowners and property-service operations.
guardianhomecheck.org ↗Operating
Scottsdale Cart Tours
Tourism and booking platform supporting curated Scottsdale experiences, customer scheduling, and local business operations.
scottsdalecarttours.com ↗Live
Nominaeus
AI-powered trademark preparation platform for brand research, application readiness, specimen creation, and related intellectual-property workflows.
nominaeus.com ↗Live
Man Card Pro
AI-powered digital identity experience for creating a personalized Man Card, avatar, achievements, and leaderboard profile.
mancardpro.com ↗Live
Clarus Ledger
Cloud-based financial workflow platform built to organize transactions, imports, client records, and operational reporting.
clarusledger.co ↗
Leadership profile
Leadership Grounded in Hands-On Engineering
30+ years across infrastructure, cloud, platform, and technology operations, with AWS-led cloud-platform leadership, DevOps and reliability transformation, incident and stakeholder leadership, founder experience, and service as a Combat Engineer in the U.S. Army National Guard.