Resume

Principal Cloud Architect · AWS Solutioning & Engineering · Distributed Systems

I am a hands-on cloud architect and principal engineer with 25+ years building enterprise systems across healthcare, finance, logistics, retail, and aerospace. I turn ambiguous platform goals into engineered systems with clear boundaries, measurable behavior, and production-shaped operations.

My work spans secure multi-account AWS foundations, serverless platforms, GenAI/RAG workloads, data pipelines, identity boundaries, observability, and Infrastructure as Code. I bring deep experience with AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM, security guardrails, Lambda, Step Functions, OpenSearch, Bedrock, EKS, Terraform, and CloudFormation.

I bridge solution strategy and engineering execution, building working reference architectures that demonstrate how platforms should behave under real production constraints.

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Leadership

Technical Leadership

Led AWS-focused architecture and modernization initiatives across Fortune 500 healthcare, aerospace, banking, and retail organizations.
Mentored senior engineers and technical leads, supporting career progression into principal engineering roles.
Defined enterprise architecture patterns for secure cloud foundations, microservices, event-driven platforms, and cloud-native infrastructure.

Guided adoption of GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and Kubernetes-based delivery platforms across engineering teams.
Served as the technical bridge between engineering leadership, product stakeholders, and enterprise architecture organizations.
Built AWS reference implementations that make solution strategy concrete, testable, and production-shaped.

Platform Depth

Core Technical Expertise

Cloud Foundations

AWS Organizations, Control Tower, IAM Identity Center, SCPs, centralized logging, guardrails, cost controls, and multi-account operating models

AWS Security

CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Security Hub, Config, KMS, least-privilege IAM, WAF, identity boundaries, and production support patterns

Serverless Platforms

Lambda, Step Functions, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, Cognito, CloudFront, DynamoDB, S3, Glue, Athena, and event-driven architecture

AI / GenAI Platforms

Amazon Bedrock, Claude, retrieval-augmented generation, OpenSearch, tenant-isolated retrieval, citations, and evaluation workflows

Platform Engineering

EKS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, GitOps, Argo CD, CI/CD modernization, infrastructure automation, and production operations

Languages

Java, Python, TypeScript, React, SQL

Cloud

AWS, Azure, GCP

IaC & CI/CD

Terraform, CloudFormation, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Argo CD

Data & Messaging

Kafka, SQL and NoSQL databases, DynamoDB, OpenSearch, Elasticsearch, Glue, Athena

Additional depth: Route 53, CloudWatch, RDS, Aurora, Azure SQL, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, Pub/Sub, Linux, Unix, Windows. Certification: HashiCorp Terraform Associate.

Career

Professional Experience

CDW / IGNW

Senior Solutions Architect & Cloud Engineer

Delivered architecture and engineering for Fortune 500 banking, healthcare, and logistics clients, with a parallel independent portfolio focused on AWS cloud foundations, GenAI/RAG, serverless document processing, security governance, and Terraform module composition.

AWS Solutioning & Reference Architecture

Developed an independent repeatable AWS landing zone process with requirements gathering, implementation checklists, runbooks, and a working reference architecture.
Implemented governed OUs, centralized audit logging, delegated security aggregation, DNS, cost controls, cross-region Terraform state, and SCP guardrails in a portfolio reference environment.
Built a tenant-isolated RAG reference implementation using Cognito, tenant-scoped OpenSearch indexes, hybrid retrieval, Bedrock/Claude answer generation, and citations.
Built an event-driven document extraction reference platform with S3, SQS, Step Functions, Lambda, Textract, Bedrock, DynamoDB, Glue, Athena, and Terraform.

Application Modernization & Platform Engineering

Built Spring Boot microservices on OpenShift and AWS EKS for enterprise banking workloads with production reliability requirements.
Led migration of 100+ microservice deployments from Octopus Deploy to GitOps-based delivery with Argo CD.
Supported migration of 50+ enterprise applications from Pivotal Tanzu to Red Hat OpenShift.

Enterprise Cloud Migration

Architected migration of 64 enterprise applications from on-premises infrastructure to Microsoft Azure.
Designed the migration strategy for 1,200+ SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Managed Instance.
Supported 150+ CI/CD pipeline migrations to Azure DevOps.

Collinear Group / Boeing

Principal Java Engineer

Led backend architecture for Boeing manufacturing planning systems.
Designed microservices for SQL Server change capture and Elasticsearch synchronization.
Implemented distributed services executing proprietary manufacturing planning algorithms.
Designed Camunda BPMN workflow orchestration across coordinated manufacturing-planning services.

Nike

Principal Engineer / Technical Architect

Led Java and Python/AWS teams supporting Nike global trade compliance.
Drove architecture reviews, engineering standards, feature launches, and stakeholder planning.
Designed enterprise integrations with SAP, Kafka, and Splunk.

Cambia Health Systems

Cloud Engineer

Built Java and TypeScript components for a healthcare attribution platform.
Deployed AWS Batch workloads and managed controlled database migrations with Flyway.
Maintained AWS Database Migration Service data-transfer processes in a regulated environment.

Nike / Ancestry / CSAA

Architecture, Cloud, DevOps

Authored enterprise reference architectures and implementation guidance for cloud-based services.
Contributed to enterprise Kafka and AWS disaster recovery patterns.
Built cloud-native services using Java, Spring, ReactiveX, and Netflix OSS.
Automated AWS infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, and Python.
Guided Tanzu/PCF adoption and cloud operating practices across engineering teams.