Seattle, Washington, United States
I am a technology executive who sets agentic AI strategy at CxO altitude, builds agentic systems, and takes them to production at scale. That combination (strategy → build → ship) is what enterprises need when they are done with AI pilots that go nowhere and ready to make AI actually work. Over ~26 years, I've done this across the three vantage points that shape how enterprise AI actually gets built: 🏦 Inside the enterprise: large-scale, mission-critical systems at JP Morgan Chase, GE Healthcare, Novartis, BMW. Production here means regulatory scrutiny, global scale, and zero tolerance for demos that don't ship. 🔧 Inside the consulting ecosystem: building and scaling technology practices at firms such as Wipro and TCS whose entire business is executing and delivering those systems. Presales, practice development, and turning prototypes into production across industries. ☁️ Inside the hyperscaler: currently leading an AI/ML portfolio at AWS, working across the world's largest strategic partners and differentiated AI startups, shipping GPU-accelerated agentic solutions for the hardest problems enterprises face. What connects all three: I build what I advise on. I prototype with modern agentic tooling, and I make sure it survives contact with security, compliance, cost, and reality in Production. 🎯 AI strategy & enterprise adoption: board-level roadmap through production architecture. 🏗️ Practice building: scaled teams, hiring & training, and skill development. 📐 Architecture & hands-on build: agentic AI, GPU acceleration, LLMs in production. 💼 Business development & presales: turning technical depth into real outcomes, trusted CxO advisor. 🎙️ Thought leadership — writing and speaking about what it actually takes to ship agentic AI.
As Global AI Transformation Leader within AWS's Strategic Partner Alliance, I drive enterprise-wide AI adoption across global markets — working directly with C-suite leaders from Fortune 100 enterprises, Global System Integrators, and high-growth AI startups to move organizations from AI ambition to operating reality. My mandate spans the full transformation lifecycle: defining AI vision, building the partner ecosystems that scale adoption, and ensuring solutions move from proof-of-concept into production with measurable business impact. Operating at the intersection of business strategy and technology execution, I designed and launched the end-to-end GSI framework and operational playbooks that govern how top-tier global integrators embed AI capabilities into their enterprise service delivery. Acting as the strategic connective tissue between Product, Marketing, and Sales, I shape joint go-to-market strategy and align the global partner ecosystem with the AI and cloud transformation priorities that matter most to enterprise clients — driving co-sell execution across diverse industry verticals and geographies. I have established the governance frameworks, responsible AI standards, and security guardrails that allow organizations to adopt Agentic AI and GPU-accelerated solutions with confidence — at enterprise scale. Across financial services, healthcare, retail, energy, manufacturing, and telecom, I have incubated and implemented breakthrough AI/ML platforms and led large scale adoption initiatives where the measure of success is transformation that is technically sound, organizationally durable, and ethically grounded.
As a specialist solutions architect, I built the technical and strategic foundation for Global System Integrators (GSI), where I worked at the intersection of deep technology and business transformation across a worldwide partner ecosystem. In this role I partnered with C-suite and technology leaders across GSIs and enterprise organizations to design and deploy AI/ML, cloud modernization, and data analytics solutions that solved complex, real-world business challenges at scale. I developed and executed go-to-market strategies, led solution architecture across mission-critical workloads, and built the trusted advisor relationships with GSI partners that would later become the foundation of a global program.
As a solutions architecture leader at Slalom, I operated as a strategic business and technology advisor to C-suite executives across financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing — leading pre-sales, cloud transformation, and AI/ML adoption engagements for Fortune 500 clients. I led cross-functional teams of solutions architects across three industry verticals, translating complex business challenges into enterprise-grade cloud architectures and delivering end-to-end migration and modernization strategies for mission-critical application portfolios with zero downtime.
I served as an enterprise technology executive responsible for designing and owning the long-term cloud transformation strategy across some of the bank's most complex and regulated lines of business — including Auto Finance, Business Banking, Anti-Money Laundering, Financial Crimes, and Regulatory Reporting. I built and led a high-performing team of solutions architects; developed the firm's cloud adoption framework and governance model; and collaborated with hyperscalers at the strategic level to drive migration and modernization of a large portfolio of mission-critical applications across a global hybrid cloud platform — all within the strict boundaries of firmwide risk, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance.
At Reader's Digest, I served in a dual capacity as Cloud Solutions Architect and DevOps/Release Manager—leading the strategic migration of a large enterprise application portfolio from legacy on-premises infrastructure to AWS Cloud with zero downtime, while simultaneously modernizing the delivery model through CI/CD automation and DevOps best practices. A defining initiative was architecting the replacement of a mission-critical flagship application—transforming a legacy monolithic system into a modern, cloud-native microservices architecture within an accelerated timeline. I led cross-functional teams across multiple business units and geographies, orchestrating complex stakeholder alignment and driving enterprise-wide technology transformation that delivered significant gains in scalability, deployment reliability, and operational efficiency.
I served as Infrastructure Operations Manager and Solutions Architect—leading enterprise-wide release management, DevSecOps, and CI/CD transformation across five global business units spanning multiple countries. I established the release management framework and center of excellence that became the organizational standard across BMW's global operations—building automated CI/CD pipelines with integrated testing frameworks and security scanning that drove significant improvements in deployment reliability, rollback capability, and production stability across a large portfolio of mission-critical applications. I led a team of DevOps engineers supporting round-the-clock operations of web platforms serving a large global user base, maintaining industry-leading availability standards across geographies.