Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
I work with early-stage and scaling companies to bring clarity, structure, and direction to their technology. As a Fractional CTO and Enterprise Architect, I help founders and leadership teams move from “it works for now” to systems that are secure, scalable, and ready for growth. Most teams I work with are navigating some combination of: Rapid product development with limited technical leadership Platform or infrastructure that won’t scale cleanly Increasing pressure around security, compliance, and data privacy Preparing for investor conversations or due diligence I focus on: Defining architecture and technical strategy Stabilizing and scaling cloud platforms (AWS) Guiding security and compliance readiness (SOC 2, health data considerations) Evaluating and evolving existing stacks (including tools like Supabase and Lovable) Helping teams make smart technical decisions early—before they become expensive problems Currently serving as Fractional CTO for Somarae, supporting platform strategy, scalability, and technical readiness for growth. Background includes enterprise architecture leadership across e-commerce, retail, and cloud-based platforms, with a track record of building high-performing teams and delivering complex systems that actually hold up under scale. USAF Veteran.
Focused on driving technical strategy, scalability, and platform development for an early-stage wellness startup preparing for scale. - Establishing architecture, infrastructure, and long-term technical vision - Advising on security, data privacy, and compliance strategy - Supporting product and integration roadmap development - Partnering with leadership on technical readiness for fundraising - Building a scalable foundation for growth and future engineering teams
Assisting clients assess application migration to the Cloud and how to leverage cloud native technology to reduce costs and increase end user satisfaction
Oversaw strategic and tactical planning and led cross-functional teams to deliver cutting-edge, scalable solutions in dynamic industries; leveraged cloud technologies, Agile methodologies, and innovative frameworks to optimize workflows and enhance operational efficiency. Roles spanned technical architecture, team coordination, team lead, developer, Scrum Master, business analyst, and facilitating client collaboration while ensuring alignment with business objectives and driving impactful results while delivering weekly team status reports and bi-weekly executive summaries, ensuring clear communication and alignment. Led AWS practice, elevating partner status from zero to Select with 24 certifications achieved in under two years and sequentially earning certifications. Orchestrated the migration to serverless infrastructure with AWS Fargate, leveraging event-driven architectures to enhance scalability and operational efficiency by 40%. Utilized multi-stage Docker builds to reduce image size by over 90%; designed and implemented a containerized development environment using Docker, docker-compose, and VS Code debuggers and tasks. Designed internal and public-facing websites with Azure-based backend services, integrating data from multiple sources into a centralized data warehouse using App Services, Azure Database, Data Factory, Synapse, and Power BI and AI/ML app to suggest prices based on competitors. Streamlined Terraform modules with Terragrunt, establishing a robust CI/CD pipeline deployed to AWS, utilizing RDS, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, ECS, EC2, and Lambdas, with logging and monitoring via CloudTrail and CloudWatch. Integrated DevSecOps practices within the software development lifecycle, reducing security vulnerabilities by 65% and accelerating deployment cycles by 30%, using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and SonarQube; automated deployment pipelines for infrastructure (IaaS) and application code.
Director for all IT activities of SaaS based healthcare management application spanning development, QA, PMO, DevOps, database and production support. Member of the leadership team responsible for strategic and tactical planning, project estimates, review of third party statements of work, oversight of project resources and vendor management. Coordinated onshore, near shore and offshore project and support resources using Agile/Scrum/Kanban methodologies. Leveraged AWS products to deploy cost effective and scalable microservices.