Haymarket, Virginia, United States
I am a technology executive with more than 20 years of experience modernizing enterprise IT within high-security, mission-critical environments. As CIO within the United States Air Force, I architected and delivered a secure, scalable enterprise spanning NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS—an environment recognized across the Department of Defense for enabling rapid innovation, collaboration, and operational effectiveness. My leadership approach combines strategic vision with deep technical expertise. I specialize in designing resilient infrastructures, delivering secure enterprise services, and building platforms that accelerate research, analysis, and mission execution at scale. The environments my team and I developed support organizations across the DoD and have demonstrated measurable value through shared enterprise capabilities, operational efficiency, and mission-focused outcomes. Core areas of focus include: * Enterprise IT modernization across multi-domain environments. * Secure cloud architecture, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. * Building scalable platforms that improve mission effectiveness and reduce duplication. * Leading high-performing technical teams in complex operational environments. * Developing partnerships across government, military, industry, and academia. I am particularly interested in the future of defense technology, enterprise cloud, AI-enabled operations, and secure digital ecosystems that strengthen national defense and decision advantage.
As CIO and Branch Chief within the United States Air Force, I lead the strategy, architecture, and operation of a secure enterprise environment supporting research, analysis, innovation, and mission execution across NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS networks. I oversee the design and delivery of scalable cloud and platform capabilities that enable collaboration, data-driven operations, and secure digital services for organizations across the Department of Defense. The enterprise supports multi-domain operations, enterprise SaaS offerings, advanced analytics, and mission-focused technology modernization initiatives. Key areas of responsibility include: * Enterprise IT strategy, architecture, and modernization. * Secure cloud infrastructure and cross-domain integration. * Cybersecurity, identity, and access management. * Development and delivery of enterprise platform services. * Leadership of technical operations and high-performing engineering teams. * Collaboration with government, military, industry, and mission partners. Technologies and focus areas include AWS GovCloud, enterprise platform engineering, zero trust architecture, secure SaaS delivery, identity federation, multi-domain networking, and mission-driven digital transformation.
Provided subject matter expertise in the areas of deployment and configuration management automation, enterprise realignment and consolidation, and physical to virtual to container migration strategies to meet with fast paced corporate initiatives by evolving legacy environments into a modern, scalable infrastructure.
Provide subject matter expertise and consulting services to aid clients in achieving enterprise refinement resulting in quantitative gains in cost management, SLA adherence, process optimization, and performance maximization to accelerate business growth and gain competitive edge.
Provided enterprise architectural analysis, redesign, and implementation strategies for DevOps to facilitate a structural re-implementation of existing client services and infrastructure to meet scalability oriented performance requirements in conjunction with improving aggregate mean times to resolution and overall availability of systems.
Provided subject matter expertise to innovate, architect, and implement complex, highly technical, end-to-end solutions undertaken in a manner that ensured continuous quality improvement embedded in the delivery of services, based on close understanding of the needs of corporate initiatives. Established and maintained external vendor relationships for corporate required hardware, software, services, and resources.