I've spent 10+ years building data and cloud systems, and the last two leading the Cloud Ops
team. My focus is removing blockers so teams ship faster without sacrificing
reliability—whether that's standing up self-service infrastructure, modernizing legacy
databases, or renegotiating vendor contracts. Highlights: ~$650k annual savings through
smarter commitments and consolidation, 60% legacy server reduction by migrating to managed
services, and a DR overhaul that cut recovery time from half a day to under four hours.
~$650kAnnual Cloud Savings
60%Legacy Footprint Reduced
3x FasterRTO Improvement
4Global Time Zones
Professional Experience
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Platform Enablement: Championed a self-service engineering model with
opinionated “Golden Path” CI/CD and infrastructure templates that removed ticket
bottlenecks and democratized cloud access for product teams.
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FinOps Strategy: Engineered flexible commitments and rationalized the
cloud vendor/tooling estate so that ~$650k in annual savings directly reflected business
value, not deferred modernization or underutilized capacity.
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Legacy Modernization: Delivered a structured modernization roadmap that
retired high‑maintenance legacy stacks, rightsized the compute estate (~60% EC2
reduction), and shifted team energy from break/fix to platform evolution.
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Business Continuity: Elevated resilience posture by standardizing
immutable, air‑gapped Clumio backups and DR drills, cutting recovery time from ~12 hours
to <4 and hardening defenses against ransomware‑class threats.
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Operational Maturity: Professionalized Cloud Ops as a service by wiring
change management and JSM workflows into the deployment fabric, enabling auditable
releases without constraining delivery speed.
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Database Modernization: Shifted 20+ self-hosted EC2 databases to
managed RDS & Atlas improving reliability & reducing ops toil, freeing capacity for
strategic work.
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Terraform Engineering: Authored reusable modules enforcing security
baselines for AWS Control Tower accounts, creating predictable guardrails by default.
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Pipeline Reliability: Redesigned Redgate CI/CD flow lowering deployment
failure rates and improving release cadence, boosting developer confidence in change
velocity.
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Observability Integration: Implemented performance dashboards & alerts
informing tuning and capacity decisions, enabling proactive scaling actions.
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Roadmap Ownership: Presented multi-quarter modernization strategy
aligning spend with product goals, clarifying prioritization across stakeholders.
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Technical Mentorship: Guided remote engineers through review patterns
and architectural consistency, elevating shared code quality norms.
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Platform Reliability: Primary SME for all dev/prod database
infrastructure across cloud providers—EC2/Azure VMs, MS SQL, MongoDB, DocumentDB, Azure
SQL.
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Performance & Observability: Deployed SQL Sentry for deep query
analysis and proactive alerting, shifting team from reactive firefighting to
preventative ops.
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Backup Modernization: Transitioned from legacy backup software to Quest
LiteSpeed, achieving 100% recoverability and reduced backup windows.
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High Availability: Architected AlwaysOn Availability Groups (AOAG) for
critical systems, ensuring near-zero downtime during maintenance.
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Team Scaling: Coordinated remote contractors and junior staff,
establishing SQL best practices and scaling output without adding headcount.
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DevOps Transformation: Shifted manual DB operations into automated
Redgate release workflow, reducing human error risk.
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Operational Baselines: Instituted routine maintenance & reporting
improving predictability, enabling clearer capacity planning.
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Backup Optimization: Adopted direct S3 writes + lifecycle retention
reducing storage overhead, lowering long-term retention costs.
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Standards Adoption: Extended emerging coding standards and review
process across BI estate, harmonizing practices across teams.
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Enterprise ETL: Built high-volume SSIS ingestion pipelines enabling
daily executive reporting, underpinning timely decision cycles.
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Power Platform Governance: Managed capacity, licensing, and stability
for Microsoft Power Platform ecosystem, ensuring sustainable adoption.
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Power BI Tenant Admin: Owned gateways, scheduled refresh, RLS security
delivering consistent BI access, improving stakeholder trust in data availability.
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Automated Data Quality: Implemented schema drift & anomaly checks
reducing reporting errors, enhancing reliability of analytical outputs.
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Scalable Data Features: Delivered high-volume healthcare data platform
enhancements aligned to roadmap, supporting clinical analytics evolution.
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Query & Procedure Optimization: Refactored complex SQL handling
millions of records—improved speed & reliability, cutting heavy batch windows.
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Regression Automation: Implemented automated test & static analysis
reducing production defects, elevating release confidence.
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Code Governance: Led daily reviews; standardized workflows promoting
technical excellence, reinforcing collaborative engineering culture.
Earlier Experience (2011 – 2015)
Software Developer at Lever Corps (2014 – 2015) ·
IT Analyst at Crane & Co. (2012 – 2014) · Co-founder at
Keeping You Sane (2011 – 2014)
Technical Skills
Cloud & Platform
AWS (VPC, EC2, S3, Lambda, ECR/ECS, Control Tower), Azure, GCP, Internal Developer
Platforms
Infrastructure as Code
Terraform, HCL, CloudFormation, CDK
Governance & Security
Cloud Governance, Wiz (CSPM), IAM Policy as Code, GDPR & PCI Compliance, Scalr
Data & Databases
MS SQL Server (Expert), PostgreSQL, MongoDB Atlas, Amazon RDS/Aurora, DocumentDB
Operations & Tooling
Jira Service Management, AWS Billing & Cost Mgmt, GitHub Actions, AWS SSM, Clumio,
Site24x7, CloudWatch
Leadership
Agile & Waterfall Delivery, Platform Strategy, Vendor Negotiation, Cross-Functional
Partnerships, Remote Team Management
Education
Bachelor of Science
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
Double Major: Computer Science & Business Administration | Minor: Information Systems
· 2015
Information Technology
McCann Technical High School
2 Years Specialized Vocational Training · 2009
Awards & Recognition
Techie Award: Cloud Spending2025
Techie Award: Coach of the Year2022
Cost Conscious Nominee (6x)2018–2025
Rookie of the Year2016