Experience

As CTO of Bluefly.io Collective, I oversee the strategic and technical vision for delivering large-scale solutions across private sector and government projects (up to Impact Level 5). My role involves leveraging open-source platforms—particularly Drupal—to build robust, secure, and highly scalable digital experiences on AWS, GCP, Azure, and our proprietary bring-your-own-infrastructure hosting solution. I am committed to fostering innovation and driving continuous improvements in open-source ecosystems by contributing new distributions, templates, and recipes back to Drupal.org.

• Technical Leadership & Strategy: Define and execute the technology roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives and compliance standards for high-impact government and private sector clients.

• Open-Source Contributions: Champion the use of open-source technologies, especially Drupal, by architecting solutions, creating reusable distributions, and submitting core enhancements and recipes to the Drupal.org community.

• Infrastructure & Cloud Management: Oversee multi-cloud deployments on AWS, GCP, and Azure, while spearheading the development of a unique bring-your-own-infrastructure hosting solution for clients with specialized requirements.

• Innovation & R&D: Drive research initiatives to evaluate emerging technologies, security protocols, and advanced hosting practices to maintain a competitive edge and ensure client success.

• Team Leadership & Collaboration: Manage cross-functional engineering and DevOps teams, promoting best practices in development, testing, and deployment. Foster a collaborative environment that encourages knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement.

• Governance & Compliance: Implement and maintain robust security frameworks and compliance standards to safeguard client data and services in regulated environments.

In this role, I partner with enterprise-level clients to drive the success of their digital transformation initiatives using Acquia’s platform. My responsibilities include strategic advisory, technical consulting, and ensuring seamless integration between client environments and Acquia’s cloud solutions. I manage cross-functional teams to address technical challenges, deliver performance optimizations, and guide long-term roadmap planning. By leveraging my expertise in cloud architecture, security, and software development, I ensure client satisfaction, retention, and platform scalability, aligning their business goals with our technology offerings. 

Executionists was an award wining, design-centric, marketing and development agency with efforts across multiple market segments: financial, real estate, professional services, and eCommerce. Executionists was sold to Kensium in 2020.

As the Technical Director my role was to architect and execute on design and data structures for multiple projects simultaneously. Daily code review of development teams, systems administration [SysAdmin], development operations [DevOps], security protocols, and general maintenance all fell under the direct responsibilities of the role.

Brick House represents a meeting-of-the-minds that started in 2010 and has continued to develop and transform every day since. Our approach is based on assembling multi-disciplinary teams including market segment experts, stakeholders, data professionals, and proven technology. Over time, we have developed distributions of platforms-as-a-service that predictively accomplish 70 to 80% of the project out of the box. In the end, we deliver systems and services that take on a life of their own; and, we remain in support of those systems. 

In the role of Cloud Architect, my responsibilities included designing multiple distributions, software-as-a-solution [SaaS], and platforms-as-a-service [PaaS] that are meant to anticipate the demand for scale and retain highly focused scope documentation and delivery. 

Level Playing Field [LPF] is the industry leader at providing secure, scale-able, cloud-based Solutions for Government, Justice, and Law Enforcement professionals. All of our platforms are easily accessible in multiple languages via any internet accessible device. At the end of the day, our goal is to provide a Level Playing Field.

In my role as the CTO, I was responsible for architecting and developing enterprise level projects that leveraged technology in general and machine learning and artificial intelligence at scale.

In the role of systems technician, the responsibilities included establishing server and hardline configuration with pre and post-loaded software. System configurations and security protocols were maintained at all levels of the network including automated backups and cloud-based redundancy measures.

Skilled in implementing enterprise-level CMS platforms like Drupal, with a focus on content strategy, SEO, and enhancing domain authority. I work closely with stakeholders to develop content strategies that align with business goals, improving search visibility and user engagement. I optimize CMS performance for SEO by managing metadata, site structure, and content formatting, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performing solutions. My efforts contribute to elevating the site’s domain authority, driving organic traffic and maximizing digital impact. 

Proficient in a wide range of programming languages, including Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, and SQL. I apply these languages to develop secure, scalable, and high-performance applications, integrating them with cloud-based solutions and enterprise content management systems. My expertise includes full-stack development, automation, and API integration, allowing for efficient and effective technical solutions tailored to client needs. Additionally, I leverage these languages to enhance platform security, optimize performance, and ensure seamless integration across different technologies. 

Experienced in managing and maintaining both cloud-based and on-premise infrastructures. Proficient in server provisioning, network configuration, and security management, ensuring high availability, performance, and scalability. Skilled in automating administrative tasks using tools like Ansible, Puppet, and scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell). Expertise includes monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing systems, as well as implementing robust backup and disaster recovery strategies. Strong focus on maintaining compliance with industry security standards and ensuring seamless integration of systems across environments. 

Expert in implementing DevOps practices to streamline development and operations workflows. Proficient in continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, and CircleCI, as well as containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. Skilled in automating infrastructure provisioning and management through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and AWS CloudFormation. My DevOps practices focus on improving collaboration, reducing deployment time, enhancing security, and ensuring scalable, resilient infrastructure for high-performance applications. 

The Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services [ATILS] was assigned to study possible regulatory changes for enhancing the delivery of, and access to, legal services through the use of technology, including artificial intelligence and online legal service delivery models. The work of ATILS was animated by the inescapable conclusion that nearly all Californians are facing severe challenges in obtaining access to legal services for commonly encountered legal problems. 

The Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the Washington State Bar Association promotes the informed use and best practices of alternative dispute resolution processes by: providing resources; educating members of the bar and the public; and, addressing issues relating to the growth and development of alternative dispute resolution services in the State of Washington.

An interdisciplinary degree was an opportunity to combine the required coursework for two (2) undergraduate degrees, political science and psychology, while accomplishing both in a four-year program. During undergraduate work, I was additionally able to participate in graduate level anthropology projects that have lead to the incorporation of government and justice oriented platforms.