Who am I?
A Multidisciplinary Leader in Technology Engineering, Architecture, Security, Automation, AI, DX, CI/CD, UX, UI, Design, Innovation, Growth
TL;DR
Leader of teams that design and build secure, high-performance platforms at the intersection of AI, security, and full-stack product development.
A rare combination of technical depth to architect complex systems, innovative creativity for product design, and business fluency to bridge the gaps between deep technical execution, executive strategy, and organizational resilience.
Builder of cultures where teams and individuals do their best work.
Professional Summary
A strategic technology engineering leader with a proven track record of building, scaling, and securing high-performance platforms, microservices, and full-stack product ecosystems. Brings a rare fusion of deep technical fluency, innovative creativity, and executive business acumen — translating engineering excellence into competitive advantage, revenue growth, and organizational resilience.
Equally at home designing AI usage patterns and agentic workflows, driving broad digital transformation, and presenting technology strategy to boards and C-suite stakeholders. A natural teacher and coach who builds inclusive, high-velocity engineering cultures from the ground up — developing engineers, elevating standards, and embedding psychological safety, continuous learning, and a relentless commitment to quality across every team. Champions responsible, sustainable technology — embedding ESG principles, ethical AI governance, and security-first thinking into every layer of the engineering organization.
A creative and multidisciplinary leader who bridges technology, product, design, and media — bringing professional creative direction and pro audio engineering expertise to organizations where innovation, craftsmanship, and differentiated user experience matter.
Thrives in forward-thinking companies where bold technology vision, operational excellence, and human-centered engineering are not just priorities — they are the standard.
Work Experience
- Director, Cloud Engineering & Operations,
- Taylor & Francis Group, New York, NY, US
- Delivery & Technology Lead,
- Taylor & Francis Group, New York, NY, US
- Tech Lead,
- Taylor & Francis Group, New York, NY, US
- Senior Engineer,
- Taylor & Francis Group, New York, NY, US
- Webmaster,
- Taylor & Francis Group, New York, NY, US
- Director,
- Digital Entropy, Nyack, NY, US
- Webmaster,
- Lawrence Erblaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ, US
- Multimedia Designer/Developer,
- Net2Phone, Newark, NJ, US
- Multimedia Designer/Developer,
- Pearson Education (formerly Prentice Hall), Upper Saddle River, NJ, US
- Art Director,
- Creative Solutions, Hackensack, NJ, US
- Music Producer,
- Ill Famiglia Music, New York, NY, US
- Painter,
- DiFrisco Painting, New York, NY, US
- Musician,
- Artist,
Education
- Fundamentals of Secure Development, 2020
- NotSoSecure, Claranet Cyber Security, London, England
- Fundamentals of Application Security, 2020
- NotSoSecure, Claranet Cyber Security, London, England
- Agile Bootcamp, 2016
- AND Digital, London, England
- Publishing Course for Professionals, 2009
- Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US
- Associates Degree in Visual Communications, 1997
- Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL, US
- Computer Graphics, 1995
- Montclair State University, Montclair, NJ, US
Core Competencies
Technology Vision & Strategy
Long-range roadmapping, emerging technology evaluation, innovation portfolio management, and aligning technology investment with business outcomes.
AI & Intelligent Systems Leadership
End-to-end AI strategy, LLM integration, agentic workflow design, AI governance, and operationalizing AI to drive efficiency, revenue, and customer value.
Engineering Excellence
Full-stack development, DevSecOps, solutions architecture, platform engineering, and developer experience optimization.
Security & Resilience
Zero-trust architecture, supply chain security, cybersecurity risk management, compliance readiness, and AI threat surface awareness.
Delivery & Execution
Agile, SAFe, and Lean Six Sigma — driving OKRs and engineering KPIs across distributed, cross-functional teams.
People Leadership & Talent Development
Engineering team building, performance management, mentorship, and fostering a culture of psychological safety and continuous learning.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Executive stakeholder communication, product partnership, FinOps, and bridging technical strategy with go-to-market goals.
ESG & Responsible Technology
Carbon-aware infrastructure, sustainable architecture, and embedding ethical practices into engineering culture and governance.
Creative & Product Direction
UX/UI design, branding, identity systems, and bridging engineering leadership with customer experience and product storytelling.
Music Production & Pro Audio Engineering
Composing, recording, mixing, mastering, sound design, and studio and live audio production.
Technical Expertise
AI, Automation & Intelligent Systems
LLM orchestration (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini), multi-agent frameworks, prompt engineering, AI-augmented CI/CD, and AI governance.
Cloud & DevOps
AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD — with FinOps and cloud-native security.
Cybersecurity & DevSecOps
Zero-trust architecture, OWASP, SAST/DAST, secrets management, supply chain security, IAM, and compliance readiness.
Data Engineering & Observability
GraphQL, Apache Kafka, data pipelines, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, and data-informed decision making at scale.
Languages
JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, PHP, Ruby, Go, Elixir, Bash, SQL.
Frameworks & Platforms
React, Next.js, Vue, Node.js, Express, Ruby on Rails, FastAPI, Serverless, MuleSoft, Spring.
Standards & APIs
REST, GraphQL, OpenAPI, OAuth, OIDC, JWT, JSON-LD, Schema.org, WebSockets, SEO.
Quality & Testing
TDD/BDD, AI-assisted code review, Playwright, Cypress, Jest, Postman, k6, Sonar, and load testing.
Content & Collaboration
Confluence, Notion, WordPress, Shopify, Jira, GitHub, Linear, Figma, Miro, Slack.
Systems
macOS, Linux (Alpine, Debian/Ubuntu, Red Hat/Fedora), Windows, iOS.
Pro Audio & Music Production
Logic Pro, MIDI sequencing, mixing, mastering, sound design, music composition, and podcast and broadcast production.
Technical Skills Big Board
Skills that pay bills (and some that don't).
An excessively massive list of technology, software, services, and standards that I've had experience with. It helps me keep track of it all, and serves as a useful reference. I've represented my experience and skill-level using icons.
Legend:
- (true love)
- (everyday use)
- (favorite)
- (signficant experience)
- (beginner)
- (dated knowledge)
- (dead skill)
- (frown)
Cloud, DevOps, Infrastructure
- Amazon Developer Services
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- AWS CloudFormation
- AWS Compute Services
- AWS Networking Services
- AWS Storage Services
- Ansible
- Apache HTTP Server
- Apptio / Cloudability
- ArgoCD
- Atlassian Bamboo
- Atlassian Bitbucket
- Atlassian Bitbucket Pipelines
- CircleCI
- Consul
- Docker
- Docker Hub
- GitHub
- GitLab
- GoCD
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- Google Firebase
- Gruntwork
- Harness
- Helm
- Heroku
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Microsoft Azure
- MongoDB Atlas
- Nginx
- OpenTofu
- Packer
- Puppet
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
- Terratest
- Travis CI
- Vagrant
- VirtualBox
Cybersecurity & DevSecOps
- 1Password
- AWS Cloud Security
- Black Duck Polaris
- Burp Suite Community Edition
- Checkov
- Cloudflare
- Contrast Security
- CrowdStrike
- Datadog Security
- Fiddler
- Fortinet Lacework CNAPP
- GitHub Security
- GitHub Super-Linter
- Gitleaks
- Keybase (E2EE)
- KICS
- kube-bench
- Let's Encrypt
- MegaLinter by OX Security
- Microsoft Defender
- New Relic Security
- OWASP
- Proxyman
- Qualys
- Secretlint
- Snyk
- Sonar (SonarQube)
- Tenable Nessus
- Trivy
- Vault
- Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP)
Data Engineering & Observability
- AWS Analytics Services
- AWS App Integration Services
- AWS Database Services
- Apache ActiveMQ
- Apache CouchDB
- Apache DevLake
- Apache Kafka
- Apache Lucene
- Apache Solr
- Apache Zookeeper
- Appfire Flow (formerly Pluralsight Flow)
- DataDog
- Dynatrace
- Elastic Observability
- Elasticsearch / ELK
- Flowable
- Google Analytics
- Logz.io
- Microsoft Power Automate
- Memcached
- MongoDB
- MSSQL
- MySQL / MariaDB
- Neo4j
- New Relic
- OpenTelemetry
- PostgreSQL
- RabbitMQ
- Redis
- Sentry
- SigNoz
- SQLite
Frameworks & Platforms
- Angular (JS)
- Angular Material (CSS/JS)
- Astro (JS)
- Bootstrap (CSS/JS)
- CakePHP (PHP)
- CodeIgniter (PHP)
- Ember.js (JS)
- Express (JS)
- FastAPI (Python)
- Hugo (Go)
- Ionic (JS)
- Jekyll (Ruby)
- jQuery (JS)
- Koa (JS)
- Laravel (PHP)
- Less (CSS)
- Mongoose (JS)
- MuleSoft (API/RAML)
- Next.js (JS)
- Node.js (JS)
- Nrwl Nx (JS)
- Phoenix (Elixir)
- React (JS)
- Restify (JS)
- Ruby on Rails (Ruby)
- Sass (CSS)
- Spark (Java)
- Spring (Java)
- Serverless Framework (JS)
- Swagger (API/OAS)
- Symfony (PHP)
- Tailwind CSS
- Vue.js (JS)
- Yeoman
