About
A 30-year software leader and hands-on architect across Finance, Media, and Technology. I build engineering teams and ship production systems alike — most recently in generative AI and cloud-native platforms, with a long track record of modernizing legacy systems without breaking the business.
Experience
2024 — Present
Director of Engineering · Codiac
Pioneered OpenClaw, a secure GenAI orchestration platform (LLM agents with skills, memory, tools) on customer-owned Kubernetes. Defined strategy and shipped the MVP four weeks early.
2019 — 2024
Senior Principal Engineer · Invesco
Led Research & Innovation engineering; re-architected the AI chatbot onto OpenAI/Azure; modernized CI/CD and deployments on AWS EKS.
2014 — 2019
Senior Solutions Engineer / Architect · Oppenheimer Funds
Built the Product Data Access Portal (secure self-service product data); drove cloud migration to Pivotal Cloud Foundry, then OpenShift.
2013 — 2014
Senior Software Architect · Clever Devices
Delivered mission-critical transit voice communications in CleverCAD, integrating third-party radio infrastructure with robust monitoring.
2010 — 2013
Senior Architect / Tech Lead · McKinsey & Company
Built Objective Health — hospital analytics rendering 50M-row datasets to guide executive cost and strategy decisions.
1995 — 2010
Engineer → Architect → Co-Founder · Finance · Media · Technology
Progressively senior roles establishing full-stack, architecture, and leadership foundations.
Education
B.S. Computer Science (Math minor) — SUNY Plattsburgh.