Sometimes they’re enterprise software. Sometimes they’re fiber networks. Sometimes they’re mountain-bike trails. Sometimes they’re communities. My career connects infrastructure, automation, software, cloud, and engineering leadership.
I’m drawn to complicated systems, the people who depend on them, and the work required to make both stronger.
My experience spans hardware, networks, security, automation, software, product collaboration, customer solutions, cloud services, and people leadership.
Each chapter added a new layer: first infrastructure, then architecture, then software, then products and teams.
In high school I worked for MBX building servers. I later interned with Hewitt Associates, building and maintaining email and LDAP systems, before joining a small internet service provider in technical support.
As a student, I managed an IT department and help desk at Northern Illinois University—building early experience in service delivery, team coordination, and supporting a broad user community.
After graduation I returned to DLS, specializing in network design. I helped build out the fiber network, redesign three data centers, deploy roughly 50 wireless towers, and deliver licensed-band point-to-point services. I also designed customer firewalls, helped create a custom business VoIP offering, wrote software, and supported technical sales.
As an independent contractor and later a Sun Microsystems employee, I worked on network architecture and security for Chicago Public Schools, including approximately 700 sites and two data centers. I created a custom monitoring platform that handled auto-triage, self-healing, configuration deployment, and ticketing.
Following Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, I supported the infrastructure behind Platinum Services, then moved into custom monitoring and reporting. I later led the solution used to collect customer data through Oracle Autonomous Health Framework, partnering closely with the AHF team and helping shape the product around customer needs.
Today I manage a team of software developers creating solutions that improve patching, system-health reporting, and customer operations. Our work now extends into OCI and Oracle cloud environments.
I’m most effective where complex infrastructure, customer needs, and product development meet.
Designed and supported environments spanning hundreds of distributed locations, multiple data centers, firewalls, and mission-critical services.
Built custom software that moved network operations beyond alerts—automating diagnosis, remediation, configuration delivery, and ticket creation.
Partnered directly with engineering teams to translate customer realities into stronger monitoring, data collection, and health-reporting capabilities.
Lead with context, trust, technical curiosity, and a focus on practical outcomes for customers and the engineers serving them.
Leadership does not stop at work. I’ve invested years in trails, youth programs, nonprofit events, public planning, and civic development.
I helped bring some of the first mountain bike trails to northern Illinois and built a 30-acre community bike park, including fundraising and stakeholder coordination. After moving to Michigan, I continued trail stewardship with RAMBA.
Mentored at-risk youth through mountain biking, helping young people build confidence, resilience, and connection.
Served as president of a cyclocross nonprofit producing more than ten community bicycle races each year, and continue to support the organization.
Served for three years, earned a certificate in master planning, contributed to the city master plan, and helped achieve Redevelopment Ready Communities accreditation.
I’m always interested in thoughtful conversations about engineering leadership, automation, infrastructure, product strategy, community-building, and the next difficult problem worth solving.