Professional Experience
With over two decades in technology leadership and execution, I've had the opportunity to build teams, scale platforms, and drive significant results across diverse environments.
Technology Advisor (Contract)
Warburg Pincus, New York, NY (April 2025 - Present)
- Key Accomplishments:
- Providing expert technical advisory to a leading private equity firm on strategic matters, technology assessments, and investment considerations within the GovTech sector.
- Evaluating platform architecture, operational scalability, and security postures for potential portfolio companies.
Director of Engineering
First Due, Garden City, NY (Nov 2023 - Nov 2024)
Provided strategic and tactical leadership for a 100+ person engineering organization (platform development, mobile, integrations) in a high-compliance GovTech SaaS environment.
- Key Accomplishments:
- Directed standardization of SDLC practices across 13 agile teams, reducing release cycles by 50% and improving velocity/quality.
- Oversaw technology strategy ensuring adherence to FedRAMP, SOC2, HIPAA, and PCI standards.
- Implemented robust observability strategies, improving incident response 10x and reducing production errors by 90%.
- Managed cloud infrastructure spend, achieving an 85% reduction in mobile platform costs through optimization.
- Oversaw adoption of Copilot AI for engineering acceleration.
(Company Context: SaaS platform on AWS using PHP, Redis, Vue; native mobile apps - Kotlin/Swift; Clients: EMS, Fire, Inspection agencies)
Director of Engineering / Sr Manager, Frontend Dev / Frontend Architect
RollKall Technologies, Irving, TX (May 2019 - June 2023)
Scaled technology operations from startup phase (employee #6) to 60+ employees, building and leading Engineering, Infrastructure, and QA teams (local, remote, onshore/offshore). As Frontend Architect, established foundational UI architecture and strategy.
- Key Accomplishments:
- Defined and executed technology roadmaps, architecting and delivering a critical real-time GCP/Vue platform.
- Led a full mobile app (React Native) redesign and refactor to TypeScript, establishing a new custom design system for improved consistency and development velocity.
- Implemented and managed full CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps), increasing deployment velocity 10x.
- Oversaw Azure cloud infrastructure, optimizing operations and achieving 90% cost reduction on messaging services.
- Ensured platform compliance with PCI and SOC2 standards.
(Company Context: SaaS platform on Azure using Azure DevOps, K8s, C#/.NET, Node.js, Firebase, MS SQL; Frontends: React, Vue, React Native)
Lead Mobile App/Web Developer
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, TX (April 2014 - May 2019)
Architected, developed, and managed full-stack (PHP, SQL, Redis, VueJS) for high-volume ($18M+/month), secure online transaction systems requiring international compliance. Focused on enhancing user engagement through improved interfaces.
- Key Accomplishments:
- Led the strategy, design, development, and launch of the company's first mobile applications (iOS/Android), significantly driving user adoption and engagement.
- Maintained robust backend infrastructure supporting 1M+ daily transactions and real-time updates (Websockets, WebRTC).
- Successfully executed a comprehensive mobile responsive redesign of the main platform, improving usability across devices.
(Company Context: Third largest auction house, international presence, patented live auction tech)
Field Services Analyst / Internal App Developer
CompuCom, Dallas, TX (November 2007 - March 2014)
Managed IT field operations supporting diverse enterprise clients (Fortune 50, Financial, Retail, Gov't, Military) across a large region. Led infrastructure projects (installations, migrations, rollouts) ensuring SLA compliance.
- Key Accomplishments:
- Developed an internal mobile application streamlining field service processes, reducing time-to-task by 80%.
(Company Context: IT field services, server/network management, hardware support, logistics for major clients)
Owner / Manager
Leeder Technical Resources, Tyler, TX (February 2003 - September 2007)
Founded and managed a technology services firm, overseeing technical staff, client projects (web development, IT support), operations, sales, and vendor partnerships.