Résumé

Freelance · Remote

• Future Force · EVP & CTO Jun 2026 – Present

Future Force · Cadence JROTC platform

• Serve as hands-on EVP and CTO: set technical direction, run a two-person engineering team, and write the majority of the production code.
• Architected and led delivery of Cadence, a multi-tenant JROTC education platform, from first commit (16 June) to a live production pilot on 1 August — 34 working days. By working day 69 the platform held 415k lines of hand-written code, 415 API endpoints, 115 pages, 95 migrations, and 4,400+ automated tests.
• Personally authored 86% of the codebase (251 commits, 70 merged PRs), delivering at 24× a top-decile unassisted output rate and avoiding an estimated $2.2M and five years of schedule against a conventional build.
• Shipped authentication and MFA, curriculum authoring and delivery, native web curriculum for four LET levels, assessments with a test bank and gradebook, rosters, portfolios, notifications, Stripe instructor billing, and an admin and support console.
• Designed and operate the AWS estate as code: 306 Terraform resources across ECS Fargate, Multi-AZ RDS, ElastiCache, CloudFront, WAF, and 20 CloudWatch alarms, deployed 198 times by a CI/CD pipeline built in the same window.
• Diagnosed and closed a production outage in one day, then shipped twelve reliability and cost PRs the same day, cutting monthly AWS spend 15% and eliminating 250,000 daily S3 requests.
• Brought the cadet-facing product to WCAG 2.1 AA and authored the district conformance report; integrated seven parallel feature branches and 410k lines of digitized LET 1–4 curriculum in a single reviewed merge with 4,500 tests green.

C# / .NET 10 · Next.js 16 · TypeScript · React · PostgreSQL 17 · EF Core · Terraform · AWS (ECS Fargate, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront, WAF, SES, SNS) · GitHub Actions · Playwright · xUnit

EdTech / Defense · Remote

• Chief Technology Officer Jan 2026 – May 2026
• Lead Developer Aug 2022 – Jan 2026

Architecture & infrastructure

• Architected and maintained secure, compliant AWS and AWS GovCloud environments supporting 250,000+ users across more than 1,000 high school Army JROTC programs, achieving 99.9% uptime during 40% user growth.
• Served as Solutions Architect and Senior Systems Engineer for Army G6 technical reviews, owning documentation and compliance validation for 400+ NIST 800-53 controls.
• Designed and implemented cloud infrastructure across EC2, S3, RDS, ElastiCache (Redis), SQS, SNS, SES, ALB, and EBS, ensuring IL4, CMMC, and FedRAMP compliance.

Technical leadership & delivery

• Led a team of 5–7 developers through the full SDLC: architecture planning, sprint planning, code reviews, and production deployments.
• Designed and delivered major platform features including MFA, an asynchronous grading queue that eliminated processing delays and data loss, quiz creation, curriculum planning tools, and internal messaging.
• Partnered with the CTO to establish the security documentation and controls infrastructure required for Department of the Army Authorization to Operate (ATO) renewal.
• Overhauled development workflows, testing, and ticketing systems, reducing help desk response times and production hotfixes.

C# (.NET Framework & .NET Core) · AWS / AWS GovCloud · SQL Server · Redis · REST APIs

Warehouse Management Systems · Hybrid

• Chief Technology Officer Sep 2019 – Sep 2022
• Software Engineer Feb 2019 – Sep 2019

Strategic leadership

• Led the company's digital transformation as its first CTO, migrating the flagship WMS from on-premise to a cloud-based SaaS architecture within the first year.
• Managed technical relationships with 30+ clients, including Fortune 500 companies, translating business requirements into technical solutions.
• Built and led a team of 10+ developers and contractors, establishing development standards, code review, and delivery workflows.

Technical execution & revenue

• Personally delivered $3M+ in custom feature development and billable work over 3 years as an individual contributor (50% of the role).
• Architected and implemented the complete WMS feature set: allocation, wave/batch picking, pick-to-light, LPN management, labeling, shipping integrations, and pack verification.
• Designed APIs and integrations connecting the WMS to ERP systems, shipping carriers, and warehouse automation hardware.

C# .NET · C++ · Delphi · Pascal · SQL Server · AWS / Azure · REST APIs · WMS / ERP integrations