Experience
Each of these roles was a mandate: take it, deliver it, hand it off. Along the way I've supported 15+ M&A integrations across four organizations.
Mandate: modernize the data estate and embed AI in clinical operations for a KKR-backed provider.
- Lead a 12-person team (internal and external) managing a $7M technology portfolio supporting 3,000+ clinicians and 160+ sites; deliver monthly board reporting on technology roadmap, risk posture, and operational KPIs to PE sponsors.
- Replatformed a legacy SQL Server/Power BI stack to a DuckDB lakehouse (DuckLake) — Prefect Cloud orchestration, continuous Soda validation, GitHub CI/CD — cutting platform and staffing costs by more than 75% and replacing weeks-long manual reporting with self-service analytics.
- Architected an AI-assisted analytics layer (Claude, MCP server, governed semantic access) that lets non-technical stakeholders in Finance and Clinical Ops query the lakehouse directly; built the companion text-to-SQL eval harness in Python.
- Ship applied AI into clinical operations: an AI note-audit tool for RBTs and a Chrome extension that automates clinical note authoring inside CentralReach. Authored the company's AI governance and vendor-assessment framework.
Mandate: make four SaaS EHR platforms ready for recapitalization. Delivered in two years.
- Led a 15-person DevOps organization across four SaaS EHR platforms, cutting production downtime from 8 hours to under 1 and introducing safe rollbacks — directly protecting customer retention through a growth phase
- Established FinOps controls and a 3-year COGS model for $4M in cloud spend, improving margin predictability ahead of the company's recapitalization
- Delivered Walmart Supply Chain Cybersecurity compliance in 45 days with zero findings, unblocking vendor access to 3,000+ Vision Centers
Mandate: build the DevOps function from zero. Built and handed off in 13 months.
- Built and led an 8-person DevOps team; introduced Infrastructure as Code to standardize AWS environments, improving audit readiness and reducing cloud costs by 25%
- Resolved critical performance bottlenecks during enterprise customer migrations through SQL optimization and caching strategies, preventing churn among major accounts including IKAV Energy, XTO (ExxonMobil), and Repsol
Mandate: stand up security assurance for Fortune 100 sales and carry technical diligence through the merger. Done when the merger closed.
- Built a repeatable security assurance function supporting $16M in ARR across Fortune 100 customers including Zoom, Slack, Johnson & Johnson, and Starbucks
- Supported M&A technical diligence during the iOFFICE-SpaceIQ merger that formed Eptura; also delivered HQ infrastructure for a 250-person facility on time within $2.5M capex
Mandate: pass the organization's first WECC audit. Passed it, then handed off the compliance foundation.
- Led a 2-person team through NERC CIP audit preparation; passed the organization's first WECC audit by securing mission-critical control systems across two 24/7 control rooms, safeguarding $5M in annual revenue