Career Impact
Solving Bigger Problems Over Time
From enterprise ERP systems to cloud-native platforms to organization leadership, the arc here is not title progression. It is increasing responsibility for harder systems, broader business contexts, and more consequential technical decisions.
Leading the UEV Platform Tools Organization
Manager, Software Engineering
Promoted from within to lead the UEV Platform Tools organization, define its mission, and scale it to ~17 engineers globally. Drives Universal EV Platform tooling strategy across product creation, industrialization, DevOps, data flows, and AI while staying engaged in architecture and delivery decisions.
- Defined tooling strategy across engineering, finance, supply chain, DevOps, and AI
- Built Hermes Mass AI, replacing manual mass tracking with real-time data pipelines so engineers could make weight and compliance decisions faster
- Established software change management systems to improve control and delivery flow
- Built CI/CD infrastructure and release tooling for platform teams
- Led AI enablement across the SDLC with practical workflow integration
- Created API security CI tooling adopted broadly at Ford
- Led the GCMS replatform and modernization effort
- Owns architecture strategy, security governance, and technical direction for the organization
- Shaped solutions spanning business tooling and data warehousing needs tied to vehicle development operations
Cloud Transformation & Technical Leadership
Sr. DevOps & Cloud Engineer — Tech Lead
Led a complex multi-phase migration of a globally distributed microservices application from legacy infrastructure to Google Cloud Platform. Operated as a hands-on IC tech lead for 5 engineers, drove architecture and delivery decisions, and delivered a 50% cost reduction.
- Architected a GCP cloud solution that improved performance, scalability, and operating economics
- Reduced application and operational costs by 50% through cloud-native architecture
- Orchestrated mission-critical database migration to Cloud SQL — 30% performance improvement
- Featured in Ford IT's 'The Scoop' weekly newsletter for migration impact
- Mentored developers, analysts, and project managers across the migration program
- Provided SRE support improving system uptime by 25%
- Principal security representative — drove comprehensive security reviews
- Implemented IaC with Terraform, reducing manual interventions
- Engineered Cloud Pub/Sub, Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, and Cloud Armor solutions, including a 40% deployment time reduction
Cyber Defense & DevSecOps Leadership
DevSecOps Engineer — GCP Lead
GCP Lead for Ford's Cyber Defense Center — bridging SOC tooling with cloud security across Google Cloud. Built security tools infrastructure, developed SOAR workflows, and drove cloud security posture for the SOC's GCP footprint.
- Led GCP cloud security strategy for the Cyber Defense Center's tooling infrastructure
- Built alert efficacy dashboard measuring detection quality by alert source across all enterprise sources
- Architected and deployed security tooling on GCP (Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, GKE)
- Developed and maintained orchestration pipelines for SOC security tooling
- Built SOAR automation workflows to streamline incident response operations
- Implemented cloud security controls, IAM policies, and network segmentation for SOC workloads in GCP
- Designed CI/CD pipelines, disaster recovery, and security policies for SOC tool integrations
- Delivered and operated containerized security tooling using Docker, Kubernetes, and Tekton on GCP
Commodities & Procurement Platform
Developer — Commodities Systems Lead
Returned to own the commodities and procurement ERP handling $6B in annual transactions. Designed AWS architecture for the platform upgrade, built a cloud-native integration platform, implemented enterprise SSO, and aligned technology decisions to business operations and vendor strategy.
- Primary IT representative for $6B commodities ERP system
- Developed cloud-native integration platform on AWS
- Designed AWS cloud-based architecture for major ERP upgrade on Java codebase
- Collaborated with software vendors to align functionality roadmaps
- Executed Okta SSO implementation across organizational systems
- Developed testing strategies for global enterprise applications
Security Platform Automation
Cybersecurity Automation Engineer
Protected Dell.com, supporting roughly $12M in daily transactions through automated WAF and DDoS mitigation. Built observability for production security infrastructure and drove the automation strategy across the organization.
- Secured Dell.com, protecting ~$12M in daily e-commerce transactions
- Automated web application security and DDoS mitigation across enterprise WAF platforms
- Built observability and monitoring for production cybersecurity infrastructure
- Drove enterprise-wide security automation strategy and roadmap
Enterprise Application Development
Developer
Engineered backend services and enterprise integrations, built RESTful APIs, administered SaaS solutions, and partnered directly with the business on application strategy and operational needs.
- Engineered RESTful API services using Node.js for enterprise applications
- Evaluated, implemented, and administered SaaS solutions
- Developed comprehensive test scripts and testing strategy documents
- Served as IT representative for enterprise application operations