What We Do
Comprehensive IT advisory and engineering services for enterprises.
Strategic IT Advisory & Program Leadership
Every major IT initiative I've led—whether at Wells Fargo, APS, or State Farm—was a net-new program I helped architect, justify, fund, plan, build, and operationalize. I bring that full-lifecycle experience to your organization as an advisor and program leader. Whether you need help making the case to your board, structuring a multi-year technology roadmap, or leading a complex program across competing priorities, I engage at the level your initiative requires.
Capabilities
- Executive stakeholder engagement (C-suite, board, finance)
- Technology roadmap development and multi-year planning
- Business case development and ROI/TCO modeling
- Program structure, governance, and milestone frameworks
- Vendor evaluation, selection, and contract strategy
- Budget ownership and CapEx/OpEx planning for large programs
- Team structure design and hiring advisory
- Change management and organizational adoption
- Transition from program delivery to steady-state operations
Cloud Architecture & Migration
From greenfield cloud-native designs to lift-and-shift migrations of complex legacy workloads, I bring hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP. I've led AWS migrations as an SME at Kryterion and enabled cloud adoption programs across State Farm's enterprise.
Capabilities
- Multi-cloud architecture design (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Lift-and-shift and re-platforming migrations
- Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and CloudFormation
- Cost optimization and FinOps practices
- Landing zone and account structure design
- Network architecture, VPCs, transit gateways
DevOps & Automation
I've built automation frameworks that manage thousands of hosts and reduced provisioning times from days to hours. From CI/CD pipelines in GitLab to Ansible playbooks managing enterprise-scale infrastructure, I bring deep automation expertise.
Capabilities
- GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins pipeline design
- Ansible automation at enterprise scale
- Kubernetes orchestration and Helm chart development
- Docker containerization and registry management
- GitOps workflows with ArgoCD and Flux
- Python and Bash scripting for infrastructure automation
Observability & Monitoring
I spent years operating 45 Elasticsearch clusters at Wells Fargo and currently architect the enterprise SIEM at APS. From log aggregation to real-time streaming analytics, I build observability platforms that give engineering teams full visibility.
Capabilities
- Elasticsearch cluster design and operations
- Kibana dashboard development and SIEM configuration
- Grafana dashboards and alerting
- Kafka streaming pipelines for log and event ingestion
- Apache Airflow for data pipeline orchestration
- Elastic Cloud and ECE deployment and migration
Infrastructure Engineering
Deep experience across the full stack: VMware environments with 200,000+ VMs at State Farm, 144-node HPC clusters at ASU, and modern Kubernetes-based platforms. I design infrastructure that balances reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.
Capabilities
- VMware vSphere design and operations at scale
- High-performance computing (HPC) cluster architecture
- Hybrid cloud connectivity and network design
- Storage architecture (SAN, NAS, object storage)
- Capacity planning and performance tuning
- Disaster recovery and business continuity planning
Security & Compliance
At Kryterion I led PCI DSS and SOC 2 compliance efforts. At APS I operate a full enterprise SIEM. I approach security as an engineering discipline—automated controls, policy as code, and continuous compliance validation.
Capabilities
- SIEM implementation with Elasticsearch
- PCI DSS and SOC 2 compliance readiness
- Security posture assessment and hardening
- IAM architecture and least-privilege design
- Vulnerability management programs
- Log aggregation for security analytics
SRE & Platform Engineering
As a VP-level SRE at Wells Fargo I owned SLOs, incident response, chaos engineering, and load testing for core banking observability systems. I help organizations build the practices and tooling to achieve meaningful reliability guarantees.
Capabilities
- SLO/SLA definition and measurement
- Incident response process design
- Chaos engineering and load testing programs
- Platform team structure and enablement
- On-call rotation and runbook development
- Capacity planning and auto-scaling strategies
How We Engage
Discovery
Understand current state, goals, and constraints. Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities.
Architecture
Design the solution, document options, and present recommendations with tradeoffs.
Delivery
Hands-on build — teams, vendors, governance, and technical leadership through production.
Operationalize
Runbooks, training, monitoring, handoff, and steady-state readiness.
Need help in one of these areas?
Let's discuss your specific challenges and build a plan that fits your environment and timeline.
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