Experience
- Principal IT Developer - Infrastructure - Current Employer2024-Present
- Sr. Manager Architecture - CVS Health2022-2024
- Principal IT Developer - Infrastructure - Current Employer2019-2022
- Principal IT Developer - Informatics and BI Analytics - Current Employer2011-2019
- Creative Services/Developer/Creative/Director/UIUX/FullStack/DevOps1999-2011
Principal IT Developer - Infrastructure
Responsible for deploying, and monitoring on-prem Large Language Models using vLLM.
- Authoring and Manging Infrastructure as Code utilizing Ansible Playbooks
- Ansible Tower integration for automated deployments
- Establishing and ensuring best practices for keeping clusters and their related applications updated backed up and monitored
- Alignment with Change Management
- Configuration management and cluster structure and sizing
- MultiTenant team collaboration to enable a platform that supports multiple areas of the organization
- Cluster architectures including master/data/client splits, Logstash with Kafka back-pressure, Beats-based monitoring, and Kibana rules, alerts, and Watcher
Sr. Manager Architecture - CVS Health
Led a small team of engineers responsible for data ingestion, monitoring, and Machine Learning across a large-scale distributed environment.
- Optimized Elasticsearch infrastructure and data lifecycle management to improve platform efficiency and reduce resource waste
- Designed and deployed ML-driven anomaly detection strategies, enabling per-entity behavioral baselining and alerting
- Automated deployments using Ansible to increase consistency, auditability, and operational reliability
- Selected and onboarded Apache Airflow to support reliable workflow orchestration and data processing pipelines
- Maintained hands-on technical contribution while setting architectural direction and platform standards
Principal IT Developer Infrastructure
End-to-end owner of on-prem Elasticsearch clusters, including architecture, deployment automation, monitoring, security, and operational support.
- Engineered Kafka and Logstash ingestion pipelines with structured index mappings and Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) to support scalable data retention and performance optimization
- Eliminated manual deployment processes by implementing infrastructure-as-code automation using Ansible and Jenkins; later migrated to Ansible Automation Platform
- Implemented Git-based configuration management for index templates, lifecycle policies, and Logstash pipelines, enabling peer review, traceability, and controlled change management
- Leveraged Elasticsearch Machine Learning to detect ingestion irregularities and latency anomalies across distributed systems
Principal IT Developer - Analytics and Application Development
Application developer with UI/UX focus supporting a legacy .NET monolith and helping lead the transition toward a microservice-based architecture.
Education
I have little formal education outside of your standard American public school system. I spent roughly a year and a half in community college(s). Realizing I didn't really have the money to keep going and I was mostly teaching myself anyway - I decided to do just that. Got a low paying part-time paid internship doing 'graphic design' at a nonprofit called Central Florida Cultural Endeavors. I made something like $140/week and a side job working at Denny's to make ends meet. Saved the money. Served a lot of Grand Slam Breakfasts. Became self sufficient.
The internship offered such a broad range of materials, posters, shirts, brochures, billboards, website(s) it provided me a rather large portfolio of work primarily created with QuarkXPress and Macromedia tools. I was able to transition to working for the circulation department of a newspaper that gave me an actual yearly salary and a 401k. I was really blessed to have both of these opportunities as the volume and variety of work was interesting, challenging and the portfolio continued to grow. The rest is 25 years following the natural flow of work and interests.
Contact
I follow the Cal Newport - Deep Work model of productivity and do not use any social media but if you're dying to reach me you can use my first and last name at gmail.