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15+ years building real systems.

From IT desks to enterprise AI platforms. The throughline: production reality. Whatever the era — Linux, K8s, DevSecOps, agents — the work has always been about systems that ship, hold up, and earn their cost.

currently · AI & Platform Lead @ ATA
Career arc 2009 → 2026
'09 '13 '19 '25 '26
15+
years in tech
5
companies
$1.45M
engineered out
Nov 2025 — Present
~ 7 months
Remote

ATA LLC

Designing, building, and deploying production AI/LLM systems and automation pipelines for enterprise-scale workflows.

AI & Platform Engineering Lead
Nov 2025 — Present

Designed, built, and deployed production AI/LLM systems and automation pipelines for enterprise-scale workflows.

  • Led transition to a prose-first agentic AI operating model, deploying production AI agents across engineering, QA, and product workflows — improving productivity by 30% and eliminating up to 100% of select manual processes.
  • Architected production-grade agentic AI systems and document intelligence platforms using LLM pipelines, retrieval workflows, and structured extraction, generating $250K+ in annual efficiency gains.
  • Established architectural standards for reproducible AI environments and secure containerized microservices.
  • Designed and trained supervised ML models for intelligent form classification, increasing automated field-mapping accuracy by 40%.
  • Conducted executive-level build-vs-buy analysis (custom ML vs. AWS Comprehend) to guide long-term AI investment strategy.
  • Designed and implemented AI-driven QA automation framework, increasing test coverage to 80% and reducing regression defects by 50%.
  • Partnered with cross-functional leadership to align AI platform development with business outcomes, risk posture, and delivery timelines.
Mar 2025 — Nov 2025
~ 8 months

Autogration

Founded an AI-driven automation consultancy focused on modernizing business workflows and deploying scalable AI systems.

Founder & AI Platform Lead
Mar 2025 — Nov 2025

Founded and led an AI-driven automation consultancy focused on modernizing business workflows and deploying scalable AI systems.

  • Designed and launched AI-powered SaaS platforms, including LLM-based career automation systems with subscription monetization and browser-automation integration.
  • Architected secure cloud-native systems and AI integration pipelines.
  • Delivered up to 60% operational efficiency improvements across client organizations.
  • Directed product roadmap, integration strategy, and monetization architecture.
  • Worked directly with clients to translate business problems into deployable AI agent solutions.
  • Explored integration of conversational and multimodal AI systems for customer interaction workflows.
May 2019 — Mar 2025
~ 6 years
3 roles

Lockheed Martin

Led secure DevSecOps and integration engineering across active, mission-critical missile-defense systems.

Integration Engineer (Senior DevSecOps)
Feb 2023 — Mar 2025

Led secure DevSecOps operations for active military systems in regulated, mission-critical environments.

  • Reduced troubleshooting time by hundreds of hours per quarter, generating $100K+ quarterly savings.
  • Automated image approval and deployment pipelines, reducing deployment timelines by 90% while strengthening security posture.
  • Led resilience improvements in Kubernetes environments, decreasing downtime by 50%.
  • Implemented automated testing frameworks incorporating computer vision and OCR technologies.
Integration Lead (Team Lead & Product Owner)
Oct 2021 — Feb 2023

Served as technical lead and product owner on a $500M defense program, managing a team of seven and influencing 150+ engineers.

  • Architected enterprise automation platform eliminating two weeks of manual effort per cycle, generating $1.2M annual savings.
  • Defined DevSecOps modernization roadmap aligned with compliance and mission-readiness objectives.
  • Drove cross-team coordination improving delivery velocity and reducing operational risk.
Earlier roles — DevSecOps & Operations
May 2019 — Oct 2021

Progressed through operational and DevSecOps roles supporting mission-critical missile defense systems.

Feb 2013 — Oct 2015
~ 2.5 years

Vision and Security Technology Lab

Supported early-stage AI and computer-vision initiatives in a university research environment.

System Administrator
Feb 2013 — Oct 2015

Supported early-stage AI and computer-vision initiatives in research environments.

  • Contributed to machine-learning data calibration for facial recognition systems.
  • Automated video data collection pipelines to accelerate model training workflows.
Jan 2009 — Sep 2012
~ 3.5 years

Colorado Springs Early Colleges

Provided IT support, device imaging, and server administration in an education environment supporting students and faculty at scale.

IT Technician
Jan 2009 — Sep 2012

Managed desktop, laptop, and server support while improving imaging and deployment consistency across a large device fleet.

  • Created baseline operating-system images and cloned more than 750 student-issued computers, significantly reducing setup time and improving consistency.
  • Provided help-desk support to more than 500 students and faculty members across hardware, software, and network issues.
  • Supported server deployment and management tasks to keep organizational IT infrastructure operational and aligned with project needs.

◆ Education

Bachelor of Innovation
Bachelor of Innovation in Business Information Systems with Engineering Cross-Core
University of Colorado Colorado Springs · 2016
AACSB Accredited

◆ Certifications

Security+ CE
CompTIA · current

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