From a rack in a closet to cloud-scale control planes.
Every step here was learned on the job, and nineteen of these years were spent at Director level: teams, capital budgets, vendors, multi-site operations and the room with the C-suite. The through-line is the same problem at bigger scale: keep the system up, make it operable, and own the outcome.
Learned by building
No degree and no bootcamp. Linux, networking and web development, learned by standing up systems that had to work the next morning and fixing them when they did not.
Director of Web Development & Infrastructure
Physicians Pharmaceuticals · Kernersville, NCWebsite operations, design, server upgrades and platform updates for a business handling 2,000+ orders a day and $30 million in annual revenue.
- Built an in-house data center with dedicated IP transit, BGP and generator power, reaching 100% uptime within three months.
- Revised the entire order flow and built an instant credit card pre-authorization system that saved over $1.2 million in its first year and cut dead order weight by 80%.
- Built an ERP platform for managing auto-ship.
Director of Product
WebVestments · remoteLed a global team of 30 developers across three companies spanning data recovery, global payments and search engine products.
- Designed and managed the product roadmap, oversaw UI/UX, and set pricing and go-to-market priorities with the CEO.
- The portfolio achieved over 1,000% annual sales growth.
Director of IT & Infrastructure Partner
Falcon Internet · Greensboro, NCBuilt a company and its technology platform together. Thirteen years of infrastructure for 500+ corporate clients and 1,500+ websites at more than 99.9% uptime across SaaS, hosting, backup and disaster recovery, routing and security.
- Built a data center from the ground up, owning procurement, networking, security, power, cooling and operations.
- Automated provisioning and lifecycle management to grow capacity without adding department headcount.
- Led the engineering team end to end: mentoring, delivery, capacity planning, capital budgets and vendor negotiations across multiple facilities.
Senior Solutions Engineer / Enterprise Infrastructure Architect
Summit · Chicago, IL · remoteTechnical discovery and architecture for mid-market through Fortune 500 clients, translating business and security requirements into cloud, private infrastructure and disaster recovery plans.
- Built internal AI tools for vendor quote parsing and opportunity tracking.
- Built a cloud-spend analysis tool to support architecture and commercial decisions.
Board of Directors
The Arts Based School · two K-8 charter schoolsFiduciary and operational oversight. Serves on the Marketing & Fundraising Subcommittee and built the digital fundraising platform.
Creator & Project Lead, two management planes
Borg Backup Server · CortenDesk · open sourceIndependent ownership of product strategy, architecture, UX, engineering and operations, plus releases, issue triage, pull request review and contributor coordination.
- Borg Backup Server: 800K+ downloads and 320+ GitHub stars, protecting 4,000+ endpoints across 1,000+ servers. Outbound-only agents, append-only backups, fleet automation, browser restores, SSO and RBAC, a paid React Native app and native Windows support with preserved NTFS permissions.
- CortenDesk: the first working platform shipped in a three-day weekend. Nearly 100 stars and 30+ pull requests in six weeks. TypeScript remote desktop client, console with device policy, enterprise identity and audit history, forked hbbs/hbbr servers for simple deployment.