I'm a technical product and engineering executive with 25+ years spanning hands-on architecture, enterprise product leadership, and company building. I've led organizations from 16 to 120 people at AWS, VMware, HashiCorp, F5, and Oracle, and founded two AI companies from zero. I hold an active TS/SCI clearance and a J.D., and write Go and Python in production daily. That combination of executive track record, regulatory fluency, and working builder credibility is rare at the leadership level.
My fractional practice covers CTO, CPO, and Principal Architect engagements for startups and growth-stage companies in regulated markets: AI infrastructure, security, healthcare, defense, and government technology. I've worked embedded with pharmaceutical, biotech, and healthcare companies as an architect and product leader, and spent my AWS tenure entirely inside Secret and Top Secret classified cloud partitions supporting government and defense customers.
I hold U.S. Patent 11,823,501 in data security, have 11 pending AI/ML filings, and trained and published Compliance-7B, a fine-tuned LLM for regulatory analysis. My J.D. means I can read a HIPAA requirement, a FedRAMP control, or a regulatory filing and translate it directly into an architecture or product decision without an attorney in the room.
