Executive Director (Acting) (GS15)
Centers of Excellence (CoE)Technology Transformation Services (TTS)General Services Administration (GSA) • 10/2023 — Present
The Centers of Excellence (CoE) are agile IT modernization teams designed to modernize federal agency infrastructure in a repeatable, scalable manner based on best practices. In this role, I lead a team of senior federal excerpts and an industry support staff of over 130 technical specialists as we support agencies across the government in every stage of their enterprise-wide digital modernization journey.
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Led a cross-functional team of 30 digital service delivery experts in the area of Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Cloud Adoption, Contact Center, Customer Experience, Innovation Adoption and Acquistion in a program valued at over 90 Million dollars in FY24, maintaining 29 ongoing engagements with 13 federal agencies
Leading Change - Vision ʃ
Business Acumen - Financial Management ʃ
Building Coalitions - Partnering
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After coordinating with different stackholders, such as TTS senior leadership, technical experts, and service consumers from various federal agencies, to establish business requirements, I oversaw the creation of the CoE FY24 strategic goals and supervised their implementation through five organization-wide tactical initiatives.
Building Coalitions - Partnering ʃ
Leading Change - Strategic Thinking ʃ
PTQ3
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Proactively partnered inside General Services Administration with the Information Technology Category and Assisted Acquisition Services to deliver Cloud re-engineering solutions for CDC and Enterprize IT Operation and Modernization solutions to USDA, totaling over 800 million dollars
Building Coalitions - Political Savvy, Partnering ʃ
Business Acumen - Financial Management
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Spearheaded an organization-wide initiative to create data-driven performance metrics for all the Centers of Excellence (CoE) projects with partner agencies. These metrics enabled us to measure our progress, demonstrate our impact, and communicate the value to stakeholders throughout the federal government.
Results Driven - Entrepreneurship ʃ
Results Driven - Accountability
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Guided supervisors and leaders to ensure standardized performance management and equitable recognition of impact and challenges across the organization.
Leading People - Team Building ʃ
Business Acumen - Human Capital Management
Managing Director (GS-15)
Infrastructure Optimization and Cloud AdoptionCenter of Excellence (CoE)Technology Transformation Services (TTS)General Services Administration (GSA) • 04/2019 — 10/2023
In this role, I managed a small team of senior enterprise technology experts as we guided over 20 federal agencies through various technical and organizational change efforts. Our work furthered the digital delivery capabilities of our partner agencies and allowed them to better serve the American public as a whole.
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Supervise a team of 9 senior leaders, each overseeing their own team of technical experts and two contractor teams of 8 and 16 members, respectively, implementing multiple IT Modernization programs to meet partner agencies' mission objectives
Leading People - Team Building ʃ
Business Acumen - Human Capital Management
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Served as Contracting Officer Representative (COR) and Technical Advisor for nine acquisition efforts totaling more than $175 Million, including the mainframe currently supporting 7.5 million federal employees' healthcare and retirement benefits
Business Acumen - Technology Management ʃ
Business Acumen - Financial Management
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Led a modernization effort of a 40-year-old system serving more than 2.5M Federal annuitants. Led a coalition of the DOD, GSA, and OPMs contracting teams to execute the acquisition, prototyping, and migration in less than five months
Leading People - Conflict Management, Creativity and Innovation ʃ
PTQ2
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Support business development efforts that resulted in engagements totaling over $40 Million in revenue
Leading Change - External Awareness ʃ
Results Driven - Entrepreneurship
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Led an agile engagement to support the implementation of the American Rescue Plan Act Farm Loan Forgiveness Program at USDA, enabling the distribution of three Billion dollars to disadvantaged American farmers
Leading Change - Strategic Thinking ʃ
Leading People - Leveraging Diversity ʃ
PTQ3
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At the Joint AI Center (JAIC) of the DoD, my team and I implemented an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) DevSecOps pipeline offering Machine learning models processing and analysis as a Service to the DoD community, using a hardened contenatization to ensure proper implemetation of DoD information security compliance IL4 and IL5 frameworks.
Leading Change - Resilience ʃ
Building Coalitions - Political Savvy ʃ
PTQ1
Head of Architecture & Development
Beeks Financial Cloud LTD • 01/2016 — 09/2018
Beeks Financial Cloud is a UK-based low-latency infrastructure service provider for institutional capital markets. In this role, I created the Software Development and System Architecture Practice. Established the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings then designed and scaled the cloud automation systems that became the primary offering of the firm.
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Partnered with the leadership, infrastructure, security, business development, and network operation teams at Beeks to determine an Enterprise Architecture and Cybersecurity strategy focused on iterative, continuous system standardization and modernization across global business operations.
Building Coalitions - Influencing/Negotiating ʃ
Leading Change - Vision ʃ
PTQ3
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Lead the planning, management and direction of the Beeks Cloud offering, evolving Beaks from a traditional infrastructure provider to a modern Cloud Infrastructure as a service provider
Leading Change - Creativity and Innovation, Strategic Thinking ʃ
PTQ2
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Created, trained, and Supervised a team of 8 developers and systems engineers to establish a robust automation system that efficiently manages thousands of virtual machines and bare-metal servers. Drove down operating costs by over $50,000 annually
Leading People - Developing Others, Team Building ʃ
Business Acumen - Financial Management
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Established an IaaS offering used by hundreds of clients and business partners, improving the availability, ease of access, and efficiency surrounding client infrastructure management and shortened the sales and delivery cycle from weeks to minutes
Business Acumen - Financial Management, Technology Management ʃ
PTQ3
Chief Technology Officer
Visual Trading Systems Inc • 01/2012 — 01/2016
Visual Trading Systems was a financial technology provider offering clearing services and low-latency trade routing solutions to the foreign exchange market. In this role, I Led cross-functional development teams that utilized various stacks to accomplish complex, interrelated projects and the day-to-day technical operations of multiple blockages
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Established the use of modern developemmnt, securty, and oprations best practices throughout all development areas
Leading Change - Strategic Thinking
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Managed and guided the professional development of a team of over 60 developers and system administrators across four countries
Leading People - Conflict Management, Developing Others, Team Building
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Managed the technical aspects of mergers and acquisitions efforts and integrated new teams and technologies into the organization
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Designed and implemented an Information Security Policy to meet the requirements of the information security compliance frameworks of the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), British Virgin Island Financial Services Commission (FSC), and the European Union European System of Financial Supervision (ESFS)
Leading Change - External Awareness ʃ
Building Coalitions - Political Savvy
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Led the infrastructure architecture design and optimization team, overseeing a multi-year technical strategy and the implemtation of information security design and architecture principles.
Business Acumen - Technology Management
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Established the Cloud Adoption program, setting and meeting multi-year, multi-cloud implementation objectives
Leading Change - Flexibility
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Drastically improved a struggling software product and transformed it into a functional, profitable solution valued at nearly $2M
Leading Change - Creativity and Innovation
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Pioneered the creation of a trading platform adopted by nearly a dozen financial institutions to manage over $15M in combined assets
Results Driven - Entrepreneurship
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Created a non-discrimination hiring policy that was focused throughout the organization, allowing us to acquire a robust and diverse team
Leading People - Leveraging Diversity
Director of Technology
GallantVPS Inc • 01/2008 — 12/2012
Founded and operated GallantVPS and grew the organization strategically by acquiring new clients, improving operations, and championing growth projects.
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Supervised a cross-functional team of developers, systems administrators, and cloud architects
Leading People - Team Building ʃ
Results Driven - Technical Credibility
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Architected the infrastructure behind a solution used by up to 14,000 concurrent instances of the trading platform, utilizing Agile methodologies, Python, PostgreSQL, WINE, HTML, and Javascript
Results Driven - Technical Credibility
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Designed the ongoing infrastructure optimization strategy and implemented an innovative cloud adoption plan in early 2000
Leading Change - Creativity and Innovation, Strategic Thinking
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Designed and Implemented an Information Security Policy to meet the requirement of the financial regulatory bodies of the US Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)
Leading Change - External Awareness ʃ
Building Coalitions - Political Savvy
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Sourced a buyer that planned to further grow the platform and organization, successfully selling the business for over $500k
Building Coalitions - Influencing/Negotiating
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Sourced a buyer that planned to further grow the platform and organization, successfully selling the business for over $500k
Building Coalitions - Influencing/Negotiating
Chief Technology Officer • 02/2021 — PRESENT
SafeEscape supports survivors of domestic violence and abuse, helping them keep themselves safe online and in their day-to-day life. As the Chief Technology Officer, I am responsible for the infrastructure used by our teams of volunteers and our clients.
- Architected and managed a secure Azure and Office 365 environment to facilitate case management, open-source intelligence investigation, and resource allocation management
- Developed and implemented multiple systems to enable the organization's investigative capabilities and mission-specific needs
- Continually support the organization's leadership as we evolve our offering to protect our clients from the ever-changing landscape and the growing availability of malware, spyware, and electronic stalking hardware
Lead Media and Technology Committee • 00/2020 — PRESENT
HEAL Trafficking is an integrated network of over 4,000 survivors and multidisciplinary professionals in 50 countries dedicated to ending human trafficking and supporting its survivors, from a health perspective.
- Develop and maintain HEALs web presence and content management solutions
- Provided cybersecurity policy guidance and implementation of HEALs international infrastructure
M1:Zero LLC
Founder & Chief Architect • 01/2013 — 01/2015
Created and launched a data collection and analysis service that evaluates open-source human trafficking intelligence. Explored the clear and dark web supporting a combined FBI, DHS, and MBI task force.
- I managed the Non-For-profit organization's ongoing operation, including funding, budgeting, hiring, and product development
- Managed all development projects from inception through production
- Developed a machine learning engine that preprocessed tens of thousands of posts a day and identified a few dozen relevant, potentially criminal posts. This preprocessed list allowed the agents involved to focus their investigative efforts to generate actionable leads for the rest of the task force
- Reduced data analysis resource usage by hundreds of person-hours spent researching, investigating, and discovering compelling evidence
- Facilitated the rescue of multiple victims by providing timely, actionable intelligence to the task force
- Established Open Source Intelligence gathering and governance policy to meet the requirements of the MBI evidentiary control standards