A technology executive with 29 years in IT, more than 15 of them in senior leadership. My work is taking fragile, aging systems and making them stable, secure, and modern, then leading the teams and budgets that keep them that way. The technical roots run deep, and I still lead from inside them.
Give me a fragile, failing environment, and I will give you back one that simply works.
My current environment was failing when I arrived. Email went down most weeks, the directory would not replicate, and logins broke when people moved between buildings. Within months I rebuilt the network, raised the forest and domain functional levels, moved everyone to Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, and put single sign-on and multifactor behind all of it. It has not had unplanned downtime in over a year. That is the pattern of my career: stabilize what is broken, modernize what is dated, secure what is exposed, then lead the team and budget that keep it that way.
Fix the foundation before chasing anything new. Reliability comes first, because nothing else matters when the systems are down.
Years as a DBA and a network engineer mean I still work at that level. Leading from inside the problem is why my teams trust the plan and the stakeholders trust the result.
Nearly 30 years in, the current work still includes building private LLMs and full-stack tools. Long experience and modern practice are not a tradeoff.
Senior infrastructure leadership means owning every layer, from the hardware in the rack to the budget in front of the city council. Select a layer to see how I work in it.
Servers, virtualization, and the hardware underneath everything. I rebuild environments from the ground up. In my current role that meant fully virtualizing the server room, retiring more than 40 physical machines, and cutting related energy use by over 80 percent. VMware and Hyper-V clusters, SAN storage, and the core services everything else depends on all sit here.
Nearly three decades across public and private sectors, from database administration to running technology for a city and its schools.
As the senior IT leader for the city and its school district, I own infrastructure, security, vendors, and technology direction across every municipal and school department. The environment was failing when I arrived. Rebuilding it meant fixing the Active Directory and DNS failures that broke logins between buildings, moving everyone to Microsoft 365 and Entra ID, and virtualizing the server room, which retired more than 40 physical servers and cut related energy use by over 80 percent. Then came the hardening: Duo MFA, managed detection and response, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, security-awareness training, and a three-tier backup that ends in ransomware-proof cloud storage. The result is a once-broken environment with no unplanned downtime in over a year, now running on a $1.3M budget with a five-person team and state-grant funding.
For seven years I ran IT infrastructure and operations across this insurance and risk firm, a hybrid Active Directory and Azure environment that grew from 66 to more than 110 employees. A move of roughly 90 users from on-site Exchange to Microsoft 365 took three weeks with no interruption to anyone's work, the phone system shifted to RingCentral, and production systems stayed under a day of downtime a year. As the company lead for annual SOC 2 audits, I ran PCI compliance with the CFO, wrote and enforced HIPAA and Massachusetts 201 CMR 17 privacy policy, kept the SQL Server backend of the core insurance platform tuned, and presented the annual IT budget to the C-suite and partners.
I led 24/7 operations for a commercial cloud backup platform serving around 400 business customers and 200 to 300 TB of data, running a VMware and SQL Server environment of more than 40 servers against a 15-minute SLA, with an AWS-hosted environment built out and the operations work automated in PowerShell. Daily database failures were the norm when I arrived. Rebuilding the SQL environment and its maintenance plans cleared 99 percent of them, and full SLA compliance held for my last six months there.
A high-volume email business ran on a 24/7 production SQL Server environment I kept online, alongside VMware clusters, SAN storage for high-IOPS workloads, and the PostgreSQL and Linux systems behind the service.
I managed a 100+ server SaaS platform that ran daily call-testing for large clients, including Apple and Zipcar, with each server handling 50 to 60 simultaneous calls. Keeping it reliable and scaling it as the business grew spanned SQL Server, Active Directory, Exchange, VMware, and the network.
My early career built the foundation: server and network work for hospitals at Multimedia Medical Systems, then systems engineering at Winchester Hospital, then four years running my own IT firm for small businesses until All Covered acquired it and kept me on to serve those clients. The depth from those years is what lets me lead from inside the work now.
I started as a database administrator and a network engineer, ran my own technology company, and worked through hosted infrastructure, cloud backup, and SaaS operations before moving into senior leadership. Having done almost every job I now lead is exactly why I can lead it well.
A Microsoft Certified DBA with a Master's in Information Systems Management from Brandeis, I am still learning: building private LLMs for the organizations I serve, writing full-stack tools, and adding new certifications. I also write for other IT leaders, usually about the unglamorous side of the job, like why the hardest problems are rarely technical and why clear communication beats another tool every time.
Outside work, I am a published novelist, author of the Chasing Light science fiction series. Storytelling and systems engineering use more of the same muscles than people expect: structure, patience, and a clear picture of where everything has to end up.
Based in Greater Boston, open to remote leadership roles, and relocating to Florida.
100+ server environments, VMware and Hyper-V clusters, SAN storage, and the core services that hold everything together.
Azure and Entra ID, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and AWS, with hybrid environments and single sign-on across the organization.
Microsoft Certified DBA. SQL Server administration, performance tuning, data warehousing, and analytics at scale.
Multi-site LAN and WAN, Cisco and HP switching, Fortinet and Meraki firewalls, large VoIP deployments, and device management with Intune, Jamf Pro, and Apple Education Manager.
MFA, MDR and XDR, endpoint protection, SOC 2 and PCI audit leadership, HIPAA and state privacy compliance, and ransomware-proof backup and disaster recovery.
Private, privacy-safe LLMs for staff and students, AI-assisted and full-stack development, and PowerShell automation that removes manual work.