2026Aug – present
Collins Aerospace (RTX)
Director, Platform Engineering & Classified Solutions
In August 2026 the SCoE's teams were distributed into the business units to carry its practices into their own goals, and the platform organization came back under one role, now with the classified programs added. Accountable for the compute, platforms, and secure environments behind 20,000+ engineers, including the company's most access-restricted programs and 400+ isolated environments. Still owns the HPC and AI compute in Cedar Rapids.
ClassifiedHPC / AI computeSecure environmentsBoard reporting
2025Dec – 2026 Aug
Collins Aerospace (RTX)
Director, Global Software Center of Excellence
Asked to stand up a global SCoE defining how software is designed, built, secured, and delivered across the Digital Technology organization: Software Factory models, DevSecOps, platform-first delivery, and the talent paths that make them stick. Built it to 370+ engineers and $38M+ across the US, Puerto Rico, India, and Europe. Eight months in, with a company-wide direction change, its teams were distributed out to the business units to support their specific goals, taking the SCoE's best practices with them.
370+ engineers$38M budgetDevSecOpsSoftware Factory
2025Jul – Dec
Collins Aerospace (RTX)
Director, Platform Engineering
Promoted to run the platform organization: the underlying compute, cloud, and container platforms that 20,000+ engineers across the enterprise build on. Took on the Collins HPC, the water-cooled compute in Cedar Rapids. Brought clarity to a $2.4M licensing misalignment with Red Hat and settled it at $230K, after walking them through their own rules on what counts and what doesn't.
20,000+ engineersHPCMulti-cloudRed Hat dispute
2022Jul – 2025 Jul
Collins Aerospace
Associate Director, Foundation Digital Engineering
Product owner for the multi-cloud Foundation team behind the Digital Product Lifecycle: hardened AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, and OpenShift platforms. Took the company's first standardized container platform from architecture to the default deployment path across independently run business units.
KubernetesOpenShiftMulti-cloudProduct ownership
2019Oct – 2022
Collins Aerospace
Senior Manager, Enterprise Architecture & Strategy
Led the AWS Organizations rollout that gave the enterprise a self-service cloud. Authored cloud policy, ran root-cause after-actions for outages, and architected the next-generation core systems strategy: data center consolidation, SDN, cloud.
AWS OrganizationsEnterprise architectureCloud policy
2016Jun – 2019
Rockwell Collins → Collins Aerospace
Senior Cloud Administrator → Principal Cloud Security Architect
Helped create CACE, the Collins Aerospace Cloud Environment, then moved into security architecture: designing and prototyping the solutions a regulated aerospace business needed to move to cloud safely.
CACECloud securityDevOps
2016Jan – present
RudderIT · Founding Partner
Concierge IT for small business
Cloud migrations, infrastructure, backups, and security for small businesses and non-profits. Over a thousand servers virtualized. Still running, still answering the phone.
Side ventureCloud migrationNon-profits
2013Jul – 2016
PureTower → Independent Technologies · Co-founder
Director, Engineering & Operations
Co-founded PureTower in July 2013 and ran it through its acquisition by Independent Technologies. A nationwide IoT deployment across telecom towers: patented hardware for keeping birds off cell sites, embedded Linux in the field, AWS behind it, and M2M VPNs between them. Introduced CI/CD so field updates shipped in hours, not site visits. The second of his two exits.
Exit #2 · Independent TechnologiesIoTEmbedded LinuxPCB + hardwarePatented
2010Jul – 2014
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Unix Infrastructure & Storage Systems Architect
Virtualized 1,351 core systems and consolidated five SANs onto three arrays, cutting annual hardware and maintenance spend by two-thirds. Extended the university supercomputer into the cloud for peak research demand. Picked up an MBA in Aviation along the way.
−67% hardware spend3PARVMwareHPC
2008– 2010
U.S. Navy (GBS, then CSC) · Franklin American Mortgage
UNIX technical lead, classified and unclassified
Designed and secured the Navy's primary training portal to DISA and DoD policy, then led all UNIX assets at NETPDTC across NIPR and SIPR, reporting to the CIO of Naval Training. In between, served as Information Security Officer at a mortgage lender, advising on GLBA and SOX.
DISA / STIGNIPR / SIPRGLBA / SOX
2000Aug – 2008
DigitalRibbon, Inc. · Co-founder & CTO
A commodities exchange for compute, before "cloud" was a word
Co-founded at eighteen to sell computational resources to aerospace, energy, and life sciences research. Best Orlando Incubator Firm 2000, the subject of a 451 Report on cloud and cluster computing, Stanford computational bioinformatics gold partner. His first exit. Moonlit at Harrison Audio Consoles writing a preemptive SMP operating system for 56-channel DSP audio.
Exit #1Grid computingEmbedded OSHarrison Consoles
1999– 2000
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Beowulf cluster research, in high school
Two summer research internships with NASA's Earth Sciences center: standing up a new Linux cluster and studying how network topology correlates with latency and performance. Later: B.S. Aerospace Engineering (MTSU), dual M.A.S. in Space Systems and Aerospace Operations, and an MBA in Aviation (Embry-Riddle).
BeowulfLinuxBS AE · MAS · MBA
