EXPERIENCE
From pulling cable to leading leaders.
I started in construction as a journeyman in metal framing and carpentry. At 25 I followed my curiosity into technology and spent two decades moving from PC technician to network engineer, principal engineer, and leader of leaders, across large-scale broadband networks and now into hyperscale datacenters. The constants: I like understanding how things work, building things people can depend on, and helping people grow.
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Datacenter Cluster Manager (L6)
Leading IT infrastructure operations across a hyperscale datacenter cluster.
- Managers and senior site leaders across the cluster
- Accountable for KPIs, OPEX, and workforce planning
- Partnering with networking, security, construction, and supply chain
Director of Network Architecture
Network architecture and technology evaluation for a growing multi-state fiber provider.
- Led the teams that test technology in the lab, design the network, and take it to production
- Advised executives on investment, risk, and vendor selection
Director of Production Engineering
Led a 50+ person organization across Network Engineering, Systems and Compute, Cybersecurity, and Reliability Operations, with a $5M+ annual budget.
- Supported fiber (GPON/XGS-PON) and broadband expansion across rural and underserved communities
- Oversaw design, deployment, and troubleshooting of firewalls, routers, switches, and transport systems
- Improved infrastructure delivery efficiency by 30% and cut downtime 25% through automation and proactive maintenance
- Reduced operating expenses 15% through vendor consolidation and procurement
- Built disaster recovery, backup, and lifecycle governance for service networks
Network Engineer to Manager
Twenty years from supporting broadband customers to engineering the networks behind them, then leading the teams that keep them running.
- Manager, Network Reliability (2022–23): cut Sev1 MTTR about 25% and repeat alarms about 30%; also interim Manager, IP Network Engineering
- Principal Engineer IV (2020–22): led technology roadmap and engineering standards for next-generation transport and access platforms, including virtualized CMTS and Remote PHY
- Network Engineer, Optical Transport (2015–20): designed large-scale IP and optical transport (OSPF, BGP, MPLS) across Cisco, Juniper, and Ciena platforms for metro and national capacity
- Earlier (2002–15): PC technician supervisor through network engineer, covering broadband access capacity management (CMTS and HFC), enterprise networking in Denver, and support for a major provisioning datacenter
Strengths
Network Engineering
Routers, switches, optical transport, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, and datacenter interconnect.
Datacenter & Infrastructure
Hardware lifecycle, commissioning, site readiness, and datacenter interconnect.
Leadership
Leading leaders, developing teams, vendor negotiation, cross-functional alignment.
Reliability & Operations
Incident management, root-cause analysis, MTTR reduction, KPIs, and OPEX.
Education & certifications
B.S., Information Technology
Hodges University
CCNP · CCNA · JNCIA · Cybersecurity Leadership & Management (InfoSec Institute)
Recent learning
Generative AI Leadership & Strategy and Prompt Engineering & AI for Leaders (Vanderbilt University, 2024) · Google Cybersecurity Certificate (2024) · Google AI Essentials
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