Experience
Where I’ve worked
Nineteen years across development, DevOps and architecture: the roles that shaped how I design and build.
- 2025 – PresentOrange County, CA · Remote
The Word & Brown Companies
Solutions Architect
Leading architecture and platform strategy for the cloud-native systems behind insurance quoting and document generation.
- Design distributed systems on Azure Container Apps, Azure Functions and Service Bus
- Architect scalable document generation and processing platforms
- Drive DevOps automation and CI/CD improvements
- Improve observability through telemetry and performance monitoring
- Mentor engineering teams on cloud-native architecture patterns
- 2023 – 2025Orange County, CA
The Word & Brown Companies
Lead Software Architect
Led software architecture and technical direction for the company’s application platforms.
- 2018 – 2023Orange County, CA
The Word & Brown Companies
Sr. .NET Software Engineer
Built and shipped .NET software for the company’s core business platforms.
- 2012 – 2018New York City
Loews Corporation
Principal Software Engineer
Led development and modernization of internal enterprise web applications.
- Led ASP.NET MVC application development
- Ran DevOps tooling on TFS and VSTS
- Supported Office 365 administration and Power BI reporting
- Drove modernization of legacy web platforms
- 2011Great Falls, MT
University of Providence
IT Support / Systems Administration (part-time)
Worked in the university IT department supporting infrastructure and application systems.
- Systems administration and networking support
- Active Directory management
- Maintained university web applications and CMS platforms
- 2009 – 2010
Shortgrass Web
Developer
Designed, built and maintained PHP-based CMS websites for small business clients.
- Built custom site functionality and content management features
- Delivered front-end and back-end components
- Handled ongoing updates, maintenance and troubleshooting
- 2007 – 2009
American Capital Funding
Infrastructure & Application Systems Engineer
Managed the core IT infrastructure behind internal business operations.
- Administered Windows Server and Active Directory; ran DNS, DHCP and group policy
- Supported SQL Server databases, the company intranet and internal applications
- Built a custom shop floor tracking and job costing app for a sister machine shop, whose labor history made future quotes more accurate
- 2005 – 2007Wintergreen, VA
Wintergreen Resort
Snowboard Instructor
Taught snowboarders of all ages and abilities, in a way that was fun and effective.
- PSIA-AASI Level 1 certified