Engineering executive · Broomfield, Colorado

Building teams.
Delivering impact.

I build engineering organizations and products that turn complex technology into measurable business outcomes. My work combines global team leadership with hands-on AI and software development.

170+Engineers in a global organization
$12MFirst-year revenue from an AI-driven SaaS platform
$1M+Annual cloud infrastructure savings
99.999%Availability in mission-critical systems
01 / Selected impact

Leadership grounded
in meaningful results.

From leading 170+ engineers to building a studio’s entire mobile game catalog, I connect technology strategy with practical execution.

Red Hawk Studios
Founder · 2026–Present

Build products with AI-assisted execution.

Founded and operate a one-person game and AI studio. Personally developed the entire iPhone and iPad game catalog, including Retro Blasters, Space Bandits, On–Off, and Wordchain Surgery. Built a Codex agent workflow spanning product requirements, proofs of concept, iterative game development, and Apple App Store submission.

Cognizant Accelerator
Director of Engineering

Scale people and platforms.

Managed a global organization of more than 170 engineers and delivered an AI-driven SaaS platform that generated $12 million in first-year revenue. Directed migration of a critical payments application to AWS, saving more than $1 million annually and achieving 99.999% uptime. Scaled the platform team from 6 to 35.

Openwave
Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Build for the moments that matter.

Led engineering and QA teams delivering telecom systems supporting nationwide emergency networks. The systems achieved 99.999% uptime while supporting 200,000 transactions per second.

Redaptive
AI Engineering · Contract

Put enterprise AI to work.

Built a Teams knowledge-search bot and serverless RAG pipeline integrating SharePoint, Microsoft Graph API, AWS Lambda, and Bedrock. Architected and implemented Databricks and MLflow pipelines for energy baseline models, model governance, and real-time predictions through REST APIs.

Stockheroes.ai
Co-Founder & CTO

Turn a vision into a product.

Built an AI-native, multi-tenant SaaS platform for financial intelligence and directed AWS architecture, data pipelines, and CI/CD. Developed natural-language analytics with OpenAI and RAG using pgvector, and used generative AI workflows to produce more than 200 unit and integration tests.

02 / Expertise

Strategy with a strong
technical foundation.

I bring an executive perspective and a working understanding of the platforms and practices that help teams deliver.

Engineering leadership

Global organizations, distributed teams, product roadmaps, stakeholder alignment, and execution at scale.

AI & data platforms

Generative AI, LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation, Databricks, MLflow, predictive analytics, and model governance.

Cloud & architecture

Multi-tenant SaaS, API-first systems, AWS and Azure, CI/CD, and Codex agent workflows for product development.

03 / Background

Experience across
the technology lifecycle.

Red Hawk StudiosFounder · Jan 2026–Present
RedaptiveAI Engineering (Contract) · Jun–Dec 2025
Stockheroes.aiCo-Founder & CTO · Apr 2023–Apr 2025
TerazoDelivery Director · Apr 2022–Apr 2023
Cognizant AcceleratorDirector of Advanced Technologies · Jan 2020–Mar 2022
Cognizant AcceleratorDirector of Engineering · Mar 2018–Jan 2020
OracleSenior Manager, Software Engineering · Jun 2010–Aug 2017
OpenwaveSenior Manager, Software Engineering · May 2007–Jan 2010
Education

Business perspective.
Engineering roots.

MBA, Business Administration
Regis University

BS, Computer Science
Colorado State University

Let’s connect

Let’s build what’s next.

Interested in discussing engineering leadership, AI platforms, or a new opportunity? I’d welcome a conversation.

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