About

Work style, background, and operating principles.

About

I have spent more than three decades helping large organizations modernize how they build, secure, and operate technology, with emphasis on:

Enterprise architecture and IT governance
Reliability, quality assurance, and operational resilience
Infrastructure modernization in regulated, high-consequence environments

Recent highlights include:

Led USAA’s interim CIO role for Property & Casualty, managing a $700M technology budget and 1,200-person organization.
Directed transformation programs and architecture practices across global, regulated environments.
Rebuilt testing and quality operations to cut spend, harden delivery, and improve outcomes at enterprise scale.

Working style

How I approach systems and product work.

Execution-first engineering

I reduce uncertainty by pairing direct experiments with clear fallback plans. Every change has an acceptance criterion and rollback story.

Practical reliability

If monitoring, recovery, and observability are absent, the feature is incomplete. I optimize for maintainable operations, not novelty.