Highlights: ● Lean startup founder of https://latchfield.com - a multi-discipline technology company. ● Ideated and implemented "Vulcan," an open-source product that provides explainable AI decision-making with vastly reduced risk of hallucinations. ● Managed business operations, technology roadmap, and investor relations. ● During seed funding round, attracted volunteers to support product evolution and marketing efforts. ● Worked closely with potential customers to identify product use-cases and evolve product roadmap. ● Currently seeking investors for the next stage of growth and commercialization. Description: Leveraging my previous artificial intelligence and machine learning experience, I launched an open-source product named Vulcan that combines the consistency and explainability of rule-based decision engines with the flexibility of LLMs. The result is a developer-friendly framework that hardens AI based applications against hallucinations while improving AI reasoning and explainability and reducing inference costs. My work is now part of an ongoing (2025/2026) research collaboration with Pennsylvania State University focused on the effectiveness of rule-based LLM-hybrid decision systems compared to prompt-only LLM and agentic approaches. We intend to publish our peer-reviewed results in 2026. In addition to managing the startup business, I developed the initial codebase, documentation, website and graphics, and continuous integration and delivery automation with GitHub Actions for deployments to the Python Package Index and Cloudflare Workers.

In addition to my experience in software development, information technology, datacenter infrastructure, and enterprise architecture, I also have significant hands-on expertise in electrical, mechanical, and embedded software engineering with contributions at Cisco, SAP, GlaxoSmithKline R&D, and my prior additive manufacturing startup Protovantage. My mechatronics and AI experience enables me to develop, lead, and implement a complete technical vision, including fabrication with experience designing for manufacturability (DFM), for complex automation solutions such as motion control, robotics, and UAV drones. I have applied these skills working on projects such as: ● Industrial robotic automation cells with ABB, Fanuc, and Motoman 6-axis and SCARA robots. ● Motion control systems for chemical inventory management and additive manufacturing equipment. ● Design and layout of custom multi-layer PCBs for embedded microcontrollers and sensors. ● Developed quadcopter drones (hardware and software), including PID control loop tuning. ● Designed housings, fixtures, and assemblies with CAD and fabricated with CNC using CAM. ● Material selection and testing with high-performance metals and polymers such as Inconel and PEEK. ● Mechanical, fluid, and thermal simulation with FEA and CFD using SolidWorks and Fusion 360. ● Product test design for high-altitude exposure (temperature, vibration, vacuum, polymer off-gassing).

Highlights: ● Directed 130+ employees within the SAP Global Security AI Taskforce across 21 work streams focused on SAP’s top AI security initiatives. ● Principle author of the SAP Generative AI Cybersecurity Strategy. ● Contributor to the company's internal cross-product architecture on GenAI ● Coordinated planning and response efforts for the EU AI Act, NIST AI-RMF, ISO 42001, and NIST AIxCC. ● Early voice in the company (pre-ChatGPT) on AI security risks, including biases, data handling, adversarial model attacks, dual-use considerations, and human anthropomorphic factors of AI. Description: I formed the SAP Global Security AI Taskforce to better align and focus the company’s AI security interests into actionable efforts. The taskforce had 130 members working on 21 work streams including but not limited to MLOps strategy, regulatory planning and response for the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act, participating in the NIST Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium, evaluating the NIST Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework and ISO 42001, the NIST AIxCC, and more. Key accomplishments included defining AI security standards as a co-author of the SAP Generative AI Cybersecurity Strategy, contributing to the company’s internal cross-product architecture strategy paper on generative AI, and delivering six AI security training courses that received more than 4,000 views in one month, some of which were streamed on the SAP YouTube channel.

Highlights: ● With a sizable OpEx budget, I led a large team of cybersecurity, technical, and learning experts in delivering security education programs to 100K employees. ● As a team, developed and operated experiential learning platforms, including Capture the Flag using NodeJS, Python, and Java deployed on Kubernetes. ● Personally delivered 6hrs of AI security training courses receiving 10K+ internal views in 3 months. ● Optimized team practices and documentation processes with agile to improve productivity, communication, learner experience, while reducing company risk. Description: I led and directed more than 130 cybersecurity, technical, and learning development experts. Together we educated 100K employees on cybersecurity and AI/ML topics spanning the essentials to deeply technical topics. As a technical subject matter expert, one of my key responsibilities was to be a bridge between engineering and cybersecurity interests, influencing organizational practices to better ensure SAP remained compliant with industry certifications and contracts. My teams and I also developed and operated in-house learning solutions such as Capture the Flag using Node.js, Python, and Java deployed to Kubernetes via SAP Converged Cloud. I personally contributed to code reviews, product direction, and some of the technical security challenges along with more than 20 hours of security learning materials that were viewed by more than 10,000 employees. Key accomplishments included managing a EUR 2 million security education program for 100,000 employees, optimizing prior team practices and documentation processes to improve productivity, communication, and learner experience while reducing potential liability for the company, and collaboratively defining and executing the strategy for security learning offerings.

Highlights: ● Held the functional titles: CTO, Chief Architect, and Chief Technologist ● Provided architectural guidance, technology evaluation, and analysis directed at improving Cisco's developer experience ● Lead regular meetups of SMEs, architects, distinguished engineers, to drive IT technology practices ● Trusted advisor to IT service teams and product engineering teams, providing technology and engineering process consultation

Highlights: ● Managed a $6M annual budget and distributed teams to develop and operate a global container hosting platform across 9 regions with four-nine's availability. ● Leader in enterprise-wide service containerization and modernization of Cisco product engineering practices with containers. ● Established a technology incubator adapting Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Vault, CI/CD pipelines, and other technologies to business use-cases. ● As an early Docker SME, I delivered a learning courses viewed by 8K+ employees. ● Developed IT system automations using machine learning (Keras), decision engines (Drools), and Jupyter notebooks as executable playbooks. Description: Adding to my Chief Architect responsibilities, I hired and managed 4 teams across 3 sites, building and operating several mission-critical services and programs for Cisco Engineering and Engineering IT, later taking on a consultation role as Chief Technologist for the organization until 2024. A significant responsibility was driving service containerization and developing applications and infrastructure to modernize engineering services with Docker-based architecture. I managed a USD 6M annual budget to build and operate a global container-as-a-service platform across 9 regions with 99.99 percent availability, including automation, change-management, and disaster recovery. Key programs led included Service Containerization Strategy, Engineering Services Outreach, DevOps Consultation, Portfolio Strategy and Communication, Container Enterprise Architecture, and Platform Technical Architecture. Key accomplishments included leading the vision of a large-scale JVM-based Docker platform with hands-on contributions, managing the day-to-day development of a full-stack team building a large-scale platform, regularly presenting as a Docker subject matter expert to engineers and executives including a Cisco Learning and Development course viewed by nearly 8,000 employees at http://j.mp/dockercamp, establishing a technology incubator with hands-on work in Rancher OS, Kubernetes, GlusterFS, Joyent SmartOS, Docker, Sysdig, Splunk, continuous integration and delivery for containers, CircleCI, iPXE booting, Terraform, NATS.io, Vault, Calico, Dockerfiles, docker-compose, and many more, and automating operations with machine learning, decision engines, and Jupyter notebooks as executable operational playbooks and documentation.

Highlights: ● Senior technical leader managing the cross-departmental architecture of global business-critical systems supporting 40K employees and 1M customers. ● Led enterprise-wide adoption of Continuous Delivery practices, providing strategic expertise to business units and customer organizations. ● Managed a global matrix architecture team of 16 individual contributors distributed across US and India locations. ● Technical strategy responsibility for 14 IT service offerings comprised of 80+ interconnected systems with regular reporting to SVPs and Cisco's CIO. ● Orchestrated a multi-year, $2M+ architectural transformation of Cisco's defect management system. ● Served as Cisco InfoSec Partner Security Architect. Description: As a senior technical leader for Cisco’s engineering organization, I defined standards and led the cross-departmental architecture of business-critical systems on which more than 40,000 employees and 1 million customers were dependent. I was relied upon for expertise in business analysis, requirements management, enterprise architecture, software architecture and development, and technical leadership. Key accomplishments included leading adoption of continuous delivery and providing expertise to customers and business units, managing, supporting, and mentoring a global team of 16 senior individual contributors, maintaining top-level accountability for 14 IT service offerings comprised of more than 80 systems, regularly reporting on cross-departmental architecture strategy to senior vice presidents and the Cisco chief information officer, leading a multi-year architecture transformation for Cisco’s defect management system with a budget of more than USD 2 million, negotiating more than USD 180,000 in savings from vendor contracts originally exceeding USD 500,000, and serving as Cisco information security partner security architect for Engineering IT.

Highlights: ● Lead the modernization of a 20-year-old defect management system serving 40K users in the critical path of Cisco's revenue and end-user support processes. ● Developed and executed the Defect Management technical strategy, migrating the backend platform to a MongoDB & Drools engine architecture. ● Designed system architectures capable of handling thousands of hourly distributed transactions while evaluating hundreds of complex business rules. ● With my developer background, I was able to recover several thousand hours of engineer productivity through improved user experience design. Description: In this role I redesigned Cisco’s 20-year-old defect management system, delivering a new solution using Angular, MongoDB, and Drools capable of thousands of global transactions per second. The system is a critical IT asset as the front end is used by 40,000 employees daily and the back end is queried by millions of customers via integration with support processes on Cisco’s website. Key accomplishments included influencing leadership to undertake a multi-year architecture change with a budget of USD 2 million, recovering several thousand hours of engineer productivity through improved user experience, and avoiding over USD 1 million in license renewals for software used by the legacy platform.

Highlights: ● Co-founder and board member of a digital manufacturing company. ● Pivoted the company to commercialize our quotation automation software for a B2B SaaS offering. ● Developed business strategy, oversaw accounting, and managed compliance with state and federal regulations. ● Grew the company into an organization of 30+ employees and contractors, leading to the acquisition of the company through sale of our IP. ● Automated business processes with BPM/BPMN solutions. ● Lead engineering of automation projects using Python and Java deployed on AWS and Google App Engine. Description: As a founding board member of this rapid prototyping business focused on 3D printing, I was the technical leader for the company's research and development programs. I participated in the inception and execution of product development and played a critical role in bringing products and services to market. Key accomplishments included managing a product development organization of more than 30 employees and contractors, managing supply chain, manufacturing, and fulfillment while leading automation initiatives, leading research projects in robotic automation, field-programmable gate array design, and mechatronic engineering, and leading development of key web software in Python and Java on Amazon Web Services and Google App Engine.

Highlights: ● Led transformative architectural change for GSK’s cheminformatics ecosystem saving the company >£2M through system optimizations, and licensing and operational cost reductions. ● Designed and built a web-based solution providing bench scientists with a virtual laboratory notebook, enabling improved regulatory compliance and IP protection. ● Assisted labs in building automation for processes, integrating data streams from equipment (NMR, NI PXI acquisition, etc.) for analysis with R models co-developed with research leads. ● Early advocate of NVIDIA GPGPU (later CUDA) for creating machine learning models used to predict compound leads. Description: I was responsible for evolving GSK’s central cheminformatics system used by thousands of lab scientists for substructure search, compound management, and other data processing tasks operating in an FDA-validated environment. The legacy system was built with Oracle using the Daylight Chemistry Cartridge, but due to high cost and poor performance, I designed and prototyped an in-house replacement that was scaled to production by the IT operations team. Key accomplishments included leading transformative architectural change for the GSK cheminformatics ecosystem, saving the company greater than GBP 2 million through system optimizations and licensing and operational cost reductions, designing and building a web-based solution providing bench scientists with a virtual laboratory notebook enabling improved regulatory compliance and intellectual property protection, assisting labs in building automation for processes by integrating data streams from equipment such as nuclear magnetic resonance and NI PXI acquisition for analysis with R models co-developed with research leads, and being an early advocate of NVIDIA general-purpose GPU computing later known as CUDA for creating machine learning models used to predict compound leads.

Highlights: ● Technical architect and developer of audit and compliance solutions used by top US securities and insurance companies. ● Researched emerging technology solutions such as AJAX to improve web-application UX. ● Transitioned the company away from Perl, Cold Fusion, and Flash implementations to Java-based implementations improving source code management, reviewability, and overall reliability. ● Full-stack before it was cool: Designed and built complete technology solutions involving client-side, server-side, database, storage, and networking infrastructure. Description: As a technical architect and developer during the seed-growth stages of RegEd, I built audit and compliance solutions used by top US securities and insurance companies. I researched emerging technology solutions such as AJAX to improve web-application user experience and transitioned the company away from Perl, Cold Fusion, and Flash implementations to Java-based solutions, improving source code management, reviewability, and overall reliability. As a full-stack developer before it was common, I designed and built complete technology solutions involving client-side, server-side, database, storage, and networking infrastructure.