Infrastructure & Platform Engineering
Linux, Windows, VMware, enterprise networking, cloud-capable platforms, containers, Kubernetes, monitoring, reliability, incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Technology leadership · Infrastructure · Automation · Cybersecurity · DevSecOps · AI
Secure systems.
Practical automation.
Operational results.
Senior infrastructure automation and security modernization leader with 35+ years of hands-on experience designing, securing, automating, modernizing, and operating mission-critical environments across financial services, government, defense, healthcare, critical infrastructure, consulting, and small business.
35+years across technology engineering, operations, consulting, and leadership
10+engineers and technicians recruited, developed, and led
$1M+managed-services and engineering practice directed
10,000+annual incidents and requests supported by enterprise automation
About
Technical depth with business and operational perspective.
I combine infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, automation, DevOps and DevSecOps, architecture, consulting, business ownership, and people leadership. My strongest value is translating difficult operating problems into secure, maintainable systems, clear standards, measurable workflows, and practical decisions.
Automation, DevOps & DevSecOps
Python, Ansible/AWX, Terraform, PowerShell, Bash, REST APIs, Git/GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, workflow automation, security-aware infrastructure automation, documentation, runbooks, and human approval controls.
Cybersecurity & Leadership
Security architecture, firewalls, IAM, vulnerability management, incident response, compliance support, service delivery, team building, vendor management, roadmaps, metrics, and executive communication.
Education
M.S., Information Security & Assurance
Norwich University
B.S., Computer Information Systems
DeVry University
Certifications
Currently held: CompTIA Security+, ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC), and ITIL v3 Foundation.
Previously held / expired: VMware VCP5-DCV, CISSP, CISM, CISA, CCNP Enterprise, CCDP, CCSE, CCNA, and CCDA. Historical or expired credentials are not presented as current.
Experience is presented by context. Enterprise production work, consulting and operating-company work, product development, and lab or technical-validation experience are described separately rather than blended together.
Selected experience
Engineering, automation, operations, and leadership.
The online resumes provide the detailed chronology. These highlights show the roles most relevant to senior technical, platform, infrastructure, automation, security, and technology-leadership opportunities.
Founder / Principal Technology Consultant / Infrastructure Automation Engineer
Lead an IT consulting and technology-development practice serving small businesses, individuals, internal ventures, and owner-operated organizations.
- Deliver infrastructure modernization, cybersecurity, automation, AI-enabled workflows, software and website development, technical support, and business-systems consulting.
- Develop Python scripts, API integrations, operational workflows, documentation, deployment plans, and human-review controls.
- Lead architecture and development of CharterVantage, an AI-enabled multi-tenant SaaS platform currently in development.
Owner / Technology & Operations Leader
Own the production technology environment for a regulated interstate transportation company.
- Direct cloud applications, identity, endpoints, websites, communications, payments, scheduling systems, telematics, integrations, cybersecurity, backups, and continuity.
- Build workflow and integration automation while managing vendors, incidents, procurement, policies, documentation, and distributed operational users.
Network & Security Engineer Consultant → Senior Automation Engineer / Network Engineer III
Progressed from an Apex Systems consulting engagement supporting Huntington into direct Huntington employment and senior automation engineering responsibilities.
- Began in Huntington’s security and network operations environment, supporting network, cybersecurity, remote access, branches, ATMs, WAN, VoIP, proxies, and vendor-connected services.
- Advanced into enterprise automation using Python, Ansible/AWX, Terraform, Azure DevOps, Git, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Rundeck, APIs, Docker, and Kubernetes-related tooling.
- Built automation supporting more than half of incoming ticket volume and 10,000+ incidents and requests annually.
- Developed Palo Alto policy analysis that evaluated hundreds of thousands of objects and rules in minutes.
Senior Network Engineer / Network Team Lead
Led and supported enterprise network, firewall, remote-access, data-center, WAN, retail, monitoring, vendor, and incident-response activities in a regulated financial-services environment.
Senior Infrastructure Architect / Director of Infrastructure
Helped build and direct a $1M+ managed-services and engineering practice, recruited and led more than 10 engineers and technicians, and established monitoring, service-desk, escalation, documentation, infrastructure, virtualization, backup, and disaster-recovery capabilities.
Network, Systems, Security & Architecture Roles
The documented full-time enterprise chronology begins in August 1991 at Freudenberg Spunweb Company and progresses through EDS, ACS Defense at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Cisco Systems, The Longaberger Company, Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, Plannet Group, and part-time Cisco/security instruction. Work included enterprise routing and switching, Unix and Windows systems, firewalls, security architecture, managed infrastructure, NERC CIP-aligned utility environments, manufacturing systems, technical consulting, and adult education.
Current work & portfolio
Practical systems, reusable automation, and documented operations.
Current work spans client consulting, operating-company technology, software-product development, public portfolio artifacts, and clearly labeled lab or technical-validation environments.
Consulting practice
Lighthouse Digital Logistix
Infrastructure, cybersecurity, automation, AI-enabled workflows, technical support, website solutions, software development, and practical technology strategy for small organizations and individuals.
Product development
CharterVantage
AI-enabled, multi-tenant charter-transportation SaaS platform in development, covering workflow and database design, integrations, testing, deployment planning, operational decision support, and human approval gates.
Public portfolio
DevOps Toolbelt
Reusable scripts and small command-line tools for host audits, development-container scaffolding, repeatable automation, and Kubernetes workflows.
Public portfolio
OpenClaw Public
Sanitized operations artifacts, policies, schemas, runbooks, and templates demonstrating safety-minded automation and disciplined public redaction.
Lab / technical validation
Linux, Containers & AI Agents
RHEL and Ubuntu, KVM/QEMU, Docker, Kubernetes/K3s, ARM64 and x86-64 nodes, GitHub Container Registry, logging, configuration management, secure remote access, and secrets isolation. This is explicitly presented as lab and validation work rather than enterprise production ownership.
Enterprise production track record
Infrastructure Automation
Network-health monitoring, ServiceNow integration, automated incident and request handling, Palo Alto policy analysis, operational reporting, repeatable remediation, and cross-team change support in regulated enterprise environments.
Current 2026 resumes
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The Engineering ATS version is the submission baseline for technical roles. The Leadership ATS version is the baseline for management, director, consulting-lead, architecture-lead, and technology-operations roles.
Engineering ATS Resume
Senior automation, infrastructure, platform, DevOps, network automation, cybersecurity, Linux, cloud, and architecture positioning.
Leadership ATS Resume
Technology strategy, infrastructure and operations leadership, managed services, cybersecurity, automation, consulting, team development, and executive communication.
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