Currently serving as Senior Systems Engineer at Leidos supporting the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) Information Management & Technology Directorate (ITD) through the I3TS Program at Fort Belvoir, VA. This role focuses on enterprise-wide IT engineering and support for DTRA's modernization, consolidation, and service innovation initiatives across CONUS and OCONUS mission sites.

Hybrid Infrastructure Engineering: Design and engineer hybrid infrastructure solutions spanning on-premises and Azure Cloud environments, supporting DTRA's digital transformation objectives while maintaining security compliance and operational excellence requirements for defense mission systems.

Automation & Configuration Management: Leverage Ansible and Red Hat Satellite to automate provisioning, configuration, and patching across Windows and Linux systems. Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) artifacts and automation pipelines improving repeatability, compliance validation, and operational efficiency.

Cloud Platform Integration: Engineer, deploy, and sustain hybrid workloads in Azure using Azure Functions, Blueprints, and related cloud services. Maintain and optimize virtualization environments leveraging VMware and Hyper-V while supporting automation-driven infrastructure scaling for Azure Virtual Desktop and IaaS platforms.

Systems Engineering Excellence: Deploy and configure new Windows Server (2016-2022) and RHEL/Linux systems supporting DTRA modernization initiatives. Evaluate and implement system performance enhancements and lifecycle improvements ensuring mission-critical availability and security compliance.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration: Serve as senior-level individual contributor within the DTRA engineering team, providing mentorship, peer review, and engineering guidance to support team expansion and knowledge transfer initiatives.

Operational Excellence: Provide Tier 3/Tier 4 troubleshooting for complex issues across hybrid environments while analyzing recurring operational incidents to drive permanent resolutions through automation and comprehensive documentation.

Documentation & Standards: Ensure technical documentation and architectural consistency across related task orders, maintaining traceability from requirements through implementation and supporting audit readiness and knowledge management objectives.

This current position demonstrates continued commitment to federal mission support, combining advanced technical expertise with operational excellence in defense enterprise environments requiring the highest levels of security, reliability, and performance.

As Infrastructure Transformation Senior Manager at Accenture, I directed cross-functional teams spanning network, storage, systems, cloud, automation, and security engineering across multiple enterprise modernization initiatives. Leading teams of up to nine professionals, I oversaw complete engagement lifecycles from assessment through implementation and operational transition.

Healthcare Infrastructure Leadership: Guided architecture and design of a private cloud infrastructure for a large healthcare provider spanning multiple U.S. data centers. Developed a hyper-converged reference architecture enabling flexible hypervisor switching for cost optimization, and created a multi-cluster virtualization framework supporting containerized workloads, management services, and high-performance compute tasks.

Energy Sector Assessment: Conducted comprehensive infrastructure and application assessments across five enterprise data centers for a large energy utility company. Delivered a disaster recovery maturity analysis identifying single points of failure and prioritizing mission-critical applications while assessing compute, network, and storage systems for high availability and fault tolerance.

Financial Services Modernization: Led an observability modernization initiative for a large financial investment firm, improving endpoint visibility, tool optimization, and alert thresholds. Authored current-state and future-state monitoring frameworks with detailed gap analysis and migration roadmaps.

Global Data Center Consolidation: Directed a multiregional data center consolidation project covering applications, network, compute, cloud, and storage across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Designed future-state architectures aligned with business transformation goals, enabling new hosting facilities and unified infrastructure standards.

Technology Leadership: Managed Nutanix vs. VMware hyper-converged proof-of-concepts with full test cases, scoring matrices, and performance benchmarking. Integrated Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible) into configuration and validation pipelines, and led observability platform enhancements using Splunk, SolarWinds, and CheckMK for improved telemetry and actionable metrics.

My tenure at Accenture was marked by establishing global hosting and infrastructure standards, authoring technical architecture documentation, and maintaining integrated project schedules while serving as primary architectural liaison between technical delivery teams and business leadership.

In the vast expanse of the digital world, where the twin pillars of security and efficiency tower above all, my journey as the founder and CEO of NetStable, LLC, unfolds—a saga of relentless innovation, unwavering resilience, and visionary leadership. From the vibrant community of Woodbridge, VA, this adventure began in June 2009, a commitment to not just navigate the tumultuous seas of cyber threats but to redefine them, laying the foundation for a future where digital fortresses are not merely shelters but bastions of progress and innovation.

As the architect of NetStable's vision, my role transcends the boundaries of traditional leadership. Here, we don't just respond to the digital era's challenges; we anticipate them, crafting solutions that safeguard our clients' aspirations. Each strategy, each decision, is infused with a forward-looking ethos, ensuring that NetStable stands as a beacon of security, efficiency, and ingenuity in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

As Lead Systems Architect at Cornerstone Defense, I provided architectural direction and feasibility validation for a U.S. Navy research and design initiative focused on multi-labeled security (MLS) environments. This federal consulting engagement required deep expertise in secure integration of classified and unclassified systems within hybrid on-premise and cloud frameworks.

Multi-Level Security Architecture: Provided conceptual architecture and design input for prototype MLS environments integrating traditional compute, storage, and network platforms. Reviewed feasibility of leveraging commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) technologies including VMware, Cisco, and Palo Alto firewalls for multi-level security segmentation.

Cross-Domain Solutions Research: Conducted feasibility assessments of cross-domain solutions (CDS), data guards, and classification-based access models to support integrated mission environments. Contributed to high-level system architecture models outlining data flow, boundary protections, and cross-domain access control concepts.

Security Framework Development: Authored comprehensive Data Loss Prevention (DLP) and Digital Rights Management (DRM) white paper addressing secure data labeling, content marking, and data handling controls. Developed and presented conceptual single-stack multi-labeled security design frameworks for multi-cloud environments encompassing classified and unclassified networks.

Federal Compliance & Standards: Ensured all design recommendations aligned with DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF) and TS/SCI environment standards. Supported evaluation of SIPR-at-Home feasibility, contributing research on endpoint security, access control, and encryption assurance requirements.

Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Produced comprehensive design and reference documentation capturing MLS architecture models, data handling workflows, and compliance integration strategies. Established documentation consistency and traceability for all feasibility studies and design deliverables, creating roadmap materials defining transition from conceptual prototype to potential production implementation phases.

This engagement demonstrated expertise in federal security architectures and advanced multi-level security concepts, contributing to critical national security research and development initiatives.

Leadership & Technical Excellence at FinCEN

Served as Senior Solutions Architect and later Operations Manager at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), leading infrastructure modernization across classified and unclassified networks. Directed day-to-day operations for 16-17 resources spanning Windows, Linux, Network, Security, Database, and Storage teams while maintaining hands-on technical leadership.

Architectural Innovation

Architected comprehensive network modernization solutions, designed next-generation firewall migrations from Cisco ASA to Palo Alto Networks, and led infrastructure audits covering VMware, Nutanix, and Active Directory environments. Supervised critical Windows Server 2008 to 2016 migrations while ensuring zero-downtime operations.

Federal Security & Compliance

Enforced NIST-aligned baselines and federal information system security controls across all infrastructure domains. Conducted comprehensive access reviews, Group Policy Object audits, and security policy validations while providing technical inputs for system security plans (SSPs) and audit remediation.

Operational Excellence

Managed enterprise-scale patch management using SCCM, WSUS, and manual Linux/Unix workflows. Oversaw Splunk and SolarWinds monitoring systems ensuring complete infrastructure visibility. Established operational metrics, capacity reporting, and service improvement dashboards that aligned technology initiatives with mission-critical objectives.

Air Force Kessel Run Program - Global Security Deployment

Led on-site architecture and implementation for Dell EMC's secure network infrastructure deployment supporting the Air Force Kessel Run initiative. Completed design and deployment of Palo Alto Networks PA-5260 firewalls in active-passive high-availability configurations across four classified sites (two domestic, two international) within three weeks - two months ahead of schedule.

Centralized Management & Automation

Leveraged Palo Alto Panorama virtual appliance on classified networks to rapidly deploy eight PA-5260 firewalls with consistent security policies, network objects, and interface templates. Streamlined build processes through Panorama automation and standardized rack templates, reducing deployment time by 50%.

Advanced Routing & Connectivity

Designed and implemented four Cisco ASR1001 routers as perimeter devices with full-mesh site-to-site IPSec VPN topology. Implemented BGP between routers and firewalls for external routing, and OSPF between firewalls and Dell S6010-ON switches for optimized internal traffic flow across the IPSec mesh.

DISA STIG Compliance

Applied DISA STIG-aligned baselines across all firewall, routing, and management systems. Maintained strict crypto compliance on IPSec tunnels and management channels while adhering to DoD change-control procedures. Delivered comprehensive operational runbooks and turnover documentation for global sustainment.

At the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under General Dynamics Mission Systems in Arlington, VA, I served as the Principal Solutions Architect from May 2016 to December 2017. My role involved orchestrating a comprehensive overhaul and modernization of network security and infrastructure systems both in the lab and production environments. Key initiatives included the design and implementation of Palo Alto Networks firewalls, Cisco Nexus switches, and a secure connectivity framework for endpoints. Additionally, I created secure, compliant templates for major operating systems and deployed advanced VMware NSX security technologies and Citrix-based virtual desktop infrastructure across multiple classified networks.

This extensive project also included the deployment of a range of security and management systems, such as the Cisco Identity Services Engine for robust network access control, Pivot3 hyper-converged infrastructure for enhanced storage and compute capabilities, and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager for efficient system management. Advanced monitoring and security measures were put in place using tools like SolarWinds and Splunk Enterprise. To ensure high security and compliance, I implemented a two-tier Public Key Infrastructure system, the Department of Defense Assured Compliance Assessment Solution, and the Host-Based Security System. Regular updates and briefings were provided to senior government stakeholders, including the Department of Defense CIO and directors from the Air Force and Navy, ensuring transparency and alignment with strategic objectives.

As a Senior Systems Architect with Elevate Technology Solutions at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), my tenure from July 2014 to May 2016 was marked by a series of strategic and pivotal technological initiatives aimed at expanding and optimizing USAID's digital capabilities. I led the design and implementation of a robust Virtual Private Network (VPN) Remote Access Solution, enabling secure and flexible remote connectivity for the agency's global workforce. This project was complemented by my oversight of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) zero client deployment, significantly streamlining and enhancing user access and experience. I also spearheaded a comprehensive VDI troubleshooting and optimization effort, ensuring high performance and reliability of the virtual desktop environments.

My commitment to innovation was further demonstrated through the creation of the Center for Innovation (CFI) Engineering Lab, a state-of-the-art facility designed to foster technological advancements and collaborative engineering efforts. Additionally, I directed a crucial Enterprise Disaster Recovery (EDR) project, establishing resilient systems and protocols to protect vital data and maintain operational continuity in the event of unforeseen disasters. These projects collectively advanced USAID’s technological infrastructure, reinforcing its mission-critical operations and global development initiatives.