Best-fit roles
- Director / Senior Director of Engineering
- Head of Data Platform or Platform Engineering
- Engineering Enablement / Developer Productivity Leader
- Technical Product Leader for data or platform products
Currently exploring senior engineering and product opportunities
Building data platforms and the teams that own them.
Fifteen years building enterprise data platforms — and the teams that owned them. Most recently as Director of a 20-person engineering organization.
Charleston, SC · Open to remote, hybrid, or relocation for the right fit
Hiring for data platform, platform engineering, developer productivity, or engineering leadership roles?
About
I turn fragmented systems into reliable engineering organizations.
Over fifteen years at S&P Global, I grew from database engineer to director of a 20-person engineering organization. Along the way I learned that the hardest problems in platform work are rarely purely technical. They are about ownership, alignment, and the structural decisions that determine whether teams ship or stall.
What I'm known for: turning fragmented data ecosystems into governed platforms; restructuring inherited teams so ownership is clear and delivery accelerates; and translating between engineers, product partners, and executives without losing the nuance that makes the work real.
I stay close enough to SQL Server, AWS architecture, reliability, and data governance to understand tradeoffs, while leading far enough above the work to shape priorities, operating models, and team design.
Role Fit
The right next chapter.
I'm looking for senior engineering or product leadership roles where data platforms, developer productivity, platform reliability, or technical product ownership are central to the work.
Best-fit problems
- Fragmented systems need to become scalable platforms
- Teams need clearer ownership, operating rhythm, and delivery standards
- Cloud cost, reliability, and data quality need executive-level governance
- Engineering and product need a shared language for tradeoffs
Focus areas
Selected Proof
Business outcomes with technical roots.
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Leadership Philosophy
Operate close to the work, but design above it.
I lead by clarifying ownership, reducing ambiguity, and building operating systems that help teams make better decisions without constant escalation. Strong engineering leadership sits close enough to the work to understand tradeoffs, but far enough above it to shape priorities, incentives, and team structure.
Experience
Fifteen years, one company, many chapters.
Oct 2023 — Dec 2025
Director, Software Engineering · S&P Global
Led a 20-person, multi-team engineering organization responsible for enterprise data platforms and foundational datasets powering client-facing products, analytics, and cross-business integrations.
- Restructured inherited teams to clarify ownership and increase delivery capacity.
- Served as primary engineering liaison to C-suite stakeholders for platform strategy and roadmap progress.
- Defined identifier and metadata mapping strategy that accelerated new data onboarding by 25%.
- Governed $2M annual cloud budget through right-sizing and cost governance.
- Reduced data-related defects by 30% through standardized ingestion, validation, and stewardship processes.
Apr 2020 — Oct 2023
Associate Director, Software Engineering · S&P Global
Led a 10-person engineering team owning enterprise data platforms and analytics infrastructure underpinning a $30M+ dataset product.
- Improved platform SLA from approximately 96% to 99%+ on systems processing 60,000+ daily records.
- Architected cloud-native AWS data services achieving sub-2-second processing SLAs.
- Built monitoring and incident response frameworks that reduced MTTR and strengthened resilience.
- Partnered with product stakeholders to translate business priorities into measurable engineering outcomes.
Apr 2015 — Apr 2020
Senior Manager, Data Engineering · S&P Global
Led distributed engineering teams delivering scalable ingestion and transformation pipelines supporting enterprise analytics and product capabilities.
- Directed a critical data source transition generating $4M+ in cost savings.
- Designed near-real-time processing architectures that reduced development timelines by 20–25%.
- Scaled and mentored cross-functional engineering teams.
Jun 2010 — Apr 2015
Database Engineer → Lead Database Engineer · S&P Global
Architected SQL Server ingestion and transformation pipelines, tuned high-volume systems, and built onboarding curriculum for incoming engineers.
May 2010
B.S., Information Technology & Web Science · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Contact
Tell me what you're building.
Have a role where fragmented systems need to become reliable platforms, or teams need clearer ownership and execution rhythm? Let's talk.