Roles
- Director of Data Platform or Data Engineering
- Director of Data Governance
- Director of Technical Delivery or Program Management
- Technical Product Leader for data products
Open to Director-level data platform and delivery roles
Data platforms and the teams behind them.
15 years at S&P Global, starting as a database engineer and working up to Director of a 20-person organization with teams in the US, Canada, and India.
Charleston, SC · Open to remote or hybrid roles
Hiring for data platform, data governance, or technical delivery leadership?
About
Most of the hard problems weren't technical.
I spent fifteen years at S&P Global. I started out building SQL Server pipelines and finished as Director of a 20-person engineering organization with teams in the US, Canada, and India.
Over that time, the hard part of the job changed. Early on it was getting pipelines to run. Later it was two senior leaders arguing over which version of the same data was right, when both had a fair point. After a major company merger, I led the work to reconcile our data into one governed source. The engineering was a small part of it. Most of the work was requirements, process design, and getting people to agree.
That's the work I want to keep doing: data platforms where the business problem and the people around it matter as much as the code.
Role Fit
What I'm looking for.
Director-level roles in data platforms, data governance, or technical delivery, where much of the job is getting engineering and the business to agree on what matters.
Problems I like
- Data is duplicated or inconsistent, and people don't trust it
- Teams don't have clear owners, and work gets stuck between them
- Reliability, cloud cost, or data quality needs someone accountable
- Engineering and business partners disagree on priorities
Focus areas
Selected Work
Results.
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How I Work
How I run a team.
Every piece of work should have one clear owner, and people should be able to make decisions without waiting on me. When a request doesn't fit, I'd rather find a workable yes than give a flat no. When a product owner needed data migrations almost daily, we agreed on a weekly window that I reviewed, so the work fit around patching and releases. When something breaks, we write it up, explain it to the people affected, and fix the cause.
Experience
S&P Global, 2010 to 2025.
Oct 2023 – Dec 2025
Director, Software Engineering · S&P Global
Led a 20-person engineering organization with teams in the US, Canada, and India, managing engineering managers and technical leads. Owned the data platforms and core datasets behind client products, analytics, and integrations.
- Reorganized inherited teams so each area had a clear owner.
- Hired more than 12 engineers and coached managers, including several new to managing.
- Served as the main engineering contact for C-suite and senior leaders.
- After a major merger, consolidated overlapping data into one governed source, cutting duplicates by 30% and onboarding time by 25%.
- Rebuilt an unreliable data flow between two large SQL systems and ended its recurring P1 incidents.
- Cut data defects by 30% and raised developer satisfaction by 22%.
- Managed a $2M annual cloud budget with finance.
Apr 2020 – Oct 2023
Associate Director, Software Engineering · S&P Global
Led a 10-person engineering team responsible for the data platform behind a $30M+ dataset product.
- Raised platform SLA from about 96% to over 99% on systems processing more than 60,000 records a day.
- Led the team that built AWS-based data services meeting sub-2-second processing SLAs.
- Ran the level-2 on-call rotation and led postmortems with stakeholders.
- Owned the backlog and roadmap with product partners, and introduced sprint planning, retrospectives, and CI/CD.
Apr 2015 – Apr 2020
Senior Manager, Data Engineering · S&P Global
Led engineering teams building ingestion and transformation pipelines for enterprise analytics and products.
- Led the move off a costly data source, saving more than $4M with no disruption to clients.
- Designed near-real-time processing that cut development time by 20 to 25%.
- Managed third-party vendors and mentored engineering teams.
Jun 2010 – Apr 2015
Database Engineer → Lead Database Engineer · S&P Global
Built and tuned SQL Server pipelines, helped manage the SQL Server 2008 to 2012 upgrade, and created a database design course for new engineers.
May 2010
B.S., Information Technology & Web Science · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Trained in Lean, Scrum, and SAFe.
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