Currently exploring senior technical program, delivery, and engineering leadership opportunities

Bridging business and engineering to deliver platforms that matter.

Fifteen years translating business priorities into engineering delivery — and technical execution back into outcomes leadership can act on. Most recently as Director bridging a 20-person engineering organization — including direct management of engineering managers and technical leads — with business and executive stakeholders.

After a late-2025 layoff, I took real time with family, sharpened my skills, and got intentional about what's next — now actively looking for the right fit.

Charleston, SC · Open to remote, hybrid, or relocation for the right fit

Hiring for technical program management, delivery leadership, or engineering leadership roles?

About

I turn business priorities into engineering delivery — and delivery into outcomes leadership trusts.

Over fifteen years at S&P Global, I grew from database engineer to director bridging a 20-person engineering organization — including direct management of engineering managers and technical leads — with business and executive stakeholders. Along the way I learned that the hardest problems in platform work are rarely purely technical. They are about ownership, alignment, and translating ambiguous requirements into work teams can execute with confidence.

What I'm known for: acting as the connective tissue between business and engineering in matrixed organizations; owning delivery accountability across competing priorities and multiple workstreams; and communicating risk, roadmap, and tradeoffs clearly enough that executives can make confident decisions.

I stay close enough to SQL Server, AWS architecture, and enterprise data platforms to understand technical tradeoffs firsthand, while leading far enough above the work to shape priorities, delivery models, and the organizational conditions that let teams do their best work.

Role Fit

The right next chapter.

I'm looking for senior technical program, delivery, or engineering leadership roles where translating business strategy into engineering execution — and keeping matrixed stakeholders aligned along the way — is central to the work.

Best-fit roles

  • Director / Senior Director, Technical Program Management
  • Head of Technical Delivery or Engineering Program Management
  • Director of Engineering with a delivery & stakeholder focus
  • Technical Product/Program Leader bridging business and engineering

Best-fit problems

  • Business and engineering need a trusted translator between them
  • Delivery needs clear ownership, prioritization, and accountability across a matrixed org
  • Executives need clarity on risk, dependencies, and roadmap progress
  • Engineering execution keeps drifting from business outcomes

Focus areas

Technical program management Business-to-engineering translation Cross-functional alignment Agile & Scrum delivery Executive communication Risk & dependency management Data platform architecture AWS Vendor & partner management Data governance Roadmap ownership Team leadership

Selected Proof

Business outcomes with technical roots.

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Leadership Philosophy

Bridge the business and the build.

I lead by translating business priorities into work teams can execute with confidence, clarifying ownership, and keeping cross-functional stakeholders aligned in matrixed environments. Strong technical delivery leadership sits close enough to engineering to earn trust and understand tradeoffs, but operates as the connective tissue that keeps execution tied to outcomes that actually matter.

Experience

Fifteen years, one company, many chapters.

Oct 2023 — Dec 2025

Director, Software Engineering · S&P Global

Served as the primary bridge between business leadership and a 20-person engineering organization — including direct management of engineering managers and technical leads — translating strategic priorities into executable delivery plans and ensuring technical execution created measurable business outcomes.

  • Translated complex business requirements from executive and cross-functional stakeholders into prioritized engineering roadmaps with clear scope and success criteria.
  • Drove cross-functional alignment across engineering, product, legal, compliance, and business teams in a highly matrixed environment, resolving dependencies and maintaining delivery momentum.
  • Owned executive-level communication of delivery status, risks, and roadmap progress, presenting regularly to C-suite leadership.
  • Reduced data defects by 30% and accelerated integration onboarding by 25%, keeping technical execution connected to business goals.
  • Governed $2M annual cloud budget, communicating technology tradeoffs clearly to executive and financial stakeholders.
Apr 2020 — Oct 2023

Associate Director, Software Engineering · S&P Global

Led delivery of a $30M+ enterprise data platform, owning backlog prioritization, stakeholder alignment, and cross-functional program management across a 10-person engineering team in a complex, matrixed organization.

  • Maintained a well-groomed, prioritized product backlog, refining requirements with business stakeholders and sequencing work by business impact.
  • Improved platform SLA from approximately 96% to 99%+ on systems processing 60,000+ daily records.
  • Implemented agile delivery practices, sprint cadences, and CI/CD frameworks, improving planning predictability.
  • Partnered with product and business stakeholders to define platform roadmap, translating business goals into actionable engineering plans.
Apr 2015 — Apr 2020

Senior Manager, Data Engineering · S&P Global

Led cross-functional delivery teams executing large-scale enterprise technology initiatives, managing stakeholder alignment, vendor relationships, risk mitigation, and delivery accountability across complex programs.

  • Directed a critical enterprise platform transition generating $4M+ in cost savings, managing stakeholder communication, risk, and cutover execution with zero business disruption.
  • Designed near-real-time processing architectures that reduced delivery timelines by 20–25%, getting new capabilities to market faster.
  • Managed third-party vendor relationships, translating business requirements into contracts, SLAs, and delivery accountability frameworks.
  • Built and mentored delivery-focused engineering teams, establishing the execution discipline that enabled predictable delivery.
Jun 2010 — Apr 2015

Database Engineer → Lead Database Engineer · S&P Global

Served as the technical translator between business requirements and database engineering solutions, building foundational data pipelines and the onboarding programs that established delivery standards for the team.

May 2010

B.S., Information Technology & Web Science · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Contact

Tell me what you're building.

Have a role where business and engineering need a trusted bridge, or delivery needs clearer ownership and execution rhythm? Let's talk.