CIO-Level Scope · Director of IT · VP Technology & Infrastructure
Technology leadership from the boardroom to the industrial edge.
Twenty years architecting enterprise IT, industrial OT, AI infrastructure, and the rail systems that move the physical world — and building the teams that run them.
One leader · Four worlds
Most technology leaders live in one of these. The value I bring is fluency across all four — and the integration work that quietly connects them.
CIO-level strategy, operating models, budget and vendor governance, and M&A integration and divestiture execution.
Cloud, identity, cybersecurity, network segmentation, and zero-downtime infrastructure separation at scale.
SCADA, Modbus telemetry, PI data pathways, and secure plant-to-enterprise integration for distributed power generation.
AI/ML inferencing infrastructure, edge capture, rail inspection systems, hands-on agentic-AI practice, and a portfolio of AI ventures.
About
I'm a technology executive who never left the keyboard. For 20+ years I've led global engineering, product innovation, and enterprise infrastructure across eCommerce, manufacturing, energy, rail, and AI — pairing CIO-level business strategy with hands-on architectural depth.
I'm at my best where worlds collide: connecting enterprise networks to plant-floor telemetry, standing up standalone infrastructure under a separation deadline, or scaling AI inferencing without blowing the budget. I build systems that are scalable, secure, supportable, and ready for the real, industrial world.
I lead humble, hungry, and people-smart — listening first, moving with urgency, and elevating the people around me through radical candor and genuine human connection.
Listen first, ask second, take nothing for granted.
Seek out new challenges; lead with energy and discipline.
Champion radical candor and elevate everyone around me.
Signature impact
Lower product cost through a patent-pending laser illumination system for high-speed rail and manufacturing-line imaging.
Inventor · Rail & machine vision
Real-time read/write storage architected into just 12U of rack — powering ML image processing on rail inspection portals.
High-throughput infrastructure
Sites under unified technology operations across a national footprint — lower overhead, higher resilience, standardized systems.
Distributed IT operations
Operational downtime while designing and executing APR Energy's standalone infrastructure separation — identity, network, security, and monitoring rebuilt live.
Separation & continuity
A dedicated IT operations unit built and scaled, plus a worldwide service-delivery team for enterprise-grade hardware and software.
Team building
Of accumulated technical debt eliminated — legacy infrastructure modernized to current compliance, uptime, and supportability standards.
Modernization
Customer satisfaction improvement at a corporate service desk, driven by new support processes and a self-built self-service resolution tool.
Customer experience
Annual savings consolidating ISP, cellular, telephone, and copier services across a 200+ site distributed footprint.
Cost optimization
Workforce-utilization gain overcoming staffing shortages — the technician team built there became a hiring pipeline for other departments.
Team performance
In the press
The AI railcar-inspection system I led R&D for at Duos — built with Dell, NVIDIA, and Kalray — drew independent coverage across the HPC and rail-technology press, and the platform was named a 2023 Progressive Railroading Rail Safety & Technology Products winner.
Independent HPC trade press on the Dell–Kalray–NVIDIA system, quoting me as VP of R&D & Innovation on the data-throughput challenge — I framed it by noting an average home computer would fill up in about four seconds.
Read the article →A customer success story on the storage-and-compute architecture behind the inspection portal, with my commentary throughout on the design — Dell PowerEdge servers, Kalray NVMe storage, and NVIDIA GPUs working at the edge.
Open the case study →A technical white paper that uses the Duos edge-AI deployment — and my commentary — as a real-world case for managing data at the volumes modern AI workloads demand, well beyond rail.
Read the white paper →An on-camera walkthrough of the Railcar Inspection Portal and the technology that powers it, featuring me as VP of Research, Development & Innovation.
Watch the video →Career
APR Energy · Jacksonville, FL
Own the standalone enterprise infrastructure roadmap post-separation — identity, network, security, virtualization, endpoint management, monitoring, remote access, and industrial connectivity for distributed power generation. Rolled out enterprise GenAI tooling — Claude, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise — tied to identity and access control, and manage a mixed macOS/Windows/Linux endpoint fleet via Apple Business Manager, Intune, and NinjaRMM.
APR Energy / Duos Technologies · Jacksonville, FL
Led the IT/OT integration of APR and Duos, then designed and executed APR's full infrastructure separation — enterprise services, routing, access controls, and monitoring — with operational continuity intact, while directly leading SOC 2 / ISO 27001-aligned control readiness.
Duos Technologies Inc. · Jacksonville, FL
Set the R&D vision for rail inspection, AI, and intelligent monitoring platforms. Led DevOps, enterprise IT, AI/ML, and hardware-software teams; invented the patent-pending laser illumination system; architected 100 GB/s storage in 12U; and led TV360, an AI vision platform detecting mechanical flaws on trains passing through a 360° high-speed camera portal.
Do IT Right Consultants · Macclenny, FL
Advise growth-oriented clients on infrastructure strategy, systems modernization, secure architecture, web automation, and eCommerce technology — 60+ sites deployed, $3M+ in client budgets managed. Built IronPing, a native iOS app taken concept-to-delivery; the Web Demo Engine, an AI pipeline that finds businesses with weak web presences and auto-builds demo sites to drive outreach; and Sebastian, an autonomous AI assistant handling Tier 1-2 IT support, real phone calls, and day-to-day scheduling and coordination.
ICX Managed Services · Jacksonville, FL
Rebuilt SLAs and integrated KPI reporting — raising response rates 70%→97%, resolution 67%→95%, and utilization 44%→87% in under six months. Led a standardized rollout of PCs, network, and security services across 170 Brightway Insurance franchise facilities.
Advanced Disposal Services · Ponte Vedra, FL
Authored the corporate SLA still in use at departure and wrote a .NET self-service tool for end-user issue resolution, lifting customer satisfaction from 46% to 98% and overcoming staffing shortages with a 150% workforce-utilization gain.
Advanced Disposal Services · Roswell, GA
Directed regional IT across a 200+ site footprint and built early industrial OT capability — engineered custom remote compactor control and safety hardware, satellite/cellular connectivity for remote transfer stations, and telemetry for a landfill methane-to-power turbine and recycling-plant sorting systems. Consolidated ISP, cellular, and copier services ($518K savings) and scaled Citrix/VMware infrastructure from 300 to 900 users via physical-to-virtual conversion ($436K reduction).
Capabilities
Ventures
Beyond the executive seat, I build and back companies at the edge of AI and infrastructure.
Senior technology leadership on demand — AI consultation, IT, cloud, security, and ERP architecture for organizations that need a steady hand on the wheel.
A near-human AI personal assistant — built to handle the coordination, communication, and busywork of modern life so people get their time back.
A patent-pending AI venture built on agentic AI architecture, currently in active development. Product specifics stay under wraps for now — full details available under NDA.