Executive Career Profile
Thirty-year technology professional with progressive advancement from software development and systems analysis through enterprise architecture, workload automation engineering, production control engineering leadership, and emerging AI transformation initiatives. Recognized for leading enterprise-scale automation platforms supporting organizations across Healthcare, Telecommunications, Manufacturing, Insurance, and Technology sectors. Deep expertise in enterprise workload automation, infrastructure modernization, high availability, disaster recovery, operational resilience, and engineering leadership.
AI Transformation & Automation Evolution
My transition into Artificial Intelligence is a natural progression from a career dedicated to automation, orchestration, systems integration, and operational optimization. Enterprise workload automation coordinates systems, applications, data flows, and business processes at scale; modern AI extends those same principles through intelligent decision-making, agentic orchestration, predictive capabilities, and human-AI collaboration. Building on three decades of automation and infrastructure experience, I am expanding into Generative AI, Agentic AI concepts, and AI-enabled enterprise transformation.
Career Evolution
Executive Highlights
Executive Competencies
Team development
Vendor management
Disaster recovery
Data center modernization
Production control
Enterprise scheduling
SLA focus
Process optimization
Agentic AI concepts
AI-enabled automation
Oracle/SQL Server
SAP/Informatica integration
Selected Accomplishments
- Led Production Control Engineering functions supporting enterprise healthcare operations, compliance initiatives, optimization efforts, and disaster recovery readiness.
- Progressed from hands-on enterprise workload automation engineering into engineering leadership while retaining technical ownership and platform subject matter expertise.
- Architected workload automation solutions for T-Mobile OSS/BSS transformation, including resilient design, alerting integration, reporting, and administrator enablement.
- Supported global workload automation infrastructure for Caterpillar, including modernization, standardization, SAP integration, and cost-reduction architecture initiatives.
- Advanced enterprise automation maturity through training, mentoring, process redesign, platform upgrades, high availability improvements, and cross-functional implementation leadership.
- Built early-career technical depth through software development, systems analysis, requirements engineering, data conversion, and production support across multiple industries.
Professional Experience
Enterprise Workload Automation Engineering Leadership
Manager, Production Control Engineering
Acting Manager, Production Control Engineering
- Led Production Control Engineering organization supporting enterprise workload automation and production control services.
- Managed engineering team responsibilities across administrative leadership, functional direction, platform ownership, and infrastructure tower participation.
- Coordinated onshore, offshore, and nearshore consulting resources to support organizational growth and project demand.
- Directed team efforts across growth, compliance, enterprise optimization, disaster recovery, and modernization initiatives.
- Mentored engineers by aligning work to individual strengths, interests, demonstrated ability, and professional development needs.
- Maintained hands-on subject matter expertise for Tidal workload automation administration while leading engineering operations.
Enterprise Workload Automation Engineer -> Solutions Architect
Production Control Engineer Lead - AmeriHealth Caritas
Workload Automation Solutions Architect, OSS/BSS Transformation - T-Mobile / Ericsson
Technical Architect - Caterpillar Inc.
Automation Technical Lead - Catholic Health Initiatives
- Administered and modernized enterprise workload automation environments across production, quality, development, sandbox, and hotfix tiers.
- Introduced fault monitoring, local high availability, master server redundancy, and load-balanced client management capabilities.
- Architected T-Mobile OSS/BSS workload automation solution using TES 6.2.1, Windows Server, SQL Server, Citrix delivery, and enterprise adapters.
- Designed geo-redundant and locally redundant workload automation architecture aligned to enterprise infrastructure and disaster recovery requirements.
- Integrated automation alerting with monitoring and ticketing platforms including Netcool, Remedy, and critical email escalation paths.
- Supported Caterpillar global workload automation environments across RHEL, Oracle, Windows Server, SQL Server, SAP, Oracle, Web Services, and DataStage integrations.
- Designed automation approaches that reduced licensing footprint and improved operational scalability.
- Led training, mentoring, proof-of-concept work, and application onboarding for domestic, offshore, operator, scheduler, and administrator teams.
Software Engineering & Systems Analysis Foundation
Agilent Technologies | Sirva Relocation | Magnetek | Genicom | Hewlett Packard | Copic Insurance Company | Rocky Mountain Health Care Corporation | QualMed Plans for Health
- Progressed from Production Programmer and Programmer Analyst roles into Senior Programmer Analyst and platform scheduling responsibilities.
- Designed, developed, maintained, tested, and implemented enterprise applications across healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, relocation services, and technology environments.
- Performed business analysis, technical analysis, requirements gathering, end-user interviews, SDLC support, unit testing, integration testing, and implementation planning.
- Supported data conversion, migration, extraction, mapping, and legacy modernization efforts involving COBOL, Cognos tools, JCL, Oracle, HP3000/MPE, HP-UX, and enterprise applications.
- Developed automation, batch processing, reporting, and integration solutions supporting claims, enrollment, accounts receivable, policyholder services, underwriting, payments, and order entry operations.
- Built the software engineering and systems analysis foundation that later evolved into enterprise workload automation architecture and engineering leadership.
Education & Professional Development
Selected Technology Expertise
Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Automation
Applied Generative AI, Agentic AI concepts, AI-augmented business processes, Human-AI collaboration, AI governance concepts, Enterprise AI transformation
Enterprise Workload Automation
Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler (TES), Production Control Engineering, Enterprise scheduling platforms, Workflow orchestration, Batch processing operations, Automation architecture
Enterprise Infrastructure
Windows Server, Linux, Unix, Oracle, SQL Server, Enterprise middleware
Monitoring & Operations
EMC Ionix, SMARTS, Netcool, Enterprise monitoring platforms, Alerting and event management
Architecture & Resiliency
High availability, Disaster recovery, Enterprise integration, Data center modernization, Infrastructure transformation
Leadership
Engineering management, Organizational leadership, Team development, Vendor management, Strategic planning