28 years of production systems, governed AI on top.

The story starts in 1998 at Fordham University, where I was already working as a web developer while still a Computer Science student. I lived the degree before it was official, then kept self-teaching after the degree was already out of date. Everyone has access to AI now, just like everyone has access to flour; the difference is the craft, judgment, timing, and systems discipline required to make something special.

That habit became the through line: learn the thing, ship the thing, document the thing, and raise the people around it. The AI work is stronger because it compounds 28 years of web, data, real-time, regulated, creative, enterprise, and team-leadership experience.

• 1998 — Fordham web development while still a CS student.
• 2000s — Nextel data systems, Intrepid web and intranet modernization, and early Basilecom client platforms.
• 2010s — 360i real-time creative systems, BaubleBar commerce scale, Teladoc NYSE-era telehealth, and IntegraMed clinical ML.
• Enterprise and defense — IBM search, Atlas Air logistics, Dragos OT security, and Air Force mission planning.
• Now — MCP, RAG, eval gates, private-data AI, prompt-injection defense, tenant isolation, and human approval paths.

Sole technical voice for an AI operating system across UK / US / APJ. Architected the MCP platform spanning 12+ production server integrations and 458 agent-callable tools governed end-to-end. Built the Claude Field Guide (52 levels, 65+ practitioners trained, time-to-first-useful-prompt cut from 3 days to 2 hours). Owned the eval harness (1,104 tests across 29 suites), private-data NL-to-SQL platform across 11 tenants, vendor diligence (Windsor.ai, Datadog), Snowflake governance, and the rollout discipline that lets non-engineers use it without breaking the business.

• 40% reduction in NetSuite manual reconciliation, ~15 hours / week saved
• 35% reduction in Snowflake credit consumption, ~£2,800 / month saved
• £24,000 + 4 months of rebuild avoided by stabilizing the crawl pipeline
• £450,000 in media trading decisions informed by AdTech API assessments
• £18,000 + 6 months of self-hosted observability avoided by standardizing on Datadog
• 60% reduction in data-to-insight latency from the Windsor.ai vendor selection
• 25% uplift in qualified outbound activity from the Clay.com evaluation and integration
• 18 client sites per quarter processed through the Content Engine / STORY pipeline
• Up to 90% cost reduction on repetitive agent queries via prompt caching

40+ production systems across client and enterprise work from the early web era into modern AI platforms. Distributed teams of 4 to 20 engineers across 12 time zones, ~90% client retention, 75% repeat business, 5 engineers coached to senior roles, and 25+ engineers mentored across client engagements (with new-hire onboarding compressed from 6 weeks to 2 on the platform engagements). Trusted to lead executive technical interviews.

Selected clients

IBM · U.S. Air Force AMC · Dragos · Atlas Air · Phoenix Contact · Publicis Groupe · Fox Sports · Bayer HealthCare · ADP · IFF · FIS · Shubert Ticketing · Bremer Bank

Selected work

• IBM — Global search modernization. 3× query speed, 80% infrastructure cost reduction, CTO commendation.
• U.S. Air Force AMC — Classified mission planning at Scott AFB.
• Atlas Air — "Hawk" global flight scheduling.
• Dragos — ICS / OT cybersecurity tooling.

Predictive ML on 200+ clinical features driving ~30% IVF success-prediction improvement. HIPAA / SOC 2 / PCI DSS platform across 50+ clinics handling 40K+ IVF cycles. ~$5M+ revenue impact through optimized treatment protocols.

Scaled platform through NYSE debut: 12.2M to 15.1M members. Migrated backend to Elixir / Phoenix for real-time telehealth, with sub-2-second WebRTC connection times. Built the CVS MinuteClinic API — the first NCQA telehealth credentialing.

First technical hire — built the platform that drove $10M+ revenue with a 30% conversion-rate improvement. Celebrity launch sites at 100K+ concurrent users. Served on the executive search panel that hired the CTO.

Engineering lead on Oreo Daily Twist and the Super Bowl blackout real-time response — sub-5-minute content decisions running across millions of concurrent users. Plus Oscar Mayer Bacon Barter, Coca-Cola Polar Bowl, and platforms for Marvel, NBC, and National Geographic. The taste for craft, motion, and audience came from this period.