About

I’m a Technology Engineer with 25 years of experience across Mainframe, Linux, and AWS (Amazon Web Services). Over that time I’ve been a software developer, team lead, sysadmin, database administrator, data engineer, and production support specialist.

For nearly a decade I served on the architecture design team for a large-scale business platform — the kind with its own screen presentation layer, transaction manager, remote procedure call libraries, and data movement framework. I led the architecture, data movement, and application security teams and owned the code for those components.

I work on one of the largest Property and Casualty (P&C) systems in the industry on both the application and database sides of the house. That’s given me a front-row seat to the realities of enterprise modernization: the tradeoffs, the legacy debt, and the people who hold it all together.

I’ve designed systems, debugged them at 2 a.m., migrated them to new platforms, and mentored the people who keep them running. Along the way, I built a deep and varied skill set.

The fact that we help real people on the worst days of their lives drives my commitment to uptime and quality.

I write about what I’ve learned along the way: system design, modernization, leadership, risk, knowledge transfer, and the complex intersection of technology and business decisions.

When the writing touches leadership, it comes from both sides. I spent years leading informally before making a mid-career move into formal tech leadership, which answered some questions and raised entirely different ones.

I also hold a Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC®) designation from The American College, a different discipline that sharpened how I think about risk and business outcomes.

Note: The blog title comes from a running joke — some folks call me Columbo because I always come back with “just one more thing.”