88%
Infrastructure savings
Used AWS services including Spot, ECS, ECR, SQS, S3, Lambda, and API Gateway to reduce costs versus a prior hosting model.
Senior Cloud Engineer · AWS Architect · DevOps Builder
Cloud engineering that turns messy systems into reliable platforms.
I help organizations migrate, modernize, secure, and operate AWS environments — with a bias toward practical automation, clear ownership, measurable cost reduction, and faster delivery.
Selected impact
Results from cloud migrations, operations, and automation work.
Across consulting, healthcare, restaurant technology, and enterprise platforms, my work has centered on making systems cheaper to run, easier to ship, safer to operate, and clearer to own.
9 weeks
Ownership transfer
Moved codebase and infrastructure ownership from a third party under a strict timeline while coordinating internal and external stakeholders.
200–300%
Migration throughput
Built automation and fault tolerance that accelerated DICOM migrations to S3 and enabled petabyte-scale movement.
20+ hrs/wk
Manual effort removed
Automated report data gathering and disbursement to remove repetitive operational work.
400+
Hours saved yearly
Automated archiving for endoscopy-related procedure notes by transforming and routing HL7 data.
22 sites
Enterprise implementations
Implemented customer sites with total contract value around $18.3M, spanning contract review, integrations, and custom HL7 work.
What I do
Architecture, delivery, operations, and the glue between them.
I’m strongest where cloud architecture meets real operational pressure: migrations, pipelines, cost, security, observability, customer impact, and the human coordination needed to make changes stick.
AWS landing zones
Control Tower, Account Factory, SCPs, organizations, and best-practice account setup for teams entering cloud.
DevOps & IaC
GitLab, Terraform, CI/CD frameworks, AWS CodePipeline, ECR, ECS, CodeCommit, and deployment automation.
Cost optimization
Cloud spend reduction through architecture changes, data pipeline tuning, service selection, and operational review.
Observability
CloudWatch metrics and alarms, dashboards, Slack ChatOps, KPI reporting, and under-five-minute detection goals.
Security remediation
Large-scale configuration cleanup, Checkov/Bridgecrew integration, audit tooling, and repeatable controls.
Healthcare integration
HL7, DICOM, XML/JSON transformations, Epic interfaces, SOAP/REST services, SQL Server, and patient workflow automation.
Migration leadership
Compressed timeline migrations for compute, database, auth, .NET stacks, SQL Server, and third-party systems.
Team enablement
Mentoring, training, requirements translation, stakeholder communication, and process improvement.
Experience
A career spent modernizing systems under real constraints.
From healthcare integrations to large-scale cloud consulting, the through-line is pragmatic engineering: understand the system, automate what matters, and leave teams with something maintainable.
Sr. Cloud Engineer
CDW
- Onboarded clients new to AWS using Control Tower, Account Factory, SCPs, and best practices.
- Assessed and migrated compute, database, and auth workloads for a multi-million dollar restaurant chain on a compressed timeline.
- Created GitLab frameworks and pipelines that reduced SDLC time by 50–80% while adding financial institution testing and auditing.
- Mentored junior engineers on technical process, troubleshooting, and customer-facing judgment.
Cloud Architect
World Wide Technology
- Reduced monthly AWS spend 60% for a large restaurant environment using Lambda, SQS, Kinesis Firehose, and Redshift optimization.
- Transferred ownership of codebase and infrastructure from a third party within 9 weeks.
- Improved release cadence from 8–10 weeks to 2–3 weeks with GitLab, CodePipeline, ECR, ECS, and ChatOps.
- Built inventory, security, and audit tooling for AWS environments that cut time-to-data by 5x.
- Remediated 3,000+ security and configuration issues using Terraform, Git, TFS, scripting, and Checkov/Bridgecrew.
Lead Platform Engineer
PharmaPoint
- Migrated the primary software stack from third-party hosting to AWS, including proprietary .NET, SOAP/REST services, COTS integrations, and SQL Server.
- Reduced initial customer page load time from 11–15 seconds to under 1.5 seconds through SQL indexing and targeted code changes.
- Migrated databases to AWS RDS for about 13% monthly savings and used AWS services to reduce prior hosting costs by an average of 88%.
- Automated report data gathering and disbursement, saving 20+ hours per week.
Sr. Technical Consultant
Hyland Software
- Created custom HL7 interfaces for patient updates and Epic “Images Ready” REST notifications.
- Improved DICOM migration throughput by 200–300% with automation and fault tolerance, enabling petabyte-scale migration to S3.
- Used SQL scripting to automate backend jobs based on current server load.
- Assisted with AWS proof-of-concept design and build-out.
Sr. Implementation Engineer
Emergency Callworks / Motorola
- Implemented hardware and software configurations for 16 sites.
- Automated ticket creation, reducing new-site setup by 1.5 hours.
- Helped design and implement redundant network paths connecting 14 sites via an Alabama Supercomputer Authority WAN.
Sr. Integration Engineer
Children’s of Alabama Hospital
- Integrated HL7-based food ordering and dietary restriction workflows.
- Automated NIRS values into patient charts, reducing manual charting time by 95%.
- Automated archiving of procedure notes, saving an estimated 400+ hours per year.
Sr. Implementation Engineer
McKesson: Horizon Enterprise Visibility
- Consulted with customers from C-level through technical analysts on workflow and HL7-driven automation.
- Created implementation, training, ticket metrics, and add-on sales processes that improved delivery and revenue capture.
- Implemented 22 sites with total contract value around $18.3M.
Technical Analyst
Emageon
- Performed release, patch, bulletin, and third-party integration risk analysis.
- Analyzed Level 3 escalation patterns to identify knowledge gaps and process improvements.
- Led a cross-functional effort to improve product quality with pre-release clinical testing.
Service Engineer Level 2
Emageon
- Managed Linux server configurations, diagnosed performance issues, and resolved workflow problems in clustered environments.
- Developed custom SQL for information gathering and diagnostics.
- Deployed fixes and software customizations for clients.
Technical depth
Hands-on across cloud, data, integrations, and operations.
Formal background in Management Information Systems with a Computer Science minor, plus years of applied work across healthcare, enterprise software, and AWS consulting.
Cloud & DevOps
AWSControl TowerAccount FactorySCPsTerraformGitLab CI/CDCodePipelineECSECRLambdaSQSS3API GatewayCloudWatchRedshiftKinesis Firehose
Languages & Data Formats
SQLXSLXMLHL7JSONDICOMASP.NETVBC++HTMLPHP
Systems & Administration
Linux / UNIXWindows ServerCisco IOSMS SQLMySQLOracleApacheLAN/WANWireless networking
Credentials & Education
AWS Solutions Architect AssociateB.S. Business AdministrationManagement Information SystemsComputer Science MinorThe University of Alabama
Let’s build something durable
Cloud work is only successful when teams can operate it after the migration is over.
If you’re evaluating cloud migrations, AWS account structure, CI/CD modernization, observability, cost reduction, security remediation, or healthcare integrations, this is the work I’ve repeatedly helped deliver.