Technology leader with two decades of hands-on experience
With over 20 years in technology, I have built and led teams that design, deploy, and scale enterprise systems across hospitality, education, and engineering sectors. From nearly 13 years at The Walt Disney Company—where I progressed from operations to technical architecture for Parks & Resorts and Imagineering—to directing infrastructure platforms at MGM Resorts International, my career spans cloud architecture, enterprise systems management, application performance, and FinOps. I am driven to deliver measurable business outcomes through technology leadership, engineering excellence, and cross-functional collaboration.
A career built across diverse industries and challenges
MGM Resorts International
Directing engineering staff and facilities. Implementing consistent engineering practices to ensure stable delivery of cloud platform, datacenter, and digital workspace services. Directing project planning, capital budgeting, and business plan development. Ensuring cross-functional communication aligned with service deployment and support.
MGM Resorts International
Guided digital transformation for Conversational Technology, CRM, Web Platform, Mobile, Digital Check-in, and Human Resources as principal enterprise architect. Managed the cloud automation team and directed cloud modernization. Promoted technology strategy across the enterprise and mentored engineers.
The Walt Disney Company
Led creation of repeatable reference architecture across a hybrid landscape for Parks & Resorts and Imagineering. Co-led maturation of the cloud engineering toolbox: AWS/Azure, GitHub, Terraform, Atlantis, Packer, Consul, Vault, Chef, Rundeck, Jenkins, and Azure DevOps. Designed and built Digital Fastpass cloud infrastructure for Oriental Land Company. Key stakeholder for proof of concepts in GCP, Oracle Cloud, VMWare Cloud, and Alibaba Cloud.
The Walt Disney Company
Provided infrastructure scope and design aligned with reference architecture. Lead architect of application infrastructure drafting methodology. Core leader and escalation point for AWS architecture engineering. Trained and coached systems engineers to meet advancing developer and business needs.
The Walt Disney Company
Led APM services on the Enterprise Systems Management team. Escalation point for HP OM, PM, SiS, and BSM. Developed monitoring services across all business segments. Built custom executive dashboards on MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, Node) leveraging REST, Oracle, and SMTP. Led team adoption of continuous deployment.
The Walt Disney Company
Key contributor of the Technical Operations Center. Responsibilities included batch validation, chronological logging, manual system checks, proactive actions, and system validation. Helped design processes, procedures, and tools.
Celebration Suites at Old Town
Assessed and maintained business technology services for new ownership. Provided technical education and managed networking (LAN, WAN, PBX), Point of Sale services, door locks, printing, domain administration, and desktop support.
Osceola County School District
Presented virtual learning solution to senior leadership and won bid against top corporate providers (Blackboard/WebCT). Delivered the first open source solution in the district using CentOS, Apache, SELinux, PostgreSQL, PHP, and Moodle. Managed architecture, upgrades, trained educators, and developed custom themes.
Osceola County School District
Managed technology budget and maintained workstations, servers, networks, and applications for Central Avenue Elementary School. Supported and taught employees, students, and district IT professionals.
Engineering Acoustics, Inc.
Testing, troubleshooting, manufacture, and repair of circuit boards, transducers, and tactoral devices. Led team to invent an improved tactor control system designed for use with virtual reality touch simulation software.
Universal Orlando Resort
Labeled top vendor of the company for consistently highest items sold. Managed food service inventory operations for half of the park and vending operations for the entire park.
Engineering foundations from Central Florida
University of Central Florida
Cohort-based program focused on effective decision-making and successful project delivery in engineering and technology organizations.
University of Central Florida
Phi Theta Kappa · Eta Kappa Nu
Valencia College
Industry-recognized credentials in architecture, operations, and finance
The Open Group
2022
FinOps Foundation
2025
AXELOS
Certified
CA Technologies
Certified
Hewlett-Packard
Certified
Red Hat
Certified
Notable systems built and delivered
Designed and built the cloud infrastructure for Digital Fastpass serving Tokyo Disney Resort. Delivered a scalable, globally distributed architecture on AWS.
Co-led maturation of the enterprise cloud engineering platform for Parks & Resorts and Imagineering, standardizing infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD across the organization.
Built custom dashboards representing enterprise infrastructure service indicators for executive consumption using the MEAN stack, leveraging data through REST, Oracle, SMTP, Samba, and HTTP. Led team to adopt continuous deployment.
Won bid against Blackboard/WebCT to deliver the first open source virtual learning solution in the Osceola County School District. Built on CentOS, Apache, SELinux, PostgreSQL, PHP, and Moodle. Developed custom themes and trained educators.
Led team to invent an improved tactor control system at Engineering Acoustics, Inc., designed for use with virtual reality touch simulation software. Involved circuit boards, transducers, and tactoral devices.
Technologies and frameworks I work with
A reflection on 25 years of building for the web
In the early 2000s, I launched my first web-based content management system using PostNuke—an open source CMS forked from PHP-Nuke. It took weeks. I had to learn Linux from scratch, understand how Apache served pages, figure out PHP and MySQL configuration, customize PostNuke’s templating system, and debug everything through trial and error while hosting the site publicly. There was no Stack Overflow. Forums were sparse. Every answer lived in a man page or an IRC channel if you were lucky. That experience was formative —it taught me how the web actually works from the ground up—but the time investment was enormous for what amounted to a themed CMS with a few custom blocks.
This portfolio site was built entirely through a conversation with Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding assistant. From first prompt to live on GitHub Pages, the whole process took under 30 minutes. My total input was a handful of natural language prompts: describe the site I wanted, confirm the plan, paste my LinkedIn experience, and ask for this section. Claude Code handled everything else:
I didn’t write a single line of code. I didn’t open a text editor. I described what I wanted in plain English and course-corrected along the way.
PostNuke CMS (2002)
2–3 weeks
Learning Linux, Apache, PHP, MySQL, PostNuke theming, deployment, DNS—all from documentation and forums
Claude Code (2026)
< 30 minutes
Natural language prompts, AI-generated code, automated git workflow, live deployment—all from a terminal conversation
Estimated time savings: ~99%
The distance between 2002 and 2026 isn’t just about speed. In 2002, the barrier to putting something on the web was deep technical knowledge. You had to understand every layer of the stack before you could publish a single page. That knowledge was valuable—it’s the foundation of a career that led from PostNuke to Disney to MGM—but it also meant the web was only accessible to people willing to invest weeks of learning before producing anything.
Today, an AI pair programmer can take a senior technologist’s intent and translate it into production-ready code in a single sitting. The expertise still matters—I knew what I wanted because of those 20+ years—but the execution bottleneck has collapsed. What used to require deep knowledge of a dozen tools now requires clarity of thought and the ability to describe what you need.
That shift doesn’t make the old skills irrelevant. It makes them more leveraged. The people who understand how systems actually work can now move at a pace that was impossible before. The weeks I spent learning Linux and Apache in 2002 are the reason I could evaluate what Claude Code produced in 2026 and trust it. Experience plus AI isn’t a replacement—it’s a multiplier.