Career Profile

Engineer with 15+ years of experience bridging network engineering and intelligent automation. Fast learner with a strong foundation in software engineering and rapidly growing expertise in AI and data science, demonstrated through hands-on projects in LLMs, microservices, and data pipeline development. Proven ability to lead cross-functional delivery, mentor technical teams, and build resilient applications. Dedicated to building efficient, maintainable systems with a focus on reproducible models, scalable workflows, and robust deployment practices.

Work Experience

Technical Lead - Support Services

2018 - Present
Sentinel Technologies, Inc.

Provide leadership for national support teams, focusing on Collaboration technologies. Coordinate with project teams, management, customers, and vendors for ongoing support at a high level of quality.

  • Technical escalation point for team members and customer satisfaction concerns, working with team members and customers to solution delivery
  • Technical reviewer for customer quarterly business review data, ensuring service quality and technical success
  • Drive best practice implementations through documentation and engineer mentorship
  • Consultation resource for Account Manager/Solutions Architect solution design requirements
  • Ensure smooth transitions from project solutions deployment to ongoing support
  • Provide technical leadership for customer quarterly business reviews
  • Drive process and procedure improvements through close work with management
  • Review emerging technologies from project team deployments, vendor updates, and other sources to develop team growth
  • Engineer mentorship with one-on-one meetings, training sessions and training milestones

Advanced Support Analyst

2015 - 2018
Sentinel Technologies, Inc.

Working within a managed services team, monitoring, troubleshooting, support and repair of Cisco Unified Collaboration, Borderless Networks, and other Cisco technologies.

  • Analyze, troubleshoot and resolve technical issues and requests to client satisfaction
  • Prioritize incidents and change requests based on defined criteria and service level agreements and effectively communicate with the customer on incident status
  • Develop and document work procedures and troubleshooting guidelines
  • Participate in technology projects, quality assurance testing and other activities as assigned

Senior Network Engineer

2014 - 2015
Secant Technologies, Inc.

Design, implement and maintain Cisco Wireless, Security, Network and Voice Infrastructures for clients across Michigan

  • Work closely with solutions architects to consult on services hours, technical architecture and quotation requirements.
  • Develop best practice standards and documentation for these technologies
  • Mentor other engineers on best practices and troubleshooting
  • Foster a culture of collaboration and skill development across departments

Network Engineer

2011 - 2014
Secant Technologies, Inc.

Implement and troubleshoot Cisco technologies across their portfolio

  • Manage project tasks through completion
  • Respond to reactive requests and resolve in a timely fashion
  • Assist in the development of best practices and documentation standards

Projects

A few of the projects & tasks undertaken

Devolutions SDK - A Python SDK focused on data retreival from Devolutions Server, Reverse engineered from defunct https://github.com/Devolutions/devolutions-server and inspection of web server calls.
Expressway BaaS - Python microservice to gather credential information from Devolutions and create a SFTP configuration backup.
CSRv Spinups - Tool to automate Cisco Catalyst 8000v Day 0 configuration using templating and dynamic user input.
Sentinel Level0 Customer Service Webex AI Agent - Webex Scripted AI agent designed to take user input for basic case management actions. Primary engineer on Natural Langage Processing (NLP) design. Worked closely on REST API interface specifications to manage interactions between agent and external middleware service.
SIP Expert Chatbot - Home Project for RAG LLM learning experience. Local Ollama LLM using LangChain framework and ChromaDB.
MPP Migration Hardware Revision Discovery - Discover 78xx phone hardware revisions to prepare for MPP Firmware migration
Internal Credential Repository Migration - Developed tooling on a short timeframe to migrate internal credential repository to a new system.
Call Search - Filter call data (SIP and RTP/RTCP) from rolling packet captures, reducing troubleshooting time from several hours to several minutes.
Visio Diagramming tooling - Internal tooling to streamline and standardize network diagram creation

Skills & Proficiency

Python

JavaScript

.NET

REST APIs

Docker

Git

Pandas/Polars

LangChain

Scikit-learn

Kubernetes