About
Product builder and architecture advisor.
I bring 20+ years across cloud, integration, platform, and enterprise systems. Today that experience supports two connected paths: building AI-assisted consumer apps and advising teams on technical decisions where delivery risk is real.
The bridge
Product work keeps the advisory grounded.
Building ExpenseJournal keeps me close to the real constraints behind AI-assisted workflows: capture quality, extraction errors, human confirmation, storage, privacy, telemetry, and support burden. Those same constraints show up in enterprise AI, integration, and modernization work.
Proof
Architecture, cloud, and delivery credentials.
A focused set of architecture, cloud, interoperability, and delivery credentials across Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, HL7, enterprise architecture, project leadership, and service management.
Operating principles
How I evaluate product and architecture work.
Make decisions visible
Important architecture choices should be named, compared, and owned.
Design for rollback and ownership
Every critical path needs a failure path and someone accountable for recovery.
Ship with observability
Production systems need signals for quality, failures, cost, and support.
Keep AI grounded in real workflows
AI features need evidence, user review, boundaries, and practical operating rules.
Experience map
Patterns I have worked across repeatedly.
Patterns I have worked across repeatedly: integration-heavy domains, modernization pressure, and systems that need clean ownership.
Financial services
Banking platforms and payment flows.
- U.S. core banking transformation
- Canadian digital banking retail/business onboarding
- Credit-union retail banking platform integration across 20+ systems
- Commercial lending
- Business banking payments
- Retail banking integration
Healthcare and insurance
Interoperability and reliable workflow exchange.
- Healthcare system integration
- HL7/FHIR interoperability context
- Life insurance system integration
- Data quality and workflow reliability
Cloud and platform
Modernization needs platform and ownership clarity.
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud architecture
- Kubernetes/container platforms
- Serverless
- API/event-driven architecture
- Observability
- Rollback and operational ownership
Applied AI/product
Product work keeps AI architecture practical.
- ExpenseJournal
- OCR/AI extraction
- Semantic search
- Evidence-grounded reporting
- Human confirmation
- Telemetry and quality signals
- Privacy and supportability
Patterns from prior work
Anonymized examples of the kind of architecture pressure this work is built for.
No client names, fake outcomes, or invented metrics. These are domain patterns and pressure points from prior work.
Core banking transformation
Worked across core banking modernization contexts where integration boundaries, cutover sequencing, reconciliation, and operational ownership had to be made explicit.
Digital banking onboarding
Experience across retail and business banking onboarding flows where many dependent systems needed consistent contracts, exception handling, and support paths.
Credit union integration
Experience with credit-union retail banking platform integration across 20+ systems, where system-of-record boundaries and cutover risk mattered.
Payments stream
Business banking payments stream experience involving downstream impacts, exception handling, reconciliation, auditability, and operating ownership.
Healthcare and insurance integration
Healthcare and life-insurance integration experience where interoperability, data quality, reliability, and workflow ownership mattered.
Applied AI product work
ExpenseJournal product work applies OCR/AI extraction, semantic search, human confirmation, telemetry, evidence reporting, and privacy/supportability thinking.
Credentials
A calm credential set, not a vendor-logo wall.
These credentials support the work, but they do not replace judgment. AWS architect and HL7 certification entries are rendered as user-provided credential labels until exact verification links are supplied.
Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Microsoft
Azure Developer Associate
Microsoft
Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect
Google Cloud
AWS Architect Certification
Amazon Web Services
HL7 Certification
HL7 International
TOGAF 9
The Open Group
PMP
Project Management Institute
ITIL
PeopleCert / AXELOS
Additional earlier engineering credentials include Microsoft developer certifications and Sun Certified Java Programmer.