Technology executive
I turn AI strategy into working systems. Over 20 years I've led technology across healthcare, ecommerce, PE-backed growth, and a national nonprofit federation, building global engineering organizations that modernize core platforms and take AI from pilots to production.
I'm Vice President of Software Engineering at YMCA of the USA, where I lead platform and AI strategy and a blended engineering organization across continents, building the national products local YMCAs rely on. Before that, I led technology at a PE-backed firm, reporting to the CEO, and led ecommerce engineering at Spirit Airlines.
I work as a partner to CEOs, executive teams, and boards: tying technology investment to outcomes they can measure, building blended global teams that own what they ship, and making AI part of how work gets done rather than a side project. Over my career, I've led engineering teams across North America, Asia, Latin America, and Europe. I also founded Melitrus, an AI venture studio, to stay close to building products hands-on.
MBA, Indiana University Kelley School of Business
MS Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
BTech Information Technology, Kurukshetra University
Generative AI for Business Leaders, Indiana University
A record of building the teams, platforms, and capabilities organizations run on.
YMCA of the USA
Lead the organization's AI-driven development model, from authoring the AIDLC policy to scaling it across national platform teams. Represent YMCA of the USA in global AI capability partnerships with AWS and Anthropic, and partner with them on co-build initiatives.
YMCA of the USA
Used AI-native delivery to bring stalled and vendor-bound projects in-house, well under what buying or outsourcing would have cost. That includes a value and pricing calculator for memberships, camps, and afterschool delivered well under its original estimate, a multilingual program library for World YMCA delivered at no external cost to date, and an agentic RAG knowledge base built in-house instead of bought.
YMCA of the USA
Own build, buy, and partner strategy across the enterprise platform portfolio. Restructured staff augmentation contracts and vendor billing and retired three legacy products, significantly reducing annual technology spend. Moved core membership workflows to API-driven integration and took releases from quarterly to monthly with zero planned downtime, while modernizing a business-critical platform the national network depends on.
Walker Sands
As the senior-most technology leader reporting to the CEO, owned due diligence, integration architecture, and platform consolidation across two acquisitions as the firm scaled to $23M.
Walker Sands
Led a FinancialForce PSA/ERP implementation integrated with Salesforce, improving project scoping efficiency by 25%, lifting staff utilization by about 10%, and raising profitability by about 8%.
Spirit Airlines
Led web, mobile, and loyalty engineering through a complete re-architecture of Spirit.com and a full mobile rebuild with zero revenue disruption, and built ecommerce optimization from scratch, driving an 18% conversion lift.
Vein Clinics of America
As Director of BI & Enterprise Applications for a 63-site healthcare system, built analytics and data science capabilities and unified EMR, CRM, and clinical data in an enterprise data warehouse.
The MX Group
Led application development across a portfolio of B2B clients.
PCNation
Built a price intelligence tool that gave the business clear visibility into competitor pricing.
Advance Innovative Solutions
Built a data-mining solution for claim science and recovery, and white-label mobile apps for prescription refills and pharmacy information.
AI helped me build most of Vernacy quickly. Deciding what it should do with ambiguous documents was the part only people could do, and designing that judgment to compound was the most valuable part of the build.
A practitioner's comparison of ADLC5 and GitHub's Spec Kit, two spec-driven delivery workflows for AI coding tools, and what enterprise teams actually need from them.
Through Melitrus, an AI venture studio I founded, I build products hands-on alongside my executive role. I also advise early-stage founders.
Melitrus
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In developmentMost AI pulls data out of documents. Vernacy catches what's wrong in them: inconsistencies, ambiguity, and data that looks right but isn't. Every answer shows its source, turning messy documents into decision-ready, reasoning-backed data. When it isn't sure, it asks a person, then builds that answer into a persistent memory for future decisions. Industry-agnostic by design, starting with mortgage lending.
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