Summary
Principal DevOps and Automation Cloud Architect with more than a decade in healthcare technology, leading the design, migration, and operation of large-scale systems for the CDC and HHS — including NHSN, which serves over 178,000 users across more than 39,000 healthcare facilities nationwide. Equally at home architecting Azure and AWS platforms, building automated test and quality gates for Java microservices, and leading and teaching engineering teams.
Experience
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Principal DevOps and Automation Cloud Architect Leidos
September 2026 – present · CDC National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN)
- Build the automated test and quality platform covering 200+ deployed Java 21 Quarkus services — smoke, boundary, and full integration suites run against stand-ins for external services, with a 60% line and branch coverage gate on core logic.
- Validate CDA fixtures against schema and schematron; enforce SpotBugs, PMD, credential scanning, and dependency vulnerability checks in GitHub Actions pipelines.
- Set the testing and quality standards the program's engineering teams build against, protecting federal healthcare data in production.
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Principal DevOps Cloud Architect Leidos
March 2024 – September 2026 · CDC NHSN
- Led the migration of NHSN from on-premises infrastructure to Azure: Kubernetes (AKS), Azure SQL, Key Vault, and Service Bus.
- Own the delivery platform: 180 CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps and GitHub spanning four environments, feeding 200+ deployed services and 50+ Databricks notebooks.
- Own DevSecOps across the program — security scanning, secrets management, and environment promotion.
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Distributed Systems Cloud Architect Leidos
July 2021 – March 2024 · CDC NHSN and IZ Gateway
- Designed and built Java APIs for secure data exchange between hospitals, long-term care facilities, and CDC/HHS.
- Built the ingestion side of NHSN's automated FHIR reporting, processing patient-level FHIR at terabyte scale to feed digital quality measures.
- Deployed the IZ Gateway, routing immunization records to state health departments, as Java microservices on AWS.
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Tech Lead / Cloud Architect, ASPR Ready Leidos
February 2021 – July 2021 · HHS ASPR
- Led the team that designed and shipped ASPR Ready, tracking people and supplies supporting disaster sites for HHS and FEMA — Java microservices and React on AWS GovCloud.
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Tech Lead / Cloud Architect, CareC2 Leidos
June 2017 – February 2021
- Built a highly distributed ETL system on AWS to monitor surgery data from multiple healthcare providers and improve patient outcomes.
- Managed multiple software teams as lead Java developer, tech lead, and cloud architect.
- Built the ETL pipeline that shared Covid-19 data between the CDC and the states.
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Senior Software Engineer Leidos
August 2015 – June 2017
- Developed the Leidos Data Exchange Framework (LDEF) for interoperability between disparate health systems on AWS — Kubernetes, Kafka, Docker, Spring Boot, and Camel.
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Software Engineer Leidos
March 2015 – August 2015
- Built enterprise healthcare information exchange applications in an Agile Scrum environment — Java/Groovy, Grails, Spring, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and Cassandra.
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Systems Developer Courier Express
January 2012 – March 2015 · Marietta, GA
- Developed EDI parsers for ANSI X12 documents and CSV, XML, XLS, and fixed-width formats on a LAMP stack with PHP, PostgreSQL, and MySQL.