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20+ years building and scaling high-stakes healthcare & fintech platforms.

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Experience

Director of Software Development

Christian Care MinistryMelbourne, FL

Oct 2025 — Present
  • Lead a 27-person engineering organization with 6 direct reports (2 Scrum Masters and 4 Development Managers)
  • Build and scale financial and member-facing platforms processing millions of dollars and tens of thousands of transactions per day
  • Own end-to-end technical strategy, architecture roadmap, and cross-functional delivery in partnership with product, finance, compliance, and executive leadership
  • Champion event-driven architecture patterns using RabbitMQ for reliable, high-throughput financial workflows and system resilience
  • Guide high-priority architecture decisions and prototyping while mentoring senior engineers on modern practices (microservices, TypeScript/Node, React/Next.js)

Principal Software Solutions Architect

Christian Care MinistryMelbourne, FL

Jun 2020 — Oct 2025
  • Designed and built the core platform that executed a major financial institution migration — transferred 70,000 bank accounts and moved $73 million through the Federal Reserve with zero financial discrepancies
  • Defined architecture and led design of complex, high-volume financial and healthcare platforms; authored conceptual, functional, and technical specifications
  • Built and prototyped scalable React/Next.js frontends and Node.js/NestJS backends to drive stakeholder alignment on future capabilities
  • Mentored developers on clean architecture, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), testing strategies, and performance optimization
  • Coordinated interdependent projects, managed scope and timelines across teams, and delivered foundational designs for major product initiatives

Founder & Principal Consultant

Eight Zero Seven, LLCRockledge, FL

Jul 2002 — Present
  • Architected and single-handedly delivered high-throughput healthcare eligibility platform (Healthfund Solutions) processing 500,000–1,000,000 transactions/day
  • Designed microservices ecosystem (Node.js, RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL) managing full EDI lifecycle — inbound/outbound transformations and multi-payer integrations
  • Owned complete system design, implementation, deployment, and production operations over 2 years

Director of Engineering & Product Management

Aideo TechnologiesMelbourne, FL

Sep 2018 — Jun 2019
  • Directed 13-engineer team (hybrid local/remote) across full product lifecycle; hired 4 engineers in first 90 days
  • Reestablished effective Scrum practices, increased team velocity 30% and reduced defect rate from >40% to less than 5%
  • Designed and developed core components: 837P/835 EDI parser/validator and Golang microservice handling EDI, clinical notes, OCR documents, and reference data

Solutions Architect

Aideo TechnologiesMelbourne, FL

Feb 2018 — Sep 2018
  • Led technology selection, architecture design, and requirements for RevUp RCM product
  • Shaped long-term product and platform strategy

Senior Software Engineer / Product Manager

Aideo TechnologiesMelbourne, FL

Oct 2015 — Apr 2017
  • Owned RevUp RCM product (AngularJS/Node.js/Java/MongoDB) — intelligent engine detecting missed billing opportunities and coding errors
  • Delivered Annual Wellness Visit platform compliant with FDA reporting standards
  • Architected Chronic Care Management platform (Node.js/Express + PostgreSQL) enabling care plan tracking and patient monitoring

Senior Software Engineer

DataFirst Inc.Melbourne, FL

Feb 2014 — Oct 2015
  • Designed and built Silverback Migration Engine — enterprise workflow for migrating millions of patient studies (DICOM/PACS/VNA)
  • Delivered production-ready alpha in 4 months; deployed with 1.8M studies and 600M+ DICOM files

Earlier Experience

Phytech, LLC (2012–2014) — Built medical scheduling platform, mobile APIs, and Titanium iOS/Android apps (ASP.NET/C#)
Philips Healthcare / Witt Biomedical (2001–2012) — Developed HL7/DICOM integration engines (.NET WCF, Orion Rhapsody), SQL Server databases, and managed small teams under FDA/HIPAA regulations

Technical Skills

Languages & Frameworks

TypeScriptJavaScriptNode.jsNestJSNext.jsReactReact NativeC#GolangPHP

Databases & Messaging

PostgreSQLSQL ServerMongoDBRabbitMQ

Architecture & Patterns

MicroservicesEvent-Driven ArchitectureDomain-Driven DesignREST APIsEDI / HL7 / DICOM

Tools & Platforms

GitDockerJIRAAWSHeroku

Domain

Healthcare (RCM, Eligibility, Chronic Care, Imaging)Fintech-like Financial WorkflowsPHI/PII SecurityHIPAA Compliance

Education

Bachelor of Science in Information Science

University of Florida — Minor in Economics