I build and lead the teams that modernize the systems a business has outgrown — most recently a clinical data-lineage catalog that cut compliance audit prep from two weeks to three days. Twenty-five years span Navy electronics, enterprise .NET, and healthcare software, and I have kept the throughline the whole way: ship reliable systems, mentor the next engineers, and never let the skills go stale.
My résumé answers questions directly — ask it anything about the work below.
Lead Data Engineer / Full-Stack Engineer
Navy veteran and engineering leader who turns legacy data estates into governed, audit-ready platforms — and keeps his skills current on purpose.
Education
06/2005M.S. Information TechnologyBrightwater UniversityOnline
06/2004B.S. Information TechnologyBrightwater UniversityOnline
05/1999A.S. Computer ScienceKeystone Valley Technical CollegeCentral Pennsylvania
Skills
.NET Core, Azure, Data Engineering, Databricks, React, System Architecture, Team Leadership, TypeScript
Work Experience
Meridian Clinical Analytics
HealthcareData
04/2025 – Present
Remote
Lead Data Engineer
Redesigned the ingestion layer for a 40-source clinical data warehouse, moving from nightly batch to hourly micro-batch processing.
Introduced a column-level data-lineage catalog that cut audit-prep time for compliance reviews from two weeks to three days.
Leads a five-person engineering pod and owns sprint planning and the on-call rotation for the analytics platform.
Partnered with the compliance team to close a HIPAA access-control gap flagged in an external audit, ahead of the remediation deadline.
Built the internal training path that has moved two analysts into engineering roles on the team.
Summit Technology Partners
Software
09/2022 – 02/2025
Central PA
Senior Software Engineer
Served as the technical anchor across a five-client rotation, building custom .NET Core services and internal tooling for each engagement.
Led the adoption of TypeScript across three client codebases that had previously shipped untyped JavaScript.
Stood up a shared component library that cut new-engagement front-end setup time from two weeks to two days.
Took over a data-migration engagement six weeks behind schedule and delivered it within the client's revised deadline.
Ran the firm's internal onboarding bootcamp for new hires across three consecutive cohorts.
Beacon Medical Systems
HealthcareMedical Device
09/2014 – 09/2022
Central PA
Product Technical Lead
01/2018 – 09/2022
Owned the architecture for a medical-device companion application used across four hospital networks.
Led the transition from a proprietary messaging format to HL7 v2, opening the product to a wider set of hospital EHR systems.
Chaired the product's internal security-review board ahead of each regulated release.
Ran an on-call rotation for four engineers covering a product classified as a Class II medical device.
Cut the average new-hospital implementation timeline from ten weeks to six by building a reusable configuration template.
Specialist Web Developer
09/2014 – 12/2017
Built the front end for the product's device-configuration portal used by hospital biomedical-engineering staff.
Rebuilt a legacy patient-data reporting screen in React, removing the page's most common source of support tickets.
Granite Systems Consulting
Consulting
06/2003 – 05/2014
Central PA
IT Project Lead / Senior Software Engineer
Served as technical lead across a rotating slate of manufacturing and logistics clients over an eleven-year tenure.
Rebuilt a client's order-tracking system from a single-file Access database into a multi-user ASP.NET/SQL Server application.
Designed and rolled out a centralized patch-management process across roughly 900 endpoints spanning two plants.
Acted as the sole technical point of contact for mid-sized engagements, from requirements through handover.
Established the practice's first formal code-review checklist, later adopted firm-wide.
Pennsylvania Army National Guard
MilitaryGovernment
03/1994 – 05/2003
Central Pennsylvania
Signal Support Systems Specialist
Installed and maintained tactical signal-support systems and battalion-level communications networks during monthly drill and annual training.
Balanced one weekend a month and two weeks a year of Guard service against nine consecutive years of full-time civilian engineering work.
Maintained radio, wire, and switchboard equipment both in the field and at the home armory.
Trained incoming soldiers on signal-equipment setup, operation, and fault isolation.
Held a security clearance and carried the associated communications-security responsibilities.
Optera Photonics — Fiber Optic Test Center
R&DHardware
01/2000 – 09/2002
Central PA
Programmer Technician
Automated a manual fiber-cable qualification process, cutting the average test cycle from a full day to under four hours.
Built the LabVIEW-based data-capture software the test center used for its ISO9001 qualification runs.
Diagnosed a recurring instrument-communication fault that had been misattributed to bad cable stock for months.
Wrote the operating procedures new technicians used to get certified on the automated test rigs.
Added an automated pass/fail report generator that replaced a manually compiled spreadsheet.
Keystone Instrument Service
Field ServiceHardware
08/1993 – 12/1999
Central PA
Test Systems Programmer
03/1997 – 12/1999
Wrote the calibration-bench control software in Visual Basic and C that replaced a decade-old manual test procedure.
Digitized the shop's calibration records, cutting customer report turnaround from about a week to same-day.
Extended instrument automation to a second bench, standardizing communication over GPIB and RS-232.
Completed an Associate's degree at night while working full time, finishing in 1999.
Served as the shop's informal go-to for any software or instrument-communication problem field technicians ran into.
Field Service Technician
08/1993 – 02/1997
Installed, calibrated, and repaired industrial test instrumentation at customer sites across the region.
Brought Navy-trained component-level troubleshooting discipline to commercial field-service work.
Covered the after-hours, production-down on-call rotation, restoring customer lines inside contracted service windows.
United States Navy
MilitaryGovernment
09/1991 – 06/1993
USS Palisade
Lead Radar Technician (Carrier-Landing Systems), ET-3
09/1991 – 06/1993
Stood as night-shift lead technician for the carrier's automated landing-system radar, the equipment flight operations depended on every recovery cycle.
Traced intermittent faults to the component level using only shipboard test equipment and technical manuals, with no depot support underway.
Directed a three-person night watch, reviewing and signing off their maintenance entries before each shift change.
Ran the preventive-maintenance and calibration cycle that kept a flight-safety-critical radar inside tolerance across an entire deployment.
Certified on the full casualty-control procedure required to operate the system with aircraft in the landing pattern.
Ship's Security / Brig (TAD)
01/1992 – 06/1992
Pulled to a six-month temporary assignment in ship's Security and the Brig, a discipline well outside the electronics rate.
I build and lead the teams that modernize the systems a business has outgrown — most recently a clinical data-lineage catalog that cut compliance audit prep from two weeks to three days. Twenty-five years span Navy electronics, enterprise .NET, and healthcare software, and I have kept the throughline the whole way: ship reliable systems, mentor the next engineers, and never let the skills go stale.
My résumé answers questions directly — ask it anything about the work below.
Navy veteran and engineering leader who turns legacy data estates into governed, audit-ready platforms — and keeps his skills current on purpose.
Education
06/2005M.S. Information TechnologyBrightwater UniversityOnline
06/2004B.S. Information TechnologyBrightwater UniversityOnline
05/1999A.S. Computer ScienceKeystone Valley Technical CollegeCentral Pennsylvania
Skills
.NET Core, Azure, Data Engineering, Databricks, React, System Architecture, Team Leadership, TypeScript
Work Experience
Meridian Clinical Analytics
HealthcareData
04/2025 – Present
Remote
Lead Data Engineer
Redesigned the ingestion layer for a 40-source clinical data warehouse, moving from nightly batch to hourly micro-batch processing.
Introduced a column-level data-lineage catalog that cut audit-prep time for compliance reviews from two weeks to three days.
Leads a five-person engineering pod and owns sprint planning and the on-call rotation for the analytics platform.
Partnered with the compliance team to close a HIPAA access-control gap flagged in an external audit, ahead of the remediation deadline.
Built the internal training path that has moved two analysts into engineering roles on the team.
Summit Technology Partners
Software
09/2022 – 02/2025
Central PA
Wrote the initial HL7 v2 parsing library the product still uses for inbound hospital feeds.
Introduced automated regression coverage for the device-integration test suite, cutting manual verification time significantly.
Built the first standardized site-visit documentation the shop used on recurring service calls.
Stood armed watch rotations controlling access to restricted spaces throughout the ship.
Managed prisoner custody, escort, and the required logs to the letter of Navy regulation.
Completed the force-protection and use-of-force qualification the assignment demanded.
HF/UHF Communications Technician
09/1991 – 01/1992
Maintained the ship's HF and UHF radio suite and associated antenna systems.
Isolated and corrected transmission faults to keep tactical circuits available while underway.
Executed the scheduled preventive-maintenance program across transmitters, receivers, and antenna couplers.
Kept technical manuals and maintenance logs current for every piece of assigned communications gear.
Senior Software Engineer
Served as the technical anchor across a five-client rotation, building custom .NET Core services and internal tooling for each engagement.
Led the adoption of TypeScript across three client codebases that had previously shipped untyped JavaScript.
Stood up a shared component library that cut new-engagement front-end setup time from two weeks to two days.
Took over a data-migration engagement six weeks behind schedule and delivered it within the client's revised deadline.
Ran the firm's internal onboarding bootcamp for new hires across three consecutive cohorts.
Beacon Medical Systems
HealthcareMedical Device
09/2014 – 09/2022
Central PA
Product Technical Lead
01/2018 – 09/2022
Owned the architecture for a medical-device companion application used across four hospital networks.
Led the transition from a proprietary messaging format to HL7 v2, opening the product to a wider set of hospital EHR systems.
Chaired the product's internal security-review board ahead of each regulated release.
Ran an on-call rotation for four engineers covering a product classified as a Class II medical device.
Cut the average new-hospital implementation timeline from ten weeks to six by building a reusable configuration template.
Specialist Web Developer
09/2014 – 12/2017
Built the front end for the product's device-configuration portal used by hospital biomedical-engineering staff.
Rebuilt a legacy patient-data reporting screen in React, removing the page's most common source of support tickets.
Wrote the initial HL7 v2 parsing library the product still uses for inbound hospital feeds.
Introduced automated regression coverage for the device-integration test suite, cutting manual verification time significantly.
Granite Systems Consulting
Consulting
06/2003 – 05/2014
Central PA
IT Project Lead / Senior Software Engineer
Served as technical lead across a rotating slate of manufacturing and logistics clients over an eleven-year tenure.
Rebuilt a client's order-tracking system from a single-file Access database into a multi-user ASP.NET/SQL Server application.
Designed and rolled out a centralized patch-management process across roughly 900 endpoints spanning two plants.
Acted as the sole technical point of contact for mid-sized engagements, from requirements through handover.
Established the practice's first formal code-review checklist, later adopted firm-wide.
Pennsylvania Army National Guard
MilitaryGovernment
03/1994 – 05/2003
Central Pennsylvania
Signal Support Systems Specialist
Installed and maintained tactical signal-support systems and battalion-level communications networks during monthly drill and annual training.
Balanced one weekend a month and two weeks a year of Guard service against nine consecutive years of full-time civilian engineering work.
Maintained radio, wire, and switchboard equipment both in the field and at the home armory.
Trained incoming soldiers on signal-equipment setup, operation, and fault isolation.
Held a security clearance and carried the associated communications-security responsibilities.
Optera Photonics — Fiber Optic Test Center
R&DHardware
01/2000 – 09/2002
Central PA
Programmer Technician
Automated a manual fiber-cable qualification process, cutting the average test cycle from a full day to under four hours.
Built the LabVIEW-based data-capture software the test center used for its ISO9001 qualification runs.
Diagnosed a recurring instrument-communication fault that had been misattributed to bad cable stock for months.
Wrote the operating procedures new technicians used to get certified on the automated test rigs.
Added an automated pass/fail report generator that replaced a manually compiled spreadsheet.
Keystone Instrument Service
Field ServiceHardware
08/1993 – 12/1999
Central PA
Test Systems Programmer
03/1997 – 12/1999
Wrote the calibration-bench control software in Visual Basic and C that replaced a decade-old manual test procedure.
Digitized the shop's calibration records, cutting customer report turnaround from about a week to same-day.
Extended instrument automation to a second bench, standardizing communication over GPIB and RS-232.
Completed an Associate's degree at night while working full time, finishing in 1999.
Served as the shop's informal go-to for any software or instrument-communication problem field technicians ran into.
Field Service Technician
08/1993 – 02/1997
Installed, calibrated, and repaired industrial test instrumentation at customer sites across the region.
Brought Navy-trained component-level troubleshooting discipline to commercial field-service work.
Covered the after-hours, production-down on-call rotation, restoring customer lines inside contracted service windows.
Built the first standardized site-visit documentation the shop used on recurring service calls.
United States Navy
MilitaryGovernment
09/1991 – 06/1993
USS Palisade
Lead Radar Technician (Carrier-Landing Systems), ET-3
09/1991 – 06/1993
Stood as night-shift lead technician for the carrier's automated landing-system radar, the equipment flight operations depended on every recovery cycle.
Traced intermittent faults to the component level using only shipboard test equipment and technical manuals, with no depot support underway.
Directed a three-person night watch, reviewing and signing off their maintenance entries before each shift change.
Ran the preventive-maintenance and calibration cycle that kept a flight-safety-critical radar inside tolerance across an entire deployment.
Certified on the full casualty-control procedure required to operate the system with aircraft in the landing pattern.
Ship's Security / Brig (TAD)
01/1992 – 06/1992
Pulled to a six-month temporary assignment in ship's Security and the Brig, a discipline well outside the electronics rate.
Stood armed watch rotations controlling access to restricted spaces throughout the ship.
Managed prisoner custody, escort, and the required logs to the letter of Navy regulation.
Completed the force-protection and use-of-force qualification the assignment demanded.
HF/UHF Communications Technician
09/1991 – 01/1992
Maintained the ship's HF and UHF radio suite and associated antenna systems.
Isolated and corrected transmission faults to keep tactical circuits available while underway.
Executed the scheduled preventive-maintenance program across transmitters, receivers, and antenna couplers.
Kept technical manuals and maintenance logs current for every piece of assigned communications gear.
