Resume

Resume and credentials.

My career has taken me from UPS operations to federal identity, mission systems, Department of Defense platforms, and Zero Trust. Below are the roles, dates, responsibilities, and credentials.

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What I do

I work where product strategy meets execution: define the problem, find the workflow, shape the product, coordinate delivery, and get from idea to something people can actually use.

Career timeline

Professional experience.

1

UPS

2005 to 2019 / PPM Lead and Senior Project Lead, ORION

Fourteen years learning how big systems actually move, then helping route optimization travel from districts to international pilots.

Chesapeake and Mid-Atlantic deployments, then pilots in Great Britain, Germany, and Canada.

2

Sevatec, then Octo

2019 to 2022 / Agile Product and Project Manager

At USCIS, I led MyAccess for logical access to agency systems and EPACS for physical access at federal facilities.

MyAccess supported SSO and integrations with other DHS logical-access systems. EPACS connected facility access across five sites, including a Gallagher integration.

3

IBM

2022 to 2024 / Agile Coach and Project Manager

Mission systems for TSA Federal Air Marshal Service where real-time context mattered.

Flight tracking, incident monitoring, equipment management, WebEOC, and FirstNet integration across three teams.

4

EPMPoint

2024 / Program Manager

Platform delivery and governance behind Department of Defense operations.

Power Apps and SharePoint delivery tracked procurement activity and operational workflows across three directorates.

5

VISIO Consulting

2024 to 2026 / Principal Consultant

Federal Zero Trust leadership, enterprise application security, and the product idea that became SCOPE.

Supported ISD with Checkmarx onboarding, tracking and maturity measurement across hundreds of repositories, within a pillar involving roughly 150 people.

Credentials

Certifications.

These are the credentials I have earned across program management, agile delivery, coaching, cloud, and enterprise planning.

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SAFe 5 Program Consultant badge
Enterprise agile

SAFe 5 Program Consultant

Training leaders, launching Agile Release Trains, and helping large organizations move from framework talk to working delivery.

SAFe by Scaled AgileIssuer page
Project Management Professional badge
Program delivery

Project Management Professional

Formal project leadership across predictive, hybrid, and agile work where the plan still has to survive contact with reality.

Project Management InstituteIssuer page
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner badge
Adaptive delivery

PMI Agile Certified Practitioner

Agile practice across value delivery, stakeholder engagement, adaptive planning, problem detection, and continuous improvement.

Project Management InstituteIssuer page
SAFe 5 Agile Product Manager badge
Product management

SAFe 5 Agile Product Manager

Product strategy, roadmaps, design thinking, market framing, and continuous exploration before a team starts building.

SAFe by Scaled AgileIssuer page
SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master badge
Team flow

SAFe 5 Advanced Scrum Master

Solving team anti-patterns, improving value flow, supporting program-level execution, and coaching better team habits.

SAFe by Scaled AgileIssuer page
SAFe 5 Scrum Master badge
Scaled scrum

SAFe 5 Scrum Master

Scrum, Kanban, team events, program execution, and practical coaching inside larger enterprise delivery systems.

SAFe by Scaled AgileIssuer page
ICP Agile Coaching Certification badge
Coaching

ICP Agile Coaching Certification

Professional coaching, facilitation, mentoring, teaching, team development, and handling conflict without hiding behind process.

Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster badge
Scrum master track

Certified Scrum Professional ScrumMaster

Advanced Scrum Master practice, coaching, facilitation, and leadership depth beyond the basics.

Scrum AllianceIssuer page
Advanced Certified ScrumMaster badge
Scrum master track

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster

A deeper Scrum Master credential focused on coaching, mentoring, leadership, and practical team improvement.

Scrum AllianceIssuer page
Certified Scrum Master badge
Scrum foundation

Certified Scrum Master

The baseline Scrum Alliance credential for applying Scrum roles, events, artifacts, and team leadership.

Scrum AllianceIssuer page
SFE
Education

Scrum Foundations Educator

Approved to teach Scrum Foundations material and help others understand the practical language of Scrum.

Scrum AllianceIssuer page
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Cloud

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Cloud fluency, core AWS services, and enough infrastructure context to have better product and delivery conversations.

Amazon Web Services Training and CertificationIssuer page
ATL
Enterprise planning

Atlassian Enterprise Strategy and Planning Technical Delivery Accreditation

Technical delivery knowledge for connecting strategy, planning, enterprise work visibility, and Jira Align-style execution.

Atlassian UniversityIssuer page