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I spent 14 years running enterprise IT for some of the most regulated environments in the country — financial services, healthcare, retail, and higher education. The same security disciplines I used there apply directly to AI agents today.

At Wells Fargo, I led a 40-person engineering organization, governed an $80M+ technology portfolio, and directed a multi-year SD-WAN transformation across 5,000+ locations. I integrated Splunk, AppDynamics, and SevOne into operations — driving a 40% reduction in mean time to resolution. I negotiated $2M+ in carrier savings and established roadmaps for Zero Trust, hybrid cloud, and network modernization.

At The Tile Shop, I held full responsibility for enterprise infrastructure across 370+ retail locations. I led a Juniper-to-Meraki SD-WAN migration that cut WAN costs by 20%, redesigned store connectivity with LTE failover, and delivered SOX-compliant security controls.

At MidHudson Regional Hospital, I ran network engineering for 24x7 clinical operations — EMR, PACS, life-safety systems — under HIPAA. I cut patient-impacting network events from over two hours to under 30 minutes and achieved 99.99% availability for critical hospital systems.

Now I apply that same discipline to AI security. Prompt injection, tool misuse, data leakage — these are the same attack surface problems I've been solving for 14 years, just with a new protocol layer on top.

14+
Years Enterprise IT Leadership
$80M+
Technology Portfolio Managed
5,000+
Locations Across SD-WAN Programs
40
Engineers Led at Wells Fargo
$2M+
Negotiated Carrier Savings
40%
MTTR Reduction via Observability

Where I've led

Wells Fargo
Executive Associate Vice President of Technology
Aug 2022 – Apr 2026
  • Directed SD-WAN transformation supporting 5,000+ locations, improving branch resiliency and application performance while contributing to ~$12M in annual carrier savings
  • Led integration of Splunk, AppDynamics, and SevOne into operations workflows, contributing to a 40% reduction in mean time to resolution
  • Established strategic roadmaps for Zero Trust, hybrid cloud connectivity, network modernization, automation, and vendor consolidation
  • Governed an $80M+ technology portfolio and relationships with 20+ telecom and technology vendors, generating $2M+ in negotiated savings
  • Partnered across network, cloud, cybersecurity, architecture, and compliance teams to support secure Azure and AWS adoption
  • Provided leadership for a 40-person multidisciplinary engineering organization
The Tile Shop
Director of Information Technology
Aug 2020 – Aug 2022
  • Directed migration from Juniper to Cisco Meraki SD-WAN across 370+ sites, reducing WAN operating costs by 20%
  • Redesigned store connectivity with LTE failover and resilient WAN architecture, reducing business-impacting downtime
  • Led enterprise wireless modernization across the retail estate
  • Standardized segmentation, security policies, and operational controls, supporting successful SOX audits
  • Developed and validated an enterprise disaster recovery strategy with defined recovery objectives
MidHudson Regional Hospital
Director of Networking
Mar 2019 – Aug 2020
  • Modernized core, wireless, and clinical network services to achieve 99.99% availability for critical hospital systems
  • Directed hospital-wide wireless improvements that reduced clinical device connectivity failures
  • Reworked incident response and escalation practices, reducing patient-impacting network events from 2+ hours to under 30 minutes
  • Upgraded legacy telecom and network infrastructure while strengthening high availability and change-control practices
The Culinary Institute of America
Network Administrator
Jul 2017 – Mar 2019
  • Supported campus network and infrastructure operations across academic, administrative, hospitality, and enterprise environments
  • Led upgrades involving routing, switching, wireless, security, monitoring, and service reliability
Pinnacle Network Solutions
Senior Network Engineer
Apr 2014 – Jul 2017
  • Engineered and supported enterprise data center, WAN, LAN, routing, switching, firewall, and global connectivity services
  • Delivered complex client environments including work supporting IBM operations

Credentials that back the work

Education

🎓
MS Information Technology
Western Governors University — Expected Oct 2026
🎓
BS Information Technology
Western Governors University — Dec 2022
🎓
AS Computer & Information Sciences
Dutchess Community College

Certifications

📜 CAPM (PMI)
☁️ AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
🔷 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals
🛡️ CompTIA Security+ ce
🌐 CompTIA Network+ ce
💻 CompTIA A+ ce
📋 CompTIA Project+
🔄 ITIL Foundation
🔒 Fortinet NSE 4

Recognition

🏆 Wells Fargo Technology Excellence Award (2024)
🏆 Wells Fargo Innovation Leadership Award (2023)
🏆 IT Leadership Excellence Award — CIA (2018)

Same discipline, new attack surface

Enterprise IT security and AI security share the same fundamentals: identity, access control, data boundaries, and monitoring. The difference is speed — AI agents can be exploited in milliseconds through prompt injection, and the attack surface changes every time you update a system prompt or add a tool.

I bring 14 years of enterprise-grade security discipline — Zero Trust architecture, network segmentation, incident response, vendor risk management — to a field where most practitioners have never run a production environment at scale. That's the GaleOps difference.

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