Curriculum Vitae / Resume

I turn enterprise complexity into achievable transformation. 20+ years. 500+ programs and projects. Fortune 100 portfolios across insurance, healthcare, financial services, and industrial enterprises.

My career has been defined by one consistent ability: walking into the most complex, high-stakes technology environments and finding a clear, honest, pragmatic path forward. I'm technology agnostic by philosophy and multi-domain by experience.

Whether I'm navigating bleeding-edge AI strategy, untangling a monolithic critical system, or architecting a $3.3B acquisition, my approach is the same — rigorous analysis, zero wishful thinking, and a roadmap that can actually be executed. Leaders and engineers alike have told me I have a rare ability to make the most intricate architectures understandable and actionable. I'll take that as the highest compliment.

Today I'm embedded at Lincoln Financial Group as an Enterprise Architect Advisor to the Chief Architect — operating across a portfolio of 1,200+ vendors, 2,000+ systems, and multiple petabytes of data. I'm also an AI practitioner in the truest sense, personally leveraging Claude, Gemini Pro, CoPilot 365, OpenAI, Perplexity, Cursor, NotebookLM, MidJourney, and Dataiku as part of how I work every day.

Outside the office, Savanna and I co-own MyersMiles — a motorsports and travel media company where I race the events we shoot. I'm also a student pilot halfway through my hours, chasing a lifelong dream and expanding MyersMiles into the air.

In 2025, I was diagnosed with Stage 3 Esophageal Cancer. I'm still here — with sharper focus, deeper gratitude, and a stronger commitment to doing work that matters. If you need someone who can look your hardest technology challenge in the eye and chart a realistic path forward, let's connect.

A transformative enterprise architect with experience in disruptive and innovative technologies as well as monolithic critical enterprise systems.

After several years in software and web development during the 2000s dotcom resurgence, I moved into IT architecture, where I helped deliver hundreds of solutions and platforms, fostered innovation, adopted emerging technologies, challenged disruption, digitally transformed and uplifted entire lines-of-business, and provided Enterprise and Solution Architecture expertise for Fortune 100 companies over a 10-year period.

I am quickly adaptive to new environments with a myriad of multi-domain technology experience. I can communicate with technical engineers as well as business leaders.

I have guided digital transformation through reliable, fast, and pragmatic architecture practices in insurance, healthcare, industrial services, and financial enterprises.

Some Primary Methodologies:

Pragmatic Architecture: Creative sampling of a variety of methodologies: TOGAF, SEI, ITIL, and eSDM; with Lean, Waterfall, and Scaled AGILE (SAFe) to ensure successful delivery with minimal risk. Agnostic-first architecture approaches with an emphasis on adaptability and pivoting.

Respect Before Bravery: Learn together with peers and business to achieve higher quality objectives, with faster-speed-to-market through architecture exercises, modeling, and roadmaps.

Design Thinking for All: Creative approaches to achieve market differentiation and higher quality for customers and members. Design and usability first.

Highlights, strategic ownership and implementation of:

• Fortune 100 IT portfolios.

• Combined Emergent Technology POCs/POTs: e.g 3D Scanning + Virtual Reality

• Machine Learning & A.I. POTs/POCs (Proof of Tech/Proof of Concepts)

• Efficiency focused Architecture methodology implementations

• Digital Transformation platforms of all types (SaaS, PaaS, on-prem, etc.)

• On-Prem Platform as a Service implementation and methodologies (PaaS)

• Microservice Architecture Practices

• Enterprise Customer Experience Strategies and Roadmaps

• Company Wide IT Governance and Capital Governance

Consultant, Enterprise and Solution Architect

Wittij Consulting

October 2018 – Present

New England, USA

Enterprise Architect. AI Practitioner. Transformation Roadmap Specialist. Where others see complexity, I see a path forward — translating intricate architectures into clear, actionable narratives for leaders and peers alike. Grounded in rigorous analysis, free of wishful thinking. The Ecosystem: 1,200+ Vendors │ 2,000+ Systems │ Multi-Petabyte Data │ 12+ Locations Strategic Advisory & Governance Embedded across every LOB as a direct advisor to the Chief Architect. Senior advisor to the ARB, SRB, Federated Architecture Monthly, Cloud Migration, EA Intake, and EA Peer Review committees — collectively steering 300+ submissions per year. Solution architected 70+ programs end-to-end, with governance across thousands of federated architecture deliverables enterprise-wide. AI, LLM & Data Science Strategy Authoring the roadmap for AI/ML integration within the enterprise ecosystem. As an architect-practitioner, I personally leverage Claude, Gemini Pro, CoPilot 365, OpenAI Toolkit, MidJourney, Perplexity, NotebookLM, and Dataiku to sharpen analysis and accelerate delivery. Modeling: AWS CloudFormation, LucidChart, and Visio — with broad proficiency across Archi, Sparx EA, and draw.io. Operational Resilience & Efficiency BCDR: Led enterprise-wide Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery analysis across 300+ mission-critical applications — consolidation from 12 locations down to 6, with full gap analysis, road-mapping, and build projections. Debt Reduction: Consolidated compensation, commissions, and licensing across all LOBs, reducing dependent interfaces by 44%. M&A & Cloud Transformation Architected LFG's $3.3B Liberty Life acquisition — 200+ systems, 1,200 components, 2+ petabytes to AWS across 34 technology sectors. Led Informatica modernization processing 4,000+ complex jobs daily across hundreds of pipelines.

Architect Advisor

Aetna

March 2018 – September 2018

HArtford, CT

Lead Program Architect

High profile program w/ 100s of IT professionals. Lead Program Architect for Architecture Delivery Services team, managing 10 solution and integration architects. Strategic consolidation onto Salesforce Service Cloud of all service centers. SAFe AGILE , averaging 100+ Features delivered per PI / 1 Feature per Day (30+ story count per feature). Opportunistic API integrated platform with multiple consoles.

Channel Domain Lead

Office of the CTO, Architecture Domain Lead for all channel (outbound/inbound) communications to members or customers; including all Member and Advisor Self-Service apps, contact centers, and platforms. Governor and reviewer for architecturally significant changes/projects in relation to channel. Provided mentoring, guidance, and consulting to peers and IT on platforms and applications within this domain

Chief Architect

Waste Management

July 2016 – DEC 2017

Windsor, CT

Principal and Chief Architect for Waste Management's National Accounts business unit, Strategic Business Solutions, servicing national clients such as Target and Home Depot with ~$1 Billion in annual revenue. Service areas include construction waste, recycling, diversion, logistics, and more.

• Management of architecture team to solution/deliver projects and programs beneficial to the business.

• Architecture governance, guidance, and road-mapping for a complex brokerage and logistics ecosystem with over 100 dependent systems.

Notable catalysts of architecture improvement include:

• Digital Transformation: Strategic architecture and 5-year modernization of all National Account systems and platforms covering the breadth of the business lifecycle; sales (CRM), pricing (CPQ), contracts and SLAs (CLM), field service management (FSM), and billing/invoicing.

• Burning Platform: full strategic upgrade of the primary revenue data systems to maintain business growth and demand; while also securing a foundation for cloud expansion.

• Architecture Repository: Creation of a full system architecture repository, road maps, interface catalog, and technical debt catalog in an environment devoid of any architecture or technical documentation.

• Total Business Unit Re-platforming Roadmap: Road-mapping the strategic future of all capability areas while collaborating with process improvement to tie process improvement areas directly to proposed estimated strategic programs and projects.

• Innovation Opportunities Analysis: Analysis, conceptual architecture, and proof of concepts for uses of AI, machine learning, or visual cognitive services to automate manual processes at WM.

Sr. Enterprise Solution Architect with alignment to Business/Commercial Insurance, providing enterprise technology strategy, insight, and guidance for 26+ Travelers business units covering $18~ billion in annual revenue.

OAI-sys (Operations, Architect and Infrastructure Systems) Enterprise Solution Architect accountable for emerging technology strategy on Travelers largest IT program ever executed.

• Executing and authoring various enterprise technology strategies such as PaaS (Platform as a Service), Cloud Application Architecture, Video Streaming & Conferencing, API Management and Voice across all lines of business.

• Domain Team Lead for API Management and API Marketplace teams; exploring and experimenting with various technologies to extend services throughout the enterprise and externally.

• Chair of Cloud Application Readiness Architecture Working Group and Domain Team. Responsible for evangelizing the architecture and use of on-premise Pivotal Cloud Foundry and various tooling across the enterprise of over 2000+ applications.

• Leading and assisting in Proof of Technologies (POCs) such as Virtual Reality (GearVR/Oculus Rift/Unity), 3D Scanning (Intel Realsense/Google Project Tango), and Augmented Reality.

• Participation and facilitation of various LOB (Line of Business) architecture peer reviews utilizing SEI ATAM process at request from Enterprise CIO.

• Review and govern requested application platform and tooling requests across the enterprise through product reviews.

Architecture Governance and Compliance for multi-segment $100 billion/yr revenue enterprise environment averaging over 1500+ program or project reviews per year with minimum budgets of $1M and annual IT spend of $2B+.

• Architecture council and review for enterprise capital committee on programs ranging in scope of 10M to 150M in individual budget.

• Creation and maturation of Architecture Governance and Compliance for 55+ AGILE teams in enterprise.

• Execute and innovate the Architecture Technical Review Process (ATRP) by leading and conducting program, project and application reviews in alignment to TOGAF 9 Architecture Governance & Architecture Compliance framework best practices.

• Collaborate with business and technology stakeholders in preparing for enterprise architecture reviews.

• Document architecture review decisions and maintain repository of governance decisions, project and application review findings.

• Partner and collaborate with UHC architects in application, data, technology, security and other disciplines to resolve architectural dispensations.

• Assist in maturing the Enterprise Architecture capability by developing architecture process, tools and templates and integrating with UHC’s SDLC.

• Mentor and coach peers on enterprise architecture best practices to drive to a mature enterprise architecture capability.