Professional Overview
Remote ∙ Augusta, GA ∙ Full-time Engineering Leader & Hands-On Builder Current: Director of IT & Software Development at Clover Returns Management SolutionsI’m the first-ever tech leader at a high-growth reverse-logistics company (post-acquisition by Clover). Built and still run the entire 8-person dev + IT organization from zero. Own the full stack roadmap, hire, coach, code-review, and ship production code weekly. What I actually do all day→ Architect & deliver customer-facing REST APIs that have already secured a $50 M/year Breville contract→ Run Azure DevOps + Notion + Zapier pipelines that give C-level real-time dashboards and save leadership 4–6 hrs/week→ Ruthlessly adopt AI tools across the org: custom GPTs for exec reports, Grok/V0 for rapid prototyping, CoPilot for code & SQL, Notion AI for transcription, Grammarly for comms→ Jump into Postgres queries, Node/React PRs, infrastructure-as-code, or hotfixes whenever velocity demands it→ Serve as the company’s de-facto AI evangelist – currently rolling out per-employee AI onboarding to solve real operational pain with agents, automation, and light-weight integrations Past lives→ Manager of Software Development at TaxSlayer.com – shipped record-breaking tax seasons with .NET/React SPA→ Led dev teams for Catholic parish SaaS (remote, 5 engineers) and multiple consulting engagements→ 20+ years shipping production code, 14 years in leadership, 3 years as Scrum Master/Product Owner combo→ MBA (MIS) + BS Computer Science, PMP since 2009, CSM, SAFe Side obsessionExecutive Director of Lolek Productions – non-profit building AI-powered tools for Catholic clergy (latest: AI homily builder). Two apps live on the App Store, five total products shipped with volunteer teams. Looking forA fast-moving, developer-obsessed product team where I can lead engineers, stay hands-on with modern AI + cloud tooling, and ship infrastructure that directly moves commercial outcomes. Remote-only, US-based.