Resume · Atlanta, GA

Senior Manager, DevOps & Platform Engineering

Senior DevOps and platform engineering leader with 10+ years building and scaling cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and quality engineering organizations. Currently leading Platform and Quality Engineering for a HIPAA and SOC 2 regulated healthcare platform on Azure. Track record of standing up governance for net-new technology categories, cutting delivery friction through automation, and hiring and scaling teams across employees, contractors, and nearshore vendors.

Experience

Roles

  1. Oct 2025 – Present

    Senior Manager, DevOps & Platform Engineering

    LocumTenens.com · Atlanta, GA

    • Lead Platform and Quality Engineering for a HIPAA and SOC 2 regulated healthcare platform on Azure; manage a QA organization plus platform, DevOps, and QA automation contractors.
    • Own AI spend governance: a token cost model, per-team budgets and cost attribution through a self-hosted LLM gateway on Container Apps, and usage analytics for Claude API spend.
    • Built CI/CD cost analysis into Confluence and DORA / delivery-flow dashboards in Grafana, putting delivery and spend in front of leadership on one page.
    • Run vendor evaluation and selection for net-new categories: AI penetration testing (BAA and inference-locality review, retained human attestation), collaboration platforms under HIPAA, and enterprise publishing with SSO and identity governance.
    • Consolidated the delivery platform: led the Azure DevOps to GitHub migration and standardized CI/CD through ltx — shared CircleCI orbs, reusable GitHub Actions, and pre-commit standards.
    • Cut operational toil with Claude-based agents — PM, CircleCI failure triage, pipeline config audits — and a Claude Code plugin marketplace used across engineering.
    • Own the Azure estate as Terraform — Entra ID, Container Apps, Key Vault, API Management — and Datadog as code: monitors, SLOs, and security posture.

  2. Sep 2021 – Jul 2025

    Senior Engineering Manager, DevOps Lead

    Michelin Connected Fleet (formerly NexTraq) · Atlanta, GA

    • Led cross-functional engineering across DevOps, iOS, Android, Web, API, DBA, and QA; improved delivery velocity and system reliability.
    • Hired 10+ full-time engineers and 15+ nearshore developers, managers, and scrum masters; managed nearshore vendor strategy and budget alignment.
    • Spearheaded CI/CD automation, increasing delivery efficiency 30% and unifying pipelines across global teams.
    • Rolled out New Relic observability; halved mean time to recovery.
    • Architected a Salesforce-integrated installer application (iOS/Android); cut field onboarding time 50%.
    • Architected and administered the global Atlassian Cloud Enterprise organization.
    • Supported SAFe Agile transformation as Release Train Engineer.

  3. Oct 2020 – Sep 2021

    iOS Mobile Architect

    FlorenceHC · Atlanta, GA

    • Drove greenfield mobile platform build and supporting infrastructure.
    • Influenced API strategy and contract definition; Atlassian suite admin and workflow architect.

  4. Sep 2019 – Oct 2020

    Engineering Manager, Mobile (iOS & Android)

    NexTraq · Atlanta, GA

    • Led mobile engineering; introduced DevOps and lean practices improving CI/CD throughput 72%.
    • Built reusable CircleCI orbs and cross-platform build caching.

  5. Jul 2016 – Sep 2019

    Lead iOS Developer

    Greenlight · Roadie · Atlanta, GA

    • Automated code review and optimized CI with S3 caching for a 150% throughput gain; raised test coverage 20%.
    • Automated provisioning and continuous delivery of multi-environment builds (fastlane, TestFlight); built Python and shell CI tooling.

  6. Jan 2011 – Present

    Founder / Principal Engineer

    BranchButler Labs (formerly KJM Productions) · Atlanta, GA

    • Independent DevOps software practice on AWS — ECS Fargate, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch, Datadog, GitHub, and CircleCI.
    • Published and contributed to open-source tooling including CircleCI orbs, RubyGems, Swift Packages, and CocoaPods.

Skills

Technical skills

Cloud & Infrastructure
Azure (Entra ID, Container Apps, Key Vault, API Management), AWS (ECS Fargate, Secrets Manager, CloudWatch), Terraform, Docker
CI/CD & Automation
CircleCI, GitHub Actions, fastlane, Bitrise, release management, static analysis, infrastructure as code
Observability & Quality
Datadog, New Relic, Sentry, Grafana, DORA metrics, test automation strategy
Compliance & Security
HIPAA, SOC 2, BAA and vendor review, SSO / identity governance, penetration testing programs
Languages
Python, Swift, Ruby, Shell, Objective-C, SQL
Platform & Process
Jira, Confluence, Atlassian Cloud Enterprise administration, SAFe Agile, FinOps / cost governance

Education

Education & certifications

  • Kennesaw State University

    Post-baccalaureate coursework, Computer Science, 2015–16

  • College of Charleston

    B.A., Communication, 2002–09

  • Certification

    Atlassian Cloud Organization Admin