Resume
Download PDF25+ years building software and leading the teams that build it. Most recently CTO at Dovetail, now founder of Savanto, an applied-AI engineering firm.
Experience
Founder
May 2025 – presentSavanto
- Applied-AI engineering firm: answer systems, forecasting and generation, and AI features shipped inside existing products, run in the client's environment.
- Built the flagship, Savanto Desk, end to end: multi-tenant AWS platform with hybrid semantic search (OpenSearch), LLM chat pipelines, autonomous crawler, WordPress plugin (wordpress.org).
- Remote MCP server (mcp.savanto.ai) with one-click OAuth 2.1, listed in the official MCP registry.
Technology Advisor & Consultant | Applied AI, Fractional CTO
2006 – presentIndependent
- Applied AI and engineering leadership for clients from startups to the enterprise, including a fractional CTO tenure at Dovetail.
- LLM feature development (RAG, semantic search, agents, MCP), cloud architecture (AWS/GCP), and engineering leadership.
- Clients over the years: CoinList, Eataly, ExxonMobil, COTA Healthcare, Argonne National Laboratory, University of Miami, RW3, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and others.
Chief Technology Officer
Mar 2023 – May 2025Dovetail
- Led product and engineering for a platform modernizing e-commerce for retailers of all sizes.
- Architected an enterprise React/TypeScript framework with an advanced design system and extensible plugin architecture.
- ~95% client retention through hands-on sales engineering.
Head of Engineering · Director of Software Engineering
Jun 2019 – May 2025Pocket Made
- Directed teams for clients including Procter & Gamble and Marriott.
- 45% improvement in engineering KPIs through process overhauls; 30% lift in talent retention across DevOps, data science, and development.
Principal Engineer (Consultant)
2016 – 2018ExxonMobil
- Led the InSite SPA initiative for personnel tracking in high-risk regions; modernized a legacy front end with Vue.js under strict compliance requirements.
Lead Engineer (Consultant)
2014 – 2016COTA Healthcare
- Built an oncology data platform from inception (Node.js, NoSQL, AWS, Angular); engineering team grew from 5 to 75+ during my tenure.
Senior Software Engineer
2011 – 2017CBTS
- Enterprise delivery across web platforms; led multi-language SDK creation and the SOAP-to-REST API transition for Global Payments.
Education
The University of Texas at Austin, Red McCombs School of Business
2004 – 2006MBA, Information Management & Entrepreneurship
University of Dayton
1995 – 2000B.S. Computer Engineering