Resume

Savanto

• AI-powered search and chat for any website: shopping assistant, self-service support, and content discovery.
• Built end to end: WordPress plugin (wordpress.org), multi-tenant AWS platform with hybrid semantic search (OpenSearch), LLM chat pipelines, autonomous crawler.
• Remote MCP server (mcp.savanto.ai) with one-click OAuth 2.1, listed in the official MCP registry.

Independent

• Currently fractional CTO for Dovetail, where I previously led technology full-time.
• 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.

Dovetail

• 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; continue to serve as fractional CTO.

Pocket 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.

ExxonMobil

• Led the InSite SPA initiative for personnel tracking in high-risk regions; modernized a legacy front end with Vue.js under strict compliance requirements.

COTA Healthcare

• Built an oncology data platform from inception (Node.js, NoSQL, AWS, Angular); engineering team grew from 5 to 75+ during my tenure.

CBTS

• Enterprise delivery across web platforms; led multi-language SDK creation and the SOAP-to-REST API transition for Global Payments.