Principal Engineer, Enterprise Systems Engineering
Nike, Inc. — Beaverton, OR | Nov 2021 – Present
- Set enterprise direction for applied AI practices: model selection, retrieval strategy, evaluation and experimentation, MLOps, and responsible AI and model governance for production use.
- Architected a schema-as-guardrails platform that lets citizen developers generate code to company specification safely, enforcing secure tool and data access through approved containers, platforms, and reusable patterns rather than one-off solutions.
- Designed MCP-based developer tooling (a symbol-index server) that reduced code analysis costs by ~70% by feeding models precise, governed context instead of bulk source.
- Maintained and operated internally-hosted LLM inference infrastructure (vLLM) at enterprise scale, serving internal chat and code-generation workloads.
- Built the framework for enterprise Microsoft Copilot adoption, including Copilot Cowork and Copilot Studio.
- Multiplied teams through architecture reviews, reusable patterns, and mentorship across engineering organizations.
Senior Engineering Manager
Nike, Inc. — Beaverton, OR | Mar 2018 – Nov 2021
- Led the Release Engineering Core team (6 developers, systems engineers, and architects) and its Agile process; owned the global retail release platform.
- Spearheaded quality efforts for high-demand ("high-heat") sneaker releases; founded an internal engineer training initiative to grow team capability.
Lead DevOps Engineer
Nike, Inc. — Beaverton, OR | Apr 2017 – Mar 2018
- Architected a containerized, cloud-provider-agnostic global release management platform (Azure, AWS, and datacenter deployments) and handed it off cleanly to the owning team.
- Designed a global package distribution system that cut deployment time from 9 days to 1 hour, removing an infrastructure bottleneck and raising release velocity.
DevOps Engineer
Nike, Inc. — Beaverton, OR | Aug 2015 – Apr 2017
- Designed a global retail testing methodology (Ansible + Nutanix) that reduced lab creation from 1 week to 1 hour and release testing from two weeks to under one business day.
- Used infrastructure-as-code to guarantee test-environment integrity; helped other teams automate daily work with Ansible and Python.
Service Virtualization Engineer
Nike, Inc. — Beaverton, OR | Jan 2015 – Aug 2015
- Built company-wide CA Service Virtualization training and processes, eliminating ~$1M/month in infrastructure spend.
Systems Administrator
Performance Health Technology — Salem, OR | Mar 2014 – Jan 2015
- Maintained the company datacenter (Nutanix Acropolis, Meraki networking, Nagios) and mentored junior administrators and developers.
Helpdesk Manager
Allegheny Technologies Incorporated — Albany, OR | Oct 2012 – Mar 2014
- Supported 2,000+ end users across 5 remote sites; built and deployed systems; mentored technicians and interns.
Armory Chief
United States Marine Corps — Jacksonville, NC | Jan 2009 – Oct 2012
- Accountable for $19M in weaponry and electronics; developed and delivered training to 40,000+ Marines; mentored 15 junior Marines into leadership roles.