Chief Technology Officer
Leading technology strategy and execution at Life Advantages, a pioneer in EAP innovation since 2000. I oversee a team of developers and operations staff to deliver scalable, secure solutions.
- Define and execute the long-term technology roadmap, aligning quarterly sprints with business goals while systematically reducing technical debt and accelerating feature velocity.
- Modernize the core product with a scalable multi-tenant Laravel architecture, improving maintainability, slashing onboarding time for new clients, and enabling 50+ sites to launch in under one day.
- Design and manage end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and AWS security hardening, eliminating manual release steps, cutting deploy times from days to under an hour, and sustaining 99.9% uptime.
- Lead security and compliance efforts, completing 20+ vendor security questionnaires and coordinating penetration tests and remediation to support HIPAA and SOC 2 readiness.
Senior Software Engineer
Over the first 7 years at Life Advantages I was the lead developer on multiple SaaS-style applications, some of which changed industry standards. These new tools have introduced digital and automated versions of manual processes include invoicing and payments, scheduling, user management, reporting and many more.
- Lead Developer for 5 major software builds and several minor builds
- Maintain all software, including feature updates, bug fixes, security concerns, and HIPAA concerns
- Ensure all software and websites are user friendly, display on all screen sizes, and are up to current standards
- Monitor and resolve both client and internal workflow issues to provide a better day to day experience and Life Advantages