Brian Jarrett
Professional Summary
Hands-on Platform Engineering Technical Leader and Systems SRE with 15+ years of enterprise platform leadership spanning bare-metal compute, private cloud infrastructure, and federal compliance automation. Proven track record directing enterprise zero-day incident response across 6,000+ nodes to defend FedRAMP ATO with the HHS PMO, pioneering SRE error budget frameworks that scaled remediation throughput 10x, and engineering self-service vulnerability data platforms. Approaches platforms with deep first-principles systems discipline—combining enterprise cloud orchestration and software QA leadership with over a decade of Hardware-in-the-Loop (HIL) subsystem validation, real-time Python controls, and tournament diagnostics. Skilled at entering unfamiliar technical ecosystems, eliminating operational toil through declarative automation (GitOps, Ansible, OpenTofu), and translating complex federal mandates (FedRAMP / DISA STIGs) into reliable, production-grade platforms while serving as the technical bridge across software, networking, and platform engineering teams.
Selected Platform & SRE Impact Highlights
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Enterprise Zero-Day Leadership & ATO Defense (Log4j / 6,000+ Nodes)
Spearheaded technical incident response across 6,000+ bare-metal and cloud systems under HHS PMO FedRAMP ATO governance; engineered custom inspection automation discovering nested dependencies and compiled technical audit packages defending continuous platform ATO.
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SRE Error Budget & Vulnerability Governance Platform (FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Tableau)
Architected centralized vulnerability data warehouse and self-service engineering console; pioneered SRE "Error Budget" mathematical scoring (Severity × Blast Radius × Time Decay) that scaled monthly remediation throughput ~10x and eliminated >90% of overdue cloud backlogs.
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Compliance-as-Code & SRE Toil Elimination (STIG XCCDF & Qualys API)
Automated DISA STIG continuous compliance auditing by engineering Python pipelines parsing XCCDF (XML) benchmarks against live Qualys scans, eliminating hundreds of manual engineering audit hours across federal cloud boundaries.
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Cloud-Native AI Infrastructure & Air-Gapped Packaging (Lab Systems SRE)
Engineered Single-Node OpenShift (SNO 4.16+) and immutable Talos/eBPF Cilium platforms with PCIe VFIO GPU passthrough, NVIDIA GPU Operator, and vLLM serving, backed by Day-2 SRE operational runbooks and air-gapped Defense Unicorns Zarf/UDS/Lula OSCAL packaging.
Technical Competencies & Evidence Matrix
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Professional Experience
Cisco Systems | Cloud Engineering Technical Leader
Aug 2019 – July 2026 (Remote)
Directed platform reliability, compliance automation, and vulnerability engineering across 6,000+ bare-metal and cloud systems for the Webex for Government FedRAMP Moderate platform—defending federal ATO governance, eliminating operational toil, and scaling remediation throughput 10x.
- Enterprise Zero-Day Incident Response & Federal ATO Defense (Log4j / 6,000+ Nodes): Defended continuous FedRAMP ATO under HHS PMO governance across 6,000+ operational bare-metal and cloud systems during the enterprise Log4j zero-day crisis. Engineered custom Ansible inspection playbooks and Python tooling to rapidly identify nested and shaded Java libraries missed by commercial scanners, delivered actionable remediation datasets to engineering teams and directors, verified remediation, and compiled the technical evidence packages that successfully validated compliance under strict federal deadlines.
- Vulnerability Governance Platform & SRE Error Budget Architecture (Python, PostgreSQL, Tableau): Scaled monthly remediation throughput ~10x, cut High-severity remediation time by over 40%, and drove overdue backlogs down by more than 90% across cloud infrastructure by architecting an enterprise-wide FedRAMP vulnerability governance platform protecting 6,000+ operational bare-metal and cloud systems. Eliminated operational toil and alert fatigue caused by fragmented 1:1 host ticketing by engineering a normalized PostgreSQL warehouse, consolidating thousands of host findings into unified fleet remediation tasks, and developing dynamic REST-to-Ansible inventory endpoints. Pioneered the SRE "Error Budget" framework for federal compliance in direct partnership with the Director of Security, designing mathematical risk algorithms (Severity Weight × Host Blast Radius × Time Decay) with automated variance credits (operational requirements, vendor dependencies) to govern federal vulnerability SLAs. Extended the self-service platform with custom Plotly heatmaps and Tableau Server integrations (TabPy) for executive sprint governance.
- Cross-Discipline Systems Translation & Root Cause Analysis (RCA): Accelerated remediation velocity and eliminated cross-team operational blockers by translating complex CVEs, kernel vulnerabilities, and DISA STIG benchmarks into actionable code and configuration playbooks tailored for software, storage, and networking teams. Conducted root-cause analysis (RCA) on complex system interactions, evaluated production risk, and authored formal technical compliance deviation and risk justification packages submitted to the federal PMO for false positives and acceptable operational risks.
- Enterprise Fleet Classification & Automated Workload Routing (ServiceNow / Qualys): Led technical taxonomy architecture for the enterprise-wide modernization migrating legacy Jira ticketing to an automated ServiceNow integration. Partnered with the ServiceNow ETL engineering team to design asset tagging taxonomies, dynamic grouping structures, and metadata classification rules inside Qualys, ensuring vulnerability and compliance findings were accurately classified and dynamically routed to responsible engineering owners with zero manual triage toil.
- Compliance-as-Code & SRE Toil Elimination (STIG XCCDF/XML & Qualys API): Eliminated hundreds of engineering hours of manual compliance auditing by building automated Python pipelines that ingested Qualys API results, parsed DISA STIG XCCDF (XML) benchmarks, and correlated running Linux server configurations directly to federal controls. Streamlined automated data handoffs for formal checklist generation, replacing repetitive manual verification with continuous compliance validation across all Webex for Government footprints.
- Engineering Mentorship & Structured Operational Handover: Accelerated team autonomy by instituting a structured, two-phase onboarding model for new engineers: teaching underlying system mechanics, training on custom automation tooling, and co-piloting live recurring workflows in Month 1 to transition full operational ownership by Month 2. Supported organizational growth through technical hiring and guided engineers through high-stakes federal remediation workflows under strict SLAs.
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FedRAMP Continuous Monitoring (ConMon) Inventory Reconciliation & Toil Reduction: Eliminated 12–15 hours of monthly manual "stare and compare" audits across the SecOps team by engineering Python and Pandas automation to validate monthly FedRAMP ConMon inventories. Reconciled massive 80,000-record datasets against ServiceNow CMDB and live Qualys API telemetry—instantly isolating added/decommissioned assets, tracking OS upgrades, and enforcing automated validation rules that eliminated human error, missed checks, and manual editing inconsistencies to deliver trustworthy, audit-ready submissions.
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Skills: Python (FastAPI, Pandas, SQLAlchemy), PostgreSQL, Jira API ETL, Qualys API, Tableau, DISA STIGs (XCCDF/XML), Federal ATO Governance (HHS PMO), Ansible, RHEL/Ubuntu, Cisco UCS, FedRAMP Moderate.
Cisco Systems | Cloud Systems Engineer & Lead Compute Engineer
Jan 2017 – Aug 2019 (Remote)
Directed compute platform reliability, high-availability identity architecture, and bastion security across Webex Commercial and FedRAMP Moderate footprints—partnering with Networking, Storage, and SOC teams to guarantee zero-downtime SLA availability and enforce zero-trust access controls across 2,000+ hosts.
- High-Availability Enterprise Identity & SOC Collaboration (FreeIPA/HBAC): Eliminated single-point-of-failure identity risks and established zero-trust access controls across 2,000+ Linux/Windows hosts by architecting and deploying a High-Availability (HA) FreeIPA cluster in OpenStack using Ansible to replace a legacy, high-overhead 389 Directory Server environment. Partnered directly with the Security Operations Center (SOC) to architect and define Host-Based Access Control (HBAC) rule sets—introducing net-new zero-trust access control capabilities—while establishing self-service permission patterns for application engineering teams.
- Virtualization Lifecycle Engineering & Bare-Metal Platform Maintenance: Upheld continuous federal SLA compliance and high availability across Cisco UCS bare-metal and VMware vSphere environments by executing rolling, zero-downtime ESXi upgrades for vulnerability remediation. Standardized Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnects and CIMC firmware baselines, and reconfigured Cisco MDS Fibre Channel SAN switch zoning to onboard high-performance storage arrays (Pure Storage) and expand enterprise capacity.
- Compute Security, Fleet Remediation & Automated Patching: Replaced reactive vulnerability patching with a proactive engineering pipeline by securing direct access to the isolated FedRAMP tracking boundary. Developed Python REST ingestion pipelines and dynamic Ansible inventory automation that collapsed 1:1 host ticket deluges into automated, cluster-wide remediation playbooks, establishing the architectural foundation for what scaled into the enterprise-wide vulnerability governance platform.
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FedRAMP Audit Defense & Automated Evidence Collection: Defended federal secure access controls across multiple annual FedRAMP audits, serving as primary engineering SME for bastion jump hosts, Active Directory domain controllers, and LDAP/FreeIPA identity platforms. Authored custom Ansible playbooks and shell scripts to automate evidence gathering across 2,000+ systems, eliminating hours of manual console demonstrations and screenshot taking while ensuring flawless compliance validation.
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Skills: Ansible, FreeIPA (HA/HBAC), OpenStack, VMware vSphere, Cisco UCS, RHEL/CentOS, Windows Server, RBAC/HBAC, Qualys, FedRAMP Compliance.
Select Group @ Cisco | Cloud DevOps/QA Engineer (Contract)
Feb 2016 – Jan 2017 (Remote)
Provided specialized DevOps and Systems SRE support for Cisco's OpenStack-based Public Cloud (InterCloud Services) running an OpenStack-on-OpenStack environment on Cisco UCS bare metal, focusing on Nova scheduler latency optimization, bare-metal PXE automation, and cloud orchestration reliability.
- Scheduler Latency Optimization & Cloud Orchestration (OpenStack Nova): Eliminated cloud provisioning bottlenecks by identifying and removing redundant Nova Scheduler filters, reducing instance scheduling time for 700 nodes from 20 seconds to 5 seconds—a 75% improvement in orchestration speed.
- Bare-Metal Provisioning, Infrastructure as Code & Platform Evaluation: Eliminated repetitive manual deployment toil by engineering automated bare-metal PXE boot and Ansible provisioning workflows across hundreds of production Cisco UCS servers in Cisco InterCloud Services. Automated ongoing configuration baselines via lights-out management (LOM) interfaces, and evaluated next-generation platform substrates—prototyping local Red Hat Update Infrastructure (RHUI) for secure, zero-egress internal package distribution and benchmarking Proxmox hypervisor clusters.
- Cloud Stability Engineering & Windows Provisioning RCA (cloudbase-init): Eliminated persistent deployment failures and infinite reboot loops across Windows Server cloud instances by diagnosing a complex race condition in cloudbase-init. Isolated the contention between the unattended Sysprep specialize phase and the premature startup of the Windows service, implementing the fix to achieve 100% reliable first-boot provisioning across the OpenStack cloud fleet.
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Blue/Green Upgrade Verification & Cloud Orchestration QA: Guaranteed zero-downtime production cutovers for major OpenStack-on-OpenStack cloud upgrades as the final verification gate, executing end-to-end automated test suites across newly provisioned greenfield environments prior to live traffic cutover. Developed Python, Bash, and Ansible orchestration test scripts targeting Nova Compute and Heat templates to intercept critical regressions before production rollout.
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Skills: OpenStack (Nova, Heat, Neutron, Glance), Ansible, Python, Bash, RHUI, Proxmox, Linux/Windows Administration, Performance Tuning, Cloud QA.
Australian Laboratory Services | Senior Systems & Storage Administrator
Sep 2014 – Jan 2016 (Grand Junction, CO)
Managed, modernized, and optimized enterprise storage, virtualization, database, and network infrastructure. Engineered high-availability distributed storage clusters, automated server provisioning, and implemented comprehensive monitoring to ensure maximum uptime, data integrity, and network performance.
- Distributed Storage & Virtualization: Engineered an Ubuntu-based Ceph cluster for VMware ESXi hosts, benchmarking iSCSI vs. RBD performance to optimize block storage access. Leveraged Ceph RBD snapshots to manage automated database schema testing, enabling a major production database upgrade with zero errors.
- Resilient Storage Architecture & Automated Provisioning (Ceph / SaltStack): Architected a cost-effective high-availability storage and compute platform across commodity Dell rackmount servers, using Ceph distributed block storage to protect virtual machine disks against physical host failures. Validated fault tolerance in an executive demonstration by maintaining uninterrupted data access while systematically failing two of three storage nodes; leveraged SaltStack to automate rapid VM provisioning and cluster configuration.
- Data Integrity Engineering & Enterprise Replatforming (Python / SQLAlchemy): Unblocked a mission-critical enterprise software migration to a modern .NET architecture by resolving years of accumulated legacy database corruption. Engineered custom Python (SQLAlchemy) audit scripts to validate relational schema transformations, detect orphan records, and reconcile broken foreign key relationships prior to ingestion; established automated MySQL replication and LVM snapshots to ensure zero data loss during cutover.
- System Stability & Monitoring: Installed Observium for performance telemetry and integrated proactive checks into Nagios to monitor production systems, decreasing service restarts from weekly to quarterly.
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Network Hardware Engineering: Troubleshot and resolved a complex routing issue where Asterisk VoIP traffic was throttled by backup data tunnels; replaced overloaded gateway hardware, doubling available network bandwidth.
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Skills: Ubuntu/CentOS, VMware ESXi, Ceph RBD, iSCSI, SaltStack, Python (SQLAlchemy), MySQL, Nagios, Observium, Asterisk VoIP, Cisco/HP Routers & Switches, Sophos UTM, VLANs, IPsec VPN.
Garfield County School District 16 | Senior Systems/Network Administrator
Oct 2002 – Jun 2014 (Parachute, CO)
Managed and modernized the district-wide enterprise network, systems, and core educational platform infrastructure. Led high-impact IT modernization projects, automated administrative processes, and engineered cost-effective systems that dramatically reduced operational costs and IT support overhead.
- Systems Integration & Automation: Developed a custom Flask (SQLAlchemy) web application that synchronized the centralized Student Information System (SIS) with Active Directory and Google Apps. Built self-service password reset and status tools for teachers, resulting in a 97% reduction in recurring support calls to the helpdesk.
- District-Wide Data Centralization & State Compliance Automation (PostgreSQL / PHP): Unified student records across the grade school, middle school, and high school by replacing siloed, individual database servers with a centralized PostgreSQL student information platform. Developed custom PHP ETL scripts to automate Colorado state funding compliance reporting ("October Count") in minutes instead of days, eliminating annual manual data re-entry between facilities and ensuring audit-ready data accuracy.
- High-Density Virtualization & Site-Resilient Infrastructure (Citrix XenServer): Consolidated district-wide server sprawl into high-density Citrix XenServer clusters, maximizing hardware efficiency while cutting power and rack space. Architected resilient, distributed services by deploying virtualized Active Directory domain controllers locally within each school building—ensuring autonomous operational continuity during inter-building network outages—and enabling zero-downtime daytime hardware maintenance via VM migration.
- Network Engineering: Engineered a high-speed WAN connection between district buildings using Ruckus wireless bridges, increasing bandwidth by 6,500% (1.5Mbps to 100+ Mbps) with zero ongoing monthly service costs. Managed core networking infrastructure including Cisco Routers, Switches, PIX Firewalls, and Smoothwall web filters.
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Unified Communications & End-User Compute: Deployed Cisco CallManager and Cisco Unity voice systems district-wide. Architected a centralized desktop computing solution using Windows Terminal Servers and HP Thin Clients for 6 computer labs, saving the district over $60,000 in capital expenditure and simplifying end-user support.
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Skills: Python, Flask, SQLAlchemy, PHP, PostgreSQL, Ubuntu, Windows Terminal Server, Windows AD, Citrix XenServer, VirtualBox, Cisco CallManager/Unity, Cisco Routers & Switches, PIX, Ruckus Wireless Bridges/APs, HP Thin Clients, Google Apps, Smoothwall, Active Directory.
Foundational Systems & Testing Experience | Systems Engineering, Software QA & Avionics Foundations
Prior Systems Foundations (Various)
Established a lifelong technical foundation by translating a low-level understanding of hardware, networking, and software into rigorous testing and validation methodologies. This ground-up engineering approach ensures comprehensive diagnostics and root-cause analysis at every layer of the stack.
- Solutions Engineering & Enterprise Interoperability (ImageCast): Expanded market readiness for ImageCast disk cloning software by engineering and validating integrations with leading enterprise systems management platforms (Microsoft SMS, CA Unicenter, Desktop DNA). Delivered technical demonstrations, proof-of-concept testing, and administrator training for corporate IT evaluators at enterprise accounts including HP, Target, and NEC; translated customer operational requirements into core engineering feature specifications.
- Engineering Operations & Greenfield Lab Buildout: Architected and built out the company's server room, internal network, and multi-OS test lab from scratch following a corporate spin-off, including telco T1 demarc extensions. Reorganized QA and technical support into a unified, 10-person rotating team: technicians alternated between hands-on lab validation (testing diverse drive controllers, NICs, PXE boot, and multicast routing across Windows, Linux, and NetWare) and customer support, enabling agents to directly reproduce complex customer issues on lab hardware and drastically cutting time to resolution.
- Quality Engineering Foundations & Defect Governance (ImageCast / DrivePro): Promoted from contractor to QA Lead, transforming ad-hoc testing into a standardized quality engineering lifecycle across ImageCast and DrivePro disk cloning products. Replaced informal email chains and handwritten notepad notes by deploying the company's first centralized bug-tracking system and structured test matrices, ensuring software defects had documented reproduction steps and preventing unverified regressions from reaching commercial releases.
- Hardware Assembly & Diagnostics: Built custom computers, performed component-level hardware and peripheral repairs, and conducted software troubleshooting. Developed quotes for client builds and mastered motherboard/component compatibility.
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Mission-Critical Avionics SRE & Flightline Radar Readiness (U.S. Air Force): Directly guaranteed operational mission readiness for E-3 Sentry (AWACS) airborne radar surveillance platforms—where radar reliability determined aircraft flight clearance. Conducted post-mission aircrew debriefs on the flightline to isolate in-flight anomalies, performing component-level diagnostics and repairs across high-power microwave transmitters, high-voltage power supplies, and digital signal processors under strict turn-around operational deadlines.
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Skills: Analog & Digital Electronics, Circuit Analysis, System Diagnostics (Binary/Hex), PC Architecture, Disk Cloning (ImageCast, DrivePro), Software QA & Test Automation, Bug-Tracking Systems, Network Design, Windows/Linux Lab Administration, Technical Training, Requirements Engineering, Systems Management (SMS, CA Unicenter, Desktop DNA).
Innovation Lab & Community Leadership
The Innovation Lab (Personal R&D)
Continuous hands-on research and prototyping environment focusing on cloud-native infrastructure, air-gapped delivery platforms, sovereign AI orchestration, and data pipeline engineering on dedicated workstation infrastructure.
- OpenShift & Kubernetes AI Infrastructure (openshift-ai-infrastructure): Hands-on research and applied SRE platform for enterprise AI stacks, bridging bare-metal hardware and Kubernetes. Engineered host PCIe VFIO passthrough and IOMMU isolation for NVIDIA GPU acceleration, deployed the NVIDIA GPU Operator with CRI-O Container Device Interface (CDI) and time-slicing multi-tenancy, and orchestrated production OpenAI-compatible vLLM inference (PagedAttention, continuous batching) alongside KServe/RHOAI declarative overlays. Formulated Day-2 SRE operational runbooks (PCIe bus reset, node drain), DCGM/Prometheus alerting for KV-cache and P95 latency, and incident post-mortems.
- Single-Node OpenShift Platform Substrate (openshift-sno-lab): Architected an automated, declarative infrastructure substrate deploying Single Node OpenShift (SNO 4.16+) via OpenTofu and KVM/libvirt, establishing strict separation of concerns between infrastructure provisioning and AI workloads. Implemented a flat peer-bastion topology (split-DNS, HAProxy ingress) and dedicated isolated bridge (virbr-ocp) ensuring zero host collision; tuned NVMe PCIe storage pools (cache=none, io=threads) to guarantee sub-10ms etcd fsync latency. Enforced zero-trust SSH with native OpenTofu Ed25519 deterministic key pinning and authored declarative RHCOS MachineConfigs for boot-time 1GB HugePages and kernel IOMMU passthrough.
- Tactical Edge Telemetry Gateway (tactical-edge-gateway): Architected an air-gapped telemetry translation and operator situational awareness gateway bridging autonomous robotics protocols (MAVLink and ROS2/DDS) to military C2 (Cursor on Target / TAK Server) over contested DDIL links. Authored Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) and threat models, packaging services as zero-egress, zero-dependency Zarf OCI artifacts with automated GitHub Actions CI/CD and continuous Lula (OSCAL) compliance validation.
- Tactical Edge Software-Defined Networking (tactical-edge-sdn): Engineered a cloud-native software-defined networking reference architecture modernizing edge and shipboard tactical routing across simulated radio links and low-SWaP ARM64 hardware (Orange Pi 5). Features an autonomous Python/C++ SD-WAN controller that evaluates latency and packet loss, mutating Linux Netlink kernel routes dynamically with zero dropped sessions, packaged with containerized FRRouting and WireGuard as Zarf packages.
- Air-Gapped Delivery & cATO Prototyping (Defense Unicorns Zarf/UDS/Lula): Evaluated declarative, zero-egress platform delivery using Defense Unicorns' Zarf and UDS bundles. Integrated Lula with OSCAL schemas to validate live Kubernetes resources against NIST SP 800-53 security controls, automating the generation of compliance artifacts and System Security Plans (SSPs) for continuous ATO (cATO).
- Immutable Kubernetes Infrastructure (Talos Linux & eBPF Cilium): Engineered an immutable, declarative Kubernetes control plane using Talos Linux (API-managed, read-only rootfs, zero-SSH attack surface). Configured eBPF-powered Cilium for high-performance socket routing, L2 BGP load balancing, and observability.
- Automated Sandbox Substrates & Deterministic Security (OpenTofu & Libvirt): Built automated multi-tier sandbox topologies replicating isolated network zones and jump hosts using OpenTofu on KVM/Libvirt. Authored architectural standards for deterministic SSH host key generation to eliminate security anti-patterns in ephemeral testing.
- Multi-Agent AI Orchestration & MLOps: Engineered a private, server-grade AI orchestration stack using LiteLLM and Hermes on a dedicated T5600 workstation (128GB RAM/RTX 3060).
- Knowledge Retrieval & Vector Search: Implemented a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline utilizing Qdrant as a vector database to enable natural language querying across a multi-terabyte technical knowledge base.
- Graph Analytics & Entity Mapping: Utilizing Graphifyy to engineer complex network graphs for relationship mapping, entity extraction, and knowledge discovery.
- Statistical Research & Graph Clustering: Exploring advanced community detection and data clustering using the Leiden algorithm to derive structural insights from unstructured datasets.
FIRST Robotics Mentorship
Role: Lead Technical Systems Mentor | Timeline: 2016 – Present (10+ Years)
Mentoring high school engineering students in mechanical/electrical design, real-time Python embedded controls, mechanism automation, and competitive robotics systems. Instilling rigorous diagnostic, test automation, and troubleshooting methodologies under high-pressure tournament conditions.
- Real-Time Embedded Controls, Mechanism Automation & HIL Testing: Mentoring student teams in Python robot control architectures, sensor fusion, CAN bus communications, and camera-based computer vision (AprilTags and ML object detection). Executing hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing on physical subsystems (sensors, actuators, and motor controllers) before full robot assembly.
- FROGlib: Open-Source Python Hardware Abstraction & Kinematics Library: Architected and maintain
FROGlib, an installable Python package (pyproject.toml) modularizing swerve drive kinematics, motor controller wrappers, PID closed-loop control, and vision targeting. Engineered automated GitHub Actions CI/CD test workflows to guarantee code reuse, modularity, and deterministic testing across competition seasons. - Methodical Diagnostic Methodology & Tournament Troubleshooting: Training students in systematic root-cause troubleshooting for electrical, software, and mechanical subsystems to rapidly diagnose and resolve failure points during active competition.
- Engineering Collaboration & Leadership: Guiding students through the iterative engineering design process, technical documentation, design reviews, and collaborative problem solving.
Education & Certifications
- Linux Academy / A Cloud Guru: AWS & Red Hat Enterprise Linux Curriculum
- Regis University: C Programming & Unix Systems Courses
- Lincoln Christian University: Music Theory & Composition
- Colorado School of Mines: 2 Years – Electrical Engineering & Applied Physics
- Community College of the Air Force: Avionics/Electronics Technician – RADAR Specialist (AWACS)
- On the Job Training – Tinker AFB, OK: AWACS RADAR and IFF Systems Journeyman – Awarded Senior Airman Below-the-Zone
- Air Force Technical Training School – Keesler AFB, MS: Electronics and AWACS RADAR Courses – Honor Graduate (99% Academic Test Average)
Strategic Core Competencies
Solutions Architecture & Systems Integration, Robotics Design & Subsystem Testing, Real-Time Embedded Controls & HIL Testing, Swerve Drive Kinematics & Vision Tracking (FROGlib), Software QA Leadership & Automated Verification, Platform & Infrastructure Automation, Accelerated GPU Infrastructure & NVIDIA GPU Operator, Red Hat OpenShift & Kubernetes Platforms, PCIe VFIO Passthrough & IOMMU Isolation, High-Throughput Model Serving (vLLM, PagedAttention), AI Systems SRE & GPU Failure Recovery, Technical Requirements & Systems Alignment, Technical Leadership & Engineering Mentorship, Federal ATO Governance (HHS PMO), System Validation & Data Integrity, ETL Pipeline Engineering & Data Validation, Root Cause Analysis & Diagnostics, FedRAMP Moderate & STIG Compliance, Zero-Day Incident Leadership (Log4j), FastAPI & Interactive Data Consoles, Tableau Executive Dashboards & SLA Governance, Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, OpenTofu, SaltStack), High Availability (HA) Clustering, RHCOS MachineConfigs & 1GB HugePages, DCGM & Prometheus AI Telemetry, Defense Unicorns Zarf, UDS & Lula, Autonomous Edge Systems & Telemetry (MAVLink, ROS2, TAK/CoT), Multi-Agent AI Orchestration & RAG Pipelines, Graph Analytics & Leiden Clustering, Linux Systems (RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS), Enterprise Identity (FreeIPA, RBAC/HBAC), Distributed Storage (Ceph RBD, iSCSI), FIRST Robotics Technical Mentorship