Private Networks Architect & Practice Lead · Enterprise Presales & Connected Solutions
View formatted portfolio on GitHub Pages → — case studies and deep dives with the Minimal theme.
| Metric | Delivery |
|---|---|
| Scale | 50+ systems unified across 5,500 Walmart and Sam's Club locations |
| Reach | 60,000+ YouTube channels on ViewBooster; millions of channels ingested daily at Zoomin.TV |
| Healthcare | Multi-million-dollar private network engagements — Baxter, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo, Kaiser |
| AI influence | 95%-accurate ML model feedback loop driving Verizon product roadmap |
| Experience | 15+ years — Verizon · Walmart · Zoomin.TV · The Clearing House · Omega IT LLC |
Engineering leader specializing in:
- Enterprise integration & modernization — fragmented legacy estates, API bridges, and P&L-grade data pipelines
- Healthcare & connected care — private networks, device connectivity, and mission-critical resilience for health systems
- Identity & access architecture — SSO federation (SAML/OAuth), segmented trust zones, and credential-scoped service catalogs
- AI & MCP platforms — agent orchestration, local inference, and Model Context Protocol tool layers for enterprise-grade automation
- Distributed systems at scale — inventory automation across thousands of sites, national payment infrastructure, and high-throughput analytics
| Domain | Business outcome |
|---|---|
| Retail supply chain | Unified 50+ legacy and modern systems across 5,500 Walmart and Sam's Club locations — eliminated 3×–4× inventory rework cycles tied to corporate P&L |
| Healthcare connectivity | Drove Baxter private-network adoption and multi-million-dollar health-system engagements — private wireless, FWA, and satellite resilience for mission-critical care |
| Enterprise AI influence | Managed customer feedback loop for a 95%-accurate ML model at Verizon — translated field insights into product roadmap priorities |
| Media & ad-tech scale | Architected ViewBooster for 60,000+ YouTube channels — sub-second analytics and multi-million-dollar revenue impact at a top global MCN |
| National payments | Contributed to U.S. electronic check-clearing modernization at The Clearing House — high-throughput, compliance-grade distributed services |
| Content platforms | Co-founded OmegaCMS — headless, multi-tenant ECM accelerating time-to-market for global editorial workflows |
LinkedIn project highlights with full architecture narratives — each case study covers business problem · constraints · architecture · tradeoffs · outcome. Full catalog →
| Case study | Period | Outcome at a glance |
|---|---|---|
| Omega CMS | Jan 2017 – Present | Headless, multi-tenant ECM with localization engine and edge caching — omegacms.io, serverless-ready, database-agnostic (GitHub) |
| Walmart Inventory Automation | Genpact · 2018 – 2019 | Unified 50+ legacy and modern systems; dual-mode integration bridge, HITL document-matching ML, and P&L-grade inventory automation across 5,500 locations |
| ALSTOM | Green River Media | Secure OT/IT integration layer for transit and industrial telemetry — event-driven messaging, network segregation, multi-continent deployment |
| Video Promotions (ViewBooster) | Zoomin.TV | High-throughput YouTube ad-tech analytics — async ingestion mesh, stream aggregation, ML channel matching across 60,000+ channels |
Reference code behind the narratives above — explore case studies first, then the repos for implementation detail.
Model-agnostic CrewAI orchestration with MCP tool servers and Ollama backends — architecture deep-dive →
VLAN-segmented home lab and Proxmox workloads · LAN-only MSNSwitch smart-PDU control in Home Assistant · Decoupled ECM platform — case study →
Capabilities grounded in delivered outcomes — not tool lists for their own sake.
| Domain | Representative delivery |
|---|---|
| Architecture and Integration | HLSD and discovery for 50-system retail automation; REST, webhooks, and enterprise API design |
| Healthcare and Life Sciences | Private networks for Baxter, Cleveland Clinic, Mayo, Kaiser — connected care and resilience architecture |
| Identity and Security | SAML/OAuth SSO patterns, segmented VLAN trust zones, credential-scoped MCP and service catalogs |
| Cloud and Data | Event-driven pipelines across 5,500 locations; motion/telematics analytics; national payment workloads |
| AI and Automation | MCP tool layers, CrewAI orchestration, HITL document-matching ML, local Ollama inference |
| Infrastructure | Proxmox bare-metal density, Kubernetes sandboxes, Proxmox/MikroTik segmented lab mirroring production constraints |
Architecture narratives by specialty — career history on the Resume; strategic approach in Technical Strategy.
| Document | Audience | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| Resume | Recruiters, hiring managers | Experience, education, skills |
| Technical Strategy | Engineering leaders, architects | Philosophy, frameworks, how strategy maps to delivery |
| Architecture Case Studies | Recruiters, technical peers | Business problem → outcome project catalog with diagrams |
| Healthcare Architecture | Healthcare IT, life sciences | Connected care, private networks, device connectivity, resilience |
| Identity & Access | Security architects, IAM engineers | Enterprise federation, zero-trust segmentation, credential governance |
| Local AI and MCP Architecture | Principal engineers, architects | Why MCP matters, enterprise use cases, security, local vs cloud |
| Infrastructure and Home Lab | Platform engineers, SREs | Proxmox topology, VLAN isolation, NVR/AI stack |
| Recommendations | Recruiters, hiring managers | Nine recommendations with excerpts from directors and client partners |
True technical leadership goes beyond choosing a modern stack. It requires predictable execution paths, operational sustainability, and architecture that directly moves the needle on business outcomes — whether scaling cloud integrations or optimizing local bare-metal clusters.
Nine recommendations from directors, client partners, practice leaders, and engineering leads at Verizon, Zoomin.TV, Market America, and Green River Media. Full excerpts →
| Recommender | Role | Highlight |
|---|---|---|
| Jon Woodland | Director, Technology Development and Integration, Verizon | Maps customer challenges to technology outcomes; effective with C-suite and engineers |
| Sam Aria | Sr. Client Partner, Verizon Business Group | Drove Baxter healthcare private network opportunity and broader connected-hospital wins |
| Robin Goldsmith | Practice Leader, Healthcare and Life Sciences, Verizon Business | Go-to resource for critical projects; entrepreneurial when there is no playbook |
| Gert-Jan Vrolijk | Director IT, Zoomin.TV | Great team leader; adapts quickly to the business side of projects |
| Maarten Kruit | IT Coordinator, Zoomin.TV | Clear communicator, software architect, takes on challenging work |
| Matt Happel | Senior Lead Full Stack Developer, Market America | Gets the job done; innovative with new concepts |
| Norman Graves | Business Development Director, Green River Media | Diligent, knowledgeable, capable software engineer |
| Ivan Varbanov | SRE, DevOps, Cloud Infrastructure | Wide expertise instrumental to complex project delivery |
| Haris Šečić | Software Developer | CEO who codes; realistic estimates plus architecture guidance |
Executive dashboard for my professional portfolio. Detailed narratives live in linked markdown files.
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