At Thrivent Financial, I direct engineering organizations spanning Data, Analytics, AI, API, UI, Digital, and Platform Engineering. I lead distributed, event-driven data and API platforms, reducing production incidents by 50%.
I also own DevSecOps and CI/CD practices using GitHub Actions, Docker, Terraform, SonarQube, and Snyk. This work reduced production defects by 75% and manual deployment effort by more than 40%.
At Northwestern Mutual, I directed technology initiatives across enterprise programs and led modernization of advisor platforms, investment operations, and portfolio reporting systems. I also led an enterprise LLM/RAG initiative that improved contextual retrieval and access to security information.
