About Me

My career in technology started in the mid-1990s as a network administrator, where I learned the fundamentals of building and maintaining the systems that businesses depend on. Over the years, those foundations proved invaluable as technology evolved and my roles grew in scope.

After more than 15 years building infrastructure and writing line-of-business software in C# and SQL Server, I moved into the Salesforce ecosystem in 2015 and found a platform that needed the same engineering rigor I'd been applying everywhere else. Too often, Salesforce is treated as a user-configurable app rather than a software engineering platform.

I set out to change that. Over seven years at Inspirato, I rebuilt the Salesforce engineering function from a single remaining team member to ten engineers and administrators, migrated the platform from change-set-based deployment to packaged CI/CD delivery, cut regressions in half, increased release cadence from every 1–2 weeks to daily, and stood up a SOX-compliant release process from scratch, which passed four audit cycles in a row. I'm now looking for the next platform to apply that same engineering discipline to, Salesforce or otherwise.