Deepcity, Inc.,
Principal — infrastructure, security, compliance, automation
(11/2009-present)

United States. Predecessor Heaven ENT Networks (2004–2009); practice from 2000. Independent vehicle for consulting, diligence, R&D, and contracted operating assignments.

• Operated a retail private cloud (2008–2023) for hedge funds ($10–50M AUM class), medical offices, and real-estate firms; replaced closet-server estates with managed infrastructure that the client could keep running.
• Live-environment compliance on inherited stacks: PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2, SOX, HITRUST, NIST, ISO 2700x, CMMC. Third-party diligence for CrossLake on investments and acquisitions — infrastructure, DevOps, SDLC, and control gaps.
• Hands-on architecture for startups and funds: application and cloud design, future compliance, DevOps / AIOps, microservices and containers, IaaS / SaaS, vendor management.
• Applied R&D: low-power compute cluster (Raspberry Pi / NVIDIA Jetson) for a generation-side hedge-fund client; NVIDIA microcomputer boards for machine-learning object recognition; LAMP and Docker hosting on micro-compute.
• Listing and exit support on the technology side: Full Circle (Connecticut hedge fund) through IPO process; BoatQuest and ClickPay through sale.

Technology Integrity Council · Member
2026 – Present
Nonprofit standards body.

• Contribute to procedures for AI development and infrastructure inside defined ethical bounds; work toward core standards plus training and certification.

Integra City · Operating assignment via DeepCity (contractor)

Jan 2024 – Jul 2026
Relationship performed through DeepCity. Holding operations, controls, and program delivery.

• Stood up the operating layer: entities, roles, processes, and reporting. Wrote 223 governing and policy documents so the group could run as a controlled company.
• On the ground in Uganda from February 2024 supporting ITMS, a national public-private program: contract structure, operational readiness, and the path from award to first revenue (November 2024).
• Worked the technical offer as an integrator — Smart City, Safe City, e-Government, and border / strategic-asset protection — on communications, power, environmental controls, and AI data processing. Reach: East Africa, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and South-East Asia.
• Day-to-day work with Technology and Corporate IT; working sessions with vendors and public-sector counterparts so delivery and operations used the same facts.

Vehiko.com · Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Dec 2021 – Dec 2023
Reverse-auction marketplace for vehicle sales. New York.

• Owned product and technology with the founding group: reverse auction, dealer-side machine learning, buyer-side chatbot in place of classical search.
• Negotiated data-vendor integrations so listings, pricing, and auction state sat on one pipeline.
• Built the chatbot and an ML trader meant to lift a single dealer operator’s throughput by an order of magnitude and cut operating expense.
• Stood up the operating layer: entities, roles, processes, and reporting. Wrote 223 governing and policy documents so the group could run as a controlled company.

Verisk Financial,
VP and Technology Officer
(11/2016-04/2019)

Burlingame, CA. Retail, fraud-prevention, and bankruptcy product lines.

• Took ownership of a ~700-product estate and moved it toward SaaS on a hybrid cloud. Metadata model aligned to new state and global regulation.
• About 20% revenue lift tied to faster, cheaper customer onboarding. Automated intake error analysis and parsing with ML so fewer hours sat in manual cleanup.
• Ran the technology organization and the CISO function. Led 17+ audits: PCI, SOC 2, SOX, SSAE18, DoD, DMF, HIPAA, and related frameworks.
• Board-level budget and KPI reporting. Major accounts included Visa, Bank of America, and Comcast.