24 years in enterprise IT at IBM and MD Anderson Cancer Center. I lead a team of 9 and architect the internal platform ecosystem that manages our cloud, compute, and AI infrastructure.
I'm a systems engineer at MD Anderson Cancer Center on the C.A.P.E. (Cloud And Platform Engineering) subteam under ITE Open Systems Engineering. Over the past 17 years here, I've progressed from systems administrator to the architect of a 15+ application internal infrastructure ecosystem. I lead a team of 9 infrastructure analysts managing 5,400+ VMs across 11 cloud providers, 1,900+ Linux servers, 4 Kubernetes clusters, and 27 NVIDIA DGX nodes.
Before MD Anderson, I spent 7 years at IBM on the e-Business Operations team at Research Triangle Park, NC, where I cut my teeth on enterprise Unix, Windows, firewalls, and middleware. Before that, I was an NCAA Division I baseball player at Grambling State University - a pitcher with a 31-5 career record and an All-American Honorable Mention. I hold a B.S. in Computer Science with a 3.4 GPA.
I'm not a developer by title. I'm a systems engineer who builds production software because the tools I needed didn't exist. The discipline I learned on the mound - precision, preparation, composure under pressure - is the same discipline that drives every platform I build.