Tech Experience Overview

20+ years technology engineering at all levels from hardware and software, through networking, security, product development and delivery, as well as extensive technology team leadership hard and soft skills.

TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW

  • 20+ years technology engineering at all levels from hardware and software, through networking, security, product development and delivery, as well as extensive technology team leadership hard and soft skills.

  • 19+ years in healthcare overall, including nursing, habilitation therapy, emergency room, terminal patients long-term care services, muscular dystrophy, Deaf and hard of hearing (including American Sign Language (ASL) proficiency), therapeutic recreation, recreational therapy, in-patient and out-patient rehabilitation, short and long-term care, rehabilitation, transition programs, professional role-playing game therapy services, bio-feedback, neuro-feedback, brain-computer interface and other neurotechnologies, adaptive equipment design and implementation for people with disabilities, and research psychology.

  • 15+ years as Manager, Director, and C-level technical leadership roles while continuing hands-on experience building from the ground up startups through small to mid-size businesses (SMB), & enterprises.

  • 15+ years project management across multiple philosophies, methodologies, frameworks, & best practices: classic Waterfall, Agile, Scrum, PMI, PMBOK, Franklin Covey PM, Six Sigma, etc.

  • 15+ years physical and information security.

  • 10+ years analog and electronic medical records (EMR) systems, electronic health records (EHR), and various healthcare information systems (HIS).

  • 10+ years working with enterprise size environments with 10k+ employees & millions of users.

  • 10+ years hiring and managing 35+ direct reports, and overall managing units of 200+ staff.

  • 15+ years managing budgets, including annual department budgets over $20M+ USD

  • 15+ years managing regulatory and compliance solution and information security

  • 15+ years successfully driving technology change initiatives in an organization

  • 15+ years hiring exceptional technology staff with ability to coach, manage and grow staff

  • 15+ years development and infrastructure architect

  • 15+ years in Information Technology roles such as development, infrastructure architecture, technical client sales, IT security

  • 15+ years data design, administration, performance tuning, scripting, data wrangling, data science, RDBMS, SQL, DBA, MySQL, MariaDB, PostGreSQL, Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Json, NoSQL, Documents-based, MongoDB, etc.

  • 12+ years Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Large Language Models (LLM), automatic speech recognition (ASR), natural language process (NLP), chat bots, and related technology development, libraries, models, and model training.
  • 10+ years publishing, multimedia, live streaming, real-time video conferencing platforms development.

  • 10+ years hands-on coding Python, Java and similar object-oriented programming languages

  • 10+ years running development and/or testing for large complex projects with multiple dependencies.

  • 10+ years creating testing strategies and engineering best practices related to software development, test engineering, integration testing, performance testing, both manual and automated testing

  • 10+ years Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Oracle, Sun, Odoo, ERPNext, & others

  • 10+ years automotive industry technician, instructor, multiple ASE certifications in specialties in electrical, electronic, computer systems, emissions, engines, and performance

  • 10+ years neurotech R&D and integration experience with EEG, EMG, BCI, xR, etc.

  • 8+ years building DevSecOps, Agile, and continuous integration/continues CI/CD development.

  • 5+ years supporting clients requirements for integration of their electronic medical, health records, and information systems (EMR, EHR, HIS) with various state and federal health information exchange (HIE) and health information technology (HIT) systems, including compliance with HL7 standards across legacy v2 and newer v3 standards, including the reference implementation model (RIM - ISO/HL7 21731), and HL7 development framework (ISO/HL7 27931) HIS interoperability and HL7 Services-Aware Interoperability Framework Canonical Definition (SAIF-CD).

  • 5+ years development, execution, and maintenance of automated test scripts, managing test environments, databases, test data setup/management for development teams

  • 3+ years real-time video conferencing profanity filtering learning management classroom automated speech recognition (ASR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Neural Networks and Deep Neural Networks (NN/DNN), deductive and generative “AI”, bots, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, libraries, models, and model training.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS & EXPERIENCE OVERVIEW

  • Thrive in fast-paced environments across multiple time zones and locations

  • Skilled at tactfully communicating sensitive information

  • Ability to forge relationships and become a trusted advisor with personnel of various levels and responsibilities, from business partners to technology partners, to software engineers

  • Proven record of delivering technology solutions within agreed upon time frames

  • Ability to inspire and influence teams effectively and partner in delivering technology-enabled business solutions that exceed business expectations

  • Understanding and implementation of CI/CD/Dev Ops practices, lean methodologies

  • Experienced working with resources in different geographical locations and offshore vendors

  • Handle difficult personnel situations directly, using appropriate discretion, following HR and legal guidelines, with respect for the individual.

  • Evoke creative and innovative thinking from team members while helping them to bring their ideas and career plans to fruition, assess training needs and selecting training tools for team members.

WORK HISTORY OVERVIEW

  • January 2024 to Current: CTIO. PracticingMusician.com.
  • April 2024 to Current: IT Developer. WebTpa.com.
  • April 2022 to April 2024: CTO/CIO. ManufacturingPower and iNSUPPLi.

  • February 2022 to July 2022: Ethical Game Design and Psychology Advisor. Hero Fitness and other NDA larger clients.

  • January 2021 to April 2022: Senior Technical Lead R&D Technology Architect & DevOps. LearningMate.

  • August 2020 to May 2023: Corporate RPG and Accessibility Trainer and Company Accessibility Culture, Internal Operations Meetings and Workflow Consultant. PBS.

  • June 2017 to July 2017: Kerberos and Authentication Analyst Consultant. Omaha Municipal.

  • November 2016 to September 2017: Accessibility Compliance Officer and Facilities Consultant. SpoCon.

  • October 2016 to August 2021: CTO, CIO, CSO/CISO, Architect, DevOps, Ops. TFN and ZOE Inc.

  • October 2014 to Current: CEO and Founder. RPG Therapeutics LLC.

  • March 2010 to July 2018: Architect, Network & Systems Engineer, Sales Engineer, Project Manager, & DevOps. Interlink Advantage (now Intrinium).

  • January 2004 to Current: Founder, Executive Director, CTO, CIO. RPG Research. Non-profit 501(c)3 raising the bio-psycho-socio-emotional functioning, quality of life, and overall experience of the human condition globally through the sharing of knowledge on a free platform accessible to all, while encouraging others to share their findings on this platform.

  • June 2005 to current: Tech Talk With Hawke KYRS FM & Internet streaming talk show, and blog, on the impact of technology to improve the overall quality of life and human condition, while advocating for protections in technologies and the effects on privacy, security, and civil rights.

  • August 2002 to January 2023: Global Corporate Performance & Security Auditor. Devon Energy.

  • July 2002 to January 2004: President, Chief Operating Officer (COO), Founder. MaladNet ISP/WISP.

  • January 2002 to Current: Physical and Information Security Consultant. Dev 2 Dev Portal LLC.

  • September 2000 to March 2002: CTO, CIO, CSO/CISO. MightyWords Inc.

  • May 1999 to September 2000: Corporate Systems & Components Architect, Systems and Network Administrator, Security Manager, & Director of Operations. Franklin Covey Inc.

  • June 1998 to August 1999: Network Manager,Webmaster, and Java Developer. Information Technology International (ITI)

  • June 1997 to January 1998: Software Developer and QA. Softdocs Inc.

  • June 1997 to March 1998: Systems Administrator & Client On-site Support Technician. Comspec Inc.

  • September 1996 to June 1998: Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Software Developer. PC Easy.

  • March 1996 to September 1996: Instructor, Systems, & Network Administrator. Computer Graphics Program Designer and Senior Instructor, Automotive Instructor. Utah Career College.

  • January 1979 to March 1996: Software Developer. Independent Freelance Contractor