EXPERIENCE

25 years.
Defense, enterprise,
and everything in between.

2016 – 2023

L3Harris Technologies

Sr. Manager, Software Engineering

  • Served as Interim Engineering Manager of a 160-engineer department, Chief Software Engineer, Integration Architect, and Lead Software Engineer across defense programs.
  • Operated across domestic and international programs in space, communications, and battle management systems.
  • Architectural innovation on an international deployment generated USD 4.9M in licensing savings while maintaining full compliance with government security requirements.

2010 – 2012

Citibank NA

Principal Application Architect (VP)

  • Architected core frameworks for institutional trading applications processing $5B+ daily using WPF/MVVM.
  • Created a custom data binding provider framework ensuring 99.9% uptime for high-volume execution environments.

2003 – Present

Human Ideas Inc. — Enterprise Contracts

Principal Consultant

  • nowifi.ai: Designed and deployed a production three-tier AI system — a browser client with offline-first local inference (WebLLM/GPU + Transformers.js/WASM), a smart API server with semantic caching (n-gram embeddings, cosine similarity, tiered TTL), and Ney — an abstracted model service that isolates persona and governance from the inference layer (Groq/Llama 3.3 70B). Includes RAG pipeline with document chunking, vector retrieval, and context injection. Full production deployment on Linux VPS with PM2 and Nginx.
  • AT&T: Developed national retail kiosk solutions, implementing a centralized management system for 500+ retail installations.
  • BCD Travel: Recipient of Global Innovation Award for architecting an enterprise bot orchestration platform using NLP and REST APIs.
  • Credit Suisse: Automated international stock conversion processes, reducing manual processing by 70%.
  • Corning Incorporated: Led mission-critical SAP and PeopleSoft migrations, designing an ESB architecture for enterprise-wide data synchronization.
  • Seagate Technology: Technical advisory for Fortune 500 data storage solutions, evangelizing emerging technologies.

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Executive Education

Leading Organizations and Change — MIT Sloan School of Management

B.S. Computer Science

UNESA, Rio de Janeiro

Certifications

Microsoft Applied Skills (Azure Fabric AI) · CompTIA Security+ (SEC+)

Awards

MSDN TechNet Author Guru (C# and BizTalk) · BCD Travel Innovation Award

Languages

English · Portuguese · Spanish (Fluent) · French · Italian (Conversational)