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BUILDING SEISMOGRAPH.AI · OPEN TO FRACTIONAL & SELECT VP ENGAGEMENTS

Calm during chaos,
by design.

I turn reactive, fragile operations into resilient, self-improving systems — across streaming media, telecom, and cloud infrastructure at scale. Right now that means building Seismograph.ai hands-on; it's also why I'm a sharper fractional and executive hire than I was a year ago.

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▲ REACTIVE · FRAGILE RESILIENT · SELF-IMPROVING ▼
About

Twenty years of seeing systems end-to-end — and closing the gaps nobody owns.

I'm a technology executive who has built and operated high-availability infrastructure across telecom, streaming media, and SaaS. At SiriusXM, I led cloud engineering and reliability operations for a 30M+ subscriber streaming platform — cutting production incidents in half, delivering multi-region disaster recovery with sub-5-minute failover, and prototyping ML-based intelligent alerting ahead of industry adoption.

Before that, I spent nearly a decade at Time Warner Cable as a CTO-selected architect for ISP-scale voice and video platform design, earning a U.S. patent for IPTV architecture along the way.

Today I'm the founder of Seismograph.ai — a live, AI-powered infrastructure monitoring platform built on multi-agent architecture and the Claude API, correlating real network and cloud signals in production. My edge is operating at both ends of the org chart: securing executive sponsorship by making the business case clear, developing engineers by matching them to work that fits their strengths, and staying with a problem until there's a working solution.

Subscribers served
30M+
Production incidents cut
50%
Regional failover
< 5 minutes
U.S. Patent
8,516,529 B2
Now building
Seismograph.ai
Now building

Seismograph.ai — know what broke before your customers do.

Monitoring that tells you what broke — and whether it's even yours.

A payment processor outage and a bad deploy look identical from inside your own logs. Seismograph correlates signals across BGP, DNS, TCP, TLS, and vendor status pages in real time, then delivers a plain-English root-cause diagnosis to Slack — powered by Claude. A 30-minute investigation becomes a 2-minute confirmation.

It's live in production today, and I'm onboarding early teams. If you'd like to use Seismograph — or just see it run against your own stack — reach out and I'll set you up personally.

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Book a 30-minute intro call or send a note — I onboard every team personally.

STATUSLIVE IN PRODUCTION
TARGETS MONITORED17
SIGNAL LAYERSBGP · DNS · TCP · TLS · RADAR
DIAGNOSISPLAIN ENGLISH, IN SLACK
STACKAWS · LAMBDA · CLAUDE API
Selected work

Four systems, one pattern: find what's fragile, make it resilient.

Seismograph.ai · Founder 30 min → 2 min diagnosis

AI-native monitoring that answers "what broke, and is it ours?"

Engineering teams don't struggle to fix incidents — they struggle to figure out what broke and whether it's even their problem. Seismograph runs a multi-agent pipeline on AWS Lambda that probes endpoints, polls BGP and Cloudflare Radar data, and watches vendor status pages, correlating everything in real time. Alerts land in Slack with a plain-English root-cause diagnosis powered by Claude — turning a 30-minute investigation into a 2-minute confirmation. I own the architecture end-to-end and direct a small team of engineers and AI coding tools against my specs.

SiriusXM · Sr. Director −50% incidents

Rebuilt change and release management from the ground up

Recurring production incidents were hitting a 30M+ subscriber streaming service. I worked across functions to identify the underlying failure modes, redesigned change and release management end-to-end, and modernized aging infrastructure — shifting a reactive operations model to a proactive, automation-first reliability function grounded in observability data. Production incidents dropped by half.

SiriusXM · Sr. Director <5 min failover

Eliminated complete-outage risk with multi-region DR

Every service ran in a single region with no disaster recovery strategy — a complete-outage risk for a 24/7 streaming platform. I evangelized the initiative, secured executive sponsorship by making the business case unambiguous, and worked through cross-functional alignment to deliver a multi-region deployment strategy. If a region fails, services now restore within five minutes.

Time Warner Cable · Sr. Architect U.S. Patent 8,516,529

Ran the IPTV trial that shaped a platform-defining investment

I identified the architectural gap in next-generation video delivery and led one of the company's first IPTV prototypes end-to-end — directing a 5-vendor RFP and personally driving a complete vendor POC from datacenter buildout through executive presentation. The trial gave senior leadership the data to make a platform-defining investment, and the architecture earned a U.S. patent. Concepts from it were later productized by in-house teams.

Ways to engage

Two ways to work together.

Fractional & advisory

Focused engagements for startups and scale-ups that need executive-level reliability judgment without a full-time hire — informed by building Seismograph.ai hands-on.

  • Reliability and incident-management assessments with a concrete remediation roadmap
  • DR/HA strategy and executive business cases that actually get sponsored
  • AI observability architecture: what to build, what to buy, what to skip

Executive leadership roles

VP or Senior Director roles owning reliability, cloud operations, platform engineering, or AI-driven operations — where the mandate is transforming how a large-scale system runs.

  • SRE and reliability organizations: SLOs, error budgets, incident response, MTTR
  • Cloud and platform engineering: AWS, IaC, CI/CD, release governance, FinOps
  • AI-native operations: ML-based alerting, multi-agent observability, LLM integration

Building Seismograph.ai hands-on is where the AI-native operations experience above comes from — not a distraction from full-time work. Happy to talk specifics about how the two fit together.

Consulting

Solution architecture

End-to-end system design for platforms that can't go down — from ISP-scale voice and video (U.S. patent) to hybrid AWS/CDN streaming for 30M+ subscribers. I design for the failure modes, not just the happy path.

Consulting

Cloud transformation

Moving from fragile, single-region, manually-operated infrastructure to resilient multi-region cloud — with IaC, CI/CD, release governance, and FinOps discipline built in from day one, not bolted on later.

Consulting

AI transformation

Bringing AI into operations where it earns its keep: ML-based alerting, multi-agent signal correlation, and LLM-powered diagnosis. I've prototyped it inside a Fortune-scale enterprise and shipped it as a founder.

Contact

If your systems page you at 2am, let's talk.

I'm actively exploring VP-level roles and taking on select fractional and advisory engagements. Based in the DC metro area, working remotely with teams anywhere in the U.S.

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