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Technical leadership for certified, safety-critical and regulated software.
25 years in software, 21 in regulated industries, 15 in aerospace. Three kinds of role fit, in this order, with proof below.
Roles that fit
Described by scope of work, in order of fit.
Role 1
AI assurance & AI governance engineering leadership, in regulated industries
I designed the security architecture for connected-aircraft web services at a time when no industry standard existed for it. AI governance is in that position now, and I build the controls and the audit evidence for it: fail-closed gates on AI agents, with a decision log.
Role 2
Lead software systems engineering for certified, safety-critical work
DO-178B/C DAL B on flight management systems, and DAL D process rigor on the IMS-3500 onboard software (classified DAL E). ARP4754 exposure runs through the software interface. Fifteen years on certified avionics at Rockwell Collins and Collins Aerospace.
Role 3
Technical program leadership & engineering management
Scrum Master to cross-functional teams of 11–15 engineers on flight management systems. Control Account Manager for $10M+ in EVMS control accounts, on a program with about $25M in total scope. Led Transamerica’s One Desktop transformation.
Agile is a proof point, not a job title: Agile on a certified program, and what survived (twelve years in Scrum Master roles, 2013–2025: Agile Coach and Scrum Master at Transamerica, Scrum Master on flight management systems at Collins Aerospace).
Three proof points
Each one links to the full account on this site.
Transamerica ‘One Desktop’
I led One Desktop, Transamerica’s Enterprise Agile Modernization Initiative, on insurance systems handling PHI. It won the company’s Best New Initiative award.
Read the case study →Ground-to-aircraft security architecture
I designed the security architecture for the web services and data transmission between Rockwell Collins’ Aircraft Information Manager (AIM) and the IMS-3500/6000 onboard equipment, at a time when no industry standard existed for it. The design had to carry its own argument.
See the capability →StrictLock: fail-closed AI agents
An eleven-module fail-closed governance suite for AI agents, shipped as open source. The field report covers the gate at the tool boundary and what the audit trail records.
Read the field report →Background at a glance
- Rockwell Collins and Collins Aerospace (2004–2013, 2019–2025); Transamerica (2013–2019); Intermec (2000–2004).
- Named inventor on two U.S. patents, including sole inventor on US 8,736,464 (granted 2014), “System and method for presenting a dynamic checklist to the user of a vehicle”.
- B.S. Computer Engineering, Iowa State University. U.S. Marine Corps intelligence, 1988–1992.
- Today: founder of TDM Technologies and HIPAAPath.