Professional Summary: Chief Information Officer | Enterprise Legacy System Modernization & Cloud Transformation | Founder 

Chief Information Officer and Enterprise Technology executive with over 20 years defining and executing technology strategy, modernizing fragmented legacy environments, and building scalable cloud-enabled infrastructure across multi-site, PE-backed, and operationally complex organizations. Proven at translating technology investment into measurable business outcomes tied to growth, efficiency, and operational resilience.

Experienced building centralized data environments, AI-enabled automation, and cybersecurity governance across distributed, multi-site operating footprints — with a track record of driving legacy modernization, cloud migration, and vendor rationalization with minimal operational disruption. 

Trusted technology advisor to executive leadership and PE sponsors — aligning enterprise technology investment with business growth, operational scalability, and long-term competitive advantage.

Transformation Highlights

• Modernized fragmented legacy infrastructure scalable technology transformation at a      multi-site healthcare SaaS platform — reducing operating costs by 37% and cash burn by 73% through cloud migration, vendor rationalization,      and infrastructure consolidation, directly increasing acquisition value.
• Built enterprise security, data governance, and AI/ML platform frameworks for a regulated global biotech organization — establishing multinational data-privacy consortiums, HIPAA/GDPR compliance, and compliant AI enablement supporting commercial delivery.
• Rebuilt ITIL- scalable      multi-cloud architecture across US, UK, Canada, Hungary, and EU —      delivering ~$500K first-year cost savings, strengthening cybersecurity      posture, and enabling AI-driven operations at global scale.
• Led enterprise aligned IT service delivery, change      management, and release governance at a billion-dollar regulated      platform — increasing ETL productivity by 65% and reducing delivery      timelines by 50% through automation and disciplined process redesign.

Core Competencies

• AI-Enabled Automation, Data Platforms & Analytics
• Enterprise Technology Strategy, Roadmap & Modernization
• Legacy System Modernization & Cloud Transformation
• Multi-Site & Distributed Technology Operations
• Cybersecurity, Business Continuity & Operational Resilience 
• HIPAA, HITRUST & SOC 2 Governance 
• PE-Backed Environments | Vendor Ecosystem & Build-vs-Buy
• IT Governance, ITIL, Change & Release Management
• Data Platforms, Analytics & Automation
• Global Team Leadership & Budget Ownership

Executive Experience

Chief Officer (18+ Years)

Healthcare IT/Life Science (19+ Years) 

Senior IT Leadership (23+ Years)

Team Development (24+ Years)

Education

Executive Diploma in Artificial Intelligence for Business, University of Oxford UK (IP 2026)

PhD. in Business Administration - Organizational Leadership, Northcentral University - San Diego, CA

Master of Science - Medical Informatics - Northwestern University – Chicago, IL

Bachelor of Science - Business Management - Phoenix University – San Diego, CA 

Associates – Colorado Mountain College – Steamboat Springs, CO 

Regulatory Experience 

CFR 21, 45 CFR 46 (Life Science), 42 CFR Part 71.21 (Maritime), 45 CFR Part 170 (Healthcare), GDPR, FDA, ONC, HIPPA, SOX, ISO, CAPP, CLIA, GxP, GmP, CSV, CDC, ISO 127001, ISO 127002, and ISO 9001  

Information Technology and Project Management Certifications

ITIL, High Impact Leadership, MCSE, MCT, MCSA, MCP, MCDBA, CompTIA A+ N+, CIW, CNE, CNI, CNA, NCT, CTT+

Business Certifications 

Agentic AI Intensive - Harvard Data Science, High Impact Leadership - Cambridge University UK, Human Research - Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative, California Department of Consumer Affairs – Executive Director License, California Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education – Teaching License

Evolving Chance Corporation-C Corp (Holding Company), Raleigh, NC  07/2024 – Current

Founder/President 

Founded and lead a multi-brand C-Corp holding corporation overseeing ventures in pet retail, grooming, printing, and coaching. Established strategic operations, vendor relations, and financial infrastructure, fund raising. Developed full P&L, staffing, compliance, established and commercialized franchise partnerships concepts including EarthWise Pet Fuquay and The Groombar by EarthWise Pet.

EarthWise Pet/Groombar Franchise - Founder/President 09/2024 – Current 

Established and launched EarthWise Pet Fuquay and The GroomBar by EarthWise Pet, premium retail and grooming franchises. Directed end-to-end development, operations, and brand strategy, driving market entry, franchise compliance, and community engagement to establish strong early growth and operational excellence. Launched new business concepts including Community Corner, Pet’s Fish Market, and Ball Pit Fuquay.

• Opened EarthWise Pet Fuquay  06/2025
• Opened Groombar Franchise   07/2025  

The Kesinger Group: Founder/President Author/Coach 06/2014 – Current

The Kesinger Group is a consulting organization with a core focus on three key areas: human capital, technology, and publishing. By offering specialized expertise in these domains, Supporting individuals in achieving their strategic objectives through tailored solutions and insights.

Formed four independent community programs: Fueling Dreams, Moments That Matter, 

Hearts and Paws, and Compassion in Action.

• Values driven with a core focus on three key areas: human capital, technology, and publishing. By offering specialized expertise in these domains, support to individuals driven to achieving their strategic objectives through tailored solutions and insights.
• Publishing and organizational development speaker for organizational kick offs, team meetings, and personal/business coaching with appearances on CBS news, CBS My Carolina, Fox TV and KUSI.

X-Chem, Waltham, MA 05/2022 – 11/24 (Advisor role 11/23-11/24) 

Chief Information Officer, Chief Privacy Officer, Chief Security Officer  

X-Chem drives exponential small-molecule drug discovery. X-Chem deploys DNA-encoded library (DEL) technology, medicinal chemistry, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) to deliver exponentially better drug discovery solutions and provide solutions that help accelerate all aspects of drug discovery, from screen to candidate.

• Orchestrated the integration of global IT operations across four global hubs (London-UK, Boston-US, Montreal-Canada, and Budapest-Hungary), elevating operational efficiency, security, and regulatory compliance to meet and exceed international standards.
• Championed AI/MLcustomer delivery initiatives, strengthening client engagement and partnerships.
• As Securityand Privacy Officer, global security standards and compliance frameworks established, leading the creation of a multinational data privacy consortium
• Achieved substantial corporate cost reductions by optimizing vendor partnerships and leading successful contract deliberations.
• Lead a cloud-first approach, fortifying disaster recovery, business continuity, and enterprise scalability.

Inivata - Neo Genomics Morrisville, NC 12/2018 – 2/2022

Chief Information Officer 

Inivata delivers cutting-edge ctDNA analysis for oncologists to detect cancer, stratify patients, and monitor individual responses to treatment. Inivata provides a non-invasive liquid biopsy and Minimal Residual Disease (MRD) offering a revolution in cancer detection, monitoring, and treatment, providing the potential for frequent tumor profiling and a more personalized approach to cancer care.

Directed an international high-performing IT and Security Operations, overseeing product delivery from R&D to commercial access of Liquid Biopsy and Minimum Residual Disease “MRD” within the fields of Life Science, Biopharma, and Healthcare.

Achieved success in surpassing budget expectations and annual corporate goals year overyear.

Streamlined international IT and business operations, exceeding standards such as ISO, CAPP, CLIA, GDPR, and GxP.

• Realized corporate savings by enhancing vendor relationships and conducting effective contract negotiations.
• Devised and launched corporate change management and release management systems, contributing to organizational efficiency.
• Executive sponsor for culture transformation, applying PhD-level organizational-leadership principles 
• Delivered validated business solutions (IQ, OQ, PQ) reinforcing our commitment to quality and innovation.

D-Wise, Life Sciences & Biotech Technology Services Morrisville, NC 01/2015 – 03/2018

Global Director of Information Technology/Compliance Committee Lead 

D-Wise is a technology leader empowering world-class life science and healthcare organizations to solve business optimization challenges. D-Wise helped partners rapidly harness and leverage data as well as integrate systems and processes to gain a competitive advantage. Sub-list of client systems I managed IT operations for in both the US and UK: Lab Corp, Chiltren, Jazz, Covance, United Therapeutics, Celgene, Abbvie, Daiichi-Sanyo, Takeda, AstraZeneca.

• Implemented a global IT operations and security team, managing the product lifecycle from research & development to commercial availability across Life Science, Biopharma, and Healthcare sectors.
• Year over year exceeded fiscal benchmarks and surpassed annual corporate milestones.
• Orchestrated international IT and business functionalities, outperforming regulatory standards including ISO, CAPP, CLIA, GDPR, and GxP.
• Secured substantial corporate cost efficiencies through strategic vendor partnership optimizations and astute contract negotiations.
• Formulated and introduced pivotal change management and release management frameworks, catalyzing organizational productivity.
• In the capacity of Executive Sponsor, ardently cultivated and bolstered the company's ethos.
• Delivered Validated (IQ, OQ, PQ) business solutions, underlining our unwavering dedication to quality and pioneering innovation.

Medsolutions, Franklin, TN 12/2012 -05/2014

Director of IT Excellence & Reliability 

Medsolutions, a billion-dollar healthcare decision support organization that leverages proprietary pre-authentication algorithms for cost control, fraud detection, and medical decision assistance, was acquired by Cigna. As a key leader within this organization, I was entrusted with overseeing the daily operations of nine departments, ensuring alignment with our strategic objectives, and maintaining a focus on efficiency, innovation, and quality (Quality Assurance, User Acceptance Testing, Transition Planning and Support, Production Control, Change Control, Data file Management, and Application Management, Release and Deployment, Configurations, Project Delivery, Project Management, Business Analysis) plus multiple offshore organizations while redesigning corporate structure to align with ITIL.

• Orchestrated the creation of a new expanded IT vertical, merging departments from four verticals and forming a nine-department delivery team that successfully tested and delivered code in various languages.
• Implemented new staging environments practice and the automation of deployment protocols, achieved substantial reductions in production timelines, mitigated risks.
• Revitalized the Quality Assurance (QA) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) frameworks for our billion- dollar enterprise, streamlining collaborations with multiple offshore partners.
• Strategically delineated and instituted new functional units encompassing Change Management, Configurations, Release, and Deployment, aligned with the principles of ITIL Service Transition.
• Led cross-functional team of PMs and BAs delivering $3M+ projects. 
• Improved ETL productivity 65% through automation and process redesign
• Delivered SDLCbusiness strategies through cross function teams spanning international business units.

Emergisoft, Arlington, TX05/2007 – 11/2011

Chief Operating Officer

At Emergisoft, a healthcare-focused electronic medical records (EMR) company utilizing enterprise data centers and cloud (SaaS) computing, streamlined the daily operations of eight departments and all corporate business, oversaw data center functions, and provided international collaboration and guidance. I created the pioneering new Maritime medical solution which drove our acquisition.

Chief Operating Officer

Pioneered a novel revenue stream through conceptualization and launch of “Emergisoft Maritime,” a modern maritime software solution bridging marine medical facilities. This strategic initiative played a pivotal role in our organizational acquisition, spanning its ideation, execution, and market integration.

• Realized a transformative reduction in operational costs by 37% and dramatically curtailed the cash burn rate by 73%. Orchestrated a revival of a previously under optimized entity by revisiting vendor contracts, recalibrating operational methodologies, and instilling a renewed trajectory of growth and efficiency.
• Redefined organizational and accountability structure. Improved culture, employee relations, and utilization thus ensuring that organizational goals are prioritized, resourced, well managed.
• Reduced 78% of the building, infrastructure, and utilities by renegotiating contracts and reorganizing operating procedures.
• Improved corporate data center by reducing physical server farm by 80% leveraging virtualization and cloud.
• *** All financial percentages came from the 2010 and 2011 financials
• Successfully Implemented Cloud (Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure) based solutions for a national healthcare system.
• Project Lead/Sponsor for international implementations of cloud-based software for international Projects.
• (Turkey, Greece, Canada, Mexico, Italy, Germany, England, Russia)
• Lead Quality Assurance (QA), and User Acceptance Testing (UAT) through workflow design for enterprise and cloud-based applications.
• Managed vendor relations providing concise information up to senior leadership.

MicroSkills, San Diego, CA02/2001- 10/2006

Chief Operating Officer/Executive Director

I lead the daily operations of ten departments, ensuring adherence to ethical business practices and regulatory laws, and managed timely project execution.

• Total operating expenses were improved by 23% from previous years’ financials.
• Lowered business attrition thereby improving recognized income by more than 9% from previous years.
• Reduced employee expenses by more than 12% through better utilization of scheduling.
• Modernized IT operations and documentation, driving a 38% reduction in operating costs.
• Improved customer retention by 23% via targeted service and accountability training.
• Restructured marketing operations to provide a 45% savings from the previous year while increasing company exposure through more efficiently negotiated contracts.
• Attained Gold Partnership status with Microsoft (highest level of service).

Also served as an ongoing subject matter expert on CBS, KUSI, and FOX TV for new technologies and provided consumer information on laws, viruses, events, and general information pertaining to Technology.

*** All financial percentages came from the audited financials.

• Board Member - Fuquay Varina Downtown Association. Currently Active
• International Business Honor Society, Delta Mu Delta – PhD. Northcentral University Lambda Eta 
• Mayors Award of Appreciation: From Mayor John Mieke, Skagway Alaska
• Safety Committee Lead: Monitored Holland American Cruise lines best practices for SE Alaska 
• Volunteer: Skagway Fire Department, and Emergency Medical Services
• Volunteer: State of Alaska Search and Rescue team & Recovery Swimmer
• Teacher of the Year & Instructor of the Month: (multiple times) New Horizons
• Advisory Board: Microskills San Diego, CA.
• Compliance Committee member: MoneyLine Lending services, compliance auditing for twenty-eight banks and lending institutions 
• Freemason Texas Lodges #428, #582; York Rite Texas Chapter #376 Council Texas Grand Commandery Knights Templar Lodge #314