Own the outcome
I take work all the way from a tough problem to a dependable production release.
SOFTWARE ENGINEERLet’s talk
OPEN TO SENIOR ENGINEERING ROLES · CHARLESTON, SC
Software that
does the hard
things well.
26 years building dependable systems for defense, government, finance, and healthcare. I bring a steady hand to complicated problems—and see the work through to production.
6×BAE Chairman’s Award
for Innovation
for Innovation
6 weeks3-month compliance project
delivered in production
delivered in production
150Assessors supported
by real-time dashboards
by real-time dashboards
26 yrsBuilding software
that earns its place
that earns its place
01 A LITTLE ABOUT ME
Curiosity in the details.
Ownership in the outcome.
I’m Michael—a senior software engineer who likes turning tangled, high-stakes problems into systems people can count on.
My career has taken me from Army access-control systems and federal financial software to healthcare compliance, consumer lending, and now production AI. The industries change. The expectation doesn’t: understand the problem, do the work carefully, and deliver something that stands up in the real world.
These days, I’m bringing 26 years of engineering judgment to modern AI product development through Lamp Light Labs—while looking for the right full-time senior engineering team to build what’s next.
See what I’m building02 HOW I WORK
The code matters.
The way you get there does, too.
Make it make sense
Clear architecture, usable documentation, and honest communication are part of the engineering.
Improve the system
I look for the process behind the bug, and the small change that keeps it from coming back.
03 THE CAREER JOURNEY
Built over time.
Earned in production.
More than two decades across the systems and industries where reliability is part of the job.
Founder & Engineer
Lamp Light Labs
Building live AI products with RAG, Claude, and Semantic Kernel. Personally owning the architecture, cloud deployment, and operational decisions behind a production job-search intelligence platform.
AI / RAGC# / .NETAzureReact / TypeScript
Senior Software Engineer
First Franklin Financial · Application Engineering
Built a Git-based source control and PR review workflow for custom JavaScript inside the DecisionLender SaaS platform, replaced a manual loan-export process with Azure Functions, Key Vault, and Storage Tables, and introduced API versioning and a Windows Service.
Azure FunctionsGit / CI/CDSQLFinancial services
Senior Software Engineer
First Franklin Financial · Reporting Team
Reassigned to lead Git and development-standards adoption for the Power BI reporting team. Refactored 30+ stored procedures from cursor-based to set-based logic and used Datadog to find bottlenecks, cutting runtime 60-80 percent. One job dropped from 6+ hours to under 30 minutes. Also built SQL/Python checks for a SQL Server-to-Snowflake migration.
SQL ServerPower BISnowflakePerformance tuning
Senior Software Developer
Veterans Health Administration · Booz Allen
Built C# Dynamics 365 integrations on a 30+ person Agile program modernizing veteran travel reimbursement claims.
C#Dynamics 365TDDFederal
Senior Software Developer
BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina
Shipped a production compliance evidence platform in six weeks against an original three-month, three-developer estimate. Built Splunk dashboards for 150 assessors.
PythonSQLAlchemySplunkHealthcare
Senior Software Engineer
U.S. Department of State - Global Financial Services
Supported payroll, accounting, and currency-exchange systems serving U.S. posts in 134+ countries and 180 currencies. Automated batch and OS-level work, investigated production incidents, and contributed to web development and process improvements.
PowerShellASP.NET MVCEntity FrameworkFederal
1999 - 2018
Earlier experience
Defense, identity management, and field engineering roles that built the foundation for my career.
Field Support Lead / Software Engineer
Iberon LLC - Army AIE II+ Contract
Developed C# and Ruby on Rails for Army automated gate and access-control systems. Provided Tier III field support and evaluated SDKs for installations nationwide.
Lead Software Engineer
Technology Industries Inc.
Led solutions for FAA and Pentagon identity and access-management projects. Built RESTful .NET services, documented APIs, and set up Azure environments.
Senior Software Engineer / Acting Supervisor
BAE Systems - Charleston, SC
Spent 15 years progressing from developer to acting supervisor of a five-person team building Army installation-entry systems, C4I applications, portals, reports, and integrations. Received the BAE Systems Chairman's Award for Innovation six times.
EDUCATION
B.S. Computer Science, summa cum laude - Limestone College, Gaffney, SC
04 SELECTED WORK
LIVE PROJECT · LAMP LIGHT LABS
Intelligence for
the next move.
A job-search intelligence platform built to connect a résumé with the right opportunity. Production RAG pipeline, modern model integrations, and a full CI/CD path—all shaped around a real-world problem.
Visit the live project More portfolio projects coming soon.06 ASK THE DIGITAL TWIN
Good questions.
Straight answers.
Explore Michael’s career, projects, and engineering approach. The twin sticks to the résumé, and says when it doesn’t know.
GROUNDED IN MICHAEL’S EXPERIENCE
MS.
Michael’s career twinENGINEERING · PROJECTS · EXPERIENCE
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AI-GENERATED ANSWERS · BASED ON MICHAEL’S RÉSUMÉ
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