Released · Nov 2025
Empire Builder
The classic crayon-rail board game, rebuilt for PC — lay track across Europe, haul goods to fill demand cards, and race up to five friends online or hone your skills solo.
Louisville, Kentucky
I build cloud platforms for a living and video games for the love of it.
Associate Director of Cloud Architecture at a Fortune 50 healthcare company, where I lead the Cloud Platforms team. I'm also the co-founder of Zombie Possum Games.
01 — Work
Enterprise cloud, at healthcare scale
Cloud platform engineer and architect with deep roots in Azure, multi-cloud, public and government cloud, and modern DevOps, CI/CD and container practices — building secure, scalable platforms that let engineering teams move with speed and confidence.
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2022 — Present
Associate Director, Cloud Architecture
Fortune 50 Healthcare Company
Leads the Azure Cloud Platform team, providing people leadership, platform strategy and architectural guidance to the enterprise teams building on it. Builds vendor partnerships that support the enterprise cloud journey and works with engineering leaders to strengthen cloud posture and automation.
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2019 — 2022
Lead Cloud Architect
Fortune 50 Healthcare Company
Provided architectural guidance and technical direction to teams adopting the Azure Cloud Platform, and designed and refined the onboarding process for the company's multi-cloud environment.
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2018 — 2019
Solution Architect / Principal Consultant
HMB, Inc.
Designed software and infrastructure architectures for client delivery teams, including an offshore team; led code reviews and DevOps and CI/CD adoption, and partnered with sales on Microsoft and Azure solutions and RFP responses.
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2016 — 2018
Azure Product Team Architect
Kindred Healthcare
Championed CI/CD with Azure DevOps and the move to Agile and Scrum, worked hands-on across Azure PaaS and IaaS, and architected a Cosmos DB–based enterprise search platform that unified disparate data sources into one scalable service.
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02 — Games
Zombie Possum Games
An independent studio in Louisville, KY, co-founded to bring classic rail-building board games to PC. Our first release, Empire Builder, launched on Steam in November 2025.
Screenshots · 6
DLC · Available
Eurorails 2004
The 2004 Eurorails edition — its original map, demand cards, events and artwork — as downloadable content.
DLC · In development
Empire Builder Ireland
Draw rail lines across the Emerald Isle, connect Irish cities, and reinvest every delivery into a growing network — until the route finally clicks.
First posts coming soon.
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