I’m a writer, an investigator, and public sector automation specialist.
Between federal service and management consulting, I’ve spent over 25 years working for organizations and government bringing technical expertise to things like: disaster-related mobile housing operations, federal financial management, health insurance claims processing, Air Force squadron training, federal school loan and grants payment, anti-money laundering, public health and more.
I’m also a singer-songwriter, the creator of the Single Dads Foundation and the author of The BLOOD CURSE Series on Medium.com (coming soon).
Between federal service and management consulting, I’ve spent over 25 years working for organizations and government bringing technical expertise to things like: disaster-related mobile housing operations, federal financial management, health insurance claims processing, Air Force squadron training, federal school loan and grants payment, anti-money laundering, public health and more.
I’m also a singer-songwriter, the creator of the Single Dads Foundation and the author of The BLOOD CURSE Series on Medium.com (coming soon).
PROFESSIONAL
Before leaving federal service in 2020 to begin the research that became The BLOOD CURSE Series, I worked in public sector program automation. As a young consultant, I was part of the generation that first put federal agency programs on the public internet for meaningful services like financial transactions, customer service, and program delivery.
Between 2010 and 2020, I was a federal IT manager at two different departments of government — Health and Human Services (HHS) and Treasury. I was a Senior Adviser, Director of Program Operations, and Supervisory IT Program Manager.
In the government I managed large-scale federal programs and advised on automation and public sector systems design. I also managed IT services contracts.
In 2015, after training and demonstration projects for the Chief Information Officer, I was certified as a federal agency Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt, part of a select group of managers tasked with investigating emerging issues as a collateral duty.
In 2019, my last full year of federal service, I received the Comptroller’s Award, one of the highest honors from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the elite banking regulator within the U.S. Department of Treasury.
When I resigned from government in 2020, I was one of the highest paid federal employees in the government---not because of politics, but because of my background in federal IT and program operations .
Before leaving federal service in 2020 to begin the research that became The BLOOD CURSE Series, I worked in public sector program automation. As a young consultant, I was part of the generation that first put federal agency programs on the public internet for meaningful services like financial transactions, customer service, and program delivery.
Between 2010 and 2020, I was a federal IT manager at two different departments of government — Health and Human Services (HHS) and Treasury. I was a Senior Adviser, Director of Program Operations, and Supervisory IT Program Manager.
In the government I managed large-scale federal programs and advised on automation and public sector systems design. I also managed IT services contracts.
In 2015, after training and demonstration projects for the Chief Information Officer, I was certified as a federal agency Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt, part of a select group of managers tasked with investigating emerging issues as a collateral duty.
In 2019, my last full year of federal service, I received the Comptroller’s Award, one of the highest honors from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the elite banking regulator within the U.S. Department of Treasury.
When I resigned from government in 2020, I was one of the highest paid federal employees in the government---not because of politics, but because of my background in federal IT and program operations .
SOCIAL JUSTICE & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
I spent my teen years moving between Washington, D.C., and summers in Sri Lanka during civil war. At 16, I survived Black July 1983, one of the deadliest outbreaks of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka’s history. That experience gave me a lifelong commitment to peace and justice.
Since then I've spent decades working with civic causes in the D.C. area. Highlights include:
SOCIAL JUSTICE & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
I spent my teen years moving between Washington, D.C., and summers in Sri Lanka during civil war. At 16, I survived Black July 1983, one of the deadliest outbreaks of ethnic violence in Sri Lanka’s history. That experience gave me a lifelong commitment to peace and justice.
Since then I've spent decades working with civic causes in the D.C. area. Highlights include:
- Serving as an appointed commissioner and Vice Chair of the Montgomery County, Maryland Human Rights Commission.
- Helping a mediation nonprofit work with the county to launch a mediation program to keep youth out of homeless shelters by resolving domestic disputes.
- Working as a certified Study Circle facilitator, guiding parents, students, teachers and administrators through a structured process to help them make an action plan after an incident of racism in the community. I also helped author course materials and train new facilitators.
- In 2015, I created the Single Dads Foundation to share information and resources to help fathers with the transition to co-parenting after separation and divorce.
EDUCATION & PERSONAL LIFE
I hold a Bachelor’s in Journalism from Carleton University (Ottawa) and a Master’s in Communications Management from the Annenberg School at USC, where I studied under Dr. Everett Rogers, pioneer of diffusion of innovations and originator of the concept of “going viral.”
I’m passionate about science, history, mythology, comic books, religion, and metaphysics. I’m also a motorcyclist, guitarist, songwriter, and cartoonist.
I’m the father of two amazing children. I have homes in Washington, D.C., and Colombo, Sri Lanka.