Dan Doughty.

Founded and commanded an electronic-warfare counter-drone unit supporting Ukrainian defense operations.

• Synthesized input from product experts and theater experts into a strategic call: most allied counter-drone units were fixated on RF jamming — a downstream tactic, easily adapted around — rather than disrupting the kill chain further upstream through direct targeting of enemy drone operators and disruption of production capacity. Advocated for and trained toward the upstream approach; this is roughly the direction counter-drone doctrine across the war ultimately took.
• Assessed Ukraine’s highest-priority counter-drone capability gaps directly from unit-level battlefield conditions, translating that into concrete equipment and training requirements.
• Evaluated the available electronic-warfare/counter-drone product landscape against those requirements.
• Evaluated strategic/theater-level organizations versus regimental-level units as delivery targets, and chose regimental delivery — the level positioned to act fastest on the data the systems produced.
• Raised funds and ran procurement to source assessed equipment; managed delivery into theater.
• Operated in a deliberately ambiguous environment: the U.S. State Department tolerated but didn’t endorse the effort, and periodically steered toward lower-risk courses of action. Made independent, calculated decisions to proceed where battlefield judgment diverged from that guidance.
• Personally delivered training to 3 Ukrainian units over 9 months — the scale sustainable without further fundraising — on equipment operation and the upstream kill-chain framing above, and cross-trained a team member to extend delivery capacity beyond himself.

Led a 6-person SRE team supporting Linux and Windows production workloads across hybrid AWS/GCP.

• Built Terraform-driven New Relic observability, modular and versioned, adoptable by product dev teams for self-service reliability.
• Formalized a liaison program between SRE and product development teams — improved observability adoption and accelerated feature deployments.
• Groomed an SLO/SLI backlog covering the four golden signals.

Managed a 6-person SRE team delivering application-centered, full-lifecycle Linux solutions.

• Operationalized Epiq’s first cloud-native application (Epiq Discovery) — auto-scaling Ubuntu farm, Aurora Postgres, Kafka, ALB/ELB, S3, VPCs. Engineered an A/B DB pattern that cut CD pipeline deploy time by 90%.
• Ran 300TB Oracle RAC clusters plus MySQL, Aurora, Postgres, and ElasticSearch.
• Spent the first half of 2020 as Acting Director of Compute Engineering, co-leading response to a multi-domain, multi-datacenter ransomware intrusion — coordinated detection, containment, eradication, and recovery across AD and Server Engineering.
• Datacenter convergence eliminated 75% of leased rack space across 4 new colos.
• Partnered with sales on the Brainspace Discovery 5 offering, contributing to roughly $50M in revenue; replaced a 3-day VMware build with a 15-build/day Vagrant + GitLab recipe.

Managed an international team of four IT professionals supporting Linux application and OS work, troubleshooting, patching, and code deployments.

• Centrify cost-justification analysis for legacy systems drove $250k in annual OPEX savings.
• Designed a Change Advisory Board process that unblocked non-production updates and minimized development downtime.
• Visualized KPIs via open-source tooling, turning capacity-planning answers from weeks into hours.

Ran all facets of a Kansas City IT business: strategic planning, operations, merchandising, marketing, customer relations, and financial management.

• Built a tablet-based GPS navigation solution for snow-removal truck drivers, replacing hard-copy binders — paid for itself in its first season.

Supported FCC-reportable, geographically redundant Messaging and Home Location Registry services across 20+ locations.

• Negotiated vendor contract requirements enabling millisecond text-message billing — a 4% increase in billable messages, worth $72M in the first year, at no new software cost.