Federal technology · architecture · leadership
Federal Technology Strategist/ Solutions Architect
Bridging mission requirements, intelligent systems, collaboration technology, and emerging AI—turning complex federal needs into secure, practical outcomes.
Strategy through delivery
Technical trust at scale
Complex modernization
Mission-critical operations
Professional position
Drew brings three decades of technical depth to the moments when federal customers need clarity: understanding the environment, defining the outcome, connecting stakeholders, and proving a practical path forward.
Technology decisions begin with operational reality, security, and the people responsible for delivery.
Connects customers, engineers, product teams, partners, and leaders around a shared technical story.
Approaches AI and quantum technology with experimentation, healthy skepticism, and engineering discipline.
Selected impact
Three résumé-grounded stories show the scale, range, and connective tissue of Drew's work.
View all impactRevenue influence
Influenced more than $10M in 2025 federal revenue by connecting customer priorities to credible solution design, demonstrations, and evaluation paths.
Program scale
Supported large federal endpoint programs with deployment planning, standards alignment, architecture guidance, and adoption strategy.
Operational stewardship
Managed an enterprise video network for the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, spanning lifecycle planning, modernization, operations, and vendor coordination.
Core capabilities
The résumé's capability groupings become a web-native operating model—broader than any one product category.
Translate mission, security, acquisition, and stakeholder requirements into pragmatic modernization paths.
Design secure, resilient, interoperable systems across complex enterprise and federal environments.
Build confidence through demos, proofs of concept, evaluation plans, and evidence-led technical guidance.
Evaluate AI, local and cloud LLM workflows, and quantum-adjacent technologies through an applied engineering lens.
Experience
From shipboard systems and federal networks to enterprise architecture and customer-facing engineering.
Full timelineCareer phase 01
U.S. Federal Technical Consultant / Systems Engineer, Level 4
Trusted technical advisor supporting federal agencies and partners across secure collaboration strategy, modernization, solution architecture, and customer-facing engineering.
Career phase 02
IT Project Manager, Video Network (GS-14)
Managed more than 400 enterprise video collaboration systems for the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.
Career phase 03
Regional Manager / Senior Design Engineer
Managed a 10-engineer team delivering enterprise collaboration integration and professional services for federal customers.
Labs & projects
Independent technical work extends the professional story without replacing it.
Enter the labs
Active build
An enterprise endpoint provisioning and lifecycle-management platform for unified communications devices, with configuration templates, firmware workflows, monitoring, approvals, and multi-tenant operational visibility.
Operating lab
A hands-on environment for connecting collaboration platforms, endpoints, networks, identity, AV systems, and automation—making interoperability, failure modes, and deployment choices testable.
Applied AI
A conversational AI project exploring useful voice and text interaction, contextual assistance, workflow integration, and practical patterns for human–AI collaboration.
Research ecosystem
An independent research and experimentation identity focused on the intersection of AI, quantum technology, scientific computing, and clear technical communication.
Integrated prototype
A systems-integration prototype combining conversational AI, interactive AV, device orchestration, and repeatable kiosk automation into a cohesive user experience.
Edge prototype
A small-footprint hardware and AI experiment examining local inference, responsive assistant behavior, privacy-aware processing, and the practical constraints of intelligence at the edge.
Featured writing
Selected writing on federal technology, intelligent systems, quantum research, science, and the human experience.
Browse insights
Quantum readiness01A practical look at post-quantum transition planning, hardware lifecycles, crypto-agility, and responsible engineering.
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Quantum technology02An accessible exploration of collective charging, quantum thermodynamics, and the difference between genuine research and hype.
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Science & discovery03How Webb's infrared observations revealed the role of atmospheric haze in cooling Pluto—and opened another scientific question.
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