Selected experience / 2002–2025

Different problems.
The same operating model.

Three selected assignments across my career: building an early connected platform, delivering a major utility program, and owning a complex public-safety RFP. Different work; the same hands-on responsibility for the result.

Illustrative current plume layer over mapped terrain2002–2010
Architecture, software & field delivery

IRIS: Building an early connected public-safety platform

Vlad architected the original plume-to-field solution, built the Java integration software and created OPS Console. As Project Manager / Senior Project Manager, he remained central through the eight-year program’s development, broadband expansion, deployment, responder training and operation.

450+400 laptops + 50+ rugged handhelds
8 yearsProgram development and operation
PM / Senior PMResponsibility after proof of concept

High-speed broadband reached police vehicles; regional Wi-Fi, microwave/fiber backhaul, cameras and software grew together. Expansion and support ran concurrently.

Architecture & softwareProgram managementField integrationTraining & operations
Representative network footprint for the major utility communications program2015–2020
Major Public Utility / Program delivery

Engineering and delivering a $13M communications program

Business-case development, substantive contract negotiation, hands-on design / proof-of-concept leadership and Principal PM responsibility through deployment, changes and support.

40+Communication sites
~200Dispatch consoles
2,500Radio subscribers

The program moved a major Southern California utility from analog communications to integrated digital radio and dispatch, with later console expansion enabling home-based dispatch during COVID.

$13M represents program value after scope additions.

Business case & negotiationDesign & proof of conceptPrincipal PM oversightChange control & expansion
Representative public-safety radio and monitoring architecture2024–2025
Complex public-sector RFP

AI-Assisted Delivery of a Complex Public-Safety Communications RFP Response

One senior cross-functional lead controlled a 294-page public-sector response, classified and addressed all 554 requirements, integrated system architecture, scope, pricing, contracts, risk and delivery planning, and used controlled AI workflows to produce team-scale output without delegating substantive accountability.

294Page original response
554Requirements classified
100%Classified and addressed
Cross-Functional LeadershipRFP OwnershipRequirementsSystem ArchitecturePricing & ContractsDelivery PlanningApplied AI
What the examples demonstrate

Architecture. Delivery. Pursuit ownership.

These are samples, not the limits of my experience across commercial and enterprise systems, public safety and government, utilities and critical infrastructure.

IRIS — create and operate

Original architecture and software, product-team integration, technical project leadership, field systems, responder training and concurrent expansion and support.

Major utility — define and deliver

Business case, contract negotiation, design and POC, Principal PM oversight, implementation, scope changes and post-project expansion.

RFP — own the response

Requirements, system architecture, pricing, contracts, risk and delivery planning—supported by a controlled AI workflow and final human accountability.

Selected evidence of a broader career

The projects do not represent a progression from one specialty into another. Each shows ownership across disciplines; subsequent experience and controlled AI add to that established operating range.

Apply the capability

A role, project or program that crosses normal boundaries?

The next step can be a full-time role, contract or interim assignment, or focused consulting engagement built around the actual problem and required outcome.