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Kevin Venanzi — Portfolio

Delivery leader who still builds — data engineering and applied AI, translating enterprise and federal initiatives into systems that ship.

Kevin Venanzi
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Delivery leader who still builds — data engineering and applied AI, translating enterprise and federal initiatives into systems that ship.

01/Experience
VA Portfolio Director · Initiate Government Solutions, LLC
2025 – Present

Lead the VA technology portfolio across delivery, strategy, and stakeholder alignment — translating enterprise IT and AI initiatives into funded, executable programs.

Program Manager, VA Programs · Red River
2020 – 2025

Managed the Infrastructure as a Managed Service (IaaMS) and Storage on Demand (SOD) programs, driving delivery, contract compliance, and client satisfaction across multi-year VA engagements.

Information Technology Project Manager · Red River
2016 – 2020

Oversaw delivery of the Storage on Demand program, coordinating technical teams and federal stakeholders to meet SLA commitments and reporting obligations.

Senior IT Business Analyst Lead · Systems Made Simple (Lockheed Martin)
2015 – 2016

Supported the Enterprise Performance Measures Support (EPMS) program — capturing requirements, aligning technical outputs to KPIs, and bridging business and engineering teams.

Senior Procurement Lead · Systems Made Simple (Lockheed Martin)
2013 – 2015

Led procurement on the Data Center Acquisition T4 (DCAT4) program — developing competitive RFP structures, evaluating proposals, and translating technical requirements into acquisition strategy.

Contract Specialist (GS-1102) · United States Department of Defense
2009 – 2013

Administered and awarded competitive and sole-source contracts under FAR/DFARS, managing the full acquisition lifecycle from requirements through closeout.

02/Projects

Fork of Clawdmeter by Hermann Bjorgvin — native Windows daemon merged upstream in PR #57.

Native Windows host daemon for the ESP32 usage monitor — system-tray app with live status icon, login autostart, and auto-reconnect over BLE (WinRT). Strictly additive (no firmware changes); WSL-independent with a no-WSL-paths test guard.

Python·pystray·httpx·WinRT BLE·pytest·PowerShell

Self-hosted middleware that syncs Kobo reading progress to Hardcover. Sits between a Kobo e-reader and Calibre-Web Automated, intercepting WiFi sync traffic and pushing progress automatically — also fixes generic book-cover display in the Kobo store. One-way sync with log-based monitoring.

Python·Docker·Docker Compose·Hardcover API·REST

Strava activity name generator that replaces boring defaults with AI-generated witty quotes — 50+ activity types mapped to contextually relevant lines. Only renames generic activity names; encrypted token storage, rate limiting, and OAuth integration.

Python Flask·OpenAI API·Strava API·OAuth

Synthetic patient simulator generating clinically coherent, terminology-rich datasets — linked demographics, encounters, conditions, medications, labs, procedures, and care plans. YAML scenario/module-driven with ICD-10/SNOMED/RxNorm/LOINC/CVX coding and FHIR R4 output.

Python·Polars·DuckDB·Faker·PyYAML·pytest

The site you're looking at — a framework-free single-page portfolio built from the ground up on a custom design-token system. Scroll-driven section reveals, an accessible project-detail drawer with focus trapping, and a privacy-friendly analytics layer. No framework, no bundler, no build step.

HTML5·CSS Design Tokens·Vanilla JS·GSAP·Jest

03/Skills

Leadership & Strategy

  • Enterprise strategy across IT, data, and AI initiatives
  • Federal contracting — FAR/DFARS
  • Full acquisition lifecycle
  • Program & project management
  • Stakeholder alignment
  • Financial modeling for federal RFPs

Technical Skills

  • LanguagesPython, SQL
  • Data engineeringDatabricks, Dagster, Apache Spark / PySpark, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Polars
  • Cloud & infrastructureAWS, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Docker, Linux
  • DatabasesDuckDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Delta Lakehouse architecture

AI Delivery & Prototyping

  • MCP server setup & orchestration
  • Multi-provider LLM integration (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini)
  • Prompt design & context engineering
  • LLM workflow & agent automation
  • AI-assisted risk & predictive analysis

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