Damarius McNair

Ongoing contract engagement delivering the public website and authenticated staff platform for a development-stage nonprofit client operating under HIPAA obligations.

• Designed and built a layered platform separating the public WordPress site from an authenticated staff application, keeping regulated data off the public surface entirely
• Implemented the API tier on Cloud Functions with Firebase Auth, role-based custom claims, and enforced MFA for any role touching regulated data
• Separated storage by sensitivity: Cloud SQL PostgreSQL 15 on private IP with no public endpoint for PHI, Firestore under deny-all security rules for non-regulated operational data
• Scoped the environment so no live PHI is processed until a Google Cloud BAA is executed — compliant ahead of go-live rather than remediated afterward

Board officer for a development-stage nonprofit designing ten integrated recovery, reentry, and housing programs. Owns the organization's financial controls, regulatory compliance calendar, and technology governance during its pre-operational build-out.

• Stood up the treasury function from nothing: QuickBooks nonprofit configuration, written financial policies, banking and signatory controls, and the FY2026 operating budget against a three-month reserve target
• Built and maintains a multi-jurisdiction compliance calendar spanning IRS Form 990, NY CHAR500, NC Secretary of State annual reporting, and HHS breach-log obligations
• Authored the architecture governance framework covering incident response, audit controls, and a NIST-aligned risk register
• Designed a HIPAA and 42 CFR Part 2 aligned reference architecture on a strict three-layer model in which PHI never reaches the public or operational tiers
• Specified safeguards against named HIPAA Security Rule citations — audit logging to §164.312(b), private-IP-only database access, deny-all datastore rules, MFA for clinical roles, and session timeouts
• Excluded Firebase Realtime Database from the design after determining it falls outside Google's BAA coverage, selecting a covered service for non-PHI operational data instead
• Qualified a nine-funder grant pipeline with award ranges and eligibility gating, identifying that government funding remains unavailable until program licensure
• Presents financial reporting to the board and holds review authority over grant financial reports and Form 990 schedules prior to filing

Led analytics, systems optimization, and operational strategy for an $89M market managing a 4,600 to 5,600+ vehicle fleet. Served as the bridge between operations, IT, and executive leadership.

• Designed SQL-based analytics systems identifying labor inefficiencies, reducing overtime costs 23% for roughly $221K in annual savings
• Built demand forecasting and fleet optimization models supporting expansion from 4,600 to 5,600+ vehicles, enabling approximately $15.9M in additional annual capacity
• Developed Power BI executive dashboards and API-integrated reporting pipelines consolidating workforce systems (Dayforce, Workday) into unified leadership visibility
• Governed SLA performance and vendor accountability across operating partners, standardizing exception reporting and escalation paths
• Engineered data-driven fleet allocation models using real-time operational and external demand signals, including airline and reservation data, to reduce idle inventory

Ran operations for a $97M store with 230+ employees through COVID-era supply chain disruption.

• Reworked inventory and procurement controls, reducing shrink from 2.3% to 1.6% and recovering roughly $680K annually
• Cut monthly open roles by 50%, from four to seven down to under three, through stay interviews, schedule restructuring, and management development in one of the worst labor markets in recent memory