Feb 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area · On-site

• Leading the team that powers Meta’s engineering productivity. DevInfra builds the systems, tools, languages, and VMs that enable engineers to write, test, deploy, and operate code at scale. The focus is on making software development faster, more efficient, and more reliable—reducing friction so teams can build and innovate.

May 2022 – Feb 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Oct 2020 – Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

May 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 10 mos

Aug 2015 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Senior engineering management at Instagram / Facebook.

Sep 2014 – Aug 2015 · 11 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Responsibilities include the engineering management of the Yahoo.com flagship homepage and vertical destination sites: Yahoo Sports, Fantasy Sports, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Magazines, Publisher Tools, Publisher Anaytics,Yahoo original content publishing tools, Yahoo Screen, and Yahoo Live broadcast video services - in all, an engineering organization of over 1000.

Dec 2012 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Responsibilities include day to day management and leadership of Luminate, Inc. Accomplishments include: pioneering image monetization "in-image" ads, building a high caliber engineering organization, scaling the Luminate network to over 200 million uniques monthly with over 10,000 publishers, raised 3 successful rounds of funding from top tier venture capital firms, filed over 30 patents with over 10 awarded to date.

Mar 2008 – Dec 2012 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Responsibilities include: definition and execution of the Luminate technology road map, investigating new technologies that help scale the Luminate network, providing engineering and product direction, inventing new products and customer solutions, manage and drive Luminate's IP protection strategy, meet with potential customers and solution providers.

Mar 2003 – Mar 2008 · 5 yrs

• My responsibilities included: ownership of the LiveOps technology roadmap, Investigating VoIP technologies and help architect, define, and design future products, meet with large enterprise customers for sales and solutions, hiring. Accomplishments: Built award winning LiveOps complete end-to-end call center solution, help land the top enterprise customers, drive implementation of self-serve hosted call center solution, helped build revenue to over $100m/year, awarded two 2 key patents, built the largest distributed call center in existence with over 20,000 work at home agents.

Feb 2001 – Feb 2003 · 2 yrs

• As the co-founding technical lead at Callcast (later to become LiveOps), my responsibilities included: defining the initial architecture of the LiveOps VoIP telephony platform alongside our founding engineering team, helped design and drive implementation of crowdsourcing community management tools, built the engineering team to over 70, implemented engineering best practices and processes, managed LiveOps IP strategy, helped build revenues to over $40m/year.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2001 · 2 yrs

• Managed core infrastructure groups responsible for data warehousing, reporting, web services, content feeds, and voice applications. Helped build engineering group to over 200 engineers, define engineering management processes, engineering best practices, develop front line managers, Awarded 2 patents.

Jun 1995 – Dec 1999 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Led the engineering group responsible for the flagship Netscape browser. During my tenure at Netscape, I was involved in Netscape browser versions 1 through 6 with responsibilities ranging from implementation to management. Other accomplishments: Provided management and leadership to engineering team through AOL acquisition while maintaining a 0% attrition rate through a difficult cultural transition, designed and implemented the Netscape email composition client, shipped the first post-merger Netscape browser 6.0, help architect components which still endure today in popular web browser such as Firefox. Awarded 1 patent.

Jun 1992 – May 1995 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• As a member of the Borland languages team, my responsibilities included: design and implementation of the code editor portion for the C++ integrated development environment, development and design of the Borland C++ languages compiler and supportive tools.

Sep 1989 – Jun 1991 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Designed and implemented Network HQ - a network asset management tool. Network HQ won best new product at Spring Comdex as well as Infoworld Lan utility of the year. Also responsible for the implementation of Automenu, Magee's flagship DOS menu program.

Apr 1987 – Jun 1990 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Designed and implemented "Screen Manager Professional" (SMP) one of the first overlapping event-driven window UI programming environments written completely in x86 assembly language. SMP integrated with over 12 programming languages and was the toolkit used to build popular products such a pfs:write, pfs:file, QModem, and many well known commercial products of the time. Sold Logical Alternatives, Inc. to Magee Enterprises, 1989

Jul 1984 – Jul 1986 · 2 yrs

• Worked on LIAS (Library Information Access System). Implemented IBM PC interface to download and manage library card catalog data from Penn State mainframe computers.