Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Seattle, Washington, United States · Remote

Oct 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• ● Delivered VALORANT China Launch
• ● Hiring Manager in charge of sourcing, evaluating, hiring, performance managing,
• and org design for the VALORANT Foundations area including microservices,
• build and test automation, Unreal Engine and tooling, Performance, mobile tech,
• and console tech teams
• ● Mange and mentor a diverse team of engineering managers and software
• engineers
• ● Hiring Chief in charge of diversity for VALORANT studio and spearheading our
• outreach to reach out to and hire marginalized peoples
• ● Engineering vision planning for 30-40 engineers in a multiplatform multigame
• environment
• ● Work closely with product leadership to answer the How question while
• production set the What and the Why

Jan 2020 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Engineering Manager
• Team responsible for securing in-flight player data integrity and availability
• Team Captain, Project Lead, Engineering Lead
• Hiring Manager
• Mentor to software and network engineers responsible for team health, retention, and career growth
• Producing one of the key pieces of the current and future Riot Games tech stack

Oct 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Los Angeles, California

• Hiring Manager
• Managing engineers and managers at the team of teams level
• Responsible for 90% of all of the US local news websites uptime and content availability
• Responsible for the Infrastructure budget and forecasting

Oct 2017 – Sep 2018 · 11 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

• Head of IT
• In charge of datacenter to "all in AWS" migration

Mar 2017 – Oct 2017 · 7 mos · Greater Los Angeles Area

Oct 2007 – Mar 2017 · 9 yrs 5 mos · Greater St. Louis Area

• Hiring Manager
• Manage IT personnel for availability and team related matters
• Budgetary analysis and pricing of services in private cloud
• Design and implement all data center infrastructure including systems, storage, backups, networking, disaster recovery, and security.
• Work with vendors and third parties on purchasing and contract negotiation
• Design and implement all IT internal processes and procedures.
• Coordinate between local and offshore IT resources
• Mentor administrators in areas of systems operations, emerging technologies, and feature development.
• Senior Systems Administration (Solaris/RH Linux) duties when necessary including ticketing, emergency response, kickstart system deployment, and
• escalated troubleshooting.
• Lead PostgreSQL DBA for 2+ years
• Develop new scripting/programming solutions for systems automation
• Work with emerging technologies such as RedHat Clustering, KVM
• Virtualization, Ovirt, CloudForms, and virtual cloud computing.
• Train users on how to best utilize the resources the IT department can offer them.

May 2005 – Sep 2007 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Greater St. Louis Area

• Team leader and one of three Unix System Administrators responsible for all QA, Development, and Production Unix (Solaris/RH Linux) Servers in a 24x7 on call environment.
• Design and implement new hardware solutions based around changing business needs.
• Plan and deploy disaster recovery sites for production datacenters.
• Develop/administer SNMP trap based monitoring system.
• Deploy and manage paging/ticketing system.
• Deploy, code, and manage packaging and version control system for use enterprise-wide.
• Migrate, upgrade, and test older Unix/Linux servers to up-to-date Linux systems

Jan 2001 – Jan 2005 · 4 yrs · Greater St. Louis Area

• Real time monitoring of Unix/Linux/NT servers
• Real time monitoring of network LAN/WAN
• Trouble Ticket facilitation
• Vendor liaison
• Track Change Management system
• Implement and maintain Perl/Shell/C programs for automation and tool development