Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Berlin, Germany

• Working to grow the Cilium and eBPF communities to improve cloud native networking, security, and observability

Feb 2022 – Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Berlin, Germany

• Working to grow the Cilium community to improve cloud native networking, security, and observability with eBPF

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Remote

Mar 2021 – Jan 2022 · 10 mos

Oct 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Berlin, Germany

• Running community marketing programs to grow and sustain the cloud native ecosystem including:
• Kubernetes Community Days (Community run conferences across 6 continents)
• CloudNative.tv (Community run livestreams)
• Student Community Growth (Attracting and growing new contributors)
• Marketing Committee (Helping member companies utilize their benefits)

Aug 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

• ● Closed six and seven figure sales deals from initial customer contact to final signed contract
• ● Published 10s of blog post across DevOps.com, DZone, The New Stack, TRIF, and the Kubermatic blog
• ● Appeared on The New Stack Makers and Cisco Cloud Unfiltered podcasts
• ● Started the Edge Native Podcast
• ● Rebranded the company from Loodse to Kubermatic
• ● Spoke at Cloud Native Rejekts, Cloud Native Warsaw, ContainerDays, DevOn Summit, DevOps Gathering, Landing Festival, Linux Foundation Networking Developer Forum, and Open Networking Summit
• Open source Kubernetes Multi Cluster Management
• Kubermatic Kubernetes Platform gives application teams a self-service platform to speed up development cycles. For operators, Kubermatic automates deployment and full cluster lifecycle management, removing the pain of running Kubernetes in production and freeing up valuable resources to drive business innovation.

Aug 2018 – Nov 2018 · 3 mos

• Researcher for the Big Medilytics research project applying AI to health care

Nov 2017 – Jun 2018 · 7 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

• ● Developed go to market strategy and closed first customers
• ● Drove cross industry partnerships
• ● Created content and event marketing strategy
• There is a gap between what data scientists are good at and what they need to bring a model into production to provide value to a business. At RiseML, we were building an end to end machine learning pipeline on Kubernetes that allows data scientists to easily go from data to model deployment. The company was acquired by NVIDIA.

Feb 2017 – Aug 2017 · 6 mos · Oxford, United Kingdom

• ● Contributed to white paper on human-computer interaction, paper forthcoming
• ● Coordinated two coders examining 200 human-machine networks
• ● Chose key metrics to compare across human-machine networks

May 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr · Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Popularly elected to represent 8,000 graduating students
• Redesigned diploma insert to make the last touch point for graduates more meaningful
• Organized the unstructured Senior Class Office to define specific roles and responsibilities
• Recruited two commencement speakers
• Organized the Senior Class Campaign and executed the Senior Class Gift

Jun 2010 – Aug 2016 · 6 yrs 2 mos · Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Designed and conducted self-directed research to address gaps in existing literature
• Coauthored three published papers and contributed to two additional papers
• Systematically tested deep tissue 3-D antigen imaging techniques to improve depth >100% and resolution 50%
• Conducted preliminary experiments and analysis for a successfully funded NIH grant

May 2014 – May 2015 · 1 yr · Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Rebranded the $1.5 million Programming branch of the Union
• Restructured a $700,000 budget to absorb a 3.5% cut with minimal impact to programming
• Chaired committee that researched and crafted the student wage position statement affecting over 1,400 student employees
• Designed best practices for use of funds and supervised 10 directors with 400 committee members accountable for executing programs on time and on budget
• Responsible for strategically shaping the future of the Wisconsin Union and building relationships with campus and community partners. Acted as a liaison between executive leadership and Wisconsin Union employees.
• Served on the Board of Trustees for the Wisconsin Union Building Association and chaired an executive subcommittee. Maintain productive working relationships with faculty directors, alumni representatives and student leaders.

May 2013 – May 2014 · 1 yr · Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Responsible for a $150,000 lecture series with 17 world class speakers. Organized a 30 member committee to program, market, and manage events
• Interacted with high profile clients, agents, and stakeholders
• 50% increase in lectures without budgetary increase by developing relationships with agents, speaker bureaus, and relevant campus and community partners
• Hired, set vision and goals for 8 person marketing team raising social media interaction >100%