Nov 2019 – Nov 2024 · 5 yrs · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

• Focused on Corporate and Vehicle Firmware CI/CD workflows, release management and engineering productivity for over a thousand developers and nearly one million jobs per week.

Feb 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 9 mos · Hayward, California

• Recruited by senior executives to mature Agile engineering processes, implement CI/CD pipelines, support repeatable, scalable service deployments based around strong operational standards. Drove efforts to containerize and modernize operational posture to allow for clearly defined cost and growth patterns.

Aug 2017 – Feb 2018 · 6 mos

• Lead engineering team with a scope to modernize architecture, performance, reliability and observability of Silver Spring's globally deployed platforms.

Jun 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Led a team of multi-disciplinary engineers that designed, implemented and managed one of the world’s largest IPv6 mesh networks. The system supported Smart Grid and Smart City platforms operating globally. Key deliveries included providing the capability to configure firmware and meter programs for 28 million IoT devices. Additionally, we developed tooling to support 100+ million crypto key rotations annually.

Nov 2015 – May 2016 · 6 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

• Architected and deployed large scale cloud native augmented reality recognition systems, statistics engines and developer supporting resources.
• PTC acquired the Vuforia Augmented Reality division from Qualcomm. Supported M&A, and post acquisition engineering and operations activities.

Nov 2010 – Nov 2015 · 5 yrs

• Sr. Staff Engineer contributing architecture and implementation on platforms servicing global consumers. These included high speed messaging services, white labeled cellular data optimization solutions for mobile carriers and principal system engineering on visual search, big data and augmented reality platforms.

Nov 2010 – Apr 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Provided architecture expertise for the company's real time messaging and advertising platform. Supported leadership team and collaborated on partnership strategies and market growth opportunities.

Mar 2007 – Nov 2010 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Burlingame, CA

• Limbo was an early provider of integrated web and mobile consumer experiences. The company operated marketing campaigns for major media and communication companies, including Verizon, Disney, CBS, EA, Virgin and Proctor and Gamble.
• Brightkite was an early leader of location based social networking, acquired by Limbo to augment the location based gaming platform and extend reach, the social network was combined into the group messaging product later sold to IDT Global.

Oct 2005 – Mar 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• Worked with a team of engineers to maintain and scale their personal file and music sharing service. Designed and evolved high availability systems with hundreds of thousands of backend connections to individual PCs worldwide to allow for direct access of documents, music and files from users home machines to their mobile and remote devices using fully in house developed services.

Feb 2003 – Oct 2005 · 2 yrs 8 mos

• Managed a team of operations engineers supporting major publishing and Fortune 500 clients

Jan 2002 – Feb 2003 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Supported cutting edge infrastructure for Internet video delivery for large scale customers, including advertising networks, small business and large scale commercial media properties. Worked closely on development of high speed beowulf clusters for non-media clients including academia and federal government clients.

Jan 1999 – Dec 2022 · 23 yrs 11 mos

• 3io offers consulting for early stage startups allowing them to prioritize work on their strengths and allowing them time to determine their market. 3io uses a focused approach thinking about the business impacts of design decisions for cost, scalability and growth. Services include custom engineering work, early operations and architectural design, review and consultation.