May 2024 – Feb 2026 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Driving Security & Reliability

Oct 2023 – May 2024 · 7 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · Remote

• ➵ GitHub Advanced Security, GitHub Actions and GitHub Copilot specialist. Implemented multiple GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, security tools, and developer trainings.
• ➵ I've built numerous open source tools and accelerators to enabling DevSecOps. See my GitHub profile.

Sep 2022 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Madison, New Jersey, United States · Remote

• ➵ Principles of Cybersecurity (CSCI-255 Spring 2024) - Teaching and building cybersecurity fundamentals curriculum for CS students.
• ➵ Mentor to upper class CS students working on software development fundamentals and project-based collaborative learning (CSCI-340).

Dec 2021 – Aug 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Remote

• As a Security Engineering leader, I closely collaborated with all company departments to rollout multiple security programs from the ground with close strategic collaborating with our VP of Security and GRC team.
• I led Security Engineering teams in the formation of:
• ➵ Security Insights / Analytics - Analytics notebooks (Jupyter based) and dashboard reports with internal insights, asset management, network patterns along well as operational metrics to help with program performance and decision making.
• ➵ SIEM - Forged partnerships with Panther.io and Snowflake to build the foundation for our security insights and detection & response program. Fully operationalized our in-house SOC to respond to high signal incidents.
• ➵ Vulnerability Management - Lead efforts to build out DevSecOps inclusive of secrets, code (GHAS), & vulnerable dependency scanning (Snyk). Provided a risk based approach to SLAs with periodic leadership checkpoints to discuss options to defer, treat, accept, or escalate specific vulnerabilities.
• ➵ Corporate Security - Led efforts of harding our email solution through coordinated phishing campaigns (KnowBe4) and corporate security training as well as SFP, DKIM and DMARC hardening.
• ➵ Product & Application Security - Built our HackerOne Vulnerability Disclosure and Bug Bounty Programs, engaged 3rd parties for penetration testing, and built our internal secure design review, security champions, and red team programs.

Dec 2019 – Dec 2021 · 2 yrs · Remote

• I was responsible for multiple teams and programs while Director of Software Engineering including the Managed Field Services product line, front-end material design UI framework, and our DevSecOps program.
• I led following to successful outcomes:
• ➵ RigUp to Workrise Rebrand - I led all the enterprise and product re-banding coordination to ensure a successful domain rebranding in Feb 2021 and zero downtime.
• ➵ Led our DevOps team to a successful migration from a monolith architecture to a GCP-based k8s microservices architecture.
• ➵ Agile Transformation -  Rolled out product & engineering training to 150 people for fitting existing scrum processes into standard Jira workflows, local team policies, Monte Carlo style forecasting, and standard metrics reporting.
• ➵ Platform Services - Carved out a team for horizontally oriented services including identity, email, IAM services, and an L2 support team.
• ➵ Security - In the absence of a formal security team, I built out standards for secure design reviews (based OWASP ASVS), vulnerability management risk scoring, and 3rd party pen testing.

Dec 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 5 mos · Warren, VT · On-site

• ➵ Ski Instructor and coach for ages 4 to 80.

Jul 2017 – Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• As leader of Bazaarvoice's (BV) Data Engineering & Reporting teams, I was responsible for multiple ETL pipelines and infrastructure for BV's brand syndication network, product reviews, Q&A, and third-party attribution data.
• ➵ Data Democratization - Surfaced a secure (Apache Ranger) and simple notebook solution with templated queries to the entire company so our BV's internal teams could provide their own internal reporting.
• ➵ Led engineering efforts to build a drag-and-drop UI reporting solution (called BV Reports) so customers could pull their own data and schedule future reports.
• ➵ Managed on-call and SLAs for a  200+ node Hadoop cluster maintaining 99.99% up time and 99% on-time customer report delivery.
• ➵ Led multiple cloud cost savings initiatives saving >$1M annually in cloud cost through practical data retention and cloud resource migration to lower cost solutions.

Jul 2017 – Jan 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

Oct 2015 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Technical lead for Bazaarvoice (BV) Mobile SDKs as part of the Bazaarvoice Incubator group
• ➵  Re-wrote the full Conversations API to make it more DevX friendly and fully featured. We double the number of customers using the SDK as a result.
• ➵ Created a custom demo API exhibiting multiple BV solutions including: product recommendations, curations (social media reviews on instagram), product reviews, and product Q&A.
• ➵ Re-architected the BV LiveEvents app from a fork-per-client source base to a single sourced build solution saving weeks of development time per client.

Oct 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Austin, Texas Area · Remote

• I was the mobile application technical lead in Rovi's (now Experi) Professional Services division supporting the TotalGuide xD application. I was responsible for the native iOS & Android application customization as well as the end-to-end build to app store deployments for approximately 20 customers.
• ➵ Optimized new customer application builds from 6 weeks to 1 week through mono-repo single-tenant build processes.
• ➵ Created fully automated build, test, and deploy pipelines with meta-data driven (no code) approach to adding new tenants.
• ➵ Co-authored 3 patents and built prototypes related to knowledge graph discovery through social media peer sharing.

Dec 2012 – Jul 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos · Austin, Texas, United States · On-site

• Myxer was largely successful (4M unique users / month) ringtone and music streaming app. I joined the team to help grown the music streaming side of the business. Unfortunately, due to patent trolls and intense streaming competition at the time, Myxer shuttered its doors in Q3'2014.
• ➵ Built and deployed a native iOS app from the group up enjoying over 1M unique visitors / month. The app supported both music streaming, custom playlists, and browsing and downloading ringtones.
• ➵As a small team I was also responsible for managing 3rd party contractors (UX/UI, mobile, and back-end developers) as well as maintaining project schedules and providing engagement metrics to investors.

Oct 2011 – Dec 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Austin, TX · Remote

• Native mobile developer (iOS) and UX developer (Axure).
• ➵ Delivered several client native iOS solutions built in Objective-C.
• ➵ Large engagement with Cox mapping out the entire cable field service application and corresponding APIs with Axure. This was leveraged for both UX studies and as a development specification for outsourcing further development.

Sep 2010 – Oct 2011 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Team lead for the Symbian compliment to the Qt SDK. Managed a network of global tools for Symbian and ensuring Qt developers can target an estimated 100-million+ Qt-enabled devices in the world with the delivered content.

Jul 2008 – Jan 2009 · 6 mos

• Worked in Oulu, Finland as part of the application layer team responsible for the Video Center application in Symbian^3. Along with writing Symbian OS application code I was also responsible for evaluating mobile tooling strategies for the multimedia organization (device debugging, static/dynamic analysis, Carbide.c++ IDE usage) and helping to devise streamlined practices for mobile application developers.

Oct 2004 – Sep 2010 · 5 yrs 11 mos

• Developed expertise in Eclipse C++ developer tools while building Nokia's Carbide.c++ IDE for Symbian OS. These development tools support thousands of Symbian OS developers around the globe which lead to the shipping of millions of Nokia, LG, Samsung, and Sony devices around the globe,

Sep 2000 – Sep 2004 · 4 yrs

• Designer and Developer working on debugger and build system plug-ins to Metrowerks IDE. Worked on both integrated build systems for Motorola's DSP processors as well as auto-mated build systems for production builds. Worked on debugger plug-ins for StarCore DSPs. Designed and Developed numerous plug-ins for CodeWarrior for Symbian OS as well as designed/developed data-driven build systems for Symbian mobile application developers.

Jun 1999 – Aug 2000 · 1 yr 2 mos · Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area · On-site

• Writing technical manuals for Metrowerks' CodeWarrior IDE for desktop and embedded DSP systems. I wrote documentation and sample code covering everything from quick start guides, compiler and linker manuals, debuggers and embedded DSP development boards for Motorola's DSPs (DSP56800, StarCore).

Oct 1996 – May 1999 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Houston, Texas, United States · On-site

• Clinical Neurophysiology & Vestibular researcher & clinician.
• ➵ Numerical recipes in C was my best friend. I ported thousands of lines of Fortran DSP code to C.
• ➵ As a clinician and licensed audiologist I also conducted thousands of vestibular diagnostic tests.

Sep 1995 – Sep 1996 · 1 yr · Memphis, Tennessee, United States · On-site

• Research in collaboration with the College of Nurse Anesthesia at the University of Memphis studying the effects of anesthetic protocol on conscious recall during general surgery.
• ➵Co-authored multiple peer reviewed publications as a result of our studies.
• ➵ Today, brain wave activity for monitoring consciousness during surgery is widely leveraged.