Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · Astoria, Oregon, United States · On-site

• Co-owner of a 2-unit AirBnB in Astoria, proud Astoria and Clatsop County licensee, and maintainer of a 4.9-star hospitality business. Guests love staying with us and we love our guests!

Jul 2017 – Jan 2023 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Astoria, Oregon, United States · Remote

• All things OS platform, manufacturing, and engineering for a growing startup (based in Austin, working remotely).

Mar 2017 – Sep 2025 · 8 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• A design for the FTC's IoT Home Inspector Challenge, PINC uses the strategy of containment to keep IoT security problems at bay. Check us out at https://gopinc.net

Jul 2016 – Jul 2017 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

• Based on extensive research and 16+years in the Silicon Valley tech industry, BJ leads a team of dedicated Sustainers who seek to fix the Sustaining gap in tech. Though sustaining accounts for 70% of the costs and 90% of the revenue of a typical software project, it is marginalized in the Creator-centric Silicon Valley culture. The Kalki Project attacks this problem at the startup level, targeting growing startups to build their sustaining story before it becomes a much-more-expensive problem.
• This is a billion-dollar market in the Pacific time zone alone, and fixing it means that customers and investors don't have to worry about technical debt overwhelming promising tech and destroying value.

Jul 2008 – Jul 2016 · 8 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• BJ leads a team of 12 developers, IT professionals, and interns in developing world-class manufacturing processes, Linux kernel hackery, content delivery, and virtualization of Barracuda appliances. As a result, the team's work touches nearly every dollar of Barracuda revenue in one way or another, making sure product gets into customer hands in a sane and effective manner.
• A hands-on engineer by nature, BJ has a deep understanding of both the technical and softskills involved in software engineering though extensive study of engineering practice, management arcana, and computer science. He is as adept at negotiating a buggy kernel driver as he is at negotiating interfaces between engineering teams and is uniquely effective at getting things done.

Sep 2006 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Jack-of-many-trades Linux Sysadmin and Perl/PHP/C programmer. Developed user account system integrating local LDAP and remote PeopleSoft systems. Implemented a VNC load balancer from scratch in C, allowing easy remote access to lab systems (Linux and Solaris). Introduced virtualization technology to the group and consolidated servers, greatly increasing overall performance, utilization, and disaster recovery capabilities.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2006 · 4 yrs

• Jack-of-many-trades Linux/Solaris Sysadmin and Java/PHP/Perl developer. Focused on engineering lab management, including tool writing and lab resource planning, maintenance, and implementation.

Apr 1999 – Nov 2001 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Jack-of-many-trades sysadmin/programmer, including Linux SA, SA Tools (Perl), Web Development (PHP), and development of homebrew ERP system in Access/VB/SQL Server.