At Google Austin I built a new team from the ground up to design and deliver a high-scale low-latency back end system to power all of Google's internal people operations. My org currently consists of multiple engineering teams, with Engineering Managers and Technical Leaders as my direct reports. In addition to the above, we own the main hub where Googlers interact with the company, receive information from the org, and which powers our performance management systems. We also own the central Content Management System for internal Google communications, enabling Google to quickly build microsites to disseminate information to its employees. We invented and delivered a unified Task management system for Googlers to easily keep track of all of their responsibilities at Google, and the Manager Hub where managers can see at a glance their responsibilities and team health. I am also a member of the Austin site Steering Committee and run the programs for both Manager Development and Engineer Development for the Austin site.

Amazon Business brought Amazon.com forward into the B2B world, executing a grand vision to make Amazon the go-to marketplace for all corporate purchasing needs, as we have in the consumer space. In 2014 I founded the Austin office for Amazon Business, starting with myself and two newly hired engineers. Since then I have helped grow Amazon Business in Austin to multiple engineering teams, plus teams for User Experience Design, Technical Program Management, Quality Assurance Engineering, and Product Management. I have recruited, built, and led 5 teams of engineers, managing both managers and engineers directly. I own the core platform and infrastructure for Amazon Business, enabling our acquisition of over $1 billion in sales and 300,000 business customers in the first year of public launch. In addition, my teams are responsible for global expansion of Amazon Business and delivering the features that enable large enterprise customers with hundreds of thousands of employees.As an Amazon Bar Raiser, I have helped organizations across the company hire outstanding candidates, participating in over 500 interviews with Amazon.

My team builds the systems and services that keep the EC2 cloud safe. We are the engineering team responsible for design and implementation of Amazon's tools for:- Automatically detecting and responding to botnets, DDoS attacks, and spammers- Distributed and auto-scaling firewall management- Abuse case management and tracking- Intrusion Detection monitoring- Public Key Infrastructure- and moreTeam technologies include: Java, Ruby, Perl, NoSQL, MySQLKey design principles: Network security, Cloud computing, Service Oriented Architecture, Eventual Consistency, RESTful services, Data sharding

Founded the engineering department and developed it into multiple teams of architects, software engineers, and QA engineers. Defined engineering processes, provided technical vision, and led the engineering department to build and deliver the company's products and services for more than 1.7 million consumers nationwide. Led the development of enterprise applications that have serviced over 1000 data breaches affecting more than 50,000,000 consumers, including the world’s largest data breach response and the three largest healthcare data breaches. Established Agile software development processes focusing on iterative development, continuous improvement, close collaboration between development and QA, and maintaining the ability to rapidly react to emerging business opportunities. In addition to Vice President of Engineering, served as interim Vice President of IT and Operations for 3 years. Managed IT team of production sysadmin, database administrator, and corporate sysadmin. Managed Operations team of business analysts and operations admins.Brief description of systems:Applications built in a 3-Tier Architecture consisting of Presentation (Apache, PHP, mod_jk), Application (JBoss, Seam, Mule ESB) and Data (Oracle 10g).High availability/high capacity components deployed to cloud servers (AWS S3/CloudFront). Stateless web services (REST and SOAP) created for integration and communication with third party systems.Outsourced development of mobile iPhone application communicating with in-house backend via RESTful API.

Founding member of Austin Engineering department, reporting to Vice President of Engineering.Responsible for hiring and managing software engineers, setting quarterly goals for team members, evaluating personal performance, and awarding bonuses.Responsible for technical vision and design for enterprise application capable of sifting through terabytes of data to identify and deliver electronic forensic evidence.Pioneered Agile Project Management in Austin office. Prioritized and scheduled feature delivery, working with QA to continuously deliver product enhancements. Successfully kept team on schedule or ahead of schedule throughout product development.Drove automated unit testing and continuous builds for rapid, reliable iterative development.Additional duties include managing Technical Writing team. Developed corporate documentation development policy to ensure rapid, correct product documentation with maximum usability.

Lead designer and developer for all Java projects. Developed products using Servlets, Java Server Pages, XML data representation, and XSL stylesheets leveraging a central database, clusterable application nodes, and thin client APIs to maximize performance and throughput. Used Java Secure Sockets Extension and Java Cryptographic Extension to secure communications and data. Implemented data authentication using secure HMAC to prevent possible data tampering such as Man-in-the-Middle or Replay Attacks. Acted as the Engineering representative for Sales for large domestic and international customers, including assisting in relationship management and traveling overseas to present solutions and answer technical questions for customers. Worked closely with Marketing to derive customer requirements, Quality Assurance to release stable products, and Support to quickly resolve customer issues.Simultaneously led multiple cross-functional teams consisting of developers, technical writers, and quality assurance engineers to release products within compressed timeframes.Served as Senior Software Engineer for multiple areas of a high-volume secure transaction processing engine that interfaces with a wide selection of financial institution backends to provide real-time online credit card purchasing and fraud detection.

Designed and implemented enterprise server software to secure online credit card transactions using the Secure Electronic Transaction payer authentication protocol developed jointly by Visa and MasterCard.Interacted closely with Product Management, Quality Assurance, Customer Support, and Professional Services to constantly improve the quality of products and meet customer needs and expectations.Designed and implemented APIs to integrate common web merchant solutions with the SET electronic payment server. Implemented solutions in C++, Java, and .COM, providing access to the API through a wide variety of technologies including CGI, Servlets, Java Server Pages, and Active Server Pages.Responsible for web-based interface and client/server messaging of electronic payment server using Java Servlets, Java Server Pages, and XML.