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Draper, UT, US

Chicago, Illinois, US

Kin Insurance is a tech-driven home insurance company that provides personalized, affordable coverage for homeowners in disaster-prone areas through a seamless, direct-to-consumer model.

Seattle, Washington, US

Scaled data infrastructure, reducing costs by 40% while enabling self-service analytics for 15+ teams. Led a $MM migration to Databricks, improving data lakehouse architecture and real-time processing. Mentored engineering teams, driving a 20% reduction in average lead time.

New York, New York, US

Managed a global team of 45+ engineers to improve real-time scoring systems, increasing customer retention by 20%. Drove cost reductions and enhanced data infrastructure with Kafka and Databricks, cutting costs by 20% and launching innovative data-driven risk models.

Draper, UT, US

Define the vision, strategy and continuous value delivery of Pluralsight's analytics experiences.Coach, mentor, and guide the cross-functional (product management, product design, and software engineering) teams that build and support the company's analytics domain.Assemble, recruit, hire, and manage cross-functional teams of product managers, product.

Draper, UT, US

My team creates and implements architectures that handle mixed, high concurrency workloads from a heterogeneous user base who is always hungry for data! As a result, we get to work on a pretty awesome portfolio of rewarding projects.For instance, Hydra is an open source, reactive, asynchronous, distributed, real-time Data Ingestion Platform. A.

San Antonio, Texas, US

I had the privilege to work on several high profiles projects and learn from stellar co-workers, while being part of an amazing work culture and environment.I started by providing technical leadership to the Rackspace Cloud Identity team, a RESTful API providing customers and Rackers secure authentication and authorization capabilities.

Bristol, CT, US

Led a small team of software engineers and graphic designers to build a multi-tiered platform to assist with the real-time collection, storage and analysis of basketball data.The software was designed specifically for ESPN's basketball announcers to capture play-by-play data as the game was taking place. Needless to say, it was a lot of fun to.

Lake Buena Vista, Florida, US

Team lead for the Mobile Magic project, the first mobile application built by Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, created in a partnership with Verizon Wireless. The application, the first of its kind in both the mobile and entertainment industries, featured real-time notifications, GPS driven content, attractions and fast pass wait times, character meeting.

Santa Clara, CA, US

Had the unique opportunity to work with a stellar team in creating one of the most popular and technologically advanced open source B.I. tools available in the market today.I spent a good deal of my time working with the Pentaho Data Integration (Kettle) platform, where I designed and implemented several enhancements while working closely with the open.

Led a mid-sized engineering team through the many perils and pitfalls of building a multimillion-dollar software platform from the ground up at an early stage startup.Servant leader of a team of passionate and hard-at-work Java ninjas, back in the day when writing remote and local interfaces for EJBs was all the rage, WebSphere was one of the top.

I was a senior engineer part of a team tasked with the daunting challenge of rewriting the company’s e-learning software platform from Dynascript to Java, which turned out to be a huge learning and humbling experience for us all. Things didn't always look bright but we in the end we prevailed!Also implemented a custom reports engine, increasing company’s.

Masters, Business Administration

B.S., Molecular Biology

Bachelors, Computer Science