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Seattle, Wa, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

Responsible for all New Product Development at Hitachi Solutions, including our Data and Analytics stack (Empower), a number of incubating Azure Solutions and high impact organizational tools. Operating at the intersection of data, modern cloud application design, and machine learning, our team's mandate is to deliver outsized results for our customers and firm.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Commanding wide expertise across the entire Azure stack, and with a fantastic team behind me, I help drive customer success through leadership in technology, people, and process. A laser-focus on delivery excellence and delighting customers has led to significant growth for our organization.- Successfully led teams to deliver, and build IP for, complex data estates in Azure on the leading edge of the platform's capability.- Shattered 17-year corporate sales records on deal volume and size, and drove over $40MM in year 1 revenue for Hitachi's Azure Cloud organization.

Irvine, Ca, Us

Responsible for leading teams in evaluating, architecting, and delivering cutting edge cloud architectures, primarily on Azure. Delivered first-of-its-kind hyper-scale data ingestion and dissemination systems involving modern ELT patterns, high-performance processing, MPP, modern application development, data warehousing, eventing architecture, ML, and more. In addition to client work, assembled a team to propose and build an impactful product in the data-lake space. With the support of an executive steering committee, and in coordination with Microsoft and other partner firms, the team is on track to be first to market with a disruptive data technology; an example of the opportunity to be gained at the intersection of application development and big data.

Endless Tone was an e-commerce company in the musical instruments space. Grew team of engineers, raised a seed round, launched a series of data aggregation pipelines, and iterated on an MVP.

Created a federally registered bitcoin services company, facilitating $5MM in transaction volume across 2,000 customers in the early days of the bitcoin market.

Founded consulting firm that offered distributed denial of service (DDOS) mitigation for small business, generating six figure revenues weeks into launch, and OI >$500k. Our ASIO reverse proxy technology allowing the company to maintain unchallenged for 18 months and disrupted the SMC market.

Fort Washington, Pa, Us

Proposed and managed a six-month requirements and technical planning project to replace multiple existing CRM systems for a growing SMC firm. Oversaw and developed software to unify existing business processes into the force.com cloud platform.

Developed enterprise software that enables multiple physical servers to jointly host massive-multiplayer worlds. ObsidianCraft was founded to exemplify this system and itself accrued 2.8 million days of gameplay, and $500k of ARR. Our work is now available through open-source projects (spigot and related plugins).

I have always been fascinated by the potential of viral marketing. I created Facebook apps that offered trivial information (shocking stories, interesting research, cool science) in exchange for users answering a short survey before they can access the information they desired. This information was then collected and ultimately sold to a marketing firm.

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science & Buisness

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Financial Accounting