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New York, NY, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

The OCI Data Services organization provides turnkey access to various popular open-source tools for doing more with—and learning more about—data stored in the cloud. I lead the development of OCI Cache with Redis, a managed-service in-memory cache which launched globally in October 2023. In addition, I am responsible for the operational posture of the.

Austin, Texas, US

Owned the publishing and 24/7 support of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure public documentation, a highly-available, distributed service with a 99.99% uptime SLA. Built and deployed a continuous delivery toolchain to support various types, sources, and owners of content while producing a single cohesive documentation corpus. Led the OCI content strategy team.

San Jose, CA, US

Integrated Piston engineering staff with the pre-existing Cisco Metacloud engineering team. Leader of three engineering efforts within the Cloud Platform Services Group: front end user portal, bare metal deployment automation, and control plane service (Kubernetes) orchestration. Doubled team size to twenty-one engineers via targeted hiring both locally.

San Francisco, CA, US

Oversaw the engineering team responsible for the operating-system-layer development of Piston’s distribution of OpenStack. Created on-boarding process for new engineers which reduced ramp-up time from weeks to days. Ran a scrum team of twelve local and two remote engineers. Drove hiring process to include diversity via proactive sourcing. Coordinated.

San Francisco, CA, US

Integrated IPMI power operations into Piston deployment architecture. Added SSL security to all services in Piston Enterprise OpenStack clouds. Added single-button upgrade capability through the Horizon-based GUI. Mentored junior engineers with daily pairing sessions.

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

Designed a flexible test automation framework that would accommodate new test development while continuing to facilitate execution of existing frameworks and scripts, regardless of the original language/technology used. Implemented the framework itself in Python, focusing primarily on the state-machine execution engine. Provided, in both Python and Perl.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Designed universal test execution framework for use by then entire 1,000+ person QE staff across all global locations. Designed and developed a cross-platform test harness using open-source STAF and internal product APIs to facilitate automated testing of VMware’s flagship products (ESX, Workstation, and Fusion), using both Python and Perl. Developed a BAT.

San Mateo, California, US

Contracted to Sony Computer Entertainment America’s Format QA Online Department. Tested network connectivity, DNAS authentication, and online gameplay for various titles. As co-lead on several titles, assisted the lead analyst with completion of “Day 1” and comprehensive checklists, as well as assignment and supervision of other QA analysts assigned to the.

Haverhill, MA, US

PHP and Perl programmer responsible for e-commerce web sites reselling client products manufactured and fulfilled by Globalware Solutions. Responsible for SSL, GnuPG, CyberCash, and VeriSign PayFlow integration with Apache and Netscape web servers on a Solaris 7 platform, and IIS web servers on NT4. Developed and maintained web-based tools (both internal.

London, GB

Technical manager for the editorial staff of the KnowZone web portal. Using Perl and JavaScript, built a web-based development tool for the creation and editing of lesson data. Coordinated subcontractors on the creation of Shockwave games, and integrated them with Java, HTML, and JavaScript. Defined technical requirements and HTML/JavaScript programming.

Performed Sun Solaris and PC Linux server installations, configurations, and repairs at client sites, in both a maintenance and emergency capacity. Assessed clients' current network infrastructure and security and made recommendations for both short- and long-term improvement, including sendmail upgrades, router load distributions, Checkpoint Firewall.

Supported network of Solaris, SunOS, Windows NT, Linux, and HP-UX workstations and servers for the Distributed Systems (QoS) research group. Made hardware and software purchases for Solaris servers, Linux servers, Windows NT servers, and Windows NT workstations. Initiated ongoing dialogue between department system administrators and the corporate.

CGI/Perl programmer and graphic designer for the web development arm of TIAC. Met with sales staff and clients to assess the clients' needs prior to construction of web sites. Created and maintained the company intranet for storing client information, tracking project status, and providing a company-wide knowledge base.