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Vancouver, WA, US

Portland, Oregon, US

Portland, OR, US

Denver, CO, US

San Francisco, California, US

As the Head of Engineering for an agency ambitious to become a self-service platform, I worked to support the Data Science team through excellence in engineering practices. As we were a small organization with limited resources, I took a player/coach approach, building one leg of the new system myself.* Hired and managed a small team (1 front-end, 1 data).

New York, US

As part of the Flex "startup-within-a-startup", I worked to help the company explore the opportunities around contingent employment, in order to expand its reach, grow revenue, and establish a more versatile base in a changing economy.* Built integrations for the #1 and #2 VMS vendors (platforms used by employers that utilize large numbers of contingent.

San Francisco, CA, US

Provisioning Team* Streamlined "User Access Request" process, reducing the amount of complexity for users and making the system easier to iterate on* Led "How we Role" effort to implement RBAC mechanisms, manageable by individual team leads * Previous system was ad-hoc, involving Jira tickets and manual effort * LDAP roles were not feasible for individual.

(Exit: Acquired by SurveyMonkey.)As the sole DevOps/security engineer, I was responsible for the maintenance and operation of a high-traffic, consumer-use VPN at the heart of the business. This VPN gathered 50+GiB/day of consumer network traffic, recorded to S3 as PCap files.* Formalized and automated construction of VPN instances * Started with 2 ad-hoc.

San Francisco, California, US

* Implemented major BI improvements, improving our A/B testing capabilities and enabling much more aggressive SEM efforts* Prototyped second-generation repair price estimator * Improved ETL load times from 2 hours to 70 seconds (for 1.5GiB of source data) while extracting much more information * Simplified architectural model from earlier prototype.

(Exit: Acquired by Apptio.)Implemented first-generation system to gather, analyze, and report on large volumes of billing data (4TiB in first two years of operation, 8TiB within six months thereafter) representing over US$500m of our customers' cloud spending.Proved viability of concept, enabling company to raise US$1.25m in seed funding, and US$8.7m.

Responsible for guiding transition to AWS (EC2, RDS, S3) for second-generation e-commerce platform, and providing tactical support/expertise for Linux and MySQL.* Built management tools to facilitate cloud-based development, testing, formal QA, staging, and production workflows using Rake and Fog* Designed and implemented Chef-based systems management.

* Designed and produced When Orcs Attack video game using Unity3D engine * Performed principal coding of the game in C# * Leading 5 contractors producing art and some code* Developed Hordes of Orcs video game using Unity3D engine, working with publisher to meet a demanding schedule, while maintaining high standards for product excellence* Designed and.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

BidSystem Team* Designed/implemented/launched PHP shared-nothing web service used to integrate disparate business units in just 20 days after C++-based predecessor hit massive scaling wall* New service handled 18x as many requests/sec on the same hardware* Maintained/developed service over much of its lifecycle, maintaining strict SLA (99% of requests.

As co-founder of Netblue, I developed and maintained a highly profitable promotional marketing platform through its full lifecycle: Design, implementation, maintenance/evolution, and retirement five years later.Most significantly, I conceived, designed, implemented, and drove adoption of MySQL-based data warehouse to improve reporting performance and.

US

* Maintained and assisted in development of Perl-based back-end architecture of flagship web-based e-mail system handling more than 12,000,000 mailboxes for 600,000 domains.* Designed, implemented, and provided on-site customer support for "iL" product which provided larger partner sites a cross-site single-sign-on capability allowing the user to log in.

* Developed many of the underlying technologies powering consumer and client-facing web application, including user-customization engine.* Developed many novel and useful features to help set us apart from the competition, including resume "searchability" analysis tool.* Planned design track for future versions of architecture and applications.* Optimized.