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San Mateo, California, US

Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JP

Created a tutorial for getting started with the Authlete APIs in Java.

San Mateo, California, US

Enhancing and extending StreamSets' Salesforce integration.

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

• Hired to lead Citrix' evangelism to its community of technical professionals.
• Initiated the Citrix 'community lab' project. Worked with engineering and product management to deliver the initial private pilot. Defined requirements for and announced public pilot.
• Grew attendance to the Citrix Converge online developer conference over tenfold from 2019 to 2021.
• Created and delivered developer-focused content via technical articles, blog posts, hackathons, webinars and both internal and external conference sessions, reaching thousands of technical professionals.

San Mateo, California, US

• Hired as employee #20. Evangelized StreamSets in the data engineering community and cultivated ongoing relationships with the community.
• Coordinated evangelism and community growth with product, marketing, engineering, and sales teams.
• Drove web traffic via technical writing on data integration on the StreamSets blog and elsewhere.
• Presented at Dreamforce, Hadoop Summit, Spark Summit, GraphConnect, Cassandra Summit, RedisConf, In-Memory Computing Summit and GlueCon.
• Revitalized the StreamSets YouTube channel, adding hundreds of subscribers and thousands of views.
• Implemented Salesforce connectivity in StreamSets Data Collector, functionality now deployed in production at dozens of StreamSets customers.

San Francisco, California, US

• Senior member of the developer evangelism team, working primarily with product management to promote the Salesforce Platform.
• Covered the range of Salesforce Platform technologies, with particular focus on identity, integration and Internet of Things, via conferences, webinars, technical writing and developer workshops.
• Managed more than twenty Dreamforce breakout sessions each year, from approval through review to presentation as a key member of the Developer Zone team.
• Owned the Internet of Things ‘cabin’ at Dreamforce 2015, bringing together exhibits from a dozen vendors, plus tutorial workshops and sponsor booths.
• Mentored new evangelists entering the profession, giving 1:1 support and feedback.

Seaside, CA, US

Taught a 1 unit course, 'CST 495: Enterprise App Development in the Cloud using Salesforce', for two semesters.

Shenzhen, Guangdong, CN

Member of the New Generation Data Center (cloud computing) team. Focused initially on cloud security, then cloud storage infrastructure. Implemented Linux kernel drivers in C.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Community lead for Sun's open source identity projects.My main focus was the care, feeding and promotion of open source identity at Sun, including OpenSSO (http://opensso.org/), OpenDS (http://opends.org/) and Identity Connectors (http://identityconnectors.org/). My responsibilities ran the gamut from writing and reviewing code through product architecture.

Palo Alto, CA, US

My main responsibility was Sun's OpenSSO project - from nurturing the developer community to writing code.I was also responsible for representing Sun's identity management engineering team with customers, partners and standards bodies - primarily Microsoft and the Liberty Alliance. I regularly wrote technical articles for a variety of publications and.

Palo Alto, CA, US

I was responsible for setting the technical direction for Sun Java System Access Manager. This included working with customers to determine their requirements, communicating those requirements to other departments within Sun, formulating product strategy, and supporting the sales force as a subject matter expert.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Responsible for technical direction of iPlanet Trustbase Transaction Manager and then Sun ONE Meta-Directory. As in my subsequent role, this included determining customer requirements, working with other departments within Sun, formulating product strategy, and supporting the sales force.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Managed a team of 6 engineers working on the Trustbase Java framework and the Identrus 'Eleanor' Internet payment system.

I managed a team of 6 engineers working on a Java framework for secure Internet messaging. Trustbase implemented XML messaging, digital signatures, transport security and a message routing engine.JCP was acquired by Sun Microsystems Inc in January 2000. All JCP staff became employees of Sun Microsystems UK, Ltd. The main JCP product 'Trustbase' became.

Designed and implemented charting/technical analysis applications for the financial industry. The software was written in C and C++, running on a wide variety of hardware at first, but later focussing on MS Windows.

Designed and implemented CAD/CAM systems for the sheet metal cutting industry in C and C++ on MS Windows. Really interesting work - lots of graphics and mathematics - and I got to see huge cutting machines driven by my software, cutting complex shapes from sheet steel.

Joined GA Life as a trainee programmer straight from university. Worked on the Advanced Technology Life Assurance System (ATLAS) project, using COBOL and a proprietary 4GL on DB2 on MVS/ESA. Promoted to 'full' programmer role shortly before leaving.

Bsc (Hons), Computer Science

Postgraduate Diploma, Computing For Commerce And Industry

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