Leading Product, Engineering and Design at Gitpod

Architected the next generation Slack Platform: an integrated, composable, workflow centric hosting platform that enabled developers to empower "builders" to serve users. Lead the development of a new hosting service for code execution and data storage, UX, a new SDK and CLI from initial concept to production with tight executive collaboration.

Reimagined Missions, created Workflow Builder. Denver office site lead, lead most of API Platform engineering between San Francisco, Denver, Vancouver and New York.

Missions is a messaging centric workflow system that helps coordinate people to get work done across your entire business.In 2017, the team pivoted from Beep Boop, a ridiculously simple bot hosting platform for Slack and Facebook Messenger.

Robots and Pencils is a talent-first strategy, design and development firm focused on creating what’s next by leveraging frontier technologies.

Created HigherEd Labs, an intrapreneurial program focused on improving the life of the learner through experimentation and incubation of transformative innovation in Higher Education. Anyone in the Pearson Higher Ed product and technology organization may pitch and champion an idea; lean startup inspired projects are funded by an internal VC-style board.Managing a high powered applied research team focused social, collaborative, and cooperative learning experimentation through graph database technology (Titan), natural language processing and machine learning data science.

Responsible for many aspects of a cloud based, multi-tenant, SaaS micro-service architecture, learning platform called OpenClass including frontend architecture, our social learning platform, Google integration and cloud infrastructure. OpenClass has been adopted by more than 6500 institutions and organizations across 100+ countries. In 2012 - Pearson was named to Fast Company's "Top 10 Most Innovative Companies" based on the disruptive nature of the OpenClass offering.* Innovation trail blazer and DevOps champion and change agent* Invented and open sourced Thalassa, a continuous deployment load balancing system used extensively throughout our cloud infrastructure* Drove deployment frequency from every 4-6 weeks to multiple times per day.* Championed adoption of node.js at Pearson since 2010* Technologies include Javascript (Node.js, AngularJS, Backbone, etc.), HTML5/CSS, AWS, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra, Docker, Puppet, Websockets

Responsible for technical direction of Avalon service offerings and competency development of over 30 consultants related to development, web content management, social computing and enterprise systems. Managed partner relationships including spearheading a rapidly growing MarkLogic partnership/competencyClient Engagement Highlights:Patheos.com - led all technical aspects of new internet startup including needs and requirements assessment, technology and platform selection, development methodology and tools, applicaiton architecture and development, hosting and operations. Major components of this Cloud/SaaS based implementation were Grails, MySQL, Amazon EC2 with RightScale, Ingeniux CMS, Pluck, Google Ad Manager and Solr search server.St Jude Research Children's Hospital - built a social media fund raising microsite called TNG iGive that allowed users to share voice, vision and energy via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and the Volunteer Portal integration. Redesign and major enhancements to shop.stjude.org including a personalized tribute greeting card ordering system for mail, ecard and print cards. Built an AJAX based replacement for the major Flash donation form wizard.MarkLogic - several projects for MarkLogic Product Management and Professional Services including a custom open source web content management system framework built on top of MarkLogic server. Winner of 2010 MarkLogic Users Conference "Demojam"IntegralLife.com - 2 week rapid cloud migration of a large Drupal based web presence to Amazon EC2 with RightScale.

* Responsible for the development and architecture of the enterprise employee intranet serving 65,000 employee and custom web application development* Managed a multidisciplinary DevOps team responsible for end to end development and delivery* Introduced Agile development practices, focused on high quality fast small incremental deliveries, strong team dynamics and end to end stakeholder involvement* Winner of the 2007 Vignette Excellence Award

* Helped grow technology services consulting startup from 4 to 150 employees.* Assisted business development by meeting clients, authoring proposals, and preparing cost and schedule estimates.* Authored white papers, case studies, and internal course materials* Managed offshore development and a small team of onshore consultantsClient Engagement Highlights:4Structures, Summit Settlement Services - Lead developer of 4Structures.com and 4Structures-espanol.com website, a collaborative J2EE application that manages injury and accident cases throughout the structured settlement process. Managed the relationship with the client, provided technical consultation, managed offshore resources, and managed budget and resource allocation. PJM Interconnections - Integrated new trading partners into their wholesale electric marketplace, addressing issues of scalability by performance tuning and re-factoring critical application components. Developed the Account Information Management System, a J2EE application that centrally managed user accounts and privileges in over 100 PJM Oracle databases.Vanguard Financial Group - Lead Architect, led an effort to port an Institutional Trading Application to Websphere Application Server (WAS), drafting the corporate methodology and guidelines for the migration to Webshere. Vanguard Financial Group - Java Development Lead for the registration and account administration portion of an institutional investment trading web application. Provided guidance and technical direction to management and mentored junior team members. The J2EE application was an Institutional Trading Application built on iPlanet Application Server, DB2, and MQSeries.Drug Information Association - Business analyst for a Business and Technology Strategy Engagement for a leading non-profit, member-driven scientific association in the Pharmaceutical space.

* Lead engineer of several key components of an architecture, construction and engineering lifecycle project collaboration web application* Created a custom forms engine to enable users to create, manage and host custom HTML forms and manage data.* Implemented search functionality for tasks, calendar, documents, deliverables, and discussion threads* Developed a wireless, WAP compliant, beta-version of the app

Engineer working on one of the leading consumer credit card web applications, serving 1.2 million users and $60M in weekly payments. Redesigned the Java/CORBA security cache to optimize CORBA server connection authentication. Prototyped new architecture using XML/XSL, and RMI

* C++ engineer of a performance critical, DoD Top Secret/SCI/TS/TK intelligence system.* Product area development lead for Hierarchical Archive Manager and Factory Message and Image Generator* Presented to multiple Department of Defense agencies* Responsible for system installation and delivery along with system upgrade for domestic and international military installations