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Menlo Park, Ca, Us

* Support backbone planning and investment teams to optimize spending on backbone and data center upgrades for 6 month to 10 year planning horizon* Member of core team that designs, implements, and supports a mathematical model for optimization of backbone resiliency* Represented backbone engineering in cross-org project to incorporate disaster recovery scenarios into our backbone model - Defined new metrics to represent our risk gap - Designed and implemented the feature; drove consensus for deploying to production* Designed and implemented checkpointing and restart capability for improved reliability and significant runtime savings* Support team with design and rollout planning for major features* Initiated weekly OnCall hand-off meeting to improve issue tracking and team experience

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Acting manager as of January 2019; title changed to match responsibilities in July, 2019.* Hands-on technical manager of Mapping Strategy team, with up to 6 direct reports. My team controls the capacity allocation for Akamai’s load balancing system, overseeing 200 Tbps of peak load, and growing!* We design, implement, and operate mathematical models in linear programming solvers and other software to optimize capacity allocation according to QoS targets, platform capacity, and business objectives. * We build and maintain our own data pipelines.* I assist my team with design and troubleshooting for their tasks, and I actively participate in development and operations.* I provide direction by identifying new problems to be solved, defining new features to be developed, and managing our roadmap.* I design rollout plans for our models and features to maintain platform safety.* I participate in my team’s escalation rotation, and act as an SME or principal SME during incident response.* I work with platform engineering teams on the design of new platform capabilities, and provide feedback on what features my team needs so that we can better control the system.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Acting team lead as of January 2018; title changed to match responsibilities in April, 2018.Technical Lead of Capacity Management team, with three direct reports.* My team owns most of the capacity-related configuration for Akamai's load balancing system (Mapper), and we are responsible for capacity allocation and QoS for all products at Akamai.* I oversee development and operation of two production linear programming (LP) models which manage edge maprule capacity subject to performance and business constraints. I also oversee development of a pre-production model for managing midgress maprules, and an overhaul of our demand model.* I collaborate with various engineering teams on how my team can manage their upcoming platform enhancements or their special product requirements, and request new features that will help my team manage capacity allocation.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Member of Mapping Strategy team (informaly known as mapping operations), which owns the capacity for Mapper, Akamai's load balancing system. Our team is responsible for capacity allocation and quality of service for all edge and midgress maprules at Akamai.* I owned (maintained, operated, and developed enhancements for) a production linear programming model that manages capacity and performance for large footprint edge maprules with 15 Tbps of daily peak demand.* I participated in our team's escalation rotation, where we field internal questions about mapping quality-of-service observed on the production network, make changes to capacity allocation algorithms based on these escalations and on extensive alerting, and perform daily operations to maintain our team's capacity management software.

Lexington, Ma, Us

Research staff in Tactical Networking group. * Technical lead overseeing and participating in sponsored research programs with 3 to 10 staff.* Also participated as contributor in many sponsored and internally funded research efforts.* Project work was focused on design, prototyping, evaluation, and cross-layer optimization of wireless communication systems across network, data link, and physical layers.

Lexington, Ma, Us

This position was the result of being awarded generous funds for pursuing doctoral studies from a highly competitive staff scholarship program. Maintained active involvement in Lincoln Lab projects throughout the program.

Lexington, Ma, Us

Research staff, supporting sponsored programs for mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) radio systems.* Evaluated performance and scalability of upcoming radio systems using MAC layer models that I developed in C, Matlab, and OPNET Modeler.* Presented findings to sponsors, along with recommendations for how to improve each radio system's design.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Research faculty. Worked in the Software Radio Laboratory supporting sponsored research efforts. Developed algorithms for real-time signal processing on a multi-channel software defined radio system, and for high speed synchronous multi-channel sample capture with offline data processing for algorithm investigation and validation.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Developed post-processing algorithms for missile defense simulations. Unix system administration.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd) In Engineering, Field: Comm Theory And Networks

Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Bs, Electrical Engineering