Engineering leader for the group that delivers big data streaming and compute technologies at scale globally for Salesforce — trillions of messages per day and many millions of jobs per month.

Experimental open source business with an LLC as a holder for CLAs and other legal/corporate infrastructure behind several of the most popular open source Java projects: Jackson (fast, correct streaming JSON processor) and Woodstox (fast, correct streaming XML parser).

Founded and grew a data-focused product development consultancy. Worked with entrepreneurs, mid-to-large software and software-as-a-service vendors, and end user companies at all stages of the product and organizational lifecycle to turn data and cutting-edge technology into great customer experiences. Created a culture of highly effective small teams and reusable software stacks to bring together search, machine learning, NoSQL, data pipelines, and stream processing systems using public cloud and open source (Dropwizard, Postgres, Spark, Luigi, Kafka, Storm, scikit-learn, Solr, and Elasticsearch) running on the Public Cloud.Company was acquired by Salesforce.

Prototyped the creation and delivery of reusable data analysis services built on Java, distributed technologies, and R and backed by a distributed, collaborative group of practitioners in machine learning, statistics, data management, and visualization.Refreshed the group of collaborators and folded this business back into Multifarious, Inc. as of January 2011.

Responsible for initiatives related to how Amazon receives and disperses funds within the US and abroad.

Cross-functional, entrepreneurial executive role with responsibilities that shift across the spectrum: overall strategy/vision, evangelism, sales, corporate culture, product marketing, recruiting, management, and fundraising/investor relations.Built and shipped two Java middleware products with 50+ licensees in the US and Japan. The core technology from the second product was the foundation for the the Apache ODE project.Won Delolitte & Touche Chicagoland Technology Fast 50 "Rising Star" for 2003 and Chicago Software Association Rising Star for 2004.Raised seed and Series A rounds. Won DOE SBIR Phase I and Phase II grants.

Research-focused position in Department of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. Published on and developed computational techniques for working with polygons of groups and related spaces. Worked on curriculum and industry relationships (practicum) for masters degree program in industrial/applied mathematics.