Midnight is a blockchain-based platform that keeps sensitive data in the control of the owner, while respecting the need for regulatory compliance. The Midnight team believes that data protection, compliance, and transparency are essential for evolving the global digital economy.My role: consulting with senior leadership on the content and shape of Midnight's technology, especially how Midnight opens up the creation of decentralized applications to developers outside the typical blockchain and crypto communities.

Small Beautiful Software develops, promotes, and hosts several open source software projects. We also provide software consulting services.

Two main roles at Cisco:1. Analysis of technology trends, companies, and opportunities, including: ● diligence operations for investments and acquisitions ● the development of corporate technology strategy ● providing unbiased (outside the business units) perspective to senior leaders2. Creation and leadership of advanced technology projects, especially: ● applying language-based and tool-based approaches ● delivering higher (and more repeatable) quality at lower cost ● creating scalable control planes and management ● engaging with academic communities

Architected multi-tier web-based risk management software for SAS Institute.Working directly with executives and senior management at top-tier financial institutions, designed and implemented an industry-leading multidimensional security and approval-chain system that is simultaneously simple-to-understand, highly expressive, and very scalable.In the supporting layers of the same software, created an innovative object-relational bridge between application and databases, with compile-time checking of the correspondence between the code and the data model, providing strong guarantees about data integrity and auditability.The resulting product, OpRisk Monitor, was ranked by analysts as one of the best solutions for managing operational risk across an enterprise.

Served in several capacities in the Storage Networking Division. ● Designed specialized storage solutions for large corporate customers. ● Delivered a high-reliability distributed system for resource and topology discovery on storage-area networks. ● Crafted the system architecture for an experimental high-performance, high-availability Linux-based storage product. ● Achieved significant performance gains in Linux's multiprocessor performance through improved lock handling in the Linux kernel NFS server.

Member of the Reliametrics Group at Nortel Networks: ● Analyzed and evaluated telecommunications systems ● Reported on systemic flaws in design and implementation ● Recommended corrections and improvements in system architecture ● Developed new transformations and automated analyses for large-scale software