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Seattle, WA, US

Redmond, Washington, US

Solving massive-scale cloud service engineering challenges for the Identity division in Microsoft Security, focusing on resiliency architectures, patterns and best practices.

Redmond, Washington, US

Recruited to hire and build an all new engineering organization with Microsoft Security's Identity and Network Access division. Managed Engineering and Program Management teams focused on Reliability, Resilience, Service Delivery, and LiveSite Operations.

Los Angeles, CA, US

As the first engineer at Instil (formerly DotOrg) I worked with the CTO to determine our software architecture and technical philosophy and wrote the massive majority of the code for the first ~8 months of the company until we started hiring additional engineers.Instil runs on AWS using a serverless-first approach, built using Python and DynamoDB running.

Grey Lake provided a platform for brands to source high quality custom photographs of their products at locations all around the world for a fraction of the cost of typical commercial photography engagements.As CTO I built and maintained the tech platform and the backend supporting systems all hosted on AWS Lambda (Python), API Gateway and DynamoDB with.

Whilst immersing myself in Blockchain technology, throughout 2018 I worked on site at the Science offices in Santa Monica as a Technical Advisor on Blockchain investment opportunities.In 2018 I founded a Blockchain based technology startup and developed a product concept inthe gaming/sweepstakes space.

With the acquisition of AOL by Verizon the Gravity team was moved into the larger Content Services organization. Reporting to the AOL CTO I managed multiple geographically dispersed Engineering teams for the new Athena Content Services organization which encompassed the Gravity team, Amp team, Relegence team and ContentHub team for a total of about 60.

Gravity was a startup in the Ad-Tech space whose mission was to personalize the internet by understanding people's interests and creating more relevant experiences for them. Gravity was acquired by AOL in 2014 for $90M.At Gravity I managed the Engineering and Ops teams, doubling the Engineering team's size as we grew our customer base. I also took on some.

Glendale, CA, US

Ptch was a Dreamworks Animation funded Mobile App, eventually acquired by Yahoo in 2013.At Ptch I was employee #5, I hired and managed the engineering team which wrote all the app APIs and built the app's website. I was also hands-on designing, building and maintaining the application infrastructure entirely built from scratch using AWS. I also acted as.

Palo Alto, CA, US

As a VP in the Cloud Services Business Unit at HP, I reported into the Cloud Services GM as part of the Cloud Services Executive Team. I hired Datacenter, Systems, Security and Network Managers and Engineers and built out the entire Ops team as well as inheriting some personnel from the Cloud Services Engineering organization and from other divisions.

Providing technical and leadership advice to startups and other established companies looking to build out or scale up their IT infrastructure, specializing in managing growth and building for massive scale for server, network, storage and datacenter operations.Clients included Zag.com/Truecar, Cerelink & Taser International.

Beverly Hills, CA, US

Reporting to the CTO as VP of Technical Operations I oversaw the majority of MySpace's Infrastructure including all 10,000+ Windows/Linux servers, all storage systems, all Network and all Datacenters (varying from 8 to 13 concurrent collocations at different times.) I also planned the majority of MySpace's Capital Expenditure budgets ($100M+) and all IT.

El Segundo, CA, US

At Stamps.com I was with the company prior to the launch of the service, for their IPO and their survival of the.com crash and through to profitability. When I left as IT Manager I ran all Production IT Operations and Corporate IT. Stamps.com is a 24x7 Internet Service with hundreds of thousands of paying subscribers where uptime is of course critical, as.