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Seattle, Washington, US

Seattle, Washington, US

Seattle, WA, US

• Handled all aspects of HITRUST r2 compliance for DexCare.
• Responsible for all software security aspects, including security scans, security-focused design reviews, threat and risk analysis, and partnering with internal teams to address found issues.
• Partnered with external penetration testing vendors for periodic tests.
• Responsible for all software CI/CD and GitOps practices, including the evolution of the infrastructure stack.
• Responsible for all customer and internal facing cloud operations and site reliability engineering, including AWS, Azure, and Kubernetes clusters.
• Responsible for all IT Operations, including on- and off-boarding of employees, Azure Active Directory, single sign-on, GitHub, and a variety of other business tools (excluding Salesforce and HR systems).

Seattle, WA, US

• Responsible for all things software reliability, from infrastructure and operations to testing, security, compliance, and technical operations.
• Responsible for hiring and growing various engineer roles of varying levels to support the organizational mission.
• Responsible for the design direction and breakdown of work to incorporate a shared tenancy model for customer-facing infrastructure.
• Managed an approximate $2M budget for all customer and internal facing infrastructure.

Seattle, WA, US

• Responsible for all things software reliability, from infrastructure and operations to testing, security, compliance, and technical operations.
• Responsible for hiring and growing various engineer roles of varying levels to support the organizational mission.
• Responsible for the design, implementation, and rollout of a multi-region architecture to support 99.99+% uptime goals, including global Redis and PostgreSQL clusters, Kubernetes clusters, and region-based load.
• Managed an approximate $1.75M budget for all customer and internal facing infrastructure.

Renton, WA, US

• Responsible for the AWS and Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure for what is now the DexCare Platform.
• Responsible for the reduction of the 2019 annual cloud operational costs at the Digital Innovation Group by over $250K.
• Developing best practices around operations, incident management, and software development.
• Establishing infrastructure selection for next-generation products.

Seattle, WA, US

• Owning tier-0 service in EC2 Nitro responsible for vending customer metrics on instance utilization and logs for internal usage.
• Planning technical roadmap for the service to allow for EC2 Nitro growth.
• Responsible for finalizing and delivering the Optimize CPU feature in EC2.
• Responsible for transitioning Xen-based EC2 stack to European teams.

Seattle, WA, US

• Responsible for setting the company-wide vision and directing the efforts for internal tools, engineering infrastructure, continuous integration, and code quality tooling.
• Responsible for driving all the software testing efforts ranging from micro-controller and Linux-based firmware, to.net and Java-based SDKs, to web-based enterprise software in Java and AngularJS.
• Establishing user experience engagement across all software deliverables within the company.
• Setting the vision and initial efforts for building the third-party developer experience.
• Integrated quality and testing within development teams to foster cross-functional quality ownership.
• Successfully advocated for teams to adopt Agile methodologies including Scrum, Kanban, and Lean.

Seattle, WA, US

• Worked as part of an effective leadership team to develop quality and DevOps practices to grow Impinj.
• Responsible for firmware and RFID compliance engineering tooling and testing.
• Architected and built modern internal regulatory and over-the-air protocol compliance test workbench.
• Unified engineering automation hardware allowing the entire software team to utilize as a single pool through API and web access. Think “hardware as a service”.
• Led team of 6 engineers.

• Identified and built technology strategy for a relationship quiz application.
• Built initial version using Go for backend service and AngularJS+Bootstrap for frontend.
• Deployed application onto Google Cloud Platform AppEngine.

Hawthorne, California, US

• Responsible for introducing Agile methodologies within Flight Software to facilitate on-time delivery on multiple rigorous delivery schedules.
• Worked with cross-functional leaders and NASA to identify testing for mouse life support system on Dragon CRS-4 mission.
• Identified and delivered on the test matrix in coordination with NASA for Falcon and Dragon missions prior to other missions.
• Responsible for recruiting and hiring decisions for engineers focused on testing flight software.
• Led team of 10 engineers.

Seattle, WA, US

• Responsible for developing end-to-end integration test plan for first generation Amazon Echo.
• Worked across various geographically distributed Agile teams to identify use cases and priorities for music, shopping, and "to-do" experiences on Echo.
• Directed efforts around mobile app testing on Android and iOS for extended Echo experiences.
• Architected and built end-to-end integration test lab including custom enclosures for playback of use cases from internal user studies.
• Led team of 10 engineers.

Redmond, Washington, US

• Responsible for setting the test direction and strategy as well as hiring and growing the test and engineering tools team for Kinect for Windows.
• Established rigorous quality standards for the engineering team, including static analysis, unit testing, model-based testing, user experience testing, and kernel driver fuzzing.
• Designed and built custom hardware devices to facilitate testing.
• Introduced continuous integration testing with hardware within the team.
• Led team of 10 engineers.

Redmond, Washington, US

Responsible for the testing efforts for some of the tools and infrastructure of the Windows Runtime (WinRT) in Windows 8. This includes responsibilities for the midlrt compiler and the Windows Metadata infrastructure.

Redmond, Washington, US

Shipped Windows 7 owning the quality and test direction for the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) and DirectWrite (DWrite). Owned the relationship with camera manufacturers driving improving quality of camera RAW CODECs for Windows. Represented Microsoft at the Metadata Working Group (MWG) in both a technical and management function. On the technical side.

Redmond, Washington, US

Shipped Windows Vista and.NET Framework 3.0 owning the quality and test direction for the Windows Imaging Component (WIC) and Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Effects, Media, Imaging. Co-authored a number of patent applications around metadata handling within the Windows Imaging Component. Setup the first security fuzzing lab of its nature within the.

Redmond, Washington, US

Tested a handful of features within what is now the Windows Presentation Foundation around effects and imaging. This included a variety of testing methodologies including functional unit level tests, stress testing, performance testing, and applying the latest model-based testing approaches to ensure that the features were tested completely.

Startup company producing media related applications. Shipped mp3Toolbox which analyzed metadata, file naming, and proprietary string comparison heuristics to uniformly name and organize music.

During this timeframe, SUNY Stony Brook had just moved over to PeopleSoft. My core areas of ownership were to assist with the online student self service system. One such feature that was contributed by my efforts was the student council voting system. Additionally, I was tasked with creating an online summer school registration system that would integrate.

As undergraduate research assistant under Dr. Lawrence E. Reinstein’s supervision, integrated the latest in digital imaging technologies for quality assurance of medical linear accelerators. Investigated similar techniques for quality assurance of multi-leaf collimator systems. Work was presented at a number of Medical Physics conferences.

As SC representing Microsoft, I served the SUNY Stony Brook student, professor, and IT staff community. Primarily I engaged in demos and talks of the latest Microsoft technologies.

Master'S, Human Centered Design & Engineering

Bachelor'S, Physics, Computer Science