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Redwood City, Ca, Us

Responsible for a suite of hosted services that power in-game experiences for EA’s largest and most successful franchises. The services enable rich and engaging gameplay loops such as player to player transactions, player rewards, and in-game storefronts.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Principal Technical Product / Program Manager on the 343 Core Services team that owns the cloud services that all Halo games past, present and future are built upon. The systems we build power a wide range of experiences like character customization, multiplayer, challenges, user generated content, player stats, and more.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for the Azure status page, Azure Service Health, and Azure Resource Health, a cloud-based set of services that surface the health, availability, and maintenance of Azure services in general as well as individual customer cloud resources. • Accountable for design, specification, and prioritization of service health features, including UI and API surfaces.• Accountable for growth and adoption of the services, encompassing external users, onboarding internal partners, and driving integration with other Azure services and experiences.• Responsible for defining and meeting service KPIs and SLOs, including business and QOS metrics.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

The Electronic Arts Digital Platform (EADP) Marketplace team is responsible for developing a cross-game, cross-platform digital economy system. We build RESTful services that power the virtual-economies of EA’s network of games and enable game experiences for millions of monthly active users. Specific responsibilities include:• Design and specification of virtual economy features including currency, inventory, store, and accounts.• Design and specification of Marketplace admin service APIs and features to manage the service at scale.• Leading customer virtual economy design sessions.• Prioritization of Marketplace features by balancing customer requests, market trends, and the need to innovate.

Worldwide, Oo

Responsible for the core cloud platform capabilities supporting use of public cloud providers such as Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure, including deployment toolsets and collateral, configuration standards, logging, connectivity, and platform monitoring. Specific responsibilities include:• Building and leading a team of cloud architects and engineers responsible for the development and buildout of Deloitte’s core public cloud environments.• Assisting product teams with capacity planning, cloud service selection, and high availability strategies.• Reviewing public cloud service offerings and creating deployment artifacts (required and recommended configuration settings, provisioning templates, etc.) for approved services.• Design, development, and deployment of automated configuration management tooling to ensure initial and ongoing environment consistency as well as compliance with cloud service configuration standards.• Collaborating with other engineering, networking, and controls teams to ensure cloud environments meet firm standards while providing a user experience with minimal IT interactions.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Working in the core virtual machine resource platform in Microsoft Azure, specifically on REST interfaces to deploy and manage virtual machines, as well as the developer and IT Pro experiences for Microsoft Azure virtual machines. The Azure Compute platform enables several types of on-demand, scalable cloud computing resources including virtual machines, virtual machine scale sets, and container services. Additional responsibilities include:• Partnering with engineering and marketing to develop strategy and drive investments in the control plane of the Azure Virtual Machines service.• Ensuring that the Azure Compute APIs meet the needs of external customers, partners, and internal teams.• Leading the Azure compute engagement within the hybrid cloud strategy of Azure and Azure Stack.• Working with customers, ISVs, and partners to understand business challenges and needs from the public cloud.• Delivering executive briefings on Azure compute.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Azure DocumentDB is a fully-managed, highly-scalable, NoSQL document database service designed from the ground up to natively support JSON and JavaScript directly inside the database engine. It’s the right solution for web and mobile applications when predictable throughput, low latency, and flexible query are key.My areas of responsibility included manageability, consistency, data migration, portal user interface, capacity and demand planning, and DocumentDB's protocol support for MongoDB.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for providing technical specifications and feature leadership for Microsoft-based private and hybrid cloud solutions.• Designed, developed and released numerous Virtual Machine Role gallery items to accelerate Windows Azure Pack usage.• Designed, developed and released numerous Virtual Machine Manager service templates to accelerate System Center 2012 R2 usage.• Authored a Virtual Machine role creation video series in lieu of documentation to accelerate community and customer virtual machine role authoring activities.• Led testing and design change efforts for the Virtual Machine Role authoring tool resulting in a stable first release.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Senior program manager responsible for various Azure-based cloud services which enable features and online experiences for the Halo 4 and Halo: Reach video games• Led design and specification of RESTful cloud services for several Halo-related features and experiences.• Contributed to design and review of various cloud backend storage designs including NoSQL solutions such Windows Azure Tables.• Responsible for the UGC (User Generated Content) suite of services for Halo 4. The services provide for upload, download, recommendation, tagging and search of end user generated content (over 5 million artifacts within the first 6 months).• Ensured UGC service APIs satisfied requirements of various Halo clients such as the Waypoint web site, Waypoint Xbox console application and Waypoint mobile application, preventing unnecessary API duplication.• Responsible for design and specification of various Halo game admin service APIs for Halo-related administration and sustain features.• Managed multiple scrum teams working in an agile environment to regularly release new and updated feature sets.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Responsible for providing technical specifications and feature leadership for Microsoft System Center solutions including Virtual Machine Manager and Application Controller.• Responsible for multiple differentiating feature areas of Virtual Machine Manager 2012 including:- VMM Services: Model and deploy multi-machine distributed systems including OS specialization requirements, application deployment, lifecycle management and service elasticity (scale out).- Dynamic Optimization: Automatically optimize virtual machine distribution within Hyper-V, VMware and Citrix XenServer clusters.- Power Optimization: Automatically consolidate virtual machine workloads within a cluster during specified time periods and power off unnecessary physical hosts.- Intelligent Placement: Provide host and private cloud ratings for virtual machine deployment taking account of virtual machine requirements and available host capabilities.- Application Deployment: Deploy and configure Web Deploy, Server App-V, SQL data tier applications and arbitrary scripts to virtual machines and physical servers.- Monitoring integration with System Center Operations Manager: Populate and maintain information about VMM managed artifacts (e.g. virtual machines, hosts, services) to Operations Manager and provide default health monitors, performance metrics and trending reports.• Led design and specification of Multi-Cloud Management (VMM-based private clouds and the Azure public cloud) and Role Based Access control features of System Center Application Controller.• Led design and specification of Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 SP1 support for Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX features of Hyper-V.• Responsible for numerous TAP customers to facilitate early adoption, solicit feedback and work through deployment issues encountered by customer.• Responsible for technical speaking engagement at Microsoft events including MMS, Tech-Ed North America, Tech-Ed Europe and TechReady.

Worldwide, Oo

Working within the Chief Technology Office, key duties are to provide technical direction, thought leadership, technology roadmaps, and in-depth expertise in the research and deployment of emerging technology solutions for Deloitte’s current and future information technology systems and services. Responsible for reviewing proposed and existing IT projects to recommend appropriate, proven technologies and contributing to the definition of timetables for new technical aspects of projects.

Worldwide, Oo

Manager of a team of Senior Systems Engineers responsible for the evaluation, design and implementation of shared application hosting environments as well as associated support systems and operations management toolsets. Additional responsibilities included architecture reviews development of consistent standards, benchmarks and guidelines for infrastructure services.

Senior developer for the company’s Driver Log Management software. The online driver log system completely automates driver log maintenance and processing and provides 24/7 web-based access to every record.

New York, Ny, Us

Lead Research and Development engineer and senior developer for the company’s automated provisioning software providing web based provisioning and management of multiple customers, users, and resellers within a shared hosting environment.

Asker, Asker, No

Lead Engineer for the company’s premier service offerings. Responsibilities include product research, architectural design and development for implementation in a hosted environment.

Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Political Theory

B.S., Philosophy