Technical Leadership: Lead the architectural design, development, operation, and continuous improvement of Google's dynamic authorization platform. Oversee the creation of robust, scalable, low-latency authorization policies and enforcement mechanisms across Google's diverse infrastructure.Team Management & Talent Development: Manage a team of engineers, fostering a culture of innovation, excellence, and psychological safety. Mentor, coach, and inspire team members to reach their full potential, emphasizing career growth and professional development.Strategic Planning & Prioritization: Drive the development of long-term roadmaps and strategic initiatives for the platform. Balance competing priorities and complex requirements from multiple stakeholders across Google's product portfolio.Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build and maintain positive partnerships with leaders from product, security, infrastructure, and other key teams. Collaborate effectively to define security requirements and design elegant solutions that meet a broad range of needs, avoiding unnecessary delays and reprioritization.Hiring & Talent Acquisition: Recruit and attract world-class engineering talent to expand the team's capabilities. Maintain the highest standards of technical excellence when evaluating and onboarding new engineers.

Led the monitoring platform services team managing hybrid cloud monitoring infrastructure.Developed toolset for monitoring container infrastructure and crucial containers Directed team policy changes to allow resources needed freedom to build automation systems for standard work creating a significant reduction in work hours dedicated to technical debt.Developed and led a rapid training program to enable expanded manpower to finish key transition from legacy system by the original target date.Architected and managed implementation of public cloud containerized architecture of previously monolithic system.Established morning team scrums to address consistent blocking issues for team members, which reduced average task completion time by over 60%.Lead team across multiple countries including India and China, coordinated workload of overseas resources to help maximize throughput of the team.Selected to lead company wide standardization of monitoring and event management infrastructure.

Acted as technical lead on multiple major customer hosted solution, as well as provided technical expertise for other customer projects and unassociated internal hosting specific tasks.Developed key API interfaces for new Zabbix monitoring systems to allow for consistent and complete execution of regular tasks minimizing shortfalls and delays from human error.Managed monitoring and performance reporting of high visibility hardware during major public launch event. Developing advanced monitoring tools on the fly to automate needed system recovery steps.Guided discussions and design around hardware upgrade for Merchandise Intelligence solution to alleviate system performance issues due to misinformation provided in the original sizing and assisted sales team in delivery of package to customers.Helped stabilize and progress a stalled implementation of a Merchandise Intelligence solution on a major customer, leading to improvement in a failing critical customer relationship.Collaborated with technical support and R&D resources to develop and implement alternative solution to custom development work that allowed customers to achieve desired end result without implementing custom code in Merchandise Intelligence deployment.Regularly engaged customer for feedback and status updates, allowing for direct customer feedback and maintaining an accurate and consistent operational picture.Led team in managing solution deployed across dozens of servers, delegating workload to maximize uptime and minimize turnaround time.Trained team members on skills outside their area of expertise, improving overall team performance and productivity.Directly engaged customers regularly to troubleshoot issues and insure a common operational understanding, improving client relationships and helping ensure continued customer loyalty.Provided on call support across all retail customers, ensuring 24/7 support of critical systems.

Software Development for next generation Air Force Weather Web System (https://weather.af.mil/), associated custom UI solutions, and integration interfaces. Led alternative UI development. NCOIC for special duty team - Air Force Weather Agency Color Guard.

Hosted and maintained custom weather data processing solutions for large volumes of weather data.Maintained and improved Weather ETL systems for GRIB data. Focused on automated recovery systems.

Web application and database integration development with full automated test and deployment systems.