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Boise, Id, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Lead, design and establish focus for the Engineering org; represent Engineering at the leadership level.Work with Product, Sales, Marketing, Delivery, Operations, Finance, and People department executives, which comprise our Executive Team, as we grow and mature Cobalt from market leader in Pentest-as-a-Service (PtaaS) to a multi-offering Offensive Security Platform. Set the Engineering Strategy aligned closely with our Product and Company Strategy, measured with quarterly OKRs.

San Francisco, California, Us

My role as Head of Engineering began as part of an organizational restructuring, where I initially reported into the Chief Product Officer and a few months later joined the Executive Team on an interim basis to represent the Engineering department. I then started reporting directly to the CEO, participating in weekly ET meetings.All Product Engineering delivery teams and AI/Data/Infrastructure were in my reporting line, and my direct reports included Directors, Engineering Management and Staff Engineering. I started managing the department budget / financial plan for 2024, and coordinated extensively with the Executive team on 2024 yearly planning.▸ Promoted March 2024, Sr Director => VP, where I moved from interim status on the Executive Team to official member, deepening my involvement with the Board of Directors and responsibilities across the ET.

San Francisco, California, Us

Cobalt is the market leader in Pentest-as-a-Service (PtaaS), and our platform connects leading companies with on-demand security experts to collaborate in real-time, finding and fixing vulnerabilities. As a Senior Director, I oversaw our Customer Experience (CX) domain which was comprised of four teams. I am an active participant in our leadership team, and my weekly duties involve regularly partnering with Product and GTM teams as well as driving our Engineering Strategy forward. ▸ Grew the CX Engineering domain from 7 to 27 in my first two years. Lead through regular 1:1s, performance reviews, weekly management reviews, and cross-functional OKR / roadmap delivery▸ Direct four Engineering Managers and Staff Engineers across our Core Pentest team (Assets, Pentests, Findings), Integrations (API, Developer + Security tooling), Foundations (Authn/z, Product tiers), Collaboration (Chat, Comments, Notifications)▸ After 8 years of being a single product offering, we launched our second in 2022, Agile Pentesting, working across the multiple domains of our marketplace model to deliver a new revenue generating service

San Francisco, California, Us

▸ Expanded a one team group to a three team domain, hiring 10 engineers and 2 EMs in my first nine months during a rapid growth phase where the company went from 100 to 200 FTEs▸ Launched Cobalt's first Public API, created docs.cobalt.io and partnered with Product Marketing + GTM teams▸ Tech stack: FE (React), BE (Ruby, Kotlin, Postgres, REST), Infra (Terraform + GCP)▸ Promoted May 2022, Director => Sr Director

acronym enabled businesses to automate data protection best practices through a blended services approach. I put founder aspirations aside to join Cobalt in their rocketship growth phase. ⟁ Sleep better knowing your client data is protected with acronym. ▸ Software as a service: integrated into your workflow: G-Suite, Slack, GitHub▸ Professional services: assessment and IT security roadmap that fits your culture ▸ Positive-sum compliance: NIST-CSF, CIS-20, GDPR, CCPA, ISO-27001/2

Chicago, Il, Us

As a technology and product leader at dscout, I was able to contribute in numerous ways building the B2B SaaS research platform/service for over 5 years. Most notably, ▸ built and led the engineering team from 2 individual contributors to 20, establishing a culture of strong engineering principles with privacy and security the default ▸ weekly leadership team and quarterly board meeting presence, led technology due diligence from series seed to series A, A2, and B rounds working with multiple investors and venture partners ▸ created an Information Security program from the ground up, working with hundreds of Fortune 500 companies in procurement through vendor security assessments and audits ▸ scaled teams, processes and organizational culture from a one product startup to a three product platform❑ about dscoutThe world’s most customer-obsessed companies use dscout to understand their people.dscout’s remote research platform uses a mobile app and +100K eager participants to efficiently capture in-the-moment video and make insights easy to synthesize and share.

Chicago, Il, Us

Information Security + Privacy + Initiate and grow ISO-27001 aligned program + Achieve GDPR compliance and HIPAA-secure status + Conduct background checks + awareness trainings + Perform DPIA data mapping + inventory exercises + Oversee penetration tests (Web app, API, iOS, Android) + Establish tools for logging, monitoring and vulnerability scanning + Build Vendor, Risk, and Asset Management processes + Create Incident Response system + workflow + Practice secure SDLC in all areas of Product + Engineering + Continually evolve product security features (SSO, 2FA, session-timeouts)Team + Culture + Engage, manage, mentor and motivate team members + Scale the Engineering team from 2 to 20 individual contributors (FE, BE, Mobile, QA, ML/DS) + Ensure code is clean, tested, and maintainable + Staff cross-functional product teams and establish leads + Conduct 1:1s and performance reviews + Own recruiting and retention to support rapid growth + Responsible for the delivery of all software, including velocity and quality + Follow Agile methodologies: 2 week sprints, IPMs, retros, continuous improvement + Work with Product team leadership to co-own the product roadmap and timelinesBusiness + Ops + Instrumental in company growth from 7 to 80 + Communicate progress of the Product + Engineering teams to the company, Board, and investors + Plenty of experience with Google Apps Suite (Docs/Sheets/Slides/Mail/Calendar) + Keynote + Assist Sales on SOWs with custom integrations

Chicago, Il, Us

Technologies + Frontend (React) + Backend (Ruby, Elixir, PostgreSQL) + Mobile / iOS (Obj-C, Swift) / Android (Java) + Infrastructure (Heroku, AWS, GCP) + Machine Learning (Python, spaCy NLP, Jupyter, AWS, Fivetran) + Logging + Monitoring (Sumo Logic, tCell) + PM / QA (Trello, Airtable, Slack) + Various (WebRTC, GraphQL)

Chicago, Il, Us

Professional services consultant wearing a few hats: engineering team leader, Android developer, technical sales and discovery/requirements gathering. Our client focus was FDA-regulated and HIPAA-compliant mobile apps - project stacks ranged from Android and iOS to AngularJS and .NET. Coordinate with Project Management and User Experience department directors for resourcing, bidding projects and process improvement. Experienced in building staffing models, pro-forma, project plans/SOW.

Chicago, Il, Us

Mobile + Healthcare + Agile + Lean = Pathfinder. Started as a Sr. Software Engineer building an FDA regulated healthcare application and went on to lead and manage multiple Android projects. Extensive BLE and Bluetooth experience.

silvrspoon brought the restaurant menu to life. an iOS and Android app provided food recommendations based on your preferences and ordering history. you could order food and drinks directly from your table on your phone. tablets were installed behind the bar and at POS stations that would receive your order for a server to get you what you wanted, on-demand.for restaurants, meet the digital feedback card. ratings and comments on dishes, servers and the restaurant itself that they'd otherwise never get. rich menu management and ordering analytics gave our customers insight where there was previously very little.me: designed and developed the entire platform, consisting of an iOS and Android app for the masses, an Android tablet app for servers and a Google App Engine cloud backend hosting up the data for everyone.not an unusual ending, we simply ran out of gas (both capital and team).

Us

consultancy focused on:mobile applications // Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile.AWS cloud services.Custom web design + development.

Tagwhat is a location-based browser consisting of an online map and mobile augmented reality components. Tagwhat applies social networking principles to deliver a uniquely interactive place-based experience with broad appeal and staying power. At the heart of the Tagwhat network is its patent-pending AR technology that lets users leave behind digital crumbs (tags) for any location, place or thing, anywhere in the world for others to discover. Each tag is an interactive social object with direct action links to email, phone, SMS, photos, URL’s, cross-posting to Twitter, Facebook, and more.Worked as a designer and developer of the AR Android application along with connecting various APIs: Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Flickr and more to our platform. White labeled the proprietary AR system on Android for multiple customers.

Based on our patent, led the architecture and development of our flagship product. Our enterprise link selection middleware enabled remote configuration of Windows Mobile devices via SMS and XML-RPC. Responsibilities included infrastructure, software documentation, product management and supervision of our engineering teams working in our Boulder, CO office. Sponsored a senior capstone project through the University of Colorado.

Developed the core of our intelligent mobile connectivity suite based on our patented link selection algorithm. Working with multi-mode mobile handsets that have the ability to access the internet via a number of network interfaces, our goal was to provide the user the most optimal link at all times. This was defined by a number of parameters - environmental factors [RF strength, current up/down speeds of available links, link latency, location, etc] and business rules [load balancing, security, data capping, cost per packet, etc]. While the user wishes to use the most optimal link at all times, in most cases they do not wish to take the time to switch networks. Our suite provided automatic link and network selection based on these parameters which could be updated anytime, from anywhere.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Software Developer @ CableLabs [Sep 2005 – May 2006]Developed an interactive server written in Java and OCAP. The software was tested using the Osmosys SDK Eclipse plug-in as well as an ADB Set Top Box. The set top server communicated with a PC over a wired/wifi home network via an array of Java SOAP services. Remote control inputs were registered with the set top and forwarded on to the PC. There, all of the heavy processing and peripheral access was performed, limiting the amount of handling necessary on the set top to the bigger, faster thread-safe processor of a PC. The PC then provided updates to the set top via the home network and SOAP messages for redisplay. Created a home automation and chess application for demonstration.http://www.cs.colorado.edu/ugrad/seniorproject/projects/capster.htmlhttp://www.cablelabs.comWeb Admin [May 2004 – Oct 2004]Teaching Assistant [Jun 2004 – Aug 2004]

San Diego, Us

Worked on updating an existing VBScript Web Application to process and track shipments, user interface design for customers and employees at Mail Boxes Etc UK.Used FedEx API, UPS API, Atom Services, HTML/CSS, .ASP, MS Access DB

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science