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Burlington, Massachusetts, Us

As Chief Architect and engineering/technology VP, drive technical and architectural innovation, modernization, and execution for all Veracode products. Under my leadership, Veracode achieved the top three technology goals established by our VC owners in a little over a year (EU, FedRAMP and full cloud adoption), leading to our sale to TA Associates at $2.5B – a 3x increase from our previous valuation when purchased by Thoma Bravo 3+ years prior. * Drove fundamental architecture and automation modernization that led to our GDPR-ready Veracode environment in the EU and FedRAMP moderate environment, opening $100M+ revenue opportunities. * Developed and launched Veracode initial container scanning prototype, redefining Veracode’s CLI and client-side technology strategy* Own technical due diligence for Veracode’s M&A and partnership activities* Launch and drive ambitious re-platforming initiatives for Veracode’s technology stack* Adopted modern, cloud native technologies such as NoSQL, golang, event driven architecture, service mesh and container orchestration* Lead a team of 40 - 60 architects and engineers, and expanding product engineering into a new Prague location* Implemented lean-friendly enterprise architecture changes that enable teams to deliver faster and with more autonomy* Drove the successful execution of Veracode's final push from datacenter to cloud* Consistently elicit Veracode-leading engagement scores from my architecture and engineering organization* Personally interviewed and hired 60-80 engineers and architects over the course of a year, significantly raising the bar on Veracode's cloud-native engineering workforce* Serve as trusted technology, lean/agile, and strategy advisor to executive leadership

Hartford, Connecticut, Us

Head of architecture for Aetna Digital, the digital transformation arm of Aetna and part of the larger, CVS Digital business unit. Responsibilities include defining the technology strategy and vision for Aetna Digital, defining the wider Digital platform and big data technical strategy, recruiting and managing the Aetna Digital architecture team, driving principles and practices across all of Digital, owning technology choice & vendor selection, and ensuring that Architecture operates effectively in a scaled agile organization.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Recruited to transform Pegasystem’s Cloud Architecture to a best-in-breed cloud platform. Designed and implemented Pega’s next generation, fully automated and secured hosting platform – based on microservice and serverless architectures – which shipped to production in less than a year. Working within the Pega Cloud unit and with outside collaborators in Pega Technology, drove operational readiness and efficiency with the new architecture while also designing and implementing the next generation of Pega Cloud.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Harvard's cloud computing change agent and provocateur. Brought on board to develop Harvard’s cloud capability and strategy. Working with groups from across the University, developed cloud platforms for research computing and enterprise needs; architected and led early implementations of new services on the cloud; guided the establishment of DevOps practices and tooling; guided the adoption of open-source and vendor cloud platforms; advised senior leadership on overall cloud strategy and technologies.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Led a team focused on delivering agile and faculty-centric solutions for research, instruction and learning. Manages budgets, strategic and tactical planning, project management, technology consultation and advising. Served on SEAS Senior Staff team and as the voice of SEAS Computing on Harvard-wide committees for academics. Our team delivered solutions in cloud computing, high performance computing, & collaboration and supports courses with special technical and computational needs.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Lead the architecting and development of proprietary quantitative trading platform. Conducted quantitative research and develop models on market trends. Administered internal systems, and planned and procure IT assets to support research & production systems.

Engineered a robust and high-performance Beowulf cluster for an industrial research lab.

Hanover, Nh, Us

Designed, prototyped, implemented, and tested a national database for human subjects research review, http://www.irbnet.org.Technologist in Administrative Computing, developing application and integration tools for Oracle and related technologies.

Engineered and maintained QA database and web interface. Coded scripts for automated testing of CFD software. Designed physical and numerical test cases of CFD software.

Ph.D., Theoretical Physics

M.S., Physics

Ba, Physics And Cognitive Science, Minor In Mathematics