Experience

Pearl Certification

• United States
• Consumer Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Feb 2017 - Present

  Charlottesville, Virginia Area • Deliver Pearl's core application coordinating with the product team and leveraging outsourced development • Provision, deploy, and maintain core SaaS application services with AWS EC2 including infrastructure automation with SaltStack and CI with Jenkins as well as custom scripting for "ChatOps". • Establish, provision, configure, and support third-party cloud services for our distributed workforce including Salesforce, Jira, Slack, Monday, and Google Workspaces • Identify… Show more • Deliver Pearl's core application coordinating with the product team and leveraging outsourced development • Provision, deploy, and maintain core SaaS application services with AWS EC2 including infrastructure automation with SaltStack and CI with Jenkins as well as custom scripting for "ChatOps". • Establish, provision, configure, and support third-party cloud services for our distributed workforce including Salesforce, Jira, Slack, Monday, and Google Workspaces • Identify outsourcing opportunities, negotiate contracts, and establish relationships and processes • Executive responsibility for Employee Experience/HR • Interface with board and investors on all technical and product matters Show less



FireEye, Inc.

• United States
• Computer and Network Security
• 400 - 500 Employee

• DevOps Engineering Manager

  • Jan 2015 - Feb 2017

  Charlottesville, Virginia Area DevOps Manager for Enterprise Forensics group supporting the Network Forensics Platform team. Majority of team members reported increased effectiveness, better prioritization, and better focus. Lead development of packet capture (PCAP) library and replay system using software-defined networking to provide flexible traffic for development- and performance-testing of packet capture appliances. Tech included: Python, Flask, MySQL, Ansible, Debian, git, bash.



Perrone Robotics

• United States
• Robotics Engineering
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Engineer

  • Jan 2012 - Jan 2015

  Charlottesville, Virginia Area Responsible for Product Integration, Quality Assurance, System Infrastructure and delivery of laser-based measurement applications for innovative robotics company.



Singing Horse Studio

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Founder and CEO

  • Dec 2010 - Dec 2011

  A little bit of everything for our high-end software development shop. Relationship management, business development, project management, infrastructure development, and even some coding on a good day.



Linden Lab

• United States
• Computer Games
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Development Director

  • Jul 2008 - Dec 2010

  As Engineering / Development Director at Linden Lab, I * lead the technical planning and implementation of Linden's "Local Payments" project opening several new currencies and dozens of new payment methods * coordinated with finance, business/executive, support, trust-and-safety, operations, program- and project- management and development teams as well as third-party vendors and suppliers to ensure appropriate and timely project delivery * managed staff in multiple locations across 11… Show more As Engineering / Development Director at Linden Lab, I * lead the technical planning and implementation of Linden's "Local Payments" project opening several new currencies and dozens of new payment methods * coordinated with finance, business/executive, support, trust-and-safety, operations, program- and project- management and development teams as well as third-party vendors and suppliers to ensure appropriate and timely project delivery * managed staff in multiple locations across 11 time zones from PST to EET * mentored developers, project managers and others through career transitions and other phases of personal and professional growth * relocated from HQ in San Francisco to Brighton UK to lead the office there and increase inter-company connectivity and communication.

• Studio Director

  • Oct 2007 - Jul 2008

  Project leader and senior technical resource for back-end billing integration, fraud and risk work.

• Sr. Web Developer

  • Jun 2006 - Oct 2007

  Doing Back-end PHP, PERL, and Python over MySQL primarily related to payment systems.



Chaos Limited, LLC

• Principal

  • Feb 2002 - Jun 2006

  consultant providing infrastructure management and web services



Electronic Arts (EA)

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Online Operations, Information Systems & Technology

  • Feb 2000 - Oct 2001

  Lead Virginia operations and IS&T groups interfacing with EA HQ, getting us into new office space, integrating Kesmai Operations into EA's.



Kesmai Corp

• Director Operations

  • Mar 1995 - Feb 2000

  Joined Kesmai shortly after it was purchased by News Corp. Held a number of positions generally revolving around web and finally ending up as Director of Operations where I had QA, Release Management, Operations and IT groups reporting to me.



University of Virginia

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Programmer/Analyist

  • Jan 1994 - Mar 1995

  Unix user support in Information Systems and Technology(IST) and Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities(IATH)