Experience

Panthalassa

• Oil and Gas
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Information Technology

  • Jun 2023 - Present

  Portland, Oregon, United States



Lithic Technology

• United States
• Software Development

• Principal

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  I provide expertise and primary software development in the areas of: - Cloud infrastructure (esp. AWS) and distributed systems architecture, IaC - Developer experience and application delivery tooling, CI/CD practices - Distributed systems designed for scale, reliability, cost-efficiency and security - Containerization, Kubernetes, serverless applications, IoT applications Lithic Technology is a web technology agency and consultancy. We specialize in both building from the… Show more I provide expertise and primary software development in the areas of: - Cloud infrastructure (esp. AWS) and distributed systems architecture, IaC - Developer experience and application delivery tooling, CI/CD practices - Distributed systems designed for scale, reliability, cost-efficiency and security - Containerization, Kubernetes, serverless applications, IoT applications Lithic Technology is a web technology agency and consultancy. We specialize in both building from the ground up, and parachuting into legacy codebases and getting them under control and your development team on a better track. Show less



Wistia

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Infrastructure Engineering Manager / Staff Engineer

  • Jun 2020 - Nov 2022

  I manage Wistia’s infrastructure engineering team and act as the technical lead for the services that we provide to the larger organization. Our AWS-based hosting infrastructure and application delivery tools support and enable a 50-person engineering team in the operation of a petabyte-scale video delivery platform.



Dwelo

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Platform Engineering Lead

  • Aug 2018 - Apr 2020

  I was responsible for the software, systems and network infrastructure that enabled Dwelo's smart-home applications to run securely and reliably on a fleet of over 20,000 ARM-based embedded devices deployed in customers' homes.



Cozy

• United States
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Engineering Manager

  • Jan 2014 - May 2018

  Portland, Oregon Area I led a small team that owned the performance, reliability and security of our SaaS-based product. Reporting directly to the CTO and CEO, my scope of responsibility in this role encompassed everything from code commit through production. I headed up the architecture, development, and evolution of all the technical infrastructure that supported our product, from the foundational AWS resource layer all the way up to the application and service layers. I was the first and last line of technical… Show more I led a small team that owned the performance, reliability and security of our SaaS-based product. Reporting directly to the CTO and CEO, my scope of responsibility in this role encompassed everything from code commit through production. I headed up the architecture, development, and evolution of all the technical infrastructure that supported our product, from the foundational AWS resource layer all the way up to the application and service layers. I was the first and last line of technical escalation for all operational issues with our production applications. Show less



Analog Analytics

• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Engineer

  • Nov 2012 - Nov 2013

  Portland, Oregon Area Infrastructure development and buildout with chef, SME and primary operational support for multiple high-volume ruby on rails applications. Worked closely with developers, project management and support teams in an open and collaborative DevOps-focused workplace. Operated and maintained multiple application stacks running in a hybrid cloud-and-physical-machine hosted environment.



Renewable Funding, LLC

• United States
• Investment Banking

• Systems Administrator / Ops Engineer

  • Apr 2012 - Nov 2012

  Portland, Oregon Area This multifaceted role included site operations support and reliability engineering, infrastructure administration, desktop and user support at all levels. Reporting to the Data and Systems Engineering Manager, I was the only other IT/Ops employee in this small startup company.



Newberg School District

• United States
• Primary and Secondary Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Systems Administrator / Technology Support Specialist

  • Nov 2008 - Mar 2012

  I was a core member of a small team of IT generalists tasked with designing, building, maintaining and supporting all district IT assets. From systems administration of physical and virtual servers in multiple data centers, to being the first and last line of support for 600 staff and 6000 K-12 student users, and desktop support for 2500+ workstations across 11 sites, I did it all.



Robert Half Technology

• Canada
• Staffing and Recruiting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Consultant

  • Jul 2008 - Nov 2008

  Portland, Oregon Area Provided IT services under contract to multiple clients, including: • A major national bank: Deployment and installation of new POS hardware and software, large-scale infrastructure uplift. • A software development company: Workstation and hardware support. • Newberg School District: IT helpdesk services for 600 staff and 6000 students, as well as systems administration tasks.



NuComm International

• Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Employee Performance Supervisor

  • Sep 2003 - Aug 2005

  Managed teams of 20-40 technical support representatives with proven ability to drive agent performance, impart technical knowledge, and exceed all client and internal targets for productivity and customer satisfaction. Excellence in this role led to numerous special projects involving supervisor training, operations management, reporting and analysis.

• Telephone Service Representative

  • Mar 2002 - Sep 2003

  Excelled at business-to-consumer technical support, surpassed all productivity targets, exceeded 90% issue resolution rate. Tier I and II support of end-user OS and hardware configuration for LAN/WAN connectivity, email, personal web hosting.