Experience

Tradeshift

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Lead Forward Deployed Engineer

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  Front-line, senior engineer working directly with partners, customers, and sales teams to understand and negotiate requirements, create practical solutions, and lead coordinated implementation efforts. Responsible for technical workshops with prospective and active partners, working with clients to address custom needs, and providing in-depth technical guidance for both internal and external teams. Led and participated in development of apps and integrations to improve the platform and address critical technical and sales needs. First member of the Forward Deployed Engineering team. Helped develop the team through hiring and mentoring new members, growing overall capabilities, and developing best practices for client engagement and internal cross-functional communications. Show less



rLoop Incorporated

• Embedded Software and Simulation Engineering (Volunteer)

  • Jul 2015 - Feb 2018

  Designed and developed the Vehicle Flight Control state machine for the rLoop Hyperloop pod; responsible for mechanical design of landing gear and service propulsion systems, general coding of embedded systems, and the Software-in-the-Loop physics simulation for the flight control software. Designed and developed the Vehicle Flight Control state machine for the rLoop Hyperloop pod; responsible for mechanical design of landing gear and service propulsion systems, general coding of embedded systems, and the Software-in-the-Loop physics simulation for the flight control software.



Optimizely

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Engineering Manager

  • Jul 2016 - Mar 2017

  Lead implementation of the PCI standard on the DevOps side; implemented the notoriously cumbersome standard with no net impact to developer productivity. Lead implementation of the PCI standard on the DevOps side; implemented the notoriously cumbersome standard with no net impact to developer productivity.



Cisco

• United States
• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Manager, Site Reliability Engineering

  • Apr 2014 - Jul 2016

  Engaged to recruit and lead the Site Reliability Engineering team to ensure long-term operational stability, improve operational characteristics of the WebEx service, and enable new functionality on existing software and systems. Responsibilities grew to include service ownership of the primary product and leadership of the Cloud Architecture, Provisioning, and Meetings Service Engineering teams. Recruited and led the Cloud Services Internal Product Team to analyze the operational characteristics of services, identify necessary engineering efforts, and create Agile work packages to be prioritized and implemented by the software engineering teams. Show less



Cyan Data Systems, LLC

• Co-Founder / CTO

  • Jul 2005 - Jun 2015

  Co-founded Cyan Data Systems, LLC, a company dedicated to providing enterprise data collection and analysis software for medium sized grant-making foundations ($10M- $50M granted per year) and their grantees. Responsibilities included funding, business development, writing functional and operational requirements, system design, database design, UI/UX, and system implementation. Co-founded Cyan Data Systems, LLC, a company dedicated to providing enterprise data collection and analysis software for medium sized grant-making foundations ($10M- $50M granted per year) and their grantees. Responsibilities included funding, business development, writing functional and operational requirements, system design, database design, UI/UX, and system implementation.