Versatile engineering leader with 25+ years spanning data engineering & analytics, product software, and algorithm development. Equally comfortable in the weeds of an engineering problem or steering a cross-functional product team. Track record of building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations across streaming video, finance, virtual worlds, and sustainable energy. Passionate about using technology to fight climate change.
Head of Product Software Engineering
- Hired and led a team of 10 engineers covering the full customer-facing product stack — app, UX/UI design, algorithms, backend services, and data engineering
- Co-led Lumin's broader software department alongside the Head of Foundation Software Engineering
- Active contributor on Lumin's cross-functional leadership team
- Served as high-level functional architect for the product-facing software stack, partnering closely with product management
- Go-to technical product liaison for key partners and customers
- Evolved the organization into smaller, independent, cross-functional units; took on product ownership of the Microgrid Platform team
- Key contributor to Lumin's compensation model, working on a small cross-functional team to redesign annual comp and review processes
Head of Data & Algorithms
- Lumin's first data-focused hire; built tools in Grafana and Python to explore high-resolution (1-second), circuit-level energy measurement data
- Drove refinement of Lumin's power and energy calculations
- Authored Lumin's first dynamic power control algorithm, Smart Power Mode — still a key product feature
- Hired multiple UI/UX and backend engineers; helped create Lumin's early recruiting processes
- Created our internal #illuminate Slack channel to democratize the recognition of our colleagues' work (still in active use years later)
- Speaker at EPRI's 2019 Electrification Symposium, Berkeley, CA
Director, Streaming Data Engineering & Analytics
Led the Streaming Data Engineering & Analytics team, providing data and analytic insight to Netflix engineering teams that build the streaming clients, architect our CDNs, and engineer our cloud infrastructure — together responsible for delivering over one third [at the time] of peak North American Internet traffic
- Oversaw the growth of our subject area from Netflix's committed shift into streaming through expansion to global scale
- Grew the team from 3 to an organization of ~25
- Promoted/hired and mentored 3 managers
- Pioneered a new pipeline of high-quality candidates through a partnership with the Insight Data Science program, which became leveraged by the entire department
- Our team was additionally responsible for the data fed to the public-facing Netflix ISP Speed Index website
Manager, Streaming Data Engineering & Analytics
Director of Data Warehousing / Data Architect
Linden Lab is the creator of Second Life, the world's leading 3D virtual world environment.
- Led a team of 4 responsible for data warehousing, financial processing, real-time analytics, reporting tool platform, and enterprise logging infrastructure
- Rebuilt the data warehouse platform from the ground up: new Netezza DB (scaled 2 → 30+ TB), new ETL infrastructure, new MicroStrategy reporting platform, new dimensional data model
- Managed additional analytic team of 5 through organizational restructuring
- Owned annual operating budget of $1M+ in software and outside services
- Defined agile workflow for managing a wide spectrum of data development tasks
Systems Engineer
- Technical lead on data mart solution for focused analytics on high-net-worth clients
Solutions Architect
- Provided data warehouse, reporting, and ETL consulting for VISA, Wells Fargo, Sephora, and Charles Schwab
- Co-developed an in-house ETL framework that was later open-sourced as KETL
Software Engineer
- Software developer on MicroStrategy Broadcaster (now Narrowcast Server)
- Technical lead on Strategy.com's Traffic Channel — personalized traffic alerts to subscribers
Engineer / Scientist
- Systems engineer on fingerprint recognition systems