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I lead technical teams to a scalable product starting from a blank sheet of paper. After synthesizing insights from all stakeholders (customers, users, engineers, vendors, and beyond) I'll reach for just enough technology with a creative but considered touch. My approach to design starts from the business strategy and percolates down to the byte level. A breadth of experience across and outside of tech has given me the vocabulary to communicate between business and technical functions.

Github

2021-10-15 —

Fortress Power - Chief Information Officer

Started and ran software development division within a high-growth PE-funded company.

Highlights

  • Owned technical diligence and integration process while acquiring another company.
  • Established development process in which teams on 3 continents collaborate on a hardware/software launch.
  • Ultimately responsible for cloud and IoT operations as part of a strategic shift toward software.
  • Mentor other engineers and managers through technical and career issues.

2019-10-01 — 2021-10-01

Talos IoT - Chief Technology Officer

Technical co-founder of IoT HVAC monitoring solution.

Highlights

  • Owned the launch: zero to scalable hardware + software IoT platform in 12 weeks.
  • Created and installed IoT solution preventing $6MM/day in customer downtime.
  • Grew from inception to 8-figure term sheet in 12 months.
  • Evangelized and consulted to all stakeholders (customers, suppliers, partners, and beyond) about technology integration and product roadmap.

2012-05-01 — 2019-10-01

Tumalow, Inc - CEO

Founded and led IoT-based energy storage controls company.

Highlights

  • Designed, built and operated IoT system with over one million device-connection hours across 2 continents.
  • Designed, installed and operated largest battery storage system in Washington DC.

Virginia Solar and Energy Storage Development Authority 2018-10-01 — 2022-09-01

Vice Chairman

Appointed to Development Authority by Gov. McAuliffe and Gov. Northam.

Highlights

  • Led a state-wide impact study as energy storage subject matter expert.
  • Advocated for solar and energy storage policy to Governor, General Assembly, and Industry Groups

The New Clermont Project 2009-01-15 — 2009-12-01

Founder

Non-profit student team that designed, built, and sailed a hydrogen-powered boat a world-record 180 miles up the Hudson River.

Highlights

  • Started project from conception, recruiting, building, and sailing
  • Raised funds and supplies: boat, $10,000, hydrogen fuel cell, gas delivery, and snacks.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2007-09-01 — 2012-06-01

Material Science
PhD

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 2007-09-01 — 2011-06-01

Business Management
Masters

Northwestern University 2001-09-01 — 2005-06-01

Material Science
BS

National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship

December 23, 2024
by NSF
Full support PhD fellowship for integrated business and technical scholarship.

Founder's Award

December 23, 2024
by Rensselaer Polytechnic Instutite
The University's highest award for students.

Defi Knoweldge Graph with Neo4j 2021-07-22

Published by Neo4J

First place winner: Data Science API category of Sovryn Hackathon

Observability for Air Conditioners: An IoT Story with Talos 2021-05-03

Published by Cloud Native Compute Foundation

Customer Scale Energy Storage 2021-03-18

Published by Law Seminars International

Energy storage education for lawyers. CLEs awarded.

Fly-In Discussions with Congressional Members 2019-11-20

Published by Clean Energy Business Network

In-person meetings with Congress members to advocate for energy storage tax credit.

Python

  • Fast API
  • Flask
  • Pydantic
  • OpenAPI
  • Pandas
  • PyTorch
  • Fast.ai
  • Numpy
  • Streamlit
  • Plotly
  • Jupyter

IoT

  • Embedded C
  • MQTT
  • AWS IoT Core
  • LoRaWAN

CI/CD

  • docker
  • docker-compose
  • pip
  • make
  • git
  • github

Infrastructure

  • ansible
  • terraform
  • Cloud Formation

Observability

  • Prometheus
  • Cortex
  • Grafana
  • Cloud Watch

Cloud Computing

  • EC2
  • S3
  • ECR
  • Kinesis
  • IAM
  • Secrets Manager

Blockchain/Web3

  • Brownie
  • Ganache
  • web3.py
  • solidity
  • covalent
  • moralis

Data Engineering

  • DVC
  • Neo4J
  • redis
  • AWS Glue
  • AWS Athena