Employment

• Senior Engineering Manager2022 - Present

  Blumira

  Led backend development team responsible for log ingestion across 2000+ devices, 20+ integrations, and 100k+ agents.

• Founder & President2016 - 2022

  Keen Glow

  Designed, developed, marketed, sold, and supported this IoT product that empowers parents to build better routines for their children.

• Independent Consultant2016 - 2022

  Self-Employed

  Various interesting client projects, including code security audits, custom development, etc. Clients include Duo Security and Cavallo.

• Technical co-founder/CTO2015

  Locumocity (now Nomad Health)

  Developed initial prototype and executed all things of technical (web, email, etc) necessary to successfully secure seed funding.

• Engineering Manager / Architect2010 - 2014

  Arbor Networks

  Direct development, product requirements, architecture, and project schedules for the operating systems team. Manage development of new product in mobile market. Management duties for the 8-12 developers on these teams consist of regular 1-1 meetings, annual reviews, salary, and career development. Indirectly manage porting projects with Alcatel-Lucent and Cisco.

• Development Lead/CTO2012

  Turnstar (formerly Textaurant)

  Paired with an angel investor to resuscitate the product and business and avoid loss of investment.

• Senior Principal Software Engineer2009 - 2010

  Arbor Networks

  Lead international development team and architecture of the eSeries Subscriber Center (eSC). Advise other teams on how to utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS). Lead development and architecture of centralized software distribution portal.

• Principal Software Engineer2008 - 2009

  Arbor Networks

  Supervise development team responsible for improving scale, reducing downtime, and adding features to ATLAS public web service.

• Senior Software Engineer2006 - 2008

  Arbor Networks

  Responsible for redesigning the look and feel of the original DoS functionality in the Peakflow SP product. Revise technical interview questions and procedures to be more uniform and provide more consistent results. Lead engineer for the partnership with ISS to OEM Peakflow X as Proventia ADS.

• Software Engineer/Founding Team2000 - 2006

  Arbor Networks

  Responsible for developing prototype used to secure VC funding. Designed, implemented, and supported critical pieces of first product, Peakflow DoS and first enterprise product, Peakflow X. Participated in recruitment and interviewing of initial engineering team. Mentored junior engineers and helped define collaborative culture.

• Software Developer1998 - 2000

  Merit Network

  Support and update software tools relating to the Internet Routing Registry Database (IRRd).

Education

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor1996 - 2000

  BSE Computer Engineering, Cum Laude

Open Source

• BitBucket

  SmartNightLight (precursor for KeenGlow), and many other projects

• GitHub

  ESPAWSClient, VacationLockManager, and more projects

Community

• Startup Weekend2016

  Volunteer

• New Venture Challenge - CMU2013

  Judge

• Startup Weekend2013

  Technical Advisor