I enjoy working in small teams that deliver big results. I take pride in building scalable solutions with limited funds. Prior companies I've worked at have delivered billions of monthly video views with incredibly lean engineering teams and are some of the world's most recognizable brands. My interests remain in building media startups, the video asset delivery, and the economics of flexible cloud computing.
Specialties:
• Content Delivery Networks (CDN) configuration and distribution.
• Infrastructure as Code / Configuration Management (Cloudformation, SaltStack).
• Linux Administration (Ubuntu).
• Webserver Administration (Apache, Nginx, IIS).
• Microsoft SQL Server (2005 & 2008) Administration & Programming (database backups, recovery, clustering, performance tuning, queries, triggers, views, sharding).
• Video Ingestion, transcoding, and asset management.
• AWS EC2, Azure, and Rackspace Cloud Computing (in environments with >1,000 servers).
• Large, complex distributed systems and eventual consistency architecture.
Manager, Site Reliability Engineering @ From August 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) San Francisco Bay AreaDirector, Technical Operations @ From January 2014 to August 2014 (8 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaVP, Technical Operations @ From February 2012 to January 2014 (2 years) greater los angeles areaManager, Systems Engineering @ From May 2010 to February 2012 (1 year 10 months) Greater New York City AreaSr. Technical Analyst @ From May 2007 to May 2010 (3 years 1 month) Greater New York City AreaConsultant (Freelance) @ From 2005 to 2009 (4 years) Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Consultant @ From January 2007 to May 2007 (5 months) Kansas City, Missouri AreaSystems Engineer @ From June 2005 to December 2006 (1 year 7 months) Kansas City, Missouri AreaeBusiness Analyst @ From June 2003 to May 2005 (2 years)
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Business (Dual Major, B.S.) @ University of PittsburghHigh School @ East Pennsboro High School