Overview

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With over 25 years of engineering leadership experience spanning enterprise, Internet, e-commerce, PKI, streaming video and hosted/platform services industries, I've seen some amazing successes and faced big challenges!

I’ve been fortunate to have been involved in four IPOs and nearly 40 mergers & acquisitions. I’ve had the privilege to work with some of Silicon Valley’s most amazing leaders and entrepreneurs and to have helped build technologies that hundreds of millions of people have used to connect, collaborate, secure and bring entertainment into their lives.

I’ve been instrumental in hiring, mentoring, coaching and celebrating with some of the best minds in the world and watched them grow into amazing Venture Capitalists, CEOs, Vice Presidents and Directors. I've had the opportunity to be a part of teams that have overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles to achieve amazing success. During my career, I've had the opportunity to...

- Mentor fledgling to rapidly expanding businesses
- Be a pioneer in the DevOps cultural revolution
- Scale Wikia's platform to support growth from 30 million to over 190 million users around the world
- Scale Netflix's production environment from 7 million to 22 million streaming video users accounting for over 25% of all US IP traffic during peak viewing hours. Constitute the first Cloud Operations Group to facilitate Netflix's evolution into a purely cloud service.
- Standardized and built a highly scalable production operations environment for VeriSign's Security Services Division with Engineering teams on every corner of the globe, then inherited and reshaped a floundering world wide IT organization into a world class solutions provider.
- Be a pioneer in the cloud revolution before "Cloud"​ was popularized while responsible for building and scaling LoudCloud's infrastructure during the first online revolution.
- Instrumental in building Web 1.0 with Organic, Inc. bringing legitimacy to businesses digital presence online.