An ardent developer, I'm an experienced full stack software engineer, agile project manager, and team facilitator. I have a strong passion for technology and building strong teams. I have developed or managed the development of a diverse portfolio of high impact products.
Experience
2024 — Now
New York, New York, United States
Developing Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Solutions for the largest Google Cloud Customers in the Telco, Media, Entertainment, and Gaming industries.
Technologies in those projects have included:
1. GenAI Video Intelligence to perform tasks such as creating video shorts, automated trailers, metadata generation, ad video creation, and computer vision.
2. GenMedia workflows to automatically create AI images, videos, speech, and music
3. Agentic chatbots with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), Google Agent Development Kit (ADK), evaluation, security, and other capabilities for support and customer experiences
4. Media and content search
5. Personalization and recommendations
6. LLMs and GenAI for enterprise productivity
At Google's Level 6.
2018 — 2024
New York, New York
Trusted technical advisor for telecommunications, media, entertainment, and gaming Google Cloud customers.
Activities include:
1. Providing architectural stability, operational rigor, and platform health for customers' Google Cloud workloads
2. Managing relationships between Google and customer technical stakeholders and executives
3. Leading capacity, support, & technical preparation for customers' high traffic large events such as Super Bowl and Grammy's video streams, product launches, and Black Friday Cyber Monday.
4. Advising customers as they do key projects on Google Cloud such as migrations, data engineering, and machine learning implementations.
5. Analyzing and improving customer's Cloud Architecture and Cost Optimization
6. Delivering technical training presentations and demos
7. Resolving high priority customer production incidents
8. Managing customer product feedback and requirements
2017 — 2018
2017 — 2018
Greater Boston Area
GE's premier career accelerator - Internal auditing and consulting on three tracks: Digital Technology, Finance, and Supply Chain. Identify, analyze, and present data and observations to advise GE executives. Drive action on mission-critical items of the company. Reviews last 4 months each, running on a trimester basis.
3T17 - General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Audit for GE Healthcare and GE Digital
Locations: Norwalk, CT and San Ramon, CA
Audited GE Healthcare & Digital Marketing functions against GDPR requirements. Drove protection of 10M+ entries of personal data by driving single-sign-on, access reviews, and identifying unauthorized users across GE Business Units' instances of Marketo.
1T18 - Data Engineer for GE Power
Location: Baden, Switzerland
Analyzed GE Power ERPs including SAP, Oracle, & miscellaneous smaller ERPs to categorize over $30 Billion of transactions. Developed Alteryx models to automate many steps in the procedure. Collaborated with developers to query large data sets in the GE Finance data lake as well as to identify then resolve tens of thousands of lines of data quality issues.
2T18 - Product Manager for GE Digital
Location: San Ramon, CA
Product manager for GE Digital's IoT Platform Predix. Led migration of GE's industrial IoT Predix platform from AWS Cloud to Azure Cloud
3T18 - Data Loss Protection audit for GE Digital
Locations: Atlanta, GA; Schenectady, NY
Audited GE digital for cybersecurity and insider threat risks. Drove asset monitoring through Digital Guardian initiative.
2017 — 2017
San Francisco Bay Area
● GE Forklift: Drove $100K in quarterly savings by digitizing the paper forklift ordering process as well as optimizing forklift routes.
• Stack: PHP Slim framework, Angular 2.0 frontend, MySQL DB, hosted on-prem Ubuntu
● Machine Alerts: Send mobile alert if an asset has an excessive downtime or encounters issues
• Stack: Spring Framework, Polymer frontend, Postgres DB, hosted on Predix
● Security Triage: Eliminated 6 hours/day of manual security ticket prioritization work by automating triaging of security tickets. Recognized as 1st out of 38 teams in internal GE dev competition.
• Stack: Phantom Cyber (playbooks in Python), NLTK library, Falcon Web API Framework
2016 — 2017
2016 — 2017
Richmond, Virginia Area
● GE API Billing: Developed full stack internal API billing system to capture $200K of quarterly API revenue.
• Stack: PHP backend, Angular 2.0 frontend, MySQL DB, Apache server. Hosted on an on-prem Ubuntu VM.
● GE API Atlas: Developed full stack self-service tool to monitor and register internal GE API's registered on Akana. This includes monitoring performance, usage, and latency. Simplified process for API to application registration.
• Stack: Flask framework with Angular 2.0 frontend, MySQL DB, Apache server. Hosted on an on-prem Ubuntu VM.
● Akana API Automation: Reduced hour long cycle time processes to seconds by developing a suite of Python automation scripts. Scripts automated various manual processes within the Akana policy manager.
• Stack: Python, Akana API
Education
University of Notre Dame
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
Executive Graduate Degree
West Albany High School