RESUME
I am an Engineer building companies, building teams, currently living in Seattle.
EMPLOYMENT
since 2023
Sr. Principal Security Engineer
Amazon
Identity and Access Management (IAM) inside Amazon. Foundational services at Amazon scale.
2019-2023
Principal Security Engineer
Amazon
Identity and Access Management (IAM) inside Amazon. Foundational services at Amazon scale.
2017-2019
Sr. Software Development Manager
Amazon
Identity and Access Management (IAM) inside Amazon. Foundational services at Amazon scale.
2015-2017
Cloud Architect
BMC Software
Leading the architecture and devSecOps efforts to bring BMC into the cloud, with their first cloud based monitoring solution.
2014 - 2015
Director of Development
Boundary (acquired by BMC)
Graphdat was acquired by Boundary, merging the network and the server data in a single realtime offering, a match made in heaven.
2012 - 2014
Co-Founder
Graphdat (acquired by Boundary)
Wore every hat bringing real time data streaming from your server, to our servers, to your browser in 4-8 seconds. The heart rate monitor for your applications.
2011 - 2012
Development Manager
PlayUp
Building the largest realtime, sport based mobile social network, receiving more than 1M+ downloads.
2009 - 2011
Head of Research & Development
Digital Five (acquired by FetchTV)
Building a Content Management System to power radio and tv properties, we built the interface for the FetchTV set-top box as well.
2006 - 2009
Head of Product Development
C4 (acquired by Selamat)
Building http://afl.com.au, the largest sporting website in Australia, and the largest DotNetNuke installation in the world.
2005 - 2006
Co-Founder
Novacore Technologies
Consulting to Healthcare, National Defense, and Big Oil.
2002 - 2005
Developer, Senior Developer
Workers Compensation Board, Accenture
The building blocks of my career.
EDUCATION
1998 - 2002
Bachelor of Computer Science
University of Alberta
SKILLS
Simplifying the Complex
Driving Innovation
Scaling Up
Appropriate Methodologies
AWS
NodeJS / Javascript
SQL/NoSQL
ASP.NET/C#
Troublemaker
SERVICES
VP of Engineering / Development Manager
Building & managing world class development teams to perform at their peak.
Cloud Architecture
Architecting and securing your application in the Cloud to save you money, keep you safe, and scale as it should.
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Every company is different, every pipeline is different. Building a pipeline that works for all members of the organization, for where you are, at this point in time.
