Passionate, collaborative engineering leader with over 25 years of
experience in transformative projects. Always seeking ways to use
technology to unlock potential while also reducing toil and cost.
Google, 2008–present
Senior Staff Software
Engineer,
Cloud
Business Intelligence; 2024–present
- Lead engineering velocity, reliability, and release quality
for the Looker
and Looker Studio
products
- Promote a culture supporting happy, productive engineers
- Reviewed over 1,000 candidates for Software Engineer as
a hiring
committee member (2008-present)
- Interviewed 400+ candidates for Google (2008-present)
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Privacy, Safety, and Security; 2022–2024
- Founding engineer and technical lead of the External Standards Intelligence team
- Protected the open Internet by coordinating and developing Google’s standards strategy and regulatory approach with engineering, legal, product management, and senior leadership
- Contributed to new controls to allow websites
to opt-out
content from improving Gemini generative AI
- Scholarship review (Generation Google 2023)
Senior Staff Software Engineer and Technical
Director,
Cloud
Office of the CTO; 2019–2022
Staff Software Engineer and Technical Director, Cloud Office of the CTO; 2016–2019
- Led the development of dedicated cloud regions for customers
like SAP
- Technical lead for SAP on Google Cloud, including the deployment
of new
machine types
- Collaborated with customers on innovative projects; appeared
in public-facing videos
(Etsy, NY Times)
- Represented Google engineering during customer negotiations
for hundreds of millions of dollars
- Scholarship review (Lime 2020,
Women Techmakers 2018-2019,
Generation
Google 2019-2022)
Staff Software Engineer,
Site
Reliability Engineering (SRE); 2012–2016
- Launched storage systems in new cloud regions using a new data center configuration
- Worked with 20 products and over 60 teams to meet new requirements
- Managed three SRE teams of 30 engineers (monitoring
infrastructure, lock
service, Cloud
Pub/Sub)
- Ran performance management calibration sessions with all New York City SRE managers
- Guided teams through successful career goals, including promotions for many team members
- Worked from Dublin for six months in a short-term work assignment
- Managed a team of engineers working to improve the internal
storage stack; reduced costs by over $100MM YoY
- Deployed a caching solution for AppEngine to eliminate bottlenecks in storage stack
- Scholarship review (UNCF, 2012; Generation Google 2014-2016)
Senior Software Engineer, Corporate Engineering (CorpEng); 2009–2012
Software Engineer, CorpEng; 2008–2009
- Created overall technical design for and led development of a rewrite of all Google hiring systems
- Completed in under five months with a team of 30 engineers
- Replaced over 10 years of business logic and custom code
- Delivered 5% better conversions with a new website for candidates applying for jobs
- Led development of 10+ staffing systems at Google, including regulated systems covered by SOX
- Launched new system for automatic generation of interview schedules
Delaware and Hudson, Brooklyn, 2014–2018
Partner
- Delaware and Hudson was a 74-seat Michelin-starred,
NYT-reviewed restaurant with 20 employees
Senior Engineer
- Created search engine optimization (SEO) and billing systems for
the PhotoShelter Collection (PSC)
- Developed features for the desktop uploader in Java and Aperture
plug-in in Objective C
Time Inc., New York, 1995–2007
Manager of Analysis and Planning, Information Technology; 2006–2007
- Designed Time Inc.'s first new editorial system in over ten years and lead team of 25 engineers
- Selected vendor, defined SLA, configured disaster recovery, resolved performance issues
- Presented on digital photography at schools, companies, and an industry conference panel
Manager of System Development,
Sports Illustrated; 2004–2006
- Developed an application to download digital cards, caption
photos, and transmit web-ready images
Senior Systems Engineer,
Sports Illustrated; 2001–2004
- Created applications in .NET and Java to manage digital photos and assignments
- Reduced staff requirements by eight people between the 2000 and 2004 Olympics
- Developed software to process serial data to produce a daily magazine for the 2002 Olympics
- Created software used at the NCAA Final Four
to capture
images from cameras attached to 30 laptops
- Developed a web-based system allowing photographers to submit invoices and view assignments
System Developer,
Sports Illustrated; 1999–2001
- Redesigned processes and developed software in Java and PL/SQL to allow SI to close hours earlier
- Deployed system to Entertainment Weekly enabling reduced headcount and eliminating delays
Operations Administrator,
Sports Illustrated; 1995–1999
B.S., Math/Computer Science,
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, 1995