Data Service

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Summary

I am an experienced technologist and team leader with the bulk of my career focused on creating

scalable systems, either for data products or to provide Internet/web services to consumers. I am a

fast learner, work well with clients and team members, and am very entrepreneurial.

The technologies I know well include those used for building and scaling consumer web services,

managing and utilizing large data sets, creating distributed systems, and producing analytics. I have

experience building and operating SaaS offerings in cloud computing environments, and possess

strong architecture skills.

Interests: Big Data analytics, data warehousing, data science, behavioral and intelligent marketing,

distributed systems, SaaS, scalable consumer web services, cloud computing.

Skills & Expertise

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Big Data and Data Science Team management, recruiting

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Online Marketing and Digital Consulting, Project Management

Media

• Open Source OSes and tools

• Agile Development

• Distributed Systems Design

• Software Engineering, SDLC

• Data Warehousing, ETL

• Cloud Computing

Technology Knowledge

MySQL, MongoDB, Hadoop/HBase (Cloudera), Oracle. MapReduce, Pig, Hive. Java, Ruby, Perl,

C, Bash. Application servers. Spring Framework, Ruby on Rails, Web Services, SOA. HTTP,

nginx, Apache, Tomcat, Tibco. SDLC, Agile, Waterfall. Chef, puppet. git, Subversion. Distributed

systems design, multi-threaded programming. ETL. Data modeling, database architecture and

performance tuning. TCP/IP networking and sockets. Email protocols and standards. Network,

systems, application and kernel-level programming. I have 16 years of experience designing,

building, and operating scalable applications in Unix environments (primarily Linux, RHEL, and

Solaris).

Education

University of Michigan

MS, Computer Science, 2002 - 2004

Focus: Artificial Intelligence (passed Ph.D. quals in Systems). Recipient of an NSF IGERT

fellowship for the Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions program.

University of Rochester

BS, Mechanical Engineering, 1989 - 1993

Activities and Awards: Phi Beta Kappa, Hook Award, Newton Award, and Emil M. Kuichling

Prize. Bausch and Lomb Scholar. Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity (social chair).

Experience

Chief Product Officer and Board Member at Canines, Inc., January 2013 - Present

Launching Dognition, a science-based SaaS product aimed at the world's 200M+ dog

owners. Accomplishments: led a twelve-person product development team (software

engineering, design, UX, DevOps, QA) to launch a scalable cloud-based service from

prototype in 5 weeks. Selected and managed relationships with external services

providers. Co-developed go-to-market strategy with exec team, prioritized features and

devised product strategy. The technology stack is Ruby on Rails, MySQL, git, Bronto,

Paypal on AWS. The service has been featured on ABC World News Tonight, CBS

Morning News, The New York Times and Scientific American.

Chief Technology Officer at eDataSource, July 2011 - January 2013

Email Data Source produces and sells competitive analytics products and conducts ad-hoc

research for top email marketers and national brands. Responsibilities included management of

product development, technology operations and support teams, product strategy for the

consumer and analytics products, company-wide IT, and the development of the company's 'big

data' infrastructure. The technology platform consisted primary of Java, MySQL, Linux,

Hadoop/HBase.

Advisor, Consultant at RestEngine, December 2009 - May 2012

RestEngine developed an email marketing automation platform for the social gaming industry. I

helped assemble the founding team, helped design and build the initial product and technology

platform as a consultant, and served as an advisor in the areas of fundraising, team growth, and

strategy. Sold to Twitter in May of 2012.

Founder and CEO at Boxbe, Inc., September 2005 - July 2011

Boxbe is an inbox-optimization service for Gmail, Yahoo, and AOL email used by over

800,000 consumers. Accomplishments: conceived business model, built founding team, raised

two venture rounds from Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) and angel investor Esther Dyson.

Successfully fought a suit from a patent troll. Engineered virality into product and grew user

base 20x in 20 months. Designed the distributed computing infrastructure in Java, MySQL, and

Spring which processed 600M emails per month and over 500M scans per day. Pivoted into a

data company. Structured a complex purchase option and acquisition deal.

Consultant at AdRoll.com, March 2010 - September 2010

Integrated Adroll's re-targeting platform and inventory management system with Right

Media's ad-exchange network (now Yahoo!). Advised and worked on technology strategy for

capturing, storing, and processing high volumes of ad-network data.

Partner, Senior Principal, at Diamond Technology Partners, October 1999 - February 2001

Diamond Technology Partners (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) was a publicly traded technology

and strategy consulting firm. As a Knowledge Leader (Partner and technical fellow), I lead

technology and strategy engagements, facilitated development of company-wide competencies,

and provided technology strategy and technical architecture expertise to various Fortune 500

clients.

CEO of Leverage Information Systems, Inc., April 1998 - October 1999

Lead the company's pivot to become a services provider for open source application server

technology. Lead business development, product development, and service teams. Retained

corporate development talent and lead the sale of the company to publicly traded Diamond

Technology Partners.

Founder and CTO at Leverage Information Systems, Inc., April 1996 - April 1998

Cofounded Leverage with two Match.com veterans to develop and commercialize Java-based

application servers to serve the Internet boom. Built an engineering team and designed the first

several versions of Leverage's flagship product, Locomotive, as chief architect. Lead all

implementation service teams. Clients included VentureOne (now Reuters), Purple Moon (now

Mattel), Electric Minds (a Howard Rheingold venture), and Kiracom.

Lead Developer at Match.com, January 1995 - April 1996

I was one of the three original engineers that built match.com's web personals system. I worked

on the matching algorithms, various features in the user interface, and the application platform.

We did 10 releases in 10 months. We developed a pre-forked, database connection-pooling, file-

descriptor-passing, template pre-compiling, Perl-based application server running atop Oracle on

Solaris (using a tweaked version of oraperl). I wrote match.com's original billing system and

integrated it with CheckFree, optimized database layout, worked on the app server’s internal

architecture and matching algorithms to result in better mate-matches.

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