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, Privacy, Safety, and Security; 2022–present
- Founding engineer and Tech 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
- Reviewed over 1,000 candidates for Software Engineer as
a hiring
committee member
- Interviewed 400+ candidates for Google (2008-present)
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
- Advocated for strategic customer engineering goals
- 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 over one hundred million dollars year-over-year
- Deployed a caching solution for AppEngine to eliminate bottlenecks in storage stack
- Created an internal application in Go to assist teams in using storage systems more efficiently
- 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) for the PhotoShelter Collection (PSC)
- Designed and implemented billing system for the PSC using Postgres
and PHP
- Created features for the PhotoShelter Uploader, a Java desktop application
- Updated PhotoShelter's Aperture plug-in to patch bugs and support asynchronous uploads
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
- Selected vendor, defined SLA, configured disaster recovery, resolved performance issues
- Supervised team of 25 engineers deploying the pilot system
- 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