
Senior Director, Engineering and Data Strategy
Greater Boston Area

Senior Director, Engineering and Data Strategy
Greater Boston Area
Software architect, developer, and manager with a focus on high performance I/O intensive systems, with extensive experience in search and internet applications. Particular interests in storage-centric and parallel systems, and in hiring and maturing software development teams.
Storage systems, software development in difficult environments
(Public Company; AKAM; Internet industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)
Responsible for systems engineering, analytics, and data strategy for Akamai's Advertising Decision Solutions Business. This business enables Akamai's many publisher, ad network, and advertising customers to more easily conduct behaviorally targeted advertising.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; akam; Internet industry)
January 2006 — March 2008 (2 years 3 months)
Engineering Director of Akamai Mapping group. This team develops and runs Akamai's Internet mapping, load-balancing and DNS (name service) technologies. These are Akamai's key technologies, daily directing over a hundred million Internet users to ideally located content servers.
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; AKAM; Internet industry)
September 1999 — March 2008 (8 years 7 months)
Technical oversight of engineering organization, including design and system integrity.
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1997 — 1999 (2 years )
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1996 — 1997 (1 year )
(Public Company; Internet industry)
1995 — 1996 (1 year )
PhD (not completed) , Computer Science , August 1990 — July 1995
MS , Math , August 1986 — June 1990
BS , Chemistry , August 1986 — May 1990
parallel systems, storage systems, woodworking (furniture), cooking
US Patents:
7,127,713 - "Java application framework for use in a content delivery network"
6,981,180 - "testing request-response service using live traffic"
6,412,042 - "Method for improved disk drive performance and reliability"