
Director of Data Strategy, Insight at Akamai Technologies
Greater Boston Area

Director of Data Strategy, Insight at Akamai Technologies
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; 501-1000 employees; AKAM; Internet industry)
March 2008 — Present (5 months)
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; akam; Internet industry)
September 1999 — Present (8 years 11 months)
Technical oversight of engineering organization, including design and system integrity.
(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; 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"