About

Computer Scientist with 10+ years of engineering and innovation experience driving performance changes into solutions; leading efforts across teams to wrangle, manage, and understand data; and championing efforts to embrace “the cloud”.

Work Experience & Projects

Verizon Digital Media

2018 - Present Systems & Performance Architect
2017 - Present Performance & Kernel Engineer

• Performance Test Methodology
• Hardware component analysis and system-level specifications
• Linux kernel and software optimizations
• XDP/eBPF developement for DDoS and load balancing

NetApp

2011-2017 Performance Engineer & Analyst

• Data Analytic Tools
  • Data Collection/Processing (Trafero)
  • ONTAP Analystics and Telemetry Services
  • Integrate Jupyter/IPython into software engineering environment
• Performance Analysis and Engineering
  • Software Defined Storage (ONTAP Cloud and Select)
  • File and Free-Space Defragmentation Technologies
  • High Performance Caching Technology (FlashCache)
• Contributor to SPECsfs2014 load generator and workload definitions

IBM

2007-2011 Performance Engineer & Intern

• In-memory Database (WebSphere Extreme Scale)
• J2EE Server (WebSphere Application Server)

Toyata Racing Developement

2010 Research Intern

• Optimizing Simulation and Modeling Software
• Video capture and OCR Processing

Education

• PhD - 2010 - Clemson University
• BS - 2006 - High Point University