I am a cloud and data architect in the Seattle area with 20 years experience working in web
services and REST, 10 years experience working with NoSQL/Big Data, 6 years experience working with
modern cloud data architectures, and have expert knowledge of AWS, Hadoop, Spark, Java, Spring, and Python.
My passions are centered around big data, modern cloud architectures, and
graphs.
Please view my resume or social profiles on the left for more details.
I am currently employed at
The Walt Disney Company
as a principal data architect. In this role I design large scale data platforms that process streaming data. In
previous roles I've architected and built solutions and platforms powering various brands including ESPN, ABC,
Disney Parks, Marvel, and more.
Prior to Disney I was employed at Cisco as a web services engineer in their
Utilities/Smart Grid Group
working on building a user-facing, smart grid web platform. I also worked on different web-based
video technologies.
Before Cisco, I worked on the web services team for a home network technology company aquired by
Cisco that was called
Pure Networks.
I've also worked as a website/web-application engineer at
Focus Design,
a full-service media agency.
I have a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science with an emphasis in networking and artificial
intelligence from BYU. In my spare time, I enjoy spending time with my wife and four children,
keeping up with the latest technology in BigData/NoSQL (esp. with graph databases), and finding
opportunities to learn new technologies for no other reason than that they seem interesting
to me.
