SUMMARY

• Technical Program Manager at Google
• Software product builder
• MIT graduate and teacher
• MIT Press author
• Pioneering podcasting developer
• Hands-on manager, experienced team builder, evolving leader.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Technical Program Manager at Google, driving best practices in internal tools and testing.

DevOps consultant to the Music group at Samsung, specializing in monitoring and real time metrics.

Accomplishments:

• Built Opsview/Nagios monitors that integrated with site code libraries to check API function
• Built tooling to sync configuration across two Opsview installations, to assist with migration
• Installed Statsd, documented and evangelized its use with the development team
• Configured wall-mounted tv displays to surface key Statsd metric data using Graphite and Graphene
• Created script to sync CloudWatch data to Statsd
• Built a tool to automate RDS instantiation, configuration and population from json files and liquibase changelogs

Bravo Your City is an early stage startup building a global, collaborative publishing platform for local stories.

Hands-on manager leading the software development and technical operations teams building a broadband advertising and entertainment platform. Responsibilities range from hiring to team management to software development.

Regular daily experience with: javascript, php, mysql, infobright, memcache, subversion, git, puppet, gearman, bash.

Sole proprietor consulting business, providing software services to large and small clients, including:

1. The Development Gateway Foundation, enhanced and maintained a web-based multi-language economic development portal.
2. MIT Sloan School of Management, developed and maintained an educational intranet used daily by more than 1,000 members of the MIT community. Shepherded the system through three major system upgrades, performing numerous code merges between the system and its underlying open source platform.
3. Warner Bros., provided technical infrastructure for podcast promotion of the House of Wax movie. Hosted the House of Wax RSS feed and provided a custom-skinned podcast receiver (desktop software) built on Juice.
4. Elsa Dorfman, portrait photographer.

Led web projects backed by the ArsDigita Community System (ACS). Leadership responsibilities included: pitching new clients, business requirements definition, SQL data modeling, system design, and technical supervision of a 3-4 person team through initial implementation, iteration and testing, public launch, and ongoing maintenance and upgrades.

Major projects:

1. The Development Gateway a multilingual web-based knowledge sharing system that we built for the World Bank Group. Implemented in Oracle SQL and AOLserver Tcl (ACS v4.1), the Development Gateway supports community building within topic areas by providing: content management tools that designated guides use to moderate, highlight and organize content; collaborative tools such as content submission, commenting, bulletin boards, and email alerts that enable users to work together.
2. HP Image Services, a web-based system that we built for Hewlett-Packard to support collaborative document production (non-public site). Implemented in Oracle SQL and AOLserver Tcl (ACS v3.0), HP Image Services provides outsourced file storage, document production workflow, and order generation and tracking for organizations that produce printed documents.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

EDUCATION

SM Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT.

BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University.

SKILLS

TEACHING

Co-taught MIT 6.171: Software Engineering of Innovative Web Services with Philip Greenspun and Hal Abelson. Responsibilities included: giving lectures, writing problem sets, supervising student projects, and class administration. (Spring, 2000, Fall, 2000, Spring, 2002 and Fall, 2003).

Dozens of hours leading Web programming training sessions at our free "bootcamps" while at ArsDigita.

PUBLICATIONS

• Software Engineering for Internet Applications, MIT Press, 2006. With Philip Greenspun and Eve Andersson.

• "Beyond the RDBMS: the Brave New (Old) World of NoSQL", with Philip Greenspun (http://philip.greenspun.com/teaching/three-day-rdbms/beyond-the-rdbms)
• "Software Design Review", with Philip Greenspun (http://philip.greenspun.com/software/design-review)
• "iPodder Overview", self-published. (http://grumet.net/writing/programmer/syndication/ipodder.html)
• "RSS Powered Tivo To Do Lists", self-published. (http://grumet.net/writing/programmer/syndication/rss-powered-tivo-todo-lists.html)
• "Deep Thinking About Weblogs", self-published. (http://grumet.net/writing/web/deep-thinking-about-weblogs.html)
• "Adding Wireless Users to Your Web Service", ArsDigita Systems Journal. (http://web.archive.org/web/20060204233021/http://ccm.redhat.com/asj/wireless/)