Work History

SandboxAQ

Head of IT

• First IT hire. Grew team from 1 to 5 people while company doubled in size over first two years.

• Led IT side of company's ISO, SOC2, and CMMC certifications.

• Built foundational IT stack from the ground up, including endpoint management, identity, helpdesk, asset logistics, and more.

Marqeta

Lead IT Systems Engineer

• Served as a technical leader and mentor for the entire IT department on subjects related to both Client Platform Engineering as well as Identity Access Management (IAM) and SaaS Ops; defining roadmap, performing project management, and leading technical approach and working sessions.

• Performed evaluation of current IAM practices and contributed to formal recommendations and architectural design of potential new approaches.

• Automated workstation compliance alerting, improving remediation time from monthly to nearly real-time.

• Developed workstation configuration automation that cut time-to-productivity for new engineers by more than 3 hours.

• Led discovery and implementation of Device Trust for workstation and mobile endpoints.

• Developed BYOD MDM program including unprecedented automation to improve user experience.

• Created set of formal requirements for the evaluation and onboarding of new SaaS vendors.

Fastly

Senior IT Systems Engineer

• Served as a technical leader and mentor for the entire IT department with respect to identity and user lifecycle.

• Automated ~70% of a nearly entirely manual employee offboarding process using a combination of IPaaS tools including BetterCloud and Okta Workflows.

• Developed methods to tie together endpoint and identity in ways that allowed for new automation possibilities, using a combination of Jamf and Okta Workflows.

• Used background in CPE to contribute and load-share on endpoint projects, as well as fill in during staffing shortages and vacations.

• Partnered with Engineering division to onboard team to their Kubernetes environment, allowing for new platforms for deploying solutions.

• Completed high-value Okta integrations such as Simpplr, Pingboard, Atlassian Cloud.

• Led implementation of Least Privileged Access (LPA) model by assessing and adjusting administrative permissions for entire IT department for key services.

• Partnered with Security team on SOX compliance auditing for SaaS/Identity, as well as additional integrations for security reporting.

Pixar

Senior Systems Engineer, Cloud Identity & Applications

• Primary administrator for most Identity/SaaS apps, including Okta, Google, Slack and more.

• Designed and maintained user lifecycle operations using a combination of Okta’s native tooling, cloud functions, IPaaS, and infrastructure-as-code (mostly Python).

• Wrote a custom Email transfer tool in Ruby that helped migrate company from on-prem Email server to Gmail. SME on administration of entire Atlassian stack (on-prem Jira, Confluence, Crucible). 

• Primary administrator for Mac VMWare ESXi cluster.

• Partnered with production technology department on development and deployment of graphics and render pipeline tools.

Systems Engineer, Client Platform Engineering

• Developed automation around management and deployment of Adobe applications at the forefront of a shift in Adobe’s licensing schemes, which I presented at MacDevOps 2019.

• Primary point of contact for support team for all Mac endpoint management needs.

• Contributed to the development and QA of the Mac CPE team’s open source tools including ruby-jss.

• Created build-out automation for laptops for Girls Who Code annual summer program.

• Primary administrator for all packaging / software deployment needs for macOS.

• Developed CLI tools to automate and/or simplify common tasks for the support team.

LAIKA

Lead Systems Administrator

• Served as the lead and sole systems administrator for the commercial division of LAIKA, acting as the primary point of contact for the entire IT and production technology infrastructure.

• Maintained and doubled capacity of computing cluster aka render farm.

• Helped troubleshoot and maintain CG render pipeline.

• Partnered with division leadership to align IT roadmap with business goals.

Desktop Systems Administrator

• Primary support administrator for stop motion feature film production.

• Served as primary asset administrator, ensuring integrity of asset database and partnered with Finance department to perform annual audits.

• Wrote a video conversion tool in Ruby for editorial team.

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