Resume

Brief Biography

I studied mathematics as an undergrad at Boston University. Continuing at Harvard, I completed my Ph.D. in 1999. Concurrent with these studies, starting in 1989, I worked as a consultant and software engineer involving quantitative analysis in the finance industry. After completing my degree, I learned about web technologies, but turned my interests to cryptography. In 2000, I joined RSA Laboratories where I pursued research topics in cryptography and data security. In 2007 I joined the mapping department at Akamai, moving into management in 2010. During my tenure at Akamai I led an elite group of engineers building and operating the core traffic steering algorithms, whose output was passed to DNS and controlled a large fraction of internet traffic. This webpage is one way to find me, communicate a brief history of work at Akamai and post some earlier papers I wrote while working in cryptography research.

Akamai Experience

At Akamai, I served as Director of Global Load Balancing, leading an organization of nearly 30 members across the US, Poland, and India. My teams evolved and operated a centralized global controller, which, every 30 seconds, steered up to 15-30% of the world's internet traffic. With safe engineering and operation, we ensured high reliability and 100% uptime for this mission-critical system, even as the network infrastructure and CDN products scaled exponentially. I founded a remote team for real-time control system visibility tools, drove multi-million dollar CAPEX savings through software changes, and led cross-organization engineering efforts for a new Cloud offering.

As a leader, I used SAFe-inspired planning cycles to achieve prioritization, transparency, and alignment. An expert in stakeholder management, I collaborated weekly with dozens of leaders company-wide, including network planners, SRE teams, Product Management, safety/software release teams, and executive business owners. I consistently delivered rapid level-of-effort assessments that directly informed prioritization. My focus on relationship building, continuous performance feedback, and motivating and coaching my team resulted in highly productive and one of this most stable teams at Akamai. I've also refined my communication and presentation skills for over 25 years.

Journal Paper

Conference Papers

Some Manuscripts and Presentations (Cryptography)

Some Manuscripts and Presentations (Mathematics)

This thesis work involves explicit constructions of Néron models, extensions of Tate's Algorithm to compute the special fiber of an elliptic curve to the non perfect residue field case, and the resolution of singularities on elliptic schemes.

Conference Committee Participation

Selected Invited Workshop Participation and Speaking Engagements