Experience
CrowdStrike — Engineering Manager, Platform Operations
Oct 2022 – Present- Lead a 9-engineer team operating Falcon LogScale / Next-Gen SIEM clusters that process petabytes of telemetry daily.
- Cut ~$1M/year in infrastructure cost through a log-storage waste-analysis initiative.
- Shipped HawkEye, an internal operations bot — delivered ahead of schedule with 1,100+ uses in its first 90 days.
- Drove 100% AI-tooling adoption across the team, making LLM-assisted work part of daily engineering.
- Directed a FIPS-compliant Ubuntu upgrade across 400+ production hosts with zero incidents.
- 100% one-year retention and 100% "I trust my manager" on engagement surveys.
CrowdStrike — Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Platform Operations
Oct 2019 – Oct 2022- Operated Splunk systems processing ~3 PB/day, growing 80% year over year.
- Improved reliability across a 20,000-node Linux fleet with Python-based tooling.
- Built Grafana / Prometheus / Thanos observability that cut incident-response time.
Alchemy Security — Director of Engineering
Apr 2018 – Oct 2019- Launched Alchemy Defense Cloud (managed Splunk on AWS) across 10 customer environments.
- Backed a 20-person SOC with managed monitoring and vulnerability scanning.
- Wrote 15 Ansible playbooks to make operations repeatable.
Optiv Security — Principal Consultant
Sep 2014 – Apr 2018- Delivered SIEM and security-operations consulting to 500+ clients.
- Mentored 10 consultants and ran 30 trainings; earned two promotions.
Abbott Laboratories — Senior Security Engineer
Sep 2008 – Sep 2014- Enterprise security operations and intrusion response for a global medical-device manufacturer.