Education
Stanford University
MS, Computer Science 2000-01-01 - 2001-01-01Stanford University
BS, Symbolic Systems 1996-01-01 - 2000-01-01St. Mark's School of Texas
, 1984-01-01 - 1996-01-01Work Experience
Gradient Advisors
Current
Gradient Advisors
SimplePractice
2023-07-01 - 2024-07-01
SimplePractice
Movac
2021-01-01 - 2023-03-01
Movac
Color
2017-05-01 - 2020-04-01
Color
2012-11-01 - 2017-01-01
2003-06-01 - 2012-11-01
Victoria University of Wellington
2002-01-01 - 2003-02-01
Victoria University of Wellington
Skills
Summary
Hands-on, technical engineering leader, experienced with scaling organizations and teams. Spent 20+ years in Silicon Valley. Currently working with startups and investors in NZ, Australia, and the US. Open to product/technical leadership and advisory roles (remote or NZ-based). A few highlights: * Senior executive responsible for the engineering and software systems at Twitter which generated all of the company's global revenue (approximately $2.5B USD/year in 2017). Managed an organization of 200+ employees across 4 locations. * Head of Engineering at Color Health from series B onwards (later reaching a $4.6B USD market cap) * Founder/Tech Lead of Google Flu Trends, a pioneering use of "big data" and search trend analysis as described in our Nature paper (5000+ citations). * In the early years of Google, designed and built several large-scale distributed systems and data pipelines to address a variety of problems: cross-corpus search quality, disease surveillance, time-series pattern matching against real-world trends, consumer surveys, et al.