Here is the work, in the order it happened.

career · University of Colorado, Office of Financial Aid

Assistant Network Administrator

While I was still in high school, I administered AIX, Windows NT, and Novell systems and built small Perl and JavaScript tools.

I later paid my way through about three semesters at Front Range Community College, but I did not complete a degree.

career · IBM Global Services

IT Support Specialist

I provided desktop and application support for Lucent Technologies in Boulder.

career · SHL Group

Support consultant to integration project manager

I moved from support into software development, solutions, project delivery, and HR-XML and SOAP integration work.

career · NewsGator Technologies

Technical Project Manager → Solution Architect

I worked on enterprise RSS and social collaboration architecture for large SharePoint customers.

career · Avanade

Manager → Group Manager

I led SharePoint and Office 365 delivery and directly managed onshore and offshore engineers and project managers.

career · Neudesic

Pulse product management

I worked on product management for Pulse, Neudesic’s enterprise-social product. My contemporaneous formal public title was Director, Technical Solution Sales.

career · Microsoft

Premier Field Engineer → Cloud Solution Architect

I started in SharePoint field engineering, then helped customers and partners move their architectures onto Azure.

career · Microsoft

Azure Storage product and architecture leadership

I led Azure-side storage work supporting OpenAI and Microsoft AI. The architecture covered checkpointing, one namespace across storage clusters, placement and routing near compute, data movement, capacity, clients, reliability, and the production operating loop.

career

Named by OpenAI under Microsoft Azure Support

OpenAI’s large-scale Dota 2 technical report included me in its Microsoft Azure Support acknowledgment.

My role was Azure product and infrastructure work underneath the models.

career · Microsoft

Project Fairwater storage and data workstream

I led Azure Blob’s storage and data workstream for Microsoft’s Fairwater AI datacenter program, coordinating regional capacity, pre-staging, service-side data movement, performance, reliability, and operations with the larger infrastructure team.

This role description is my first-person account. Microsoft’s public Fairwater article documents the system but does not name me.

career · VAST Data

VP, Cloud Product Management

I worked on inference data architecture and economics, including how KV-cache capacity, concurrency, write load, latency, SSD endurance, and persistent storage affect system design and total cost.