1996 → now

Here is the work, in the order it happened.

This starts with a byline at fourteen and runs through the systems I build today. It is the quickest way to see how one chapter led to the next.

Origin Career Building Community Speaking

1996

origin

A first byline and a first shared web project

At 14, I published an article in Centennial Middle School’s online newspaper and helped build ThinkQuest astronomy entry 3516 with two other students.

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Centennial Middle School, Vocal Point ThinkQuest archive

1996–2000

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.

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1997–1998

origin

Student Internet Guide, Perl, IIS, and Linux

A BVSD volunteer page, six public Perl and IIS troubleshooting threads, and ten separate 1998 Linux-list messages show how I taught myself in public.

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Boulder Valley School District archive Google Groups Boulder Linux Users Group

2000–2001

career · IBM Global Services

IT Support Specialist

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

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2001–2008

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.

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2001–2008

build

Brio Solutions

I built and hosted LAMP-stack sites for small businesses while working a full-time day job.

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2003

community

Longmont City Council candidate

At 21, I ran in Ward III and received a reconciled 1,331 votes, or 28.24 percent, against an incumbent.

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Boulder County Clerk archive

2006–2008

build

NewsPicker became Mine Feed

I launched and operated a Pligg-based social-news and RSS project, plus small local-news and request-debugging tools.

I built on Pligg, customized the system, and ran it as a small working project.

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Jason Vallery / Internet Archive

2007–2016

build

GmailExtract and MineMyMail

I turned a personal IMAP contact-extraction tool into a bootstrapped product with documented third-party use through 2016.

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Stack Overflow

2008–2010

career · NewsGator Technologies

Technical Project Manager → Solution Architect

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

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2010–2012

career · Avanade

Manager → Group Manager

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

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2012–2013

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.

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Redmond Magazine

2013–2017

career · Microsoft

Premier Field Engineer → Cloud Solution Architect

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

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Microsoft LinkedIn

2015

build

Merged Azure high-IOPS quickstart

I authored a five-file, 614-addition Azure Resource Manager template and a README follow-up. Both merged.

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GitHub / Azure

2017–2025

career · Microsoft

Azure Storage product leadership

I led strategic customer engagement and Blob experience product work, finishing with the public-facing title Group Product Manager, Azure Blob Storage.

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SNIA Storage Developer Conference 2024 Microsoft Learn VAST Data

2019

career