🧩 Turning Entropy into Clarity – I excel at bringing structure to environments where things feel scattered. I create tools and ways of working that reduce friction and waste.
🎯 Solving Tough Problems For Good – I address challenges at their root, balancing the need for quick fixes versus durable solutions.
🌱 Adaptability and Growth – I embrace change as a chance to experiment and innovate. Continuous improvement is a must (and it's fun, too!).
🧪 Test in Prod or Live a Lie - Ideas don't need to spend a long time on the lab bench. They should be tested in vivo as early as is practical to understand their value.
⚡ Moving Fast With Confidence – I believe in taking smart risks, moving quickly, and learning from past experience, balancing stability and speed.
🎨 Impact and Autonomy – I'm driven by meaningful work, where I'm given clear expectations and trusted to deliver results accordingly.
🤝 Collaborative Excellence – I thrive in teams where passion, open communication, and shared professional values enable us to do things we could never do in silos.
📚 Mentorship and Team Growth – I enjoy mentoring — and being mentored — by teams and individuals at all levels.
🥜 TL;DR
✨ Created & led a deeply cross-functional team (RTP Labs) at Meta, responsible for operating and improving new and experimental data center hardware platforms. Team enabled and influenced the design of every generation of production hardware from 2013 to the present.
📊 Successfully re-engineered a multi-million dollar capacity planning workflow, increasing transparency and reducing complexities. This initiative involved engaging with multiple teams, conducting thorough interviews, and implementing incremental yearly enhancements.
🎓 Established a global onboarding program for data center new hires, defining hands-on objectives and coordinating content creation. The program facilitated seamless integration of new employees during a period of rapid organizational growth and was later forked & adopted company-wide.
♻ Created and led an ongoing hardware reclamation program, recovering over 90% of retired test hardware for production use. This initiative prevented significant ($MM) capital expenditure write-offs and maximized resource utilization, breathing new life into retired NPI test hardware.
🛠 Developed and implemented a comprehensive program to enhance the introduction of new hardware platforms. This involved defining test suites, identifying tooling gaps, and collaborating with hardware and data center teams. The program became a standard for all subsequent new product introductions.
🗃 Led the development of a fleet management tool to track and manage the worldwide fleet of test hardware (hundreds of thousands of servers, millions of components). Collaborated with stakeholders to create a specification and secured resources to develop the tool, which became the central source of truth for asset lifecycle management and allowed engineers to self-serve and reserve hardware for testing.
💪 Trained the next generation of leaders at Facebook to use active listening, foster empathy and collaboration, and coach their people to solve their own challenges.