About Me
It’s a complicated world, but I try to keep it simple and focus on what matters.
I’m a passionate problem solver, tinkerer, inventor, builder, always playing with new ideas and thinking about optimizations to deliver the same or better results with less complexity and more reliability. I love to roll up my sleeves and get my hands dirty, and have a track record of building high performance teams working together to achieve a common goal.
I love spending time with family, playing in the water, working on cars, hanging out with friends, being in nature, home improvement, sim racing, music, learning, and helping my friends and neighbors with whatever projects they have going on.
My Journey
Born to a nurse and a small business owner in San Luis Obispo, CA, I have wanted to design and build amazing machines for as long as I can remember.
A junior at Washington State University in 2000 pursing a degree in Mechanical Engineering, the booming high-tech industry and the amazing advances in the Internet and Internet-based technologies drew me in. I changed my major to Computer Science and shortly thereafter took a quality assurance job at a local Peer-to-Peer Streaming Media startup called Abacast.
Over the next fourteen years at Abacast, we pivoted from a peer-to-peer streaming company to a digital monetization company, with rich ad serving and ad insertion capabilities, and the end to end media workflow to provide a turn-key offering to media publishers. During that time, my role changed too. I worked in many capacities, including quality assurance, development, dev ops to name a few, finally culminating in the role of Chief Technology Officer and Co-President. In 2014 the company was acquired by the leading ad trafficking and sales platform, WideOrbit, Inc.
I spent seven years at WideOrbit at the VP/GM of Digital Solutions, which included the streaming and ad capabilities created by Abacast, a newly acquired Podcasting platform, and, in the last three years at WideOrbit, took ownership of the Programmatic SSP the company had aquired a few years prior. I branched out from audio at WideOrbit, spending more time on Video, and working on initiatives like NextGen TV (ATSC 3.0) and CTV, and extended both our Ad Server and our Programmatic Platform to support the video ecosystem.
In 2021 my group was acquired again, this time by the second largest radio group in the United States, Audacy, Inc., to lead their own streaming, podcasting, and monetization strategy. I led the transition once again, guiding the team into their new roles at a significantly larger company, with zero attrition, and great success. I spent the next two and a half years tightly integrating the business into Audacy, doubled the team, dramatically accelerated development, and increased revenue by 400%.
