Technology leader, security consultant, audio hobbyist in Brooklyn, NY
I'm a hands-on technology leader with well over a decade of experience building and operating digital products - from legacy streaming media to venture-backed startups, and now the intersection of insurance and finance. I've helped companies navigate acquisitions, scale from in-office to globally distributed teams, and bring products to market on flexible, secure, and compliant technical platforms.
Currently, I serve as the CIO at Wysh, a financial protection company pioneering micro life insurance in the U.S. I lead our cloud infrastructure, information technology, and information security functions; own our enterprise technology strategy; and serve as the lead architect in support of our software engineering teams.
Information security is everywhere in my professional work, and everywhere in the industry as a topic of equal importance from tiny startups to large enterprises.
I'm an accredited member of ISC2 and hold a CISSP certification as well as its security architecture specialization, the ISSAP - and use these alongside my own experiences designing security into startup technology and culture to consult with growing businesses. Software startups are high-risk environments, but attention to detail at the right places and right times can help them move quickly with confidence and use appropriate attention to security as a differentiator. Reach out via email for a consultation.
In years past, I used to build teams and communities in my work as the General Manager of Overclock.net, which eventually became part of the Wikia / Fandom family of enthusiast websites. It was the largest performance computing discussion board of its kind on the internet, with half a million members having discussions and creating editorial content viewed 20 million+ times each month.
Prior to OCN's own acquisition by Wikia, I worked closely with the talented folks at Huddler, our community software provider, on product improvements to their community platform and developing a set of best practices for forum community engagement across other Huddler communities. We were pioneering community influence and responsible brand participation long before "influencer" was a broadly used term.
When I worked at Digitally Imported, my day job was all about software and servers - but after we transitioned from terrestrial-style radio with realtime steam encoding to a modern, CDN-based streaming architecture, we could have staff playlists! I curated a few, and one of them is still in their rotation: DI.FM: A Lighter Side of Techno.
Before getting into the tech industry, I worked in academic recording studios and concert halls in the greater Miami area, with a niche in big band and salsa orchestra. One of my big band recordings of a University of Miami ensemble won Downbeat Magazine's Best Engineered Live Recording for the year 2013 in the Student Music Awards.
On Github, I've published source code for a few small projects, mostly from my academic years.
An interesting one is SpaceyDelayer: a fun, VST-compatible audio processing plugin that emulates classic multitap tape delay hardware like the Boss RE-20. The novel feature of SpaceyDelayer is that the offset time between taps in the delay is configurable - in a typical multitap tape delay, the user can specify the time between the initial playback and the first delay, but with SpaceyDelayer, the interval between the plugin’s 3 delay taps is also configurable. It was developed in C++ using Will Pirkle's RackAFX plugin prototyping system.