About
I maintain the Cloudmappr domain and cloud services for publishing side projects. If you see something useful or would like to see a project adapted for a different use case, feel free to reach out if you'd like to collaborate
Projects
EC2 Commodity Explorer
Use the AWS Bulk Pricing API to identify best-fit EC2 instance type and calculate three year running costs.
Lifecycle Navigator
Use endoflife.date API to visualize and inventory maintenance windows for a large variety of open source and proprietary hardware and software products.
EFS Explorer
A proof-of-concept sizing and comparison tool that leverages the AWS Bulk Pricing API to present the user with a dramatically simple location-sensitive sizing for EFS.
Mermex
Leverage excel to author, edit, and audit a wide variety of Mermaid diagrams.
* Pricing and lifecycle data update weekly. Check the data source for exact dates.
Current Interests
Data visualization & aggregation
geoJSON techniques
Programmable diagramming
FinOps intelligence and modeling
Commodity management (HW/SW)
Process engineering
Lifecycle Navigator
Endoflife.date tracks release metadata for open source and proprietary software and hardware projects. Software Lifecycle Navigator periodically retrieves data elements required to build a common GANTT chart for a subset of projects available in the endoflife.date project.With the resulting dashboard, users can quickly determine temporal overlap between projects, determine which are currently maintained, explore past release practices for that project, and get a solid idea of the project’s release and support cadence.
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EC2 Commodity Explorer
The EC2 Instance Explorer leverages the AWS Bulk Pricing API to collect pricing data from all EC2 instance SKUs in the US-East AWS region. It then standardizes this data to display a three-year spending projection and provides users with an online DAX data model compatible with Excel or Power BI for creating visually-driven dashboards. This tool serves as a demonstration of an approach that could be replicated across various AWS product families, and the normalization process facilitates comparison across cloud providers and on-prem approaches.
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Elastic File System Explorer
The EFS Explorer returns a specific price to the user when presented with a specific storage pattern and time frame and location. It also allows analysis of throughput and storage costs across AWS regions.
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Mermex
Mermex is an Excel widget designed for authoring large scale, complex Mermaid diagrams. It generates Mermaid syntax automatically, enhancing diagram iteration by incorporating functionalities like titling and watermarking, facilitating convenient export and streamlined version tracking. Excel can take programmatic input from virtually any source, generating consistent, error-free diagrams regardless of the flow complexity.
Experience
2020 - current | Product Management | Dell Technologies
Developed observability, business logic, GIS, and serviceability strategies for NativeEdge Orchestrator
Overhauled deployment and onboarding experience across a product with >$2B ARR
2017 - 2020 | Product Leadership | Dell Technologies
Led global team of product managers and engineers, introducing the first new product offering in the combined Dell/EMC entity
Attained #1 volume and margin share owner in the space with over $100M revenue
2012 - 2016 | Presales Leadership | EMC
Recruited and managed global team of highly specialized technologists in the areas of high-volume data platforms, ERP, CRP, and enterprise communications
Developed business and use cases for solutions and product development
2007 - 2012 | Presales Engineering | EMC
Designated SME for structured data, messaging and virtualization use cases
Developed lightweight performance and application topology data collection tool used across 1000s of customers and partners
2004 - 2007 | Presales Engineering | NetApp
Developed NetApp storage patterns and architectures to address large contracts such as DISA ESS2
Designated SME for challenging workloads and storage protocols
2000 - 2003 | IT Operations | SAIC
DevOps/infrastructure lead for supervised machine learning on open source MASINT data
Improved data center availability 12x over 18 months, reducing capital and operational expeditures 3x
1996 - 2000 | Intelligence Analyst | DynCorp
Provided decision support and course-of-action analysis for DoD backstopping during the negotiation and implementation of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty verification regime
Developed processes and systems to monitor sensor availability for the International Monitoring System