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

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