Once an engineer, always an engineer.
Career
I am currently an Engineering Director @ Netflix in the PES (Product Edge Systems) group leading the Access & Identity Management organization (url).
Prior to Netflix, I was the Vice President of Engineering at SHOP.COM for nearly 10 years. Before that, I was Director of Application Architecture for then-hot eBay and held various engineering and leadership roles at Sun Microsystems before they were acquired by Oracle.
I completed my formal engineering education at WPI in Mechanical Engineering, before Software Engineering was a thing. I worked as a mechanical engineer for several years, in the early years of CAD, and found programming my way out of repetitive drafting tasks more interesting than the mechanics I was designing. I volunteered to be the CAD systems administrator, and the rest is history.
Life
(more about my life, family, etc.)
Questions
Why “Avatrice”?
Avatrice is Greek for “gods who walk the earth as women” (need citation)
Link out to story about Olympic crew team
Consulting