Professional Summary
Director of Web Data Acquisition and engineering leader with nine years at ZoomInfo, scaling the company from startup to public market leader. Architect of billion-scale crawlers, agentic extraction pipelines, and vectorized data platforms powering commercial intelligence. Expert in distributed systems, real-time data ingestion, cloud-native orchestration, and high-precision LLM/SLM-based extraction. Proven builder of high-performance teams across backend, data infrastructure, and machine learning. Delivers scalable, fault-tolerant data platforms that drive product innovation and enterprise revenue.
Professional Experience
Senior Manager, Agentic Web Data Acquisition
ZoomInfo · Mar 2023 - Present
- Architected and scaled a SERP engine processing 500M+ monthly searches and distributed crawler frameworks handling 1B+ pages/month with intelligent throttling, caching, and diffing
- Lead multiple teams of engineers across backend, DevOps, and ML; establish agile roadmaps, velocity metrics, and CI/CD standards
- Pioneered agentic extraction systems using LLMs and domain-specific SLMs for high-precision entity and event detection
- Integrated and normalized multi-format datasets from two global vendors (covering 600M+ people and 100M+ companies), building ETL pipelines and graph linking logic
- Developed news-velocity tracking and realtime acquisition-signal models linking information flow to public-market behavior
Senior Manager, Software Engineering
ZoomInfo · Apr 2021 - Mar 2023
- Mentored 50+ engineers across data, backend, and automation teams, building culture of experimentation and distributed architecture
- Orchestrated transition from monolithic crawlers to microservices architecture
Manager of Data Strategy
ZoomInfo · Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
- Drove incremental value and new licensed data assets from 5+ partnerships with double digit ROI
- Created BI function and vision, hired BI manager and analysts, achieving 50% reduction in dashboard delivery time
Operations Analyst / Special Projects Analyst
DiscoverOrg · Jul 2016 - Oct 2019
- Joined as one of first 150 employees; contributed to foundational systems enabling growth from startup to enterprise scale
- Authored voicemail fingerprinting algorithms validating phone-number ownership, ingesting tens of millions of data points
- Accelerated contact-growth from <1M to >100M verified entities through analytical models and data quality improvements
- Conducted specialized research projects supporting product development and data acquisition initiatives during critical growth phase
Side Projects
Serpopotamus
Google Search and Maps SERP scraper with Flask web UI, PostgreSQL storage, and batch CSV processing
Courtwise
Agentic RAG platform for navigating the legal system - crawls, indexes, and enables semantic search across legal documents
Universal web scraper with a 3-tier hybrid fallback strategy - stealth browser automation, residential proxy rotation, and request fingerprinting
Yelptopus
Yelp business data extraction with deep pagination, Flask UI, PostgreSQL storage with deduplication, and real-time progress tracking
Catchmark
Fishing spot discovery platform for anglers. React/TypeScript frontend, Express backend, PostGIS for geospatial queries
Technical Skills
Data Infrastructure
Languages & Frameworks
Search & Crawling
Machine Intelligence
Leadership & Strategy
Education
Master of Public Affairs (M.P.A.), Applied Policy
Washington State University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History & Development of Language
Winthrop University
Sigma Tau Delta - Chapter President
Notable Achievements
Transformed ZoomInfo's acquisition codebase into a billion-page, enterprise-grade web intelligence platform driving core product data.
Advanced from analyst to director scope assuming ownership of the company's mission-critical acquisition infrastructure and strategy.
One of the first 150 employees instrumental in growing engineering and data infrastructure through 3,500+ headcount and an explosive IPO.