“Brad is innovative, thoughtful, and always willing to share his knowledge. He helped me learn the new and exciting world of Big Data and Hadoop and was always ready to answer my questions at whatever depth I needed. He is a great technical resource who knows his stuff and is willing to dig in and give his projects everything he has.”
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#BigNews!! After 25 years at Microsoft, I’ve decided that it’s finally time to step away for my next adventure. July 1 was my last day at the…
#BigNews!! After 25 years at Microsoft, I’ve decided that it’s finally time to step away for my next adventure. July 1 was my last day at the…
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After 17+ amazing years at Microsoft, I’m taking a career break to focus on family and personal goals. This isn’t a retirement note, not taking…
After 17+ amazing years at Microsoft, I’m taking a career break to focus on family and personal goals. This isn’t a retirement note, not taking…
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Today marks the end of my time at Microsoft having worked for Microsoft longer than I have not as I enter my 25th year. I have accepted the voluntary…
Today marks the end of my time at Microsoft having worked for Microsoft longer than I have not as I enter my 25th year. I have accepted the voluntary…
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Patents
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System and method for testing a protocol using targeted variant input
Issued 20060193342
See patentPatent for a "smart protocol fuzzer" to find security flaws in products.
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System and method for testing a protocol using targeted variant input
Issued US 20060193342
See patentThis is a patent for fuzz testing a protocol.
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Honors & Awards
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Presidents award- Microsoft Tech Fest
Microsoft - Business Platform Division
TechFest presidents award for Big Data Transfer technology incubation project.
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Toastmasters Icebreaker Speech ✅ Got lots of good feedback! Excited to work on my public speaking and presence Citrus Club Toastmasters
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I moderated a post-KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 webcast today with Kubernetes expert Tom Fenton, focused on what this year's event signaled for enterprises running containers in production. Two themes stood out in Tom's analysis. First, Kubernetes is increasingly being treated as the underlying platform for AI, with the new CNCF AI Conformance Program aimed at reducing fragmentation and improving portability of AI workloads across environments. Second, AI operations are forcing platform teams to address dual scaling pressures: very large centralized clusters for training and rapidly growing multi-cluster edge footprints for inference.
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