About

I’ve spent my career in infrastructure — first building IT systems for small and mid-size businesses, then operating data centers at a scale that didn’t exist when I started.

I joined Meta in 2013 as a data center technician at a single campus in North Carolina, when the fleet was still at the Megawatt scale. Over the past 13 years, I’ve grown with the team through multiple Gigawatts and we’re now scaling toward dozens. Today I direct operations for Meta’s South region — ~24% of Meta’s GPU fleet and total megawatts. We grew the region from 754 MW to 1,070 MW (+42%) in 18 months under my Area Lead tenure, and we’re currently supporting the turn-up of Hyperion in Louisiana — Meta’s next-generation campus that will be the size of Manhattan and 5 GW at full build-out.

What I’ve built

Multiple regions from the ground up. Our team has commissioned and deployed new data center regions from dirt to production traffic — including Meta’s first all-Turin server region, delivered on schedule. We position thousands of racks per year at rates up to 750 racks/week with single-day records of 200 racks.

AI into how I operate. I don’t just govern AI initiatives — I use AI tools daily. I’ve built AI agents into my own workflow for meeting prep, workforce modeling, data analysis, and operational reporting. That hands-on fluency shapes how I evaluate and sponsor AI programs across the organization.

An AI Operations program with measurable results. I founded and lead Meta’s data center AI Operations program (2022). In its first year, the program drove a 49% reduction in unplanned downtime and interruptions on training infrastructure, a 70% reduction on inference infrastructure, and a 180% improvement in diagnostic accuracy. I co-created the new hardware introduction process now used across Grand Teton, MTIA, NVIDIA GB200, and GB300 deployments.

Operations that scale by way of quality systems that work. Every year, dozens of cutting-edge server platforms flow through the NPI pipeline with minimal telemetry or diagnostics out of the box. Our team drove continuous improvement into how we troubleshoot and repair these systems — composite scoring frameworks, retired legacy metrics, LLM-powered quality assessment — and now we’re leveraging Agentic AI to exponentially accelerate that process.

Organizational design for hyperscale. I authored and globally deployed the Leadership Deployment Model — a 9-month cross-functional effort with HR and Legal that enables site operations to scale 3x (to ~10GW) without adding regional leadership headcount.

Before Meta

I spent over a decade in IT infrastructure. I designed and deployed systems across Unix, Linux, VMware, and Windows environments as a systems engineer and architect. I co-created managed cloud service offerings. I directed technology operations for a multi-state retailer with around 400 employees, partnering with the CEO and CFO on strategy and managing all infrastructure end to end.

I started my career as a hands-on engineer. That foundation — understanding how systems actually work, not just how they look on a slide — still shapes how I lead.

Outside work

I’m a graduate of Leadership North Carolina, a selective statewide leadership program. I represent my company in state-level legislative advocacy for data center tax incentives and maintain relationships with government officials, economic development authorities, and community organizations across the Southeast.

Outside of work, I’ve completed several half and full Ironman triathlons, and these days I spend my time woodworking, vibe-coding side projects, and cooking food that’s probably too spicy. I live in Athens, Georgia with my partner Aimee and our two dogs, Olive and Huck.