Paul has over 20 years experience in Information Technology Management, the last eight of which was spent at eBay. He was part of the extended team that delivered eBay’s first high-availability cluster system in November, 1999, in response to the many highly-publicized site reliability problems. He then joined eBay Operations in March, 2000, and led the Systems Administration team. Under Paul, the team redesigned and deployed the eBay core database availability infrastructure based on extended clusters in a SAN environment in 2001; that model is still prevalent in both eBay and PayPal Operations. eBay’s Board of Directors awarded Paul the Fellow designation in September, 2004. Paul managed several different operational teams for both eBay and PayPal, including Systems Administration, Data Base Administration, Capacity Planning, Data Center Management, and most recently, Infrastructure Architecture.
Prior to eBay, Paul was a co-owner of Phaedo Consulting, a systems administration supplementation firm. He also worked for Landmark Software as a pre-sales engineer, and Mitre Corporation in Systems Management. He started his career doing corporate research onsite at the Securities and Exchange Commission for Washington Service Bureau, a subsidiary of Commerce Clearing House.
Paul earned a MS in Information Systems from George Mason University and a BA in Economics and Political Science from Virginia Tech. He resides with his wife Margaret, their 6-year-old daughter Meredith, and their newborn son Baker in Willow Glen. He loves golf, but his handicap doesn’t show it. He was once a semi-professional musician, but now only plays so his daughter can dance.