PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

DevOps Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Ground up rebuild of internal IT department into DevOps commercial software shop. Performed evaluations of full range of infrastructure and DevOps toolchains, including Openstack/Vmware, Chef/Ansible, Jenkins/Travis, Dynatrace/AppDynamics/Upguard. Designed core AI infrastructure management, and integrated systems to deliver HIPAA compliant hybrid cloud corporate enterprise:

CTO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for technology selection and strategy, R&D, including design, development and implementation. Personally implemented embedded hardware, big data, and DevOps infrastructure for very large numbers of physical servers in a Web of Things model, for the computer vision and machine learning plant health management system. Designed and prototyped computer vision and machine learning agents. Primary communicator of technical and business vision to investors and customers for revolutionizing the fundamental conceptual approach to managing commercial indoor agriculture. Developed message strategy and written communication tools to persuade dual audiences of commercial greenhouse executives and growers to change the established way of thinking about greenhouse operations from monitoring environmental factors, the inputs to plant health, to managing by the real business metric, the output of the production process: real time plant health and performance.

President

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Primary decision maker on selection of infrastructure and technology partners. Managed partner relationships and oversaw implementation of highly available back end settlement engine for major US stock exchange. Designed and implemented system, network and application instrumentation, monitoring and reporting package to ensure compliance, performance and reliability.
• Worked directly for the Chairman of the Board of a major European national phone company providing oversight, technical and political problem solving with both internal staff and technology providers during a major transition of operations from decentralized individual shops into a standardized scalable support organization. Met goal declared impossible from the start by successfully transitioning all technical staff to new organization.
• Designed and managed development, testing and deployment of instrumentation and monitoring Security Dashboard software package as SaaS offering for national network security firm.
• Consulted for major airline on redesign of aircraft support back end systems and advised on interoperability with Boeing's complementary manufacturing and maintenance systems.

CEO & CTO

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Founded and built 36 member team delivering managed IT services leading what the Gartner Group named the first Managed Service Provider. Led the charge to redefine the way the whole industry did business and set the stage for the 'as a Service' business model. Delivered consistent operations to Fortune 500 customers at a fraction of the cost of in house systems management. Hired and led team of industry leading IT professionals and changed the way enterprise systems management was done from siloed specialists to one cross functional team responsible for operations. Raised Seed, A and B rounds. Personally landed initial key customer service contracts. Developed and implemented systems management infrastructure to instrument and automate the operations of wide range of large scale corporate enterprises.

Systems Management Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Performed numerous system design and implementations for main line of business computing systems for large corporate IT enterprises, including Confidential and Boeing's manufacturing systems. Generally worked as sole consultant, leading clients' technical teams. Projects included:

Head of Systems Management

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led multiple large scale teams responsible for design, test, implementation, and 24x7 systems management of the world's largest computing infrastructure. Personally responsible for performance and reliability of entire technology system supporting aircraft manufacture. Consistently delivered zero unplanned downtime operations. Reduced IT operational costs by a factor of 10, by changing the model of systems operations with the application of automation systems combined with a fundamental rethinking and reorganization of support into one cross functional team responsible for both development and operations. The team and project were highlighted by Gartner Group as pioneering the field of Enterprise Systems Management and has since been credited with laying the foundation for the DevOps movement.

Systems Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led multidisciplinary teams in multiple locations responsible for 24x7 operations for integration and system testing for all Confidential software, hardware and system components. Intimately involved in the technology selection process from 700+ vendors and ultimately responsible for certifying all technology components for Confidential production use.

Project Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, tested and implemented solution to problem stated as: “If a large rock falls from space and turns Sacramento into a crater, Confidential is willing to accept 15 minutes of downtime”. Personally responsible for highly available NUMA - Q supercomputer clusters and led team responsible for implementing the first commercial hot standby Oracle databases. Successfully avoided Sacramento turning into a crater.

Lead Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Recruited and led systems administration team responsible for design, implementation and operation of, at the time, world's largest Oracle database, to deliver video on demand over PBVS networks. Managed teams and systems in both northern and southern California and delivered uninterrupted systems operations. Personally responsible for developing instrumentation and systems management toolset for end to end content delivery, including traditional IT servers, applications, databases, and network as well as radio and TV broadcast systems, all the way through to set top boxes at customer premises, which had not been previously computer integrated.

Systems Administration Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Third tier Confidential UX systems support for Confidential customers. 'Catch All' group responsible if no one else could solve the problem. Performed hundreds of large system implementations to match exact customer configurations, to then duplicate and resolve customer operational issues. Managed end to end customer relationships throughout problem diagnostics and resolution. Supported Confidential consultants in the field with advanced systems technical support. Provided unparalleled customer service and systems support, which led to Confidential requesting Confidential voluntarily waive non-compete restrictions in order to bring me on board to lead their operations team.

IT Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led team responsible for computer operations, and support of data collection and analysis for in lab and in field experiments. Developed and taught computer for scientists and professors. Designed and implemented instrumentation, network and computing solutions to support agriculture and plant science experiments. Hired and trained IT staff to build and support the College's initial computing infrastructure.

Technology Adviser

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Personal adviser to the President. Advised President on technology strategy, selection and implementation. Implemented experimental IBM voice recognition system intended for dictation for use in veterinary surgery. Supported University wide desktop deployment that was most professors' first experience with personal computing and at the time the second largest university network in the country. Helped develop, manage and teach program to help University faculty and staff use what was about to become the Internet.

Systems Programmer/Systems Administrator

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Built and supported computing infrastructure for the largest collegiate flight laboratory in the country. Personally responsible for instrumentation from aeronautic sensors throughout test aircraft, advanced sensors inside rotating turbines, to in flight and ground based data collection systems. Designed, programming and deployed 5 degree of freedom robotic system for 3d mapping and ultrasonic structural analysis of composite aircraft components. Additionally responsible for Honda Jet project instrumentation and sensor suite, programming, and at specific request of test pilot, personally operated in flight mission critical SUN server based data collection system for flight test of prototype jet engine, where greater than 3 minutes system downtime would result in the crew having to eject. Did not have to eject.