The ManKind Project is an international men's community for the 21st Century. MKP is a nonprofit training and education organization with three decades of proven success hosting life-changing experiential personal development programs for men. MKP supports a global network of free peer-facilitated men's groups and supports men in leading lives of integrity, authenticity, and service.

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Area Steward (Director), South Central Area, The Mankind Project. The ManKind Project is men's community for the 21st Century. MKP is a nonprofit training and education organization with three decades of proven success hosting life-changing experiential personal development programs for men. MKP supports a global network of free peer-facilitated men's groups and supports men in leading lives of integrity, authenticity, and service.

(Recruited to be Executive Staff Member by the Dean to build/turn around a Professional IT Operation for the College of Natural Sciences.)- Directed Architecture and Strategy for entire College's Information Technology Infrastructure and Service Delivery- Managing 45 direct-reports and provided functional guidance (and funding) for an additional 130 employees across 12 Departments and 8 organized Research Units..-Established Architectural Blueprint for IT Investment- Evolved adhoc Server Installations to a State-of-the-Art Co-Location Center with redundant cooling, Network, Power, Physical Security, and 24x7 Real-Rime Monitoring.-Delivered "Quest", a Mission-Critical blended Learning Management System (LMS) across a combined University of Texas and Advanced Studies in High Schools across the U.S. * a typical load of 100,000 concurrent sessions necessitated significant Architectural Scaling to the Next Order-of-Magnitude, utilizing a Multi-Node Oracle RAC Cluster.

Snr. Technical Staff/Industry Standards Adviser-Telecom & NextGen Servers '00-'08 Internal Start-up: Chief force driving Global Team creating Telecom Network & Security Products. - Entered market with Off-the-Shelf Enterprise Blades & Switches. - Brought Enterprise Economies of Scale enabling significant profit for a new “niche”.- Took a Non-Player to Key-Player of Telco SA Forum Industry Consortia. - Created HW interface API (hpi); proprietary PICMG interface IPMI. - Led team to resolve complex IP issues- Created Open Source Project.- Developed De-facto implementation for HPI.Snr Technical Staff-AIX System Architecture '94–'00- Directed 12 Architects & guided 750 others to design IBM UNIX OS.- Chaired UNIX Vendors Consortia creating a single converged API vs. single NT interface; negotiated UNIX trademark transfer. - Reversed declining market share to UNIX Server Global Leader.- Conceived/designed/published UNIX Developer’s Guide for Intel Itanium Architecture giving a Unified Binary Interface & consistent application interface across architectures.Snr Programmer '91-'94- Conceived/designed converged UNIX OS bridging AIX, HP’s HPUX, Digital Ultrix’s OSF, and SunOS. - Led UNIX Software Dev analying Sun’s NFS projecting Sun’s competitive strategy for Distributed File Systems & Grid Computing. - Expanded Distributed Environment that increased sales by leading Key Task Force to determine future strategy. Performed due diligence and recommended acquisition of Transarc. Led development of Award Winning UNIX OS-AIX. - Directed System Architecture Kernel Dev, Processor Kernel Support & JFS File System Management. Advisory Programmer/Manager '82-'91- Managed technology effort to develop AIX OS on S/390 ESA HW, Large Systems Lab- Developed VM OS to exploit VM/ESA multi-address space HW & hypervisor support. - Created File System for file sharing, hierarchical directory support utilizing specialized HW assists for user isolation/performance.

The Service Availability Forum™ is a Global Consortium of Industry-Leading Communications and Computing Corporations-The SA Forum then promotes and facilitates specification adoption by the industry.- Coordinated member-companies to work together to develop and publish high availability and management software interface specifications. - Members include: IBM, HP, Sun, Oracle, Nokia, Ericsson