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California, United States

Medford, Oregon, Us

SunSpear Games is a creating a triple-A Battle Strategy Game leveraging distinctive elements of a wide variety of strategy sub-genres such as RTS and MOBA to create a truly unique player experience.The first title, IMMORTAL: Gates of Pyre, delivers fast-paced action, highly intuitive fun, and deep strategy, that attracts players across a wide spectrum of interests and abilities. The IP is comprised of extensive lore, original visualizations, and intuitive controls, that represent a significant future opportunity to establish a new franchise in gaming for PC, Console, and Mobile.

Helping startups, turnarounds, and Global 2000 companies and their investors maximize value and return through cutting edge technology design, effective go to market, and optimized corporate financing and structuring.Strategic Advisor: Tier 1; VC, PE, and Management Consulting firms regarding pre-investment technology and market due diligence, engineering/development/devsecops processes, tech stack design, open source (tech and licensing), vendor/partner evaluation, macro-market realities, dynamics, and trends, go to market positioning & messaging. EverythingALS - Advisor: A foundation whose goal is to support research and medical advancement in the neurosciences specifically targeting ALS.Neurothink - Strategic and Technology Advisor: Removing the complexity from AI/ML by providing industry-leading compute and virtualization resources in a secure, customizable, and automated workflow. Advise on technology platform development and optimization, corporate structure, raising venture capital, organization design.OakRocket - Strategic Advisor: A high volume reseller and MSP of AWS cloud services with optimized cost management. Advise on business strategy, corporate structure, organization modeling, channel/partner enablement, and business systems development and optimization.Eclipz - Technology Advisor: A revolutionary cyber security technology that secures data in transit using using hyper-scale ephemeral certificate management and advanced definable encryption based on DIA technology transfer IP enabling SDP, ZTNA, and micro-segmentation. Advise on technology platform, go to market positioning and messaging, and corporate positioning.Prior advisor to; Nebula - an on-orbit hyper compute platform (AFWORX payload launching October 2022). FundersUSA - a crowd funding platform for startups. Major ITAD provider. And many more...

New York, New York, Us

CTO, CPO, CIO and CISO for 1300 person Apollo backed, PR, IR, Social, and Events SaaS + Services provider to Global 5000 enterprise customers. Focused on overall business and technology strategy including; optimizing product and service; offerings, stratification, and monetization models; technology platform refactoring, modernization, cloud native enablement, and extensibility; transforming IT and business applications; automating devsecops; and hardening security end to end. Implementing best practices, processes, and policies based on "The Playbook" built on 35 years of expertise. Implemented "AI Everywhere" initiative across all product lines and back-office systems. Filed multiple patents. Helped company brand through thought leadership. Transformed to - customer centric, data driven, product led, saas + services organization. Focus on tracking and improving sales and onboarding funnels, reducing churn, digital transformation, lead to cash, modernizing security architectures, and eliminating legacy systems and data centers. Achieved operational excellence within a few months and positioned the company for significant growth - organically, geographically, and via M&A.

Irvine, Ca, Us

As a member of the senior global leadership team of the $50 billion annual revenue technology and cloud distributor Ingram Micro, I was responsible for managing a team of 1000 people to design, deploy, and operate; the largest cloud market place in the world with nearly $3 billion in revenue and over 38 million seats under management; the digital commerce system that enables the recurring revenue of Ingram Micro's core distribution business generating over $6 billion in revenue; and the internal consumption of cloud and IaaS services by Ingram Micro Corporation as well as driving the services and resale of all AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud - building a $600M ARR business from nothing. Using CloudBlue (based on Ensim, Odin, and new technologies), the industry shaping hyper-scale cloud native highly available multi-tenant / multi-tier digital commerce and supply chain platform, we enable Ingram Micro's Cloud, IoT, ITaaS, and XaaS businesses for over 55,000 Resellers, and 400 Telcos, MSPs, and Global 2000 Enterprise customers supporting 32+ million users in 49 countries for over 400 ISV solutions (Microsoft, Amazon AWS, Google, Symantec, Dropbox, IBM, Cisco, VMware, and many more). Manage all R&D, Engineering, Product Management & Product Marketing, ISV recruiting & on-boarding, DevSecOps, Tech Support, Field Engineering, PMO, Pro and Managed Services, IT, and Technical Operations (with 30 global data centers on-prem and in the cloud) with a team of nearly 1000 highly motivated hard working smart people in 15 offices across 9 countries (USA, Canada, India, Russia, Spain, AU, MX, NL, UK). Led multiple acquisitions and strategic investments. We work with advanced technologies operating in cutting edge infrastructure programmatically integrated with proprietary, opensource, and commercial ERP, CRM, BI, IDAM, eComm, ESB/MQ, and a half dozen other back office systems.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Acquired by Ingram Micro June 2016. Joined as COO, took over as CEO / CTO, then personally acquired company through reverse merger via recapitalization, and build it into a leading provider of end-to-end hyper-scale digital commerce platforms with modules for marketplace, ordering, subscription management, service catalog, ticketing, provisioning, usage collection, rating, recurring billing, taxation, invoicing, and payments with self-service management portals for users, organizations, and channel partners to automate, manage, and monetize any B2B or B2C offerings such as software applications, cloud services, SaaS, DaaS, IaaS, ITaaS, & XaaS. At the time of sales to Ingram, the Ensim team had grown to about 125 people with over 5 million seats deployed, customers in 25 countries, and was used by over 20,000 small, medium, and large sized organizations and government agencies through service providers, system integrators, MSPs, and resellers.

Helping a variety of startups and turnarounds launch / re-launch and exit in the ecommerce, mobile, database, web hosting, and SaaS markets.

Helped build (along with great young founders) the top European web hosting and domain name registrar at the time growing to 60,000 websites and 300,000 domains under management (one of the top 10 in the world at that time). Grew to be one of the first ICANN registrars outside the USA and first and largest hosting company offering Windows based websites. We were also the first to deploy Hosted Exchange (HE 5.5 using ICA client over ISDN, .....bleeding edge…). We were also the first to implement; SEO / SEM (before it was called that), first to do PPC (back then all impression based), first to do embedded site analytics (now BI). Operated in 12 countries and currencies and 9 languages and lived through the Euro conversion and country domain liberation (deregulation). Acquired 8 companies in 18 months. Fun and crazy times. Designed, built, and operated a third generation fully distributed architecture provisioning and billing system to support pan-European requirements.

Brought in along with CFO to help BOD quickly turned around and sell public company (CNKT, a former Apple spin out). Company focused on the B2B NetMarket high volume ecommerce / supply chain space. Rebuilt B2B ecommerce trading network platform in 100% pure Java (1.0 was special back then). Signed up hot dotcoms and Fortune 500 companies as customers. OEM'd to Calico Commerce (CLIC) which led to fast exit for $95 million, 22x revenue (and 10x prior offer from GE). The same platform was later acquired from Calico by Digital River and still runs today.

Started the Internet and Embedded Business Unit at Award Software and blended into Phoenix after acquisition. Developed Synthesizable Cores and Firmware for embedded and network devices (now called IoT). Giga-ethernet, USB, 1394/Firewire, and the like. Developed and sold iBIOS (micro browser with embedded OS in firmware fitting into 128K, yes that's a K not and M or G) to top NetPC, Thin Client, and Terminal companies around the world. Tens of millions of units shipped annually. Managed overall business unit P&L and all development, services, sales, operations for PC BIOS in North America and Europe (shipping up to 65 million units annually achieving 85% market share in desktop market), and Internet and Embedded products worldwide. Oversaw patent process and all BIOS R&D activities. Acquired 2 companies to enhance our technology platforms. From turn-around to successful IPO to lucrative sale to Phoenix Technologies in just a few years.

Electronic and Mechanical Contract Manufacturer for major companies like Intel, HP, Epson, Supra Modem, Supra Lock, Jacuzzi, Quest Medical, Tektronix, and 200 others. Grew from $4-$14m in 3 years. Led ISO 9001 certification. Built some interesting products from medical instruments to modems to spa controllers to fine pitch surface mount systems to agricultural water sensors to realtor electronic locks (now called IoT) to automotive security systems and more. Circuit board and electronic design, manufacturing, as well as mechanical design and fabrication and injection molding design and outsourcing. Final assembly, test, and packaging, end to end design build capabilities.

Xizhi District, New Taipei City, Tw

From a junior marketing associate (when it was still called Multi-tech Electronics Corporation) to senior manager overseeing major product lines, revenue streams, and cost centers, for a company that grew from $30 million to $3 billion during my tenure. Promoted 5 times in 5 years. Went there, did that, made it happen, traveled the world, did 20 different jobs, learned on the job, got my real world working "MBA". Built most of national distribution channels including; Best Buy, ComputerLand, and Ingram Micro D (coming full circle 26 years later) just to mention a few. Developed OEM and Distribution contracts and SOPs around channel management (DOA, RMA, Stock Rotation, Price Protection, Credit Management). Worked on ISO 9002 certification. Due diligence on several acquisitions (Altos and Counter Point mini computer companies, remember those). Designed traffic system for order to cash (warehouse distribution, global transport, kiting, and modular inventory management). Liquidated obsolete inventory from around the world ($100m +). Helped implement my "SOP Bible" as the corporate master for worldwide operations in 50 countries.

Technology Management

Technology Studies, Soc Design

Interdisciplinary Studies