Eric Muehlstein Email & Phone Number

Chicago, IL, US

• Cypri Group's mission is to help businesses improve their use of data, analytics, and cloud technologies to make better informed, faster decisions, and use quantitative approaches to improve long term strategy.
• Reyes Holdings – 2022-present - Accelerating the development and delivery of Security Automation projects. (tech stack avail. by request)
• P3K Group / Judge Research – 2022 - Created a user interface enabling quants to reasearch and submit features into Judge Research genetic algorithms and participate in the creation of systematic strategies. (Docker.
• P3K Group – 2020 & 2021 – Crypto Hedge Fund and Fintech Software Vendor: Created a front-end platform for an automated trading system designed to meet the needs of a Family office trading interest rate futures on the.
• Headwaters – 2019 & 2020 – California Cannabis Wholesaler: developed a platform to transform the business from a phone & spreadsheet operation to a webstore including automation of the wholesale buyer certification and.
• Green Thumb Industries – 2019 – US Cannabis Producer & Retailer: built a BI strategy and delivered enterprise sales dashboards on mobile and desktop, captured sales metrics from disparate PoS & regulatory systems at.

• Design and build of medium and large scale Controlled Environment Fungiculture facilities. Our solutions include automation of fruiting, sterilization/pasteurization, bagging, harvest, food safety, data collection, and.
• Windy City Mushroom – 2022 – present – Indoor Culinary Mushroom Farm: helped a small local grower scale up into a 50,000sqft facility with mobile control of sterilization & pasteurization, substrate production, food.
• Fourstar Mushrooms – 2020 – Dec 2022 – Indoor Culinary Mushroom Farm: designed fabricated a controlled environment agriculture system at Chicago’s largest mushroom farm with bepoke IoT sensors and HVAC controls on.

Sojourn Fare is developing an environmental control platform, using commodity hardware, that is optimized for mushroom culture. I advised the team on their connectivity and data management strategies as well as a participating in business, branding, hardware and software design sessions.

New York, New York, US

• Directed three global software development teams responsible for market data capture & redistribution, internal automation and integration, and outsourced development for client trading stacks.
• Created processes and templates for new manager assimilation, performance management, and book-of-work management which were adopted across the CTO organization.
• Provided leadership mentoring and development plans to junior members of the management team and high-potential contributors

New York, New York, US

• Responsible for data strategy, finding the most cost effective way to store, mutate, and distribute over 2TB of market data collected globally every day.
• Created a data lifecycle for historical market data, moving the captured data from a Hadoop compatible analysis platform, to an on-site clustered storage array, and ultimately archiving in public clouds.
• Oversaw the Instrumentation team’s rollout of Corvil devices and optical taps to all data centers globally for full visibility into the firms network performance
• Managed a team of automation engineers and python developers responsible for tactical problem solving and automation of business process.

New York, New York, US

• Created a Platform Standards Library which maps technology used by the firm to a 4 year “invest, contain, divest” lifecycle
• Developed a Reference Architecture Library which combined the components of the Standards Library into bundled products
• Productized the firm’s managed server hosting offering by creating AWS-like tiers of server technology optimized to the most profitable client use cases
• Promoted high margin in the sale of platform hosting products by educating the sales teams on the value of standardized, pre-tested hosting packages, discouraging the creation of costly “one-off” solutions.

Rosemont, IL, US

• Created a new group from scratch focused on centralization, standardization, and automation of of critical business technologies for knowledge workers and operations staff
• Responsible for providing shared services in the areas of End User Computing, Mobility, Telecom, and Application Delivery for 4 business units with a combined revenue of $24Billion
• Deliverered Citrix, SCCM, AirWatch, Avalanche, HP Device Manager, Tangoe, JAMF Casper, PrinterLogic, and other centrally managed end user computing platforms.
• Developed a 3 year road-map leading the business through a journey from remedial activities, through optimization, and ultimately business enablement
• Hired, developed, and promoted a team of engineers, system administrators, and support staff.

Rosemont, IL, US

• Redesigned server deployment and configuration management processes, shifting away from monolithic "golden images" and adopting DevOps methodologies.
• Continuously evaluated and tested various DevOps tool-chains including, Salt Stack, Puppet, Chef, and Ansible
• Piloted cloud server technologies including AWS, EC2, and vCloud Air
• Created standardized documentation formats for server build logs and server configuration
• Centralized the syslog function reducing troubleshooting time, improving security posture, and providing better data in support of optimizations
• Managed an MSP relationship and two contract system administrator resources

Rosemont, IL, US

Rosemont, IL, US

Founder and President of boutique full service IT consulting firm supporting the needs of small businesses. Specific expertise in hospitality and automotive industry.