Evan Poncelet Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

Leveraging a culturally responsive investor perspective, ecosystem development, and data to better inform the search, selection, and execution of investments in Black-founded startups.

Addressing the racial wealth gap by finding, connecting, empowering, and supporting Black and ally founders, service providers, and investors of all experience levels who are specifically interested in pursuing high growth, venture scale, startup opportunities.

Providing Black startups with mentorship and access to outside capital and accelerating the path of accredited investors from the Black diaspora community and allies toward investment in privately held Black companies as an asset class through meet-up seminars on Angel investing topics.

• Scaled company IT hardware & software basis from 10 to 50+ employees. Implemented IT helpdesk, e-signature strategy, thin client kiosks, centralized management for Mac and PC devices as well as smartphones with.
• Originated budgets and managed contractors for IT across 4 facilities.
• Designed & built datacenter and structured cable plant/network for 70,000 sq ft 3-story Men's Shelter including Meraki Hardware firewall/SD-WAN, routing, and switching, Wifi Access Layer, VoIP Phones, Synology NAS.
• Built central & intermediate distribution frames and network for 5,500 sq ft 2-story William Grose Center including Meraki Hardware firewall, routing, switching, Wifi Access layer along with IP security cameras, access.
• Designed/implemented multi-site RFID badging/enrollment & access for doors, time clocks, print queue system, inventorying
• Co-created STEM programming vision with community partners and architectural visualization for William Grose Center including design/BOM for VFX film studio and makerspace.

Business and ecosystem development

San Jose, CA, US

• 15th development engineer on DNAC platform as backend dev, devops, and full-stack dev supporting large-scale QA for Cisco's flagship software product.
• Created network telemetry data collector interface and implemented system libraries to onboard/register data collector microservices into collector management aspect of network data platform and a Layer2 hypervisor for.
• Implemented product-level Go dependency vendoring/licensing-compliance with Godep.
• Created CLI toolbelt in python using "Click" package to speed up internal and user-contributed telemetry data collector microservice development
• Created and maintained unified unit and integration test-runner to consolidate QA efforts into a fully documented and addressable test harness used as primary component in nearly all build pipelines for DNAC.
• Created web app for explorer-style real-time viewing of continuously updating test harness for DNAC

Westford, MA, US

Embedded Linux app integration with www.link-live.com cloud service

Everett, WA, US

• Designed elastic horizontally scaling backend for single page application consisting of Postgres9.4, Redis, NGINX (reverse proxy and web server configuration), and custom application servers written in Golang to meet a.
• Designed various backend functionality for single page application: identity/coauth provider management, transactional email, centralized logging, NewRelic Monitoring, etc.
• REST API for identity management and written in Golang for consumption by single page cloud app and android app with > 85% code test coverage. and fully automated Swagger API documentation generation.
• Bottom up design of elastic horizontally-scaling continuously deployed deployment system of multiple web application stacks consisting of Git webhooks, Travis-CI, Docker, Chef, AWS OpsWorks, New Relic, Logentries.
• Electrical, driver design, and prototyping of custom 10Gbit/s PCIExpress2, Stratix IV FPGA-based, network traffic capture card with Centos on Dell 5300 target platform.
• Designed complex gestural user interface widgets and apps using embedded Qt4.6 for optical time domain reflectometer using laser pulses to perform qualitative analysis of fiber optic cables.

Everett, WA, US

• Lead national recruiting efforts and network technology trainings for new computer science and engineering hires from academia http://www.flukenetworks.com/AEP
• Managed tasking, hiring, and performance appraisals for 14 new software and hardware engineers.
• Mediated sensitive salary planning and personnel matters with HR, GMs, and CTO

Pullman, WA, US

Created a per-option mathematical model for power consumption/efficiency of Smart-Grid digital power relays using multivariate polynomial regression with MathCad and generated a user-friendly Excel VBA front-end for product support.

Designed the electrical system, driver, and application software for a fluid handling robot used for cancer research with hybridoma cells.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Electrical And Computer

Venture Institute Cohort 2

Angel Investing

Venture Capital