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About Frank Robles
I am a business and technology consultant and the CEO/CTO of Robles Industries, a firm that provides software architecture and development, IT security and infrastructure, and technological operations solutions to clients across diverse industries. With over 20 years of experience in this role, I have successfully helped boards of directors, CEOs, and executive staff to identify, clarify, and resolve their most complex and challenging technological problems, and to transform their product ideas into realities.My core competencies include Internet technology, telecommunications, networking, AR/VR, blockchain, GIS, SAAS, and security. I have also served in various senior executive roles, such as CEO, COO, CTO, and board member, and have contributed to the innovation and growth of several companies in the technology sector. I am passionate about science, technology, and education, and I enjoy volunteering for the YMCA of Greater San Antonio, where I have been a board member since 2011. My mission is to solve the seemingly unsolvable and to deliver cutting-edge and customized solutions that meet the needs and goals of my clients.
Frank Robles Work Experience Details
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Chief Executive OfficerGatetrackerLas Vegas, Nv, Us -
Coo/Chief Technology OfficerRobles Industries Jun 2010 - PresentAustin, Texas, UsBusiness and Technology consulting, software architecture and development. Helping to solve the seemingly unsolvable and most intractable technology and technological operations problems. Taking in product concepts and making them realities. Clients are Boards of Directors, CEO's and Executive Staff; Often clarifying and defining Technological, Technology Development, IT Security, and IT Infrastructure problems. Then working to resolve those problems. We have been able to help many businesses across an extremely wide-ranging set of industries and with remarkably positive results.Clients include national and multi-national corporations, running local, regional and large-scale operations. From companies developing technologies to companies leveraging existing or emerging technologies to build and grow their companies.• After winning an SBIR, Took a product idea with zero code completed to a working solution, meeting or exceeding numerous deliverables for the Air Force.• Redefined a software project, rearchitected the application, setup the infrastructure and delivered on what seemed to be impossible. Went on to help the client win a major master services agreement with one oil company and a $3.5M contract with another using this software solution as the key contract requirement and motivator to close the sale.• Competencies: Problem/Solution/Requirements definition, strategic planning, vendor management, team formation, Project Manager, IT Security, Cloud Computing, Telecommunications, GIS, Agile Software Design and development. -
Board MemberYmca Of Greater San Antonio Oct 2008 - PresentSan Antonio, Tx, UsIt is wonderful to help such a great organization and volunteer for such a good cause. First serving as an IT Committee Member beginning in 2008. I became a member of the Board of Directors in 2011. Chairman of the Marketing Committee March 2012-Dec. 2013. Chairman of the IT Committee Dec 2013 to present. -
Chief Operating OfficerDigitaltown Sep 2017 - Dec 2018Bellevue, Wa, UsLead Operations across the company with a focus on launching in Central Texas. Formed and lead various teams and the ground operations efforts as well as managed the back-office technology infrastructure (AWS). Built upon and more broadly shared a series of automated reports and KPI’s to better inform my fellow executives and staff. Planed out a focused product solution and hired a great product manager to help deliver it; the new product was delivered and demonstrated on schedule. Managed the operations of various subsidiaries. • Garnered significant earned media coverage and represented the company in public forums at various speaking engagements and with the press. Lead the competition in the Austin ‘Mayors Blockchain Challenge’ which we placed second and became an essential part Austin’s proposed ‘MyPass’ solution and part of the cities Bloomberg proposal.• Formed and lead various teams and the ground operations efforts as well as managed the back-office technology infrastructure (AWS). Garnered significant earned media coverage and represented the company at various speaking engagements and with the press; discussing the company and sharing my Technology Roadmap.• Established and managed banking relationships and accounts. Established and managed Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) administration. Initiated money transmitter agent license process, beginning with the state of Texas. Enabling the company to legal transmit money.• Competencies: Delivering progress over activity, architecting winning solutions, contract negotiations, international team formation and Business Administration, Corporate Speaking & Representation in public forums. -
Chief Technology OfficerJustlegal Feb 2017 - Sep 2017After advising and mentoring the founders and assisting in raising funding, I was asked to join as CTO concurrent with the funding round in January 2017. My express focus was to build the initial engineering team and implement a robust and scalable commercial version of the product offering, fulfilling the company’s vision as represented by its prototype Minimum Viable Product (MVP). I had previously designed a modern industrially scalable architecture and implemented this infrastructure plan at AWS in support of the commercial solution we were developing. My contributions included: Infrastructure Architecture, building and leading the engineering team, advancing our products / services, assisting in fundraising and participating as one of the key Executive Team members.In the summer of 2017 we sold the company’s assets. The initial purchase was in October 2017 and the purchase closed in December 2017. The technology we were developing was sold in an asset purchase to DigitalTown, Inc. (OTC:DGTW). Me and my core dev team joined DigitalTown as part of the purchase.• Built the engineering team of 12 and implemented a robust and scalable commercial version of the companies offering, fulfilling the company’s vision, as represented by its prototype Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Now called Got.Law.• Lead the sale of the technology solution we were developing to DigitalTown, Inc. for 3 Million shares of stock.• Competencies: Solution architecture, Technology Strategy, cloud migration, tech team formation and management.
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Interim CtoAustin Board Of Realtors Mar 2013 - Mar 2014Austin, Tx, UsABOR's Board of Directors sensed that problems existed and tasked me with researching these concerns and reporting back on the facts. In my initial evaluation I was able to confirm the Boards concerns and clearly describe the problems. After carful consideration they asked me to stay and address these issues.The challenges were very extensive; ranging from replacing core infrastructure equipment, negotiating and implementing new communications services, sourcing and deploying several IT solutions, defining new IT policies and procedures to working closely with board committees and vendors in the design and planning of ABORs new Head Quarters. There were dozens of projects. • Negotiated and delivered new communications solutions for current office and new headquarters location. Providing for Ethernet over Fiber Optics from two major carriers. Quadrupling the organization's network capacity via two separate carriers for less than what was being paid for the current services via a single T1 based provider.• Established a source code control policy and set in place the systems necessary to adhere to this policy.• Designed and deployed a major Document Management solution.• Upgraded the core network, servers and related infrastructure.• Replaced and expanded WIFI network serving a staff of 50 and hundreds to members simultaneously.• Sourced and deployed a replacement telephone system for the entire organization.• Developed GIS Maps of members and water districts.• ABOR relied heavily on third-party solutions for its members but had no means to monitor those systems and respond to problems proactively or track SLA compliance. Defined and built a mini Network Operations Center for the monitoring and management of all the existing and new systems/solutions that solved these problems. • Competencies: Strategic Direction, Security Requirements, System Migration, Information System vendor selection & mtg, Information Technology team formation and IT Management. -
Chief Technology OfficerOperational Technologies, Inc. Jul 2010 - Oct 2011San Antonio, Tx, UsOperational Technologies, Inc. is a multi-international corporation with may subsidiaries. Understanding elements of the organization had been left languishing and the clear need for some outside Technological strength and leadership; the CEO/Chairman, Max Navaro, found and hired me.• Established executive governance procedures, bringing a new level of consistency and intra department communication to the company. Then backed this with a series of agreed upon monthly reports across every department and division (KPI’s) established via these new operating principals. This new level of visibility worked to quickly track and solve long standing issues within the business and between departments.• Supported new OpTech Healthcare subsidiary with HIE, EMR, Medical encryption, and Video solutions.• Customized and deployed a private CRM for sales management and hired business development director.• Grew Core IT department from one technician to a team of exemplary individuals. This team delivered a very strong technical foundation for the company and was continually relied upon and consistently delivered. • The core IT infrastructure was very dated. Built a modern datacenter and upgraded to a state of the art private cloud VMWare solution.• Designed and deployed network infrastructure across nine locations, MX and US.• Built software development division, recruited developers, won initial customers and successfully delivered on several projects. Such as a commercial high-resolution video streaming solution used to help train surgeons in best practices.• Competencies: Problem/Solution discernment, strategic planning, vendor mtg, project management, Hardware, Network Security, Information Technology team formation, Technical Documentation and Agile Development. -
General ManagerOakstone Ventures, Llc Jan 1999 - Dec 2010Poole, Dorset, GbStrategic Seed level Investment Fund. Focused on helping startup companies with great ideas make execute and make those ideas into realities. Bringing their products and services to market.Some of our more reconcilable investments include:- Kana Communications which latter went public. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana_Software)- YY Software which was later enjoyed some great success but did not succeed in the end. (https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1196497)- Yipes Enterprise Services which was later bought by Reliant Communications for $300M (https://www.linkedin.com/company/yipes-enterprise-services/about/)- Keyhole, Inc. which was later acquired by Google and is not Google Earth. (https://angel.co/keyhole)- SpaceCurve which has enjoyed some great successes and brought an entirely new kind of database solution to the market. -
CeoNeopolitan Networks, Inc Sep 2001 - Nov 2009Metro Ethernet Communications Carrier and Network Solutions Provider• Developed and deployed new Layer2 Gigabit Ethernet large scale fiberoptic network topology reaching across the US and on to include the UK. Extended with Microwave and WIFI, built and deployed a commercial VoIP offering.• Extended Metro Ethernet Layer 2 over fiber network topology with Layer 2 Ethernet over microwave thus encompassing extremely large areas in the San Francisco Bay Area, Miami and Fort Lauderdale in South Florida and San Antonio Texas.• Evaluated, selected, developed and deployed several software systems and solutions necessary to operate these networks.• Built two colocation sites, one being underground and very secure and both connected to our fiber network.• Closed $3.17 Million Series A Financing• Connected Metro networks linking Miami, New York, San Francisco and London; deploying NeoMatrix.• Built an innovative set of Network Operations Centers and began supporting 3rd party networks on an outsource basis.• Completed initial Voice over IP phone service offering and began offering VoIP carrier services.• Competencies: Network architecture, strategic planning, GIS, vendor mtg, national team formation and management.
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PresidentCitynap Jun 2005 - Dec 2008Started with a secured floor designed and built out to become a Telco Central office. The telco however did not fully turn-up the site and it was sold. I worked things out with the existing tenant so they could leave and I could lease the space. I built a small team and went to work building the site out to become a major colocation site. The was very challenging. The basics of the buildings location were good but the building was in severe disrepair and it took a lot of vision to see what was possible. I define all aspects of the business and hired and trained the eng. operations team to execute accordingly. Accomplishments:- Successfully built CityNAP both literally and as a company with broad name recognition and customer demand.- Educating the San Antonio market about the benefits of Network Access Points (NAPs) and growing a demand and revenue base for this solution. - Established an aggressive co-marketing agreement with the local power company, CPS Energy, where CityNAP used 100% renewable energy and CPS promoted CityNAP in their advertising campaign. This was very successful for both parties and a true win/win. Supported with CityNAP’s very public advocacy of the Windtricity program many more companies committed to buying renewable energy from CPS.- Texas's First 100% Green Data Center second in the US and recognized as an EPA green power partner.
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Ceo, Vp Net Ops, Vp Corp. Dev., Board MemberYipes Communications, Inc. Feb 1995 - Feb 2001Began as NanoSpace in Palo Alto, CA in 1995 (renamed YIPES Communications, Inc. in Feb 2000). Initially a regional Internet Service Provider, in 1998 I came up with the idea of delivering Metro communications services via Ethernet over Fiber. This was the origination of the idea of metropolitan Ethernet carriers and services. Though this was extremely controversial at the time it now represents a $60B market and Yipes was sold for $300M in 2004. While I was CEO for the first 5 years, post raising major funding I ran all operations and finance until we got a CFO shortly before I left the company in 2001. • Following my deployment plans and financial models hired a staff of approximately 200 employees and contractors and began a very urgent and aggressive deployment and customer turnup effort. Setting and sharing an exhaustive set of KPIs at executive staff and board meetings while overcoming an enormous number of challenges.• Acted as Treasurer / CFO and managed $291M invested funds and expenses. I setup an investment portfolio and built an investment strategy that made budgeted monies available to the company quarterly with return rates beyond the norm (8.5%-10.5). When I left the company, I was managing over $165M.• Developed and deployed new Layer2 Ethernet-based large scale network topology consisting of over 36,000 miles of Metro Fiber Ethernet networks across the top 20 metro areas with over 600 Points of Presences and 165 Data Centers.• Evaluated, selected and deployed several systems and solutions to include: Oracle Financials, Siebel, Kana, HP Openview, and Portal Software. Extreme Networks Switches, Juniper Routers, Cisco Routers and Switches, Netscreen Firewalls, and EMC mass storage solutions.• Competencies: Network architecture and deployment, research and development, strategic planning, financial management, system migration, project management, vendor mtg, national team formation and management.
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CeoNanospace / Yipes Feb 1995 - Feb 2001Began as NanoSpace in Palo Alto, CA in 1995; Renamed to YIPES Communications, Inc. and relocated to San Francisco, CA in 2000. This was the continuation and extension of the work Peter Kaminski and I started while at Netcom. For the first few years it was funded by us exclusively and backed by our consulting work. We built the company as a regional Internet Service Provider with fourteen Bay Area access points of presence (dial-in locations). Towards the end of 1997 it felt clear that we needed a new plan, to change things somehow. It was about this time was when I learned that the city of Palo Alto had just installed excess fiber optics in the area. In an instant I came up with the idea of delivering Metro communications services via fiber leveraging our existing Ethernet equipment. This was the origination of the idea of metropolitan Gigabit Ethernet carriers and services. I then ended a consulting contract with a key client to allow me to focus on this idea and dramatically expand the opportunities for our company.In an interview with the San Jose Mercury I said we could do this get this idea working within a year. And within that year Peter and I got Kana Communications and Palo Alto Networks up as customers on our Ethernet over Fiber Optics Network. Before this time and for years afterward delivering services like this was considered an impossibility. Now it is a standard around the world. I created the strategic plan led the effort to deploy this solution across the US. Though this was extremely controversial at the time it now represents a $12B market.
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Manager Of Qa And DocumentationAlphablox Feb 1996 - Dec 1997UsAlphablox software enables customers and business partners to embed analytics such as customer buying trends into existing business processes, and makes information available to a wide spectrum of users and applications.Played key roles in development, production and shipping of first versions of AlphaBlox (purchased by IBM). -
Director Of Qa And Serverside EngineeringNetcom Online Communications Inc. Oct 1994 - Jan 1995Challenge: It was a wild time and the Internet was new and many still doubted its relevance. We had just finished NetCruiser, the first integrated browser for the Internet. At the time we had a very small and new team and roughly 10,000 Unix shell customers which we thought was a lot. With our first software release mid 1994 the demand for our services shot up dramatically and we had over 200,000 customers by November 1994 and went public December 1994. Scaling the company during this dynamic time to meet this extraordinary growth was a huge challenge.Accomplishments:- Netcom’s NetCruiser software drove the successful public offering. I helped to develop and produce much of the supporting Red Herring documentation for Netcom’s IPO.- With 18hr days 7 days a week we where able to solve the multitude of scaling problems and thrive as a company. It was no small feat and took a huge group effort, for a time it was a life style choice for many of the employees. In 1997 Netcom was sold in parts for over $600M.- Helped to design the idea and deploy the first ix.netcom.com machine running on Sun Solaris Servers, the first of hundreds and still in use today.- Helped to develop and produce much of the supporting documentation for the Red Herring as part of Netcom’s IPO.- Lead migration from Home Brewed accounting system to Oracle Financials in preparation for company IPO. - Came up with innovative scaling solution for file systems, this same solution is used by many companies today.- Created a problem-tracking database and contributed to the creation of the test case database.- Led the reorganization of the customer support department. Helped to develop and implement new procedures and policies for customer support and software engineering that reduced customer calls into the support center by 70+%.- Designed and led the development and deployment of an on-line fax service, the first. This is basically what became E-Fax and other similar services.
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Sqa LeadApple Computer Inc. Aug 1994 - Oct 1994Apple Computer Inc., Personal Interactive Devices (PIE) DivisionHandheld Personal Computer (Newton), Cupertino, CAResponsible for the testing and testing automation of multiple Newton applications (Digital Book Player, FAX send/receive software). Wrote the test plans and test cases for each application.Developed test harnesses and automated test using Newton script.Work focused on API-level testing, but did include user-interface testing.It was a challenging and fairly unstructured environment but we needed to test and ship the various software components of the Newton and ship are products as soon as possible. Accomplishments:- I took it upon myself to build an automated test harness to allow for the nearly complete automated testing of the various applications as they were developed.- By the time I left I had completely documented all of my work and code. The testing that I was responsible for was automated and I left things so that it would be easy for anybody to step in. I did such an outstanding job they referenced me and my work for years after I was gone.
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Qa ManagerCoactive Computing Inc. Aug 1992 - Jul 1994Coactive was an early startup company before the mega-funded companies meaning we did not have a lot of funding to work with. We were also creating something new, an easy to use and install small office / home office LAN product. Enabling customers to create their own LANs with little effort.Accomplishments: - Discerned and solved many software and hardware product problems.- Designed and build network QA lab.- Developed extensive set of automated testing suites, to include feature and functionality testing suites, validation suites, regression testing, and limits testing. These tools played critical roles in the development process and allowed us to deliver an outstanding software solution.- Helped to develop a network installation process and software that actually did allow small offices to build their own LANs in less than five minutes.- Shipped the first bug-free consumer software application I have ever known or heard of.- Deployed over 200,000 units into the market.
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Founder, President, Lead Software EngineerTecla Software Inc. May 1990 - Feb 1992Developed and began marketing ‘Hexpert,’ an interactive binary file editor. Led the development of a multi-lingual computer educational package. This program was near completion when the corporation was shut down. The company was started by an instructor at my college and was very underfunded. We needed to get funding to survive as well as produce and ship products.Accomplishments: - Produced Beta applications used to demonstrate company concepts and successfully raise funding.- Completed the production of Hexpert including software testing, writing all of the documentation, creating the shipping materials and packaging.
Frank Robles Skills
Telecommunications
Security
Start Ups
Data Center
Strategic Planning
Software Development
Business Strategy
Business Development
Cloud Computing
Entrepreneurship
Program Management
Executive Management
Network Architecture
Business Planning
New Business Development
Product Management
Marketing Strategy
Problem Solving
Voip
Solution Architecture
Integration
Contract Negotiation
Negotiation
Team Leadership
It Strategy
Operations Management
Management Consulting
Engineering
Software Engineering
Vendor Management
Product Marketing
Product Development
Cto
Ceo
Investment Advisory
Fund Management
Mergers
Budgeting
Business Analysis
Planning
Architecture
Business Intelligence
It Management
P&l Management
Risk Management
Communications Strategy
Colocation Development
Deployment
Contract Negotiations
Entrepreneur
Agile Methodologies
Scrum
Frank Robles Education Details
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University Of California, Santa CruzComputer Engineering -
Cabrillo CollegeComputer Science
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Cabrillo CollegeMathematics
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