As a founder and chief technical officer for Fusion Genomics I use my management and IT expertise in a company poised to launch into the Next Generation DNA Diagnostics testing market. In this hands-on role, significant contributions include: • Strategic planning and business development with others in executive team.• Project management for initiatives around product development and manufacturing.• Architect cloud portal application for DNA analysis and result reporting on IBM/AWS Cloud utilizing object storage, distributed functions, and on-demand virtual servers.• Management of software developers and bioinformatics staff.

Provided IT systems and management consulting for enterprise business clients. • Corporate Network design and setup.• HPC Configuration and implementation.• Communication solutions, Network monitoring performance analysis, troubleshooting.

Management of systems support group for a world leading genomics research organization. Leading a small team of 8, this hands-on position included hiring, planning, budgeting, and project management. Some significant project areas included: • Data Centre design/planning for large HPC cluster expansion.• Expansion, upgrade, and maintenance of Linux HPC cluster (6000+ cores).• Developing Scalable Storage Infrastructure (grew from 100TB to 3.5 PB).• Physical and logical network redesign to support cluster / storage performance needs. • Designing Backup solution and policies to support research needs.• Establishing performance monitoring and automated alerts for systems.

Management of systems support group for a major semiconductor design company with 1500+ employees spanning 15 development sites worldwide. Leading a team of 50, responsibilities included ensuring CPU, network and storage capacity in a high growth engineering environment. Focus on maintaining fault tolerant environment, project management, intersite communications, security, planning, budgeting and monitoring of capital expenses and personnel management. Some significant support areas included: • Data Storage and Backup requirements planning.• WAN/LAN/Wireless design, monitoring, maintenance. • Compute Farm / Desktop standardization, planning and maintenance.• Security – policy, patch management, disaster recovery, spam / virus management.• Integration of newly acquired companies.• Core infrastructure services: email, web, authentication, remote access, intersite communications.• Helpdesk operations and issue tracking.

Providing consulting services in systems, integration, and business solutions with respect to both technical implementation and project/personnel management. Some services provided include:• Implemented WAN email, web, video conferencing services.• Defined and implemented an integrated UNIX and Windows environment.

A member of the management team responsible for the development of a suite of object orientated (C++), Windows-based, client-server business applications named Protean. With 13 direct reports, leader of both direct product development and internal technology support for developers. Direct development involved framework and installation programming, publications, and translation/internationalization. Internal groups included systems and database support, release engineering and configuration management. Responsibilities included budgeting, requirements planning, project scheduling and implementation, quality control, and coordinating with sales and marketing to determine the delivery schedule and content as well as product direction. Significant contributions included: • Successful delivery of two QA releases followed by translation to Japanese. • Instituted configuration management policies to enforce quality standards. • Established “error correction” release procedures in the development process.• Created testing environment for multiple networks, platforms and languages.

Management of all systems administration for development and customer support organizations encompassing 100 software professionals. With 5 reports, responsibilities included systems support, database support (Oracle V7 and SQL-Server), product performance tuning, Internet connectivity, release management, configuration management, internal education and on-site customer support. Additional responsibilities included technical presentations for pre-sales support, requirements planning for hardware and software, budgeting and monitoring of capital expenses and personnel management. In this hands-on position significant contributions included: • Established configuration management system.• Organized benchmark of product and project plan for performance improvements.• Headed the technical release management of Marcam’s first customer release.

Defined, setup and maintained a progressive development environment that was highly productive for software development. Served as project leader and supervisor for a team of 3 supporting 50 developers. Responsibilities included UNIX administration (HP-UX, AIX, ULTRIX, SunOS), PC hardware and software support, LAN administration and product evaluations.