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San Diego County, California, United States

Responsible for all engineering and devops activities in a dynamic, super-fast paced environment supporting internal and external customers while deploying bare-metal-as-a-service high end GPU clusters for inference and training. We support both Infiniband and RoCE, multiple AI/ML accelerators, create clusters based upon customer's needs to suit their applications and workflows, and can customize just about any aspect of a deployment.

San Diego, California, United States

San Diego

• Hobby business: ability to exercise technical skills and provide services for long-term clients. • Technology, Management/Leadership and Internet services consulting, including cloud migrations, architecture, storage, process and procedure development/improvement, Proof of Concepts. • Deep dives into incident forensics and complex technical issues, coordinate technical personnel, management and vendors.• Can advise from bottom to top in the organizational and technology areas as well as provide hands on technical assistance as needed. • Accomplishments:• Recent beta/proof of concept testing with glusterfs, weka.io, and Spectrum Scale on 100G/Infiniband.• Migrated on-prem Exchange to Office365 with no down time.

Greater San Diego Area

• Designed and delivered a $6.5mil world-class liquid-cooled GPU cluster to an overseas government entity.• Oversaw the project and company direction, provided technical oversight, stepped into any role for tactical resolutions as necessary, handled board/investor interactions, made financial decisions and was directly accountable for project and corporate outcomes.• Managed IT infrastructure including physical moves to new locations.• Managed multiple levels of reports including ENG, OPS, IT and FIN. • Accomplishments:• Shipping strategy saved over $12,000 in shipping costs.• Negotiated release of escrow funds 1 year early.• Delivered final product to overseas location on schedule.

Poway, Ca

• Project lead for Cloud PaaS (Platform as a Service) establishment including architecture and technical oversight, procedures, security, customer onboarding and support.• System and Electronics Development including HPC and AI/GPU hardware for Deep Learning and Inference.• Managed the IT infrastructure: redundant Exchange, VMWare migration, LAN/WAN, firewalls, wifi, ERP.• Led and managed Engineering personnel of various disciplines including Electrical, Systems, Firmware and Software, Integration, and Component Engineers. • Released new product including EMI and safety certifications.• Chaired the Change Control Board and managed the product life cycle program, ECO review/approval.• Coordinated multiple departments daily and made decisions on design direction. • Directly responsible for departmental budget. • Also served as Vice President, Engineering and Operations for 18 months during this period. • Accomplishments: • Created CI (Continuous Improvement) relationship between ENG and OPS.• Continuously remained 5-10% under budget.• Released industry first product for multi-GPU systems.• Migrated large physical infrastructure to VMWare.• Successful ISO 9001 program implementation and audits.

Greater San Diego Area

• Led and manage cross functional teams in daily, short- and long-term activities; made recommendations on product direction and implementation. • Assist customers with integration into existing IT infrastructure.• Conduct new product development, led 3rd Tier Technical Support team, leadership and participation in Change Control Board, ECO review/approval/implementation. • Project manager for new product development/integration.• Accomplishments:• Created and led new Systems Engineering group, releasing the largest volume of products in Verari's history due to efficiencies in teamwork and process.

San Diego, Ca

• Provided technical consulting for IT infrastructure and architecture design, evaluation and selection of hardware and software products to meet requirements. • Hands on proficiency with SAN’s/Storage, Networking and Internetworking, Clustering and High Availability, Security and Firewalls, Servers, Oracle, Backup, and IT Operations. • Intimate involvement in the sales process was required, including product and services delivery, project management, etc.• Accomplishments:• Achieved highest dollars in professional services sales for the year.

Carlsbad, Ca

• Responsible for all IT related infrastructure, both current and future. • Improvement of current infrastructure and architecture of a web-based application to provide the necessary robustness to support business critical operations as well as research, evaluation, design and implementation of a new, state of the art 3-tiered web-based application architecture.• Conducted daily IT operational responsibility; data, network and inter-network security; providing technical expertise for all aspects of the business; pricing and contract negotiation for software, hardware and services; and hiring and training of personnel.

Greater San Diego Area

• Began as first dedicated IT individual; increased responsibilities and grew team to 8+ IT personnel.• Managed IT integration and support group for over 300 personnel and UNIX and Linux based systems in 24x7 online operations and a large 150+ personnel call center.• Responsibility for new infrastructure evaluation, pricing, and service contracts.• Accomplishments:• Implementation of the Hot Site/Disaster Recovery plan.• Design and construction of new data center.

Greater San Diego Area

• Conducted software testing and Quality Assurance.• Assembled software releases.• Position change to UNIX Systems Administrator for Sequent SMP systems, including disaster recovery hot site.• Accomplishments:• Architected new, low cost high-performance front-end Linux online processing systems to pair with HP 9000 UNIX systems.

International

• Infantry, EIB, Parachute Badge, Air Assault Badge, NBC Warfare School (top of class), Rappel Master School, E.O. Representative, PLDC (honor grad), BNCOC (honor grad), ARCOM 1st OLC, AAM 5th OLC.• Also served in National Guard after active duty.• Deployed CONUS and Overseas: 101st Airborne, 2nd ACR, 1st AD, 194th Armor Brigade