Helmut F. Email & Phone Number

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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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