Ian Colle Email & Phone Number

Golden, CO, US

Seattle, WA, US

I lead the teams building the future of simulations, batch computing, and High Performance Computing. From scaling crowd simulations with AWS SimSpace Weaver, to massive scale AI/ML training runs or AV/ADAS on AWS Batch, to Computational Fluid Dynamics, Numerical Weather Prediction, Reservoir Simulation, and more on AWS Parallel Cluster, AWS has the.

Seattle, WA, US

As the GM of High Performance Computing I built a multi Billion $ business with a globally-distributed team of product managers, software developers, systems developers, application engineers, and developer advocates with a singular goal in mind: making AWS the best place to run HPC workloads.

Littleton, CO, US

Denver Seminary is building the future of adult education, with the goal of providing any degree, at any time, anywhere in the world.

Member of the board of directors for nonprofit providing fiduciary responsibility, defining long term strategy, and executive oversight.

Norfolk, VA, US

All source analyst developing and reporting intelligence to inform senior naval leadership decision making.Selected in 2009 as one of three Naval Reservists nationwide to represent the United States Armed Forces in a foreign exchange program with the Germany Military.2006 Naval Intelligence Reserve Officer of Year for Southwest region.Mobilized after 9/11.

Raleigh, NC, US

Inktank was acquired by Red Hat! I led the globally distributed software development team from Bangalore to LA to Boston and beyond, building Ceph, the future of storage.

Coached runners in preparation for participation in Bolder Boulder 10k and other 10k and 1/2 Marathon races.

I led the software development team at Inktank, who is transforming storage through the enterprise-wide adoption of Ceph, the massively scalable, open source, software-defined storage system. Inktank offers Inktank Ceph Enterprise, the first enterprise-grade, dedicated Ceph product for confidently running a production Ceph storage cluster at scale, as well.

Santa Clara, California, US

Collaboratively guided a globally-dispersed virtual team of talented engineers who were creating the future of storage I/O, necessary to support the extreme-scale supercomputing applications that will run at Exascale.

Aurora, CO, US

Taught Introduction to Logic, equipping students to recognize and distinguish correct reasoning from incorrect reasoning, employ logic when advancing their own arguments and logically evaluating the arguments of others, and to demonstrate the knowledge of basic logic terminology.Course Outline:1. Argument Basics2. Categorical Propositions3. Categorical.

Los Angeles, California, US

Led projects providing software engineering support to the Lustre File System. Managed a globally-dispersed virtual team of senior software engineers to deliver custom software solutions that run on some of the world’s fastest supercomputers. Worked directly with clients on contracted engineering projects; shepherding complex, several month engagements.

Consultant advising government contract representatives in the technical and contractual oversight of the design, implementation and maintenance of a satellite ground station data center comprised of several hundred servers, over one thousand workstations, and a multi-PB storage architecture.

• Led a team of software engineers, system test engineers, project leads, systems architects, and system administrators performing the design, documentation, development, testing, and maintenance of a large satellite.
• Developed and executed multiple $1M and greater simultaneous large software and hardware system developments
• Maintained close working relationships with product team leads to ensure scope of projects met market requirements
• Mentored junior software engineers and architects; performed goal setting/evaluation and performance appraisals for all team members

• Planned, designed and executed infrastructure architecture upgrades of a large satellite ground system.
• Implemented cradle to grave planning for all infrastructure upgrades, resulting in more accurate cost estimates and corresponding work performance indicators
• Performed capacity planning, technical trade studies and analysis in support of computing hardware design and software integration on hardware platforms.
• Tracked COTS hardware failure metrics, system uptime and performance, and worked closely with customer and vendor representatives to ensure timely elevation and resolution of issues

• Developed requirements specifications and generated internal and external interface control documents detailing technical specifications of complex processing systems
• Integrated remotely developed and COTS software and hardware systems into operational baseline; ensuring compliance with customer requirements and interoperability with legacy systems

Developed and executed software development project plan for medium size internet start up company.

Installed, integrated, and configured mass storage systems at worldwide remote client facilities, to include: automated backup and restore functions; Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM); data archive and retrieve.Performed software support for VERITAS NetBackup/Storage Migrator, LEGATO NetWorker, and ADIC AMASS/DataMgr data storage software applications.

• Provided 24/7 on-site and on-call Tier I, II, and III technical support to several high profile computing processing systems running Windows, Solaris, IRIX, HPUX, and VMS operating systems on large mainframes, midrange.
• Maintained greater than 99% uptime on all systems in spite of many obsolete operating systems and hardware platforms.
• Reduced system administration time over 500 hours annually by creating shell scripts to automate user account creation, modification, and deletion activities
• Daily briefed senior IT management on system outages, component degradation, and planned upgrades.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US

• Performed requirements analysis, validation and verification of advanced satellite command and control software developed in FORTRAN, C, C++, and Java.
• Developed detailed unit and system level test plans, procedures, and reports, detecting 95% of system errors prior to implementation ensuring high quality software development and integration standards were met.

Washington, DC, US

Awarded Joint Service Commendation Medal for conduct of initial intercept, on-line analysis, and initial reporting of tactical voice communications in support of national requirements and ongoing U.S. military operations.Developed and presented training curriculum for newly selected communications supervisors.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Ma, Philosophy

Ms, Computer Information Systems

Ms, Telecommunications

Ba, Economics