We are pioneering the ascension of the edge by mixing IoT, Cybersecurity, AI, edge compute, and sensors into cyber-hardened, intelligent sensor platform and managed service.Co-founder, COO, and Inventor. Check us out iot.ai.

LogZilla is accelerating network orchestration remediation and cybersecurity vulnerability remediation. They can help you improve operations, reduce risks, and put tools in the hands of your very important NOC, SOC, and IT operation experts!

Driving early stage success for a wonderful team, company, and market mission of helping address the talents and aspects of coaches, sports, and careers. Check out the company: https://mycoachingtree.com/

Driving innovation for the mission across startups, government agencies, investors, and the defense ecosystem. The vision of Defense Innovation Network (DIN) is to drive innovation to help the mission!

Advising on public policy, technology, and operations. Expertise provided on autonomous vehicles, drones, transportation, energy, smart cities, big data, analytics, and IoT.

Board Member of CTAN (https://centraltexasangelnetwork.com). Taking Angel investing, Startup performance, and market acceleration to new levels. CTAN has a strong portfolio, millions of investment dollars at work, and global syndication network.

Executive in Global SP CTO organization, pioneering engineering endeavors to transform, accelerate, and execute initiatives for global providers of media, gaming, mobility, and communications. Worked: service automation, assurance/experience optimization, cyber security, operations excellence, IoT, and risk management & mitigation. Co-leading merger and acquisition (M&A) / inorganic growth strategy for Cisco's Service Provider segment. Work is very customer centered requirements, use cases, and impact to ensure we drive for customer satisfaction and value.

Global responsibility for pioneering data and analytics research, advanced engineering, product management, integrated solutions, machine learning incubation, and cognitive analytics incubation. Overall responsibility for the business unit included R&D, large partnerships, corporate development/investment/M&A, and incubation P&L for net new software solutions. Drove all aspects of the Cisco and IBM Watson IoT program, from R&D, engineering, and go-to-market.

Global CTO for Cisco Consulting Services driving advanced analytics offers, incubation, and customer engagements. Analytics projects and solutions included: customer care and customer call center, supply chain and logistics, information security and cybersecurity, retail location services, mobile application and mobile gaming methodologies, city management, physical security, transportation and connected vehicles, collaboration and workforce productivity, smartgrid and energy, and service provider.

Co-founder of non-profit startup, Chief Technology Officer and Engineering Chief of the Planetary Skin Institute, on 4 year secondment from Cisco. Science co-lead/contributor with Univ of Minn, NASA, CEMADEN, and INPE on geospatial signal analysis and remote sensing based algorithms and models for early warning systems, risk monitoring and human loss prevention. Advanced sensor mesh deployments through to advanced environmental supply chain analytics models. Decision Science co-lead with DoE, PNNL, LNNL, and NREL on energy modeling programs. Led all software and engineering development teams across agile, software development life cycle, and DevOps processes. Led global cross-functional teams and cross-sector teams, managed vendors, and drove rapid development cycles for software as a service geospatial platform and applications.

Participated as visiting board member, leveraging past experiences CTO for Connected Urban Development, Planetary Skin Institute CTO/Engineering Exec, and Cisco Smart Connected Communities as a way to help give advice, guidance, and inputs into the evolving multi-year Global City Indicators efforts. Provided inputs on urban programs, attributes, along with technology inputs on big data, analytics, and other aspects.

In charge for Cisco's Connected Urban Development incubation and engineering programs at global level, within the Internet Business Solutions Group at Cisco. CUD was the joint program launched between Cisco and the Clinton Global Initiative aimed at developing innovative, broadband based solutions for CO2 emissions reductionDrove and co-authored pioneering hardware and software-based innovations such as Urban EcoMap, Smart Buses, Personal Travel Assistant, Smart Buildings, Connected Vehicles, Smart Energy, and other smart transportation solutions. Drove research through to prototype and pilots across member cities such as San Francisco, Amsterdam, Seoul, and so forth. Partnered with leading public/private institutions: NASA, MIT, Univ of Toronto, Philips, GE, CH2MHILL, etc. Led the software design, development cycles, and overall execution across the technical engineering and development teams.