Co-founder / Founding CEO of Luminary Cloud. Reimagining high-performance computing.

Co-founded and started Bracket Computing. Exited/sold our technology to VMware in 2018.

Research high-tech markets. Brainstorm up ideas. Find "The Next Big Thing."

(Joined Cisco through the acquisition of IronPort Systems in 2007.)Member of a small team of executive software architects, reporting to VP of Engineering for Security Appliances group, responsible for product strategy and technical vision for Cisco's $1B Network Security business. Influenced broad team of ~200 engineers through architecture team leadership across multiple product lines. Led M&A due diligence, customer meetings, and some cross-BU technology alliances.

Product-line architect on cross-functional business team and senior technical leader for IronPort Web Security Appliance from new product initiation to ~$100M in annual revenue.(IronPort was acquired by Cisco in 2007.)

Provided technical leadership in growth areas for NetApp's storage business for 7+ years from <$500M to >$2B in annual revenues.Storage: Broad technology and engineering process leadership in core technology groups. Lead Architect for WAFL Filesystem Performance and Sparse Volumes (storage system architecture used by FlexCache).Internet Content Delivery: Software architect for Streaming Media Technology in NetCache product line. Lead Developer for RealNetworks and QuickTime streaming media proxy caching, the industry's first inline packet-based RTSP/RTP proxy cache. Lead Developer, NetCache Access Control technology.

UNIX kernel developer: IRIX Core OS Scheduling, Real-Time, and Threads team.