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Ken Wood is listed as Technologist | Author of the Tech Action Novel - Quantum Ball at Freelance, based in San Diego, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Ken Wood.
Ken Wood previously worked as Writer - Author of the Newly Release Novel "Quantum Ball" at Freelance and Sr. Director of AI Solutions & Strategy at Supermicro. Ken Wood holds Computer Science from Uc San Diego Extended Studies.
Technologist | Strategist | Innovation | Leader | Global | Writer-AuthorSelf-motivated, passionate and recognized leader known for mentoring, inspiring creative and innovative thinking, and telling the story of a company’s product portfolio advantages. Master at developing and creating, unique, interesting and interactive, live demonstrations and proof-of-concepts. Expert at presenting the Art of the Possible, and expanding to new market segments and use cases that products can address. Skilled with integrating the product portfolio with state-of-the-art technologies, like AI and IoT, and addressing customer’s challenges in their own language. Always applying business acumen to any technology challenge.As a mentor, advisor and teacher, always looking to do something new, challenging, impactful, meaningful, disruptive and risky (when needed). Core Skills: Technologist | Innovator | Sales Support | Strategy and Vision | Technical Lead | Product Management | Marketing | Strategy and Planning | Energy | Artificial Intelligence | Machine Learning | Deep Learning | Data Engineering | Data Integration | ETL | Business Analytics | Internet of Things | Data and Analytic Flow | Infrastructure Edge, On-Premise, Private, Public, Cloud, Hybrid | Architecture | Virtualization and Containers | Performance Analysis | Storage Block, File, Object Networks | Data Science | Research and Development | Python, TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn | Dashboards and Reporting | SQL | Databases | Big Data | Node-Red | Pentaho | Raspberry Pi | Presenter | Writer | Blogger | Proof-of-Concept | Demonstrations | Performance Benchmarking | Business Continuity | Disaster RecoveryCareer Highlights:• Integral part of the strategic group (along with Hitachi Japan) that put the strategy and vision together that oversaw the company reach a peak of $6 billion in revenue a year.• Led the technical and performance evaluations of the largest M&A objectives in the company’s history worth over $1 billion with the acquisitions of BlueArc and Pentaho.• After the acquisition of Pentaho, was personally asked to lead their R&D organization known as “Pentaho Labs” to drive more innovation and expansion for the uses of Pentaho.• Established the Storage Performance Testing Lab and performance testing practices that is still a major company function today.• First Hitachi employee to be voted onto the Storage Network Industry Association’s Technical Council and on the Board of Directors of the Data Management Forum.• Awarded the first and only “Employee of the Year” for the Storage Line of Business.
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Published in February 2022 and available in many eBook formats and Paperback from Amazon athttps://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TCSD97J/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1
San Diego, California, Us
As the Principal Technical Product Manager of the Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery portfolio of products and solutions, I oversaw and developed the company’s strategy, product roadmap development and vision, as well as competitive analysis, for Business Continuity and High Availability of Teradata’s analytical database products. This is for on-premises, public and private cloud platforms, and hybrid configurations. This includes developing and documenting creative solutions, to solve challenging customer scenarios and use cases in fortune 500 companies globally. In addition, I also manage the technical engagement of the “Enterprise Fit” partner program for certifying compatibility of vendors for their backup storage and S3 compatible “Native Object Store” solutions. Additionally, I create technical content and demonstrations (live and recorded) of the products in the portfolio for testing, education, sales and marketing content purposes. I also led the backup and restore business as the PM for this data protection solution. Lastly, Technical Marketing content created for evangelizing company technology and messaging.
Santa Clara, California, Us
As the leader of this organization of industry luminaries, we perform research, development and innovation for the Pentaho suite of analytics and data integration software by inventing new and exciting capabilities, and by expanding the types of customers that purchase our products and services, and the types of markets that can be addressed. This was done by working internally with Product Management and based on global enterprise customer feedback. Capabilities have included Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Edge, On-Premise Cloud and Hybrid-Cloud, Data Science visualization and tools, Robotics and integration of the entire product portfolio. This organization is the ultimate source for requesting advanced “art of the possible” capabilities to help enterprise customers solve their most challenging issues.• Perform research, development and innovation for the Pentaho suite of analytics and data integration software. • Expanding the types of customers that purchase our products and services, and the types of markets and use cases that can be addressed. • Demonstrate through the development of advanced prototypes, functional demonstrations and experimental software the need for use cases and “re-use” cases of existing technologies, to disrupt the current portfolio, if required.
Santa Clara, California, Us
Directly interacted with, and coordinated, external representatives from multiple Hitachi divisions to manage the complexity of projects that span all 3 levels of the company’s strategy (Infrastructure, Content and Analytics), Managed direct report employees including expatriates. Co-managed and developed projects and demonstrations with Hitachi’s North American Innovation Lab in collaboration with Hitachi’s Central Research Laboratory in Japan.• Reported these findings and socialized at executive level decision boards. • As part of the “Evaluation” function of the group, M&A and partner targets were evaluated and scored, then reported to executive level decision boards and committees on next step strategies based on findings.
Santa Clara, California, Us
Managed and contributed to a team of researchers and developers investigating the entire product and technology portfolio of Hitachi Ltd, to enhance Hitachi Data Systems’ solutions offerings in order to solve customer challenges. Deliverables of this work were reflected in internal and external socializing, white papers, blogs, speaking engagements at technology conferences and customer presentations, and presenting to the various approval bodies within the Hitachi decision-making framework.
Santa Clara, California, Us
- Director of Data and Storage Technologies, Office of the CTO- Member Storage Networking Industry Association Technical Council- Member Board of Directors - Data Management Forum- Director of Product Performance- Director of Storage Architecture Technologies, Office of the CTO- Director of Data Network Technology- Manager of the Storage Performance Group- Performance Analyst - Storage Line of Business
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Ken Wood works for Freelance.
Ken Wood is listed as Technologist | Author of the Tech Action Novel - Quantum Ball at Freelance.
Ken Wood is based in San Diego, California, United States while working with Freelance.
Ken Wood has worked for Freelance, Supermicro, Teradata, and Hitachi Vantara.
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Ken Wood holds Computer Science from Uc San Diego Extended Studies.
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