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Chicago, IL, US

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Strategy and execution for large scale cloud compute and CI/CD platforms. Responsible for transitioning key workloads from on-prem bare metal to multi-cloud, multi-region containerized solutions. Executed department turn-around, rapidly hired new global team, rebuilt platforms, and created high performing support and infra org. Current major work is.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Built SRE/DevOps group. Transformed legacy platforms from on-prem bare metal to AWS and GCP. Designed new autoscaling CI/CD platform to run over 350 simultaneous build, test, and deployment jobs. Led platform migration to containers. Scaled out a high performance public API, now supporting over a trillion requests per month. Pioneered security practices.

Greater Chicago Area

Co-founder focused on mobile and over-the-top video transcoding technologies, deployments, integrations, testing and high volume streaming. Exit: technology and patent portfolio sale

Greater Chicago Area

Created Operations/Systems Engineering teams with specific objectives of increasing uptime and lowering cost of service. Turned around legacy outage-prone architecture into N+2 Amazon Web Services-based cloud infrastructure resulting in 100% uptime with 37% savings. Recruited and mentored top tier engineering talent and introduced DevOps-style workflows.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Upon merging with Sparkplug, Airband Communications became the largest fixed wireless businesses class broadband provider in the US with high bandwidth diversity, voice over IP services, and bespoke wireless wide area networks. The combined Sparkplug/Airband network served the top 19 US metro markets. Exit: Sold to UNSi, acquired by GTT (NYSE: GTT)

Greater Chicago Area

Sparkplug was a venture backed wireless Internet Service Provider. Initially created as a T1 replacement option, Sparkplug evolved to providing a full line of wireless services including high capacity point to point solutions, private wireless networks, and voice over IP service. As a co-founder of Sparkplug, I participated in all aspects of the business.

London, UK

Studio practice in fine art photography methods, investigating early-mid 20th century portrait photography with a concentration on historical silver gelatin, selenium, and bromide print making methods as applied by artists such as Cecil Beaton, Horst P Horst, and Irving Penn.

Chicago, New York, London

Focused on assisting dot com companies in optimizing their platforms to run at significantly reduced OpEx/CapEx. Provided a wide variety of consulting services to startups and established companies in need of executive level guidance through the dot com downturn.

Greater Chicago Area

White label SaaS platform for SMB eCommerce. Enterprise resellers included FedEx, Gateway Computer, Network Solutions, Cincinnati Bell.Exit: Acquired by Digital River (NASDAQ: DRIV)

Greater Chicago Area

EnterAct was a leading Internet Service Provider at a time when dialup dominated the industry. EnterAct brought dialup, ISDN and T1 to Chicago at a scale unmatched in the region and formed a business around a set of guiding principles that, to this day, continue to inspire me. I was lucky to have been given a chance by Mike Cloran and Tracy Snell, the.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

The Community Media Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to providing free or low cost technology and training for the Internet, community television and radio. In 1994 I led an initiative to bring free and open Internet access to underserved populations of the community. Funded by a series of foundation grants, we operated a Freenet.