Rory Lubold Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, Arizona, United States

Galaxy Vets is a new US employee-centric veterinary healthcare system with a mission to unlock the potential of a Veterinary Healthcare System to provide the care that pets deserve. The Vice President Information Technology is charged with creating, standing up, and leading the IT teamat Galaxy Vets. As a senior-level partner who enjoys creating systems and processes from scratch as Galaxy Vets grows and builds an amazing culture and eco-system that serves Veterinarians, hospitals and clinics, pets, and their owners.

Scottsdale, Az

Providing innovative and comprehensive cloud, hybrid and on-premise IT, security and software development solutions to our diverse range of customers.• Designing and deploying cloud, hybrid and on-premise IT solutions reducing ownership costs an average of 54%• Delivering software services and life-cycle support from design, dev-ops development and test, deployment and support utilizing Scrum and Agile methodologies• Developed and integrated three custom manufacturing (MRP) and customer management solutions (CRM) averaging a 90% savings over competing and off-the-shelf solutions• Providing Remote IT infrastructure management, monitoring and problem mitigation tools for customers reducing operational costs by over 40%, downtime by an average of 83% and improving technology up-time to 99.99%

Greater Los Angeles Area

Technical, Operations, IT and Engineering responsibility for 7 post production facilities in North America and software development teams of 200 developers across three continents grossing $60 million annually.• Budgeted, designed, built and managed 3 post production facilities – consolidating services and saving $6 million • Developed and deployed a software digital workflow (content, rendering and distribution) for post production TV, commercials and Film that automated redundant and repetitive jobs with an overall time and costs savings of 33% • Reduced the time required for visual effects (VFX) changes by 68% through a cloud-based Digital Asset Management (DAM) system synchronizing customers and production facilities on three continents.• Won $35 million 3-D stereo conversion studio contract by developing a global cloud post-production pipeline for TV and Film projects - reducing project costs by 50% and time-to-market by 40%

Hollywood, Ca

Hands-on VP of Engineering with 25 engineers and technicians providing support for 2 post production facilities and a TV production facility.• Provided turn-key around-the-clock facility for Fox Sports Net TV syndication services with all equipment, engineering and IT support with an annual income of $15 million• Developed digital film restoration process to automate scanning, cleanup, color balance, rendering and film out for film archive library – resulting in 40% time savings and 60% cost reduction• Doubled annual revenue to $35 million by winning 3 new reality TV shows through 24 hour engineering services with real-time format conversion services and media duplication services

Hollywood, Ca

Converted analog film titling studio into digital giant tripling revenue and developing new imaging, pipeline, rendering technologies and tools• Chief architect for software development teams on 3 continents. Developed rendering, visualization and API tools for media and entertainment for visual effects. Developed, deployed and managed new technology for physiology modeling and rendering including APIs, plug-ins and web services.• Consolidated 4 studios into 2 locations – saving $4 million dollars in operating costs and improving workflow efficiencies by a factor of 10 with hi-speed fiber interconnected facilities, high-speed storage and digital workstations

Various

Served as USAF officer, reservist and civil servant for the United States Air Force as a Program manager, software programmer, analyst and flight test engineer. Complete technical and financial program management responsibilities for large scale development efforts for Space and Aircraft development programs. Supported programs included ATF (F22 – Raptor), GPS, Defense Support Program (DSP), Joint Air Force and Navy Common Instrumentation System and Peacekeeper Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile System (ICBM) programs. Championed adoption of private sector development standards for DOD software development from military standards. Certified USAF Program Manager.

Prototype engineer for aviation company with products including amphibious floats, aircraft approach and control systems, lighting and landing gear products. Initial responsibilities included various production floor jobs - riveting, air-brake operator, coating and fabrication and assembler. Promoted to tooling and die (pre-fabrication) - building prototypes, tool and dies for low rate initial production and then full production.