Space Technology for the Internet Age. Umbra designs, builds, launches and operates satellites for high resolution Earth observation, new communications capabilities, and exquisite signal monitoring.

Applied Minds, LLC. is an American company founded in 2000 by ex-Disney Imagineers and Bran Ferren, Danny Hillis, and Douglas Carlston that provides technology, design, R&D, and consulting services to multiple firms, including General Motors, Intel, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Herman Miller, Harris Corporation, Sony, and Sun MicroSystems. The company's headquarters are in Burbank, California, and it maintains offices in New York and Washington DC.It supplies products and services in software, aerospace, entertainment, electronics, biotechnology and architectural design. It has spun out several companies including Metaweb Technologies (the creators of Freebase, which was acquired by Google), TouchTable, and Applied Proteomics.

VSolvit is an award-winning technology services provider specializing in custom application development including BI Systems, data warehousing, and GIS, project/program management and hosting and cloud services for clients such as the Department of Defense (DOD). As the IT Manager, I managed network and services for an environment spanning 7 offices, 500+ employees and several continents with over 250 servers. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS Re-architected network from ground up to introduce Cisco layer 3 switching, network segmentation for secured VLAN’s, network path redundancy, Site to Site VPN’s between offices and ISP Redundancy Led team of Systems Admins, Systems Analysts, and Helpdesk Support Hands-on support of Windows, Linux (Oracle, Ubuntu), DB (SQL, MySQL and Oracle), Hyper-V, G-Suite, F5 Big IP, HP, EMC, Cisco, AWS, Nagios Implemented network monitoring, logging and alerting solutions Authored over 50 IT policies and procedures necessary to obtain ISO 20K and 27K certifications and implemented necessary network and security changes including Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity plans Implemented NIST 800-53 security and privacy controls for Federal Information Systems

InTouch Health is an FDA cleared Healthcare Robotics Company. The suite of innovative solutions facilitates remote active patient monitoring and stroke diagnosis, allowing smaller, remote hospitals to bring remote talented specialists into their healthcare model providing better care for the patients. As the Director of IT, I manage and architect an internationally accessible, always available network infrastructure. • Supervision of Systems Admins, Systems Engineers, Helpdesk Support and DBA• Hands-on administration: • Windows • Linux - Ubuntu /RedHat / CentOS • DB - SQL /MySQL / Universe • VMWare • Exchange • F5 BigIP • Servers - Dell / HP • SAN - EMC / EqualLogic / HP• Design and implement fault tolerance and fail over for network infrastructure and servers • Designed an end to end network / hardware solution to meet FDA and HIPAA requirements• Wrote and implemented business continuity and HIPAA compliance documents • Implemented disaster recovery plan• Architect International Presence with Data Centers in Singapore, Amsterdan, London, Russia• Installation of US presence in LA, Vegas, Santa Barbara, Austin, Tampa, DC and Minneapolis• Support the SaaS cloud which monitors end points 24/7 • Work with hospital IT Staff to configure their networks for Robot and Imagery Solutions

Neocomp is an established Hardware / Networking consulting company boasting 30 years of success. As the Technical Services Manager, I lead a team of Systems Administrators and Systems Engineers to function as the IT Department for multiple organizations.  Supervision of Systems Admins, Systems Engineers and Helpdesk Support staff Management of multiple networking environments, each with different configurations, environments and compliance requirements including helpdesk support, troubleshooting and project management Direct day to day support activities while coordinating large scale projects and implementations Facilitate multiple projects including, several migrations from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010, installation / configuration of off-site backup solutions, configure / install Cisco ASAs, Migration of 2000 AD Domain to 2008, Disaster Recovery Planning, design and implement backup strategy, Citrix implementations, etc.

Authoria, Inc. was an up and coming SAAS provider of Strategic Human Resource Management solutions; a fast paced, customer facing network environment requiring maximum up time, I was able to significantly reduce expenditures and corporate down time during my tenure. Managed a diverse team spanning the US and India to maintain 24x7 worldwide operations Hands-on management of Windows, AD, Linux, SAN, WAN, LAN, Cisco, Exchange, Blackberry services Collaborated with Senior Team to provide targeted projection analysis and direction increasing efficiency of overall organization Renegotiated contract terms resulting in 30% reduction of recurring telecom expenses while increasing bandwidth by 38% Developed Employee Provisioning and Termination application with application security auditing \ alerting dramatically improving network and application security and reducing down time Re-architected development environments using virtual technology to reduce hardware costs and ease management and maintenance requirements. Initiated global emergency preparedness and disaster recovery planning resulting in faster response to threats and outages Maximized up-time by redesigning the network with redundancy and fail over  Increased network throughput by reconfiguring LAN\WAN, reducing hops and updating equipment  Facilitated multiple computer room build outs / restructures while adhering to tight budget and minimal downtime requirements

Work as Hardware/Software consultant specializing in Unix/Universe/JPsedlak software as well as network support.

Managed the Culver City location network environment.

Build out and support of PC and Laptop installations/software/network connectivity for R&B / Oakwoods' nationwide user populous.

Provided telephone support for users of the AT&T Worldnet ISP and dialup software.

Provided phone technical support for the Microsoft suite of home and business products.