Entrepreneurial technologist with strong experience as an executive in early stage start-ups. Broad understanding of the business fundamentals of creating a start-up. Talent for understanding the big picture, including how products / companies provide value to customers and where those products fit within the market ecosystem. Superior strategic aptitude for creating the company vision and road map, mapping customer needs to product requirements, and clearly understanding the role of disruptive technologies as a means of penetrating a market, and creating a valuable set of components (products, software base, talent pool, intellectual property) that can be used to fuel further growth and expansion of the business.Specialties: - Leadership of early-stage start-ups - Development of intellectual property- Market analysis, Competitive analysis, Strategic planning - Technology Start-up Veteran, Engineering VP and CTO - System architecture, from embedded systems to servers- Server and desktop virtualization- Networking and storage networking technologies, including standards, protocols, hardware and software - software development, test, QA, and release