T. Brian Jones

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Artist & Engineer / Imagine & Create - Agricultural Manufacturing / Energy & Climate Tech / Science Education @ Plenty®
T. Brian Jones's Location
San Diego, California, United States, United States
About T. Brian Jones

C-Level Engineering, Technology, Product, & Business Development Leader; Serial Entrepreneur; Experience launching, leading, and exiting technology companies across manufacturing, global data, and advertising technology.LEADERSHIP & CHARACTER• Finds great joy in business leadership and cultural development, executive engineering and organizational design, constant learning, educating cross-disciplinary teams (technical and non), formulating and promoting strategy and vision across departments, inspiring via clear and purposeful direction, promoting an environment of continuous and achievable improvement, and developing and growing teams, managers, and leaders.• Impeccable integrity: honest, direct, transparent, thorough, and consistent leadership. Takes responsibility for owned actions and decisions, while promoting the needs and accomplishments of teams and team members.ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY EXPERTISE• Software and system architect & technology leader. Deep expertise in design, development, and continuous delivery, as well as tech-org design, team growth and restructuring. Experience with multiple cloud environments.• Manufacturing, process, and robotics engineer with experience in mechanical, electrical, materials, and software production design and implementation, process control & capability, and continuous process improvement in consumer product manufacturing. Deep experience enabling supply chain efficiencies and R&D pipelines.• Love for data, analysis, & data science. Deep experience building and leading teams over bleeding edge data pipelines, process analysis, and system controls across global infrastructure. Enablement of real time capture, manipulation, modeling, analysis, and delivery of data, powering customers, partners, and holistic BI systems.• Experience creating Security, IT, and global data compliance teams and standards.PASSION & DIRECTION• Passion for climate, environment, and more sustainable socioeconomic and business structures that provide continuously fairer access to critical human resources like, food, water, shelter, energy, education, and technology... a hobby farmer of over 13 varieties of food trees.• Driven professionally by the concept of Ikigai: 1) do what you are good at, 2) what you love, 3) what you can get paid for, and 4) what the world needs.• Semi-professional Photographer for over 20 years. Loves surfing/bodyboarding, volleyball, yoga, guitar, piano, activities of all kinds, and just being outside.

T. Brian Jones's Current Company Details
Plenty®

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Artist & Engineer / Imagine & Create - Agricultural Manufacturing / Energy & Climate Tech / Science Education
T. Brian Jones Work Experience Details
  • Plenty®
    Vp Technology
    Plenty® Jan 2024 - Present
    South San Francisco, Ca, Us
  • Dun & Bradstreet
    Svp Technology, Digital Audiences
    Dun & Bradstreet Nov 2021 - Jan 2024
    Jacksonville, Fl, Us
    I lead Engineering for D&B's Digital Audiences division where we're responsible for Programmatic Advertising & Digital Identity across the company. I report to our general manager and dotted line to D&B's global CTO.LEADERSHIP• Lead ten global teams of agile infrastructure, software, data pipeline, data science, web platform, & techops teams; FTEs & contractors; hybrid office & remote.• Work tightly with product to manage our strategy & roadmaps, and with ops & commercial leadership on overall business strategy, KPIs, & OKRs.• Stood up agile tech-product teams and standardized our SDLC and supporting processes, creating robust cross departmental communications and enabling self guided innovation at the team level through direct coordination with peers and stakeholders.M&A• Led through the creation of a new D&B division merging three acquired businesses, balancing pace of change and innovation with integrity and performance of existing product lines.• Continued development and execution of transition plans for shared responsibilities: IT, security & networking, finance, supply chain, delivery logistics, etc.PRODUCT & TECH• Manage technology budgets, driving continuous system efficiencies via constant attention to spend, opex/capex, and margins. Work closely with multiple finance teams.• Own product and technology stacks across multiple cloud environments, including: 1) data acquisition pipelines 2) one of the industry's largest and only global data marketplaces, 3) multiple identity graphs representing hundreds of billions of nodes and trillions of edges, 4) ops and customer UI's, and 5) all the underlying sustaining security & architecture.• Responsible for monitoring, reporting, and response to architectural system performance, bottlenecks, and uptime. Managing R&D of a holistic BI system, unifying revenue, data flows, supply & tech costs, and tech ops, enabling detection of anomalies and drift, and expanding analytics-based decisioning.
  • Eyeota
    Chief Technology Officer
    Eyeota Nov 2021 - Dec 2023
    Singapore, Sg
    Eyeota was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 2021.I took over as CTO of Eyeota to oversee a triple merger of technology teams and business units of Eyeota, and NetWise, with our acquirer, Dun & Bradstreet, to form a new business unit within D&B, focussed on programmatic advertising and digital identity.
  • Netwise Data
    Chief Technology Officer
    Netwise Data Oct 2015 - Apr 2023
    Boca Raton, Fl, Us
    NetWise was acquired by Dun & Bradstreet in 2021.NetWise produces the most complete and accurate B2B2C Identity file in AdTech, representing 28M businesses and 100M professionals. Our products are leveraged by AdTech giants, ad agencies, and fortune 500 brands to enable multichannel B2B sales, marketing, & advertising.GROWTH & STRATEGY• Responsible for product and technology strategy, growing and leading teams of engineers, data scientists, analysts, product designers, and contractors. Critical leader in the development of company culture.• Stood up standards, policies, and teams for IT, global compliance, cloud ops & security, engineering, product, and digital demand gen.• Regularly supported commercial teams, meeting with clients and partners daily, driving innovation and supporting critical contracts. Led multiple M&A events with CEO and CFO.PRODUCT & TECHNOLOGY• Transformed our products from myriad prototyped tools built by individual team members and 3rd party contractors, to production systems owned and operated by internal tech and product teams, purpose built for rapid growth.• Drove the strategic and cultural shift to a SaaS business model with the development and release of our Audience Platform, which became the new paradigm for how the business operated internally, sold in market, and enabled customers.• Led the development of global data products & pipelines, ingesting data from thousands of sources to generate the world’s leading Business to Consumer Identity file from tens of billions of data points across a trillion graph edges.• Responsible for securely architected products, leveraging massive networks of AWS systems, to house sensitive and regulated Pii (personally identifiable information).• Developed sophisticated quality processes to measure consistency and reach in our products, identify errors in systems early in each business cycle, and ensure strategic goals were confirmed by quantitative research and testing.
  • Juris: Blockchain/Smart Contract Dispute Resolution
    Founding Advisor
    Juris: Blockchain/Smart Contract Dispute Resolution Nov 2017 - Oct 2020
    Disputes happen. Code has bugs. Smart contracts misbehave. Juris is building an open source, blockchain-native, dispute resolution protocol based on UN standards for due process.
  • Zengineering Podcast
    Host & Producer
    Zengineering Podcast Jun 2015 - Oct 2020
    Los Angeles, Ca, Us
    We've been on hiatus for a long time while Adam and I learn how to dad. Do not fear, however, new plans will emerge... Zengineering Podcast is for everyone who loves Science & Technology and also cares deeply about the beauty of Life's Big Questions. My co-host, Adam, and I are obsessed with the spot where modern Science, Technology & Engineering meet Philosophy, Art & Spirituality. As proud wearers of lifetime nerd badges, we have found this to be the place where the most interesting questions are both formulated and discussed.Through Zengineering Podcast we discuss lots of tech, dive deeply into science and engineering, and go on lots of random tangents in a pursuit of how to build mental models of the world that inform and guide our actions in positive ways. We do our best to share this exploration.https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/zengineering-podcast
  • Industrial Interface, Inc.
    Ceo & Founder
    Industrial Interface, Inc. Jan 2009 - Oct 2015
    San Diego, Us
    Industrial Interface was acquired by NetWise Data in 2015The most complete source of US Manufacturing Data in the World, curated entirely with software technology. As a founder, CEO, & Lead Developer, I was responsible for the strategic direction of the company and leading all teams.MANUFACTURING & BIZ DEV• Worked directly with engineering and sales teams at global manufacturers to design and build knowledge sharing utilities and processes to enable data-driven decisions regarding Engineering R&D, Supply Chain, and Sales & Marketing. • Deep exposure across industry, especially aerospace, biomedical, automotive, contract manufacturing, VARs and OEMs with regular attendance and presentations at global mfg conferences and events.• Contracts & partnerships with Fortune 100 manufacturers, the US Department of Defense (DLA), and other businesses creating multiple sales channels for our data and services across manufacturing.• We were Dun & Bradstreet's official MFG Data, providing exposure to nearly every fortune 500 company, via D&B's international reselling team.PROGRAMMING & ARCHITECTURE• Cloud Based System Architecture on hundreds of servers: databases, search engines, web crawlers, data processors, and web servers.• Large Scale Web Crawling: Routinely processing hundreds of millions of webpages, quickly & inexpensively, utilizing custom built cloud-based software and architecture.• Data Acquisition, Management, and Analysis: Routine programmatic analysis of hundreds of millions of documents leveraging various Data Science techniques, including: natural language processing (NLP), entity extraction, clustering, and Bayesian classifiers.• API Design & Integration: Processing of billions of data points to make actionable business intelligence available via our internal and customer facing APIs.• Web Development & User Interface Design: R&D for multiple websites totaling over 1.5M monthly uniques at peak, and ranking ~2,000 in US websites.
  • Titleist Golf (Acushnet Company)
    Manufacturing Robotics Engineer
    Titleist Golf (Acushnet Company) Sep 2004 - Aug 2007
    Fairhaven, Ma, Us
    Integral member of the engineering team responsible for maintaining and innovating operations for all US-based Titleist and Cobra Golf Club manufacturing plants (including production, quality, warehouse, and machine shop), and three other major local facilities. Central engineering support for multiple international manufacturing operations.• Major personal projects to identify, research, and design new processes and production robotics. Responsible for coordination of new project launches between Engineering, Machine Shop, Maintenance, Quality, and Manufacturing. Emphasis on increased throughput, cost savings, ergonomics and safety, process capability, and facilities impact & design.• Multiple robotic systems of my design involving mechanical, electrical, software, and hardware R&D have been reproduced and are still used in Titleist's international manufacturing facilities.• Personal project to design and build a production machine for locating, measuring, and adjusting relational angles ( Loft & Lie ) on a golf club in 3D space. Responsible for initial project conceptualization and full R&D, testing, and release into production.• Cost analysis, implementation, and mechanical integration with current processes for a new plant-wide packaging systems installed in ~30 production cells. Throughput increased by 25% with an ROI of only 4 weeks. Systems integration plan and guidance provided for worldwide facilities.• Experience with: Solidworks, AutoCAD, LabVIEW, Matlab, Industrial Robotics, Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Machine Vision Systems & Software, Board Level Electronics, Encoders, Integrated Sensors & Measurement Devices, Lasers & Optics, GPS, Multi-Axis Accelerometers, and Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
  • Micronova Technology
    Engineering Intern
    Micronova Technology Sep 2003 - May 2004
    For my Senior Engineering Design Internship while at Vanderbilt University, I worked with MicroNova to redesign a basic existing walker to assist patients in getting up from a seated position. Responsible for the primary research into the medical and manufacturing industries, as well as patent potential, insurance, and Medicare compliance. My team completed a working prototype, and tested it in the lab.
  • T. Brian Jones Photography
    Founder / Principal Photographer
    T. Brian Jones Photography May 1996 - Aug 2002
    Established as first business while in high school, taking portraits and photographing parties and fundraisers, specializing in artistic portraits, mostly for friends and family, but occasionally professionally. Experienced photojournalist (local papers, editor of high school paper, and contributor to college newspaper). Have won numerous photography awards, and been published in magazines and newspapers.
  • The Robert B. Balter Company
    On-Site Construction Inspector
    The Robert B. Balter Company Jun 2001 - Sep 2001
    Owings Mills, Maryland, Us
    Summer Internship: Supervised multiple construction crews on various construction sites for large commercial manufacturing and logistics facilities. Inspection of earthwork, concrete reinforcement, pouring & testing during construction, sewer, gas & water line, footing and foundation work.

T. Brian Jones Skills

Entrepreneurship Manufacturing Engineering Product Development Solidworks Engineering Management Design For Manufacturing Testing R&d Product Design Linux Microsoft Office Manufacturing Engineering Competitive Analysis Problem Solving Rapid Prototyping Lean Manufacturing Programming Injection Molding Financial Analysis Css Photoshop Html Materials Sphinx Amazon Web Services Php Mysql Automation Design Of Experiments Elasticsearch Big Data Robotics Statistics Root Cause Analysis Integrated Marketing Process Engineering Indesign Cad Spc Electronics Gd&t Industrial Engineering Codeigniter Git Subversion Peoplesoft Api Development Prototyping Slim

T. Brian Jones Education Details

  • San Diego State University
    San Diego State University
    Marketing
  • Vanderbilt University
    Vanderbilt University
    Mechanical Engineering
  • Murdoch University
    Murdoch University
    Western Australia
  • St. Paul'S School (Md)
    St. Paul'S School (Md)

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