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Georgetown, TX, US

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

Leading development activities in DataCore's new Perifery division, where we are taking our Swarm object storage out of the core and out to the edge, with a flexible Kubernetes-based deployment that can scale up to multi-petabytes or down as small as a NUC and that incorporates computing tasks including AI/ML that add value to the storage especially for.

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US

After the DataCore acquisition of Caringo, led the rearchitecture of the Swarm storage product from bare-metal Linux into Kubernetes, enabling scaling down to a single-server 'transporter' form factor for edge deployment and scaling up to clusters comprising hundreds of servers and hundreds of petabytes. Added the ability to run containerized compute.

Austin, Texas, US

Expanded the engineering team, updated and modernized development process and tools, and focused effort on customer impacting features, including rearchitecting to a multiprocess architecture to take better advantage of modern, dense multicore servers and to lay groundwork for containerization. Led the QA team to develop better instrumentation and.

US

Vitasio provides development and system integration services to healthcare providers and health plans. I led development of a series of prototypes integrating analytics of personal health records with wellness programs for a health insurance provider.

Austin, TX, US

Tech Ranch Austin is a community of vibrant tech start-ups surrounded by the people, processes and materials needed to drive business success. I served as a consultant/sounding board/advisor to several software technology based startups at Tech Ranch.

West Hartford, US

Designed and established the EDS Innovation Center lab environment in Redmond and Silicon Valley and served as CTO for dozens of innovative collaborative engineering projects with EDS partners. Brought leading edge technology awareness into EDS by organizing and conducting advanced technology forums hosted at Sun and Oracle for hundreds of EDS senior.

West Hartford, US

Reduced costs and increased capabilities by developing globally standardized hardware and software architectures for the desktop computing infrastructure in EDS’s contact centers worldwide. Architected (in cooperation with Microsoft) and led the construction of a new web based self service infrastructure to enable EDS to greatly reduce integration and.

West Hartford, US

Established new desktop-related technology directions and developed and maintained EDS technology strategy for desktop computing including long term strategic focus recommendations. Evaluated and introduced desktop computing technology from various vendors into EDS service lines; developed and launched several new service offerings.

Took a Java compiler product which was failing in the marketplace due to evaluations ending in product failure and not only improved product quality to eliminate failed evaluations, but also achieved Java compatibility - to be certified as Java compatible a product must pass all of 35,340 tests. In the process, doubled the development team, including.

Served as VP of Engineering (1/2 time role) As a 1/2 time contractor, hired core team including a first class lead architect; led initial technology development and product architecture and managed development of the company's first product prototype.

Palo Alto, CA, US

Technology consultant for several positioning projects.

Refocused MCC’s software research on issues of clear urgency for participating companies, including dealing with the increasing proliferation of hardware platforms, networks of computing appliances, service based computing, and distributed, dynamic system architectures – resulted in doubling the number of member companies sponsoring the core software.

Developed a new product concept for self-managed teams of creative workers aimed at the space between project management and knowledge management; obtained funding and secured admission to the Austin Technology Incubator. Developed the initial product implementation using an innovative engineering team split between Austin and the SF Bay Area.

Conceived and delivered the first complete Web application development and delivery environment – essentially the first app server; managed the entire product development and delivery process; established a track record of delivering beta and final releases on time despite extremely aggressive schedules and shortage of resources. Developed and implemented.

In two years, grew professional services from less than $2M/year to over $12M/year, from 6 to over 40 people – until it represented over half of the company’s revenue. Transformed the organization from strictly training to a full-service technology transfer offering including mentoring, consulting, custom development, and project management assistance.

Ms, Applied Science

Bsee, Electrical Engineering