I am actively pursuing C-level or Director role
in small and medium sized corporations, to bring analysis and execution
grace against any odds in competitive business scenarios. In addition,
I am always excited to hear about complex and challenging short-term
consulting opportunities.
Summary: Uniquely Agile
Architect and Prototyping Virtuoso, Strategist among Technologists
A visionary,
hands-on, abstract, energetic problem solver. My specialty is in
launching advanced technology prototypes, products, and propelling
companies for the thrill of personal challenge and accomplishment.
15 years as an
entrepreneur alternating between being an Angel-round secret weapon and
life as a professional consultant. I bring the wisdom of a successful
record prototyping and delivering market-ready v1.0 concept systems in
diverse domains.
I began almost
30 years of personal achievements at an early age, spanning computer
languages, data compression, AI, and pattern based design-- from 8-bit
assembler roots onward to novel approaches in architecture and very
large scale computing.
My performance
strengths are in seeing to the feasibility and accuracy of Grant
Application, Contract Proposal, and Venture Capital related literature
against a clear vision of the technology roadmap ahead. To this effect
I maintain that writing whitepapers, product specs, and project plans
are one in the same objective task as delivering the software, or
salvaging a project in disarray.
Contract and Consulting
Customers have included:
Agilent, Applera/Applied Bio, Boeing,
Corning-Asahi, EDS, GTE/Verizon Telecom, Lawrence Livermore National
Labs, National Science Foundation (Nsfnet), Neilson Media Research,
Perot Systems, Office Of The Secretary Of Defense, University Of
Michigan Telco (Umtel)
Kiptronic Online Media
and Advertiser Marketplace March 2006-September 2007
Presently Technical Advisor,
Former Director of Video
Operations and Technical Hire #1
San Francisco, CA
Worked closely with CEO,
VP's of Marketing and Sales to implement viable technical
strategies, instill engineering process, and paved the way for rapid
growth as Kiptronic's engineering load increased.
Pulled the 4-man startup from an audio podcast ad-insertion
technology
into a $4m series-A round of funding by launching video ad insertion
for large media companies and CDN content rollout.
Built and set into motion an industry-unique video in-stream
advertising insertion framework for Apache users and Akamai hosted
content.
Responsible for the specification, location, and charge of 3
top-shelf
outsource teams concurrently developing video process pipelines
unavailable in commercial software packages.
Responsible for multiple advertising product offerings.
Selection, procurement, and hand-tuning of the hardware, linux
kernel,
cluster filesystems, and dynamic virtual machine deployment model for
scalable, stateless processing of video on 2 colocation
sites.
Defined the original engineering process and tools
Performed and managed First-level support and built several
custom
business-specific diagnostic tools as needed.
BioInformatics Startup & Microsoft ISV, June 2005 & Feb 2006
Billable Architect and
Developer, NIST ATP Grant
Emeryville, CA
Established and realized
contract deliverables for 2 generations of Bioinformatics Analysis Thin
Client and Research Warehouse Suites.
Wrote the Procurement Verbage
and won the company $1.5M in NIST Grant Funding by Unifying FDA Audit
Guidelines, CFR21.11 Tracking and Authenticity, and Certificate based
HIPPA and Patient Record Security designs. I was the technical voice
driving the design, algorithms, management, and implementation of what
may be the world's fastest C++ STL SOA RDF triple store query
engine, to integrate turn-key Enterprise class Pharma warehouse
extractions to customers of any size in Bio and Pharma Markets. One of
the greatest accomplishments of this effort was not technical in
nature, but articulating and illustrating the RDF Semantic Web concepts
in-house and educating the product stakeholders.
Formal Education
1990 Pellissippi State Tech -Comp Science major- early departure
for more profittable and mentored career path
"Find a job you love
and you'll never work a day in your life"
I am a consummate perfectionist in matters of
writing code; this has been my life-long hobby as well as profession,
and I have authored and contributed to several Open Source projects
over the years. I also enjoy in equal amounts the design and building
of High Performance Computing Clusters, being a top notch System
Administrator, Network Engineer, and am practiced in a half-dozen
different means of open source VPN and tunneling implementations.
