Thomas J. Ackermann

Current

ExoWARFARE Think Tank Member (Arlington, VA, Novato Research Park and San Francisco / Sausalito, CA) at Reality Lease Co

Past

NATO C3 Interview Process for A5 Position in Chief Strategy Management at NATO C3 Agency
CEO at Melior, Inc. CyberWarfare Defense
Vice President of Operations at CashEdge Inc.

Chief Internet Architect (CIA) at Internet Barter Inc
Director of Computing at Snowball, Inc.
Acting General Manager at Globix, Inc. / California Globix
Principal Consultant at Melior, Inc.
Technical Advisor at CyberStar, Inc. (Loral)
IT Systems and Network Architect at Macromedia, Inc.
Senior Systems Engineer at Data Systems West
Principal Consultant at support@tjack.com - Germany

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Education

INS Educational Evaluation Service
Taft University, Irvine/California
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

LDT Landesfachschule Deutscher Textileinzelhandel
Management Trainee
German Army (Bundeswehr)
Gymnasium Paulinum Muenster

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Thomas J. Ackermann’s Summary

Finder of Radical Solutions. Without me, you would not be watching YouTube videos today, and you would not know instant and successful dDoS Defence is possible.

Thomas J. Ackermann’s Specialties:

Create & Invent, Internet "Stuff". Go read on my web site if you want it more granular.

Thomas J. Ackermann’s Experience

ExoWARFARE Think Tank Member (Arlington, VA, Novato Research Park and San Francisco / Sausalito, CA)

Reality Lease Co

(Military industry)

November 2008 — Present (9 months)

Invention of Web 4.0 - and associated applications tied to it.
Cognitive Capabilities for Machines.
ExoGEIST over ExoMATTER at ExoFLOP speed.

Company is in beta trials and in cloaking mode.

You folks go through Web 3.0 first ... :-|
NATO C3 Interview Process for A5 Position in Chief Strategy Management

NATO C3 Agency

(Government Agency; Defense & Space industry)

September 2008 — October 2008 (2 months)

After applying for the position, I was invited to Brussels (Bruxelles), Belgium, to interview with the NATO C3 Directorate for Post 1006, Chief Strategy Management.
CEO

Melior, Inc. CyberWarfare Defense

(Computer & Network Security industry)

January 2001 — September 2008 (7 years 9 months)

invention of the only technology capable of defending against Denial-of-Service attacks and Penetration Testing - proven by 300 million users successfully protected - so far. Founder and CEO. Company failed due to insufficient funding.

www.dDoS.com
Vice President of Operations

CashEdge Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

August 2000 — December 2000 (5 months)

Designed, implemented, managed OPS (Banking, ACH, Funds Transactions); designed and implemented two software development and customer support centers in Chennai, India. Company failed execution of business plan to build first fully aggregated funds transfer across financial institutions.

www.cashedge.com
Chief Internet Architect (CIA)

Internet Barter Inc

(Internet industry)

September 1999 — May 2000 (9 months)

Designed, implemented, managed IT-OPS. Built highly secure (banking-grade) 20'x20' datacenter presence, integrated 7 acquired companies (US, Canada, Australia) during explosive growth.

In essence: Built largest Barter Company world-wide in record time. Company failed in Silican Valley bust
Director of Computing

Snowball, Inc.

(Internet industry)

May 1999 — August 1999 (4 months)

managed IT-OPS and Internet presence. Vendor negotiations; connectivity improvements.

An exercise to transform a 20th-century print-media enterprise to a 21st-century Internet-media content aggregator.
Acting General Manager

Globix, Inc. / California Globix

(Internet industry)

November 1998 — April 1999 (6 months)

Built a $20m data center in Santa Clara, CA (off Great America Parkway) from the slab to full operations; hired all staff; assisted fund raising of $660m; incl. business model to full operation.

In essence, created first 2nd-generation telco-grade data center for new Internet apps and turned it over when completed - in 6 months!
Principal Consultant

Melior, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)

May 1998 — November 1998 (7 months)

consulting jobs at: Bank of America during merger with Nations Bank (linked the banks together); MedWeb, managing nationwide Frame Relay network for telemedicine applications; designed client support from India for Bay Area-based startup.
Technical Advisor

CyberStar, Inc. (Loral)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 1998 — April 1998 (3 months)

consulted Fortune 500 businesses regarding data transmissions via geosyncronous satellites built by Space Systems Loral (SSL in Mountain View, CA).

An exploration into space technology to broaden my horizon.
IT Systems and Network Architect

Macromedia, Inc.

(Public Company; MACR; Computer Software industry)

January 1995 — January 1998 (3 years 1 month)

designed, implemented, managed global IT operations and ShockWave download architecture; RFPs; all Internet connectivity. Had the opportunity to set up the first Point-of-Presence (POP) systems on the Internet (Tokyo, Stockholm).

In hindsight, I made the most impact here. Everyone touching a computer today uses technology I helped create and deliver at Macromedia.
Senior Systems Engineer

Data Systems West

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 1994 — December 1994 (9 months)

provided consulting services in the Greater Los Angeles area; among them: Prudential Health (500+ desktops integration), Disney (Internet presence); City of Burbank (SONET city ring to provide fiber links for movie studios); Eastman Kodak (first Internet Web Server demo); etc.
Principal Consultant

support@tjack.com - Germany

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1987 — March 1994 (7 years 3 months)

Unix and Novell integration consulting and implementation. Linked a nationwide shipping company with 20 offices via UUCP message exchange; upgraded nationwide law firm in their IT and publishing infrastructure; provided all computing means to project realizing "the" first successful digitization of X-rays (presented to the world at Medica 1990); provided early ISP services via UUCP

Thomas J. Ackermann’s Education

INS Educational Evaluation Service

Bachelor of Science in Systems Analysis , Information Technology , 1993 — 1994

Equivalency degree for US Immigration purposes (evaluation performed and completed for the INS in 1994)
Taft University, Irvine/California

Law 1988 — 1989

www.taft.edu

(started my first computer company while studying)

Activities and Societies:

First German to be admitted for correspondence study (in Law) by the California State Bar Association, to study at this school, while studying Law in Germany at WWU at the same time.
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

Law, Economics, Macro-Economics 1983 — 1987

www.uni-muenster.de

(started my first computer company while studying)

Activities and Societies:

KDStV Sauerlandia - www.sauerlandia.de (my fraternity)
LDT Landesfachschule Deutscher Textileinzelhandel

Business, Textiles 1983 — 1983

www.ldt.de
Management Trainee

Retail Management 1982 — 1983

Management Trainee Course by a fashion retail chain in Germany (Gebrueder Hettlage); attended "Landesfachschule fuer den deutschen Textileinzelhandel (LDT - www.ldt.de -)" in Nagold/Germany, and worked in one of the retail stores (Werner & Ulrich, Siegen/Germany).

Activities and Societies:

(none worth mentioning)
German Army (Bundeswehr)

Honorable Discharge as San-Gefreiter , Service, Administration @ Brigade Level (Medical), Medic/Triage Training , 1981 — 1982

www.bundeswehr.de
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundeswehr
Gymnasium Paulinum Muenster

Abitur , 1972 — 1981

Oldest continuously teaching school in Europe - since 797 AD
http://www.muenster.org/paulinum

based in Muenster, Westfalia, Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnster

Additional Information

Thomas J. Ackermann’s Websites:

Thomas J. Ackermann’s Interests:

offroading/mudding (4x4) with my monster truck; shooting; martial arts; owned a Cray (CS6400), and used to collect computers (NeXt Cube and Slab, RISC-10.000 PC, etc) and early ethernet switches (Kalpana, Grand Junction, etc)

Thomas J. Ackermann’s Groups:

Founding Member of Bay Area WebGuild, among many others. Contributor (through Melior, Inc. CyberWarfare Defense) to US Secret Service N-TEC (North Texas Electronic Crime Task Force), FBI InfraGuard, DoD/NSA SPOCK Program, Operation WebSnare.