Consulting Partner Flex Analytics LLC
United States
Consulting Partner Flex Analytics LLC
United States
Greg Pepus works in two distinct areas:
Supporting the US intelligence community by helping them identify and adopt technology from venture backed companies with a particular focus on knowledge management, multilanguage analytics and service oriented clients/rich internet applications.
Clearances: TS/SCI 2008.
Alternative Energy: Hydrogen generation technologies/electrolysis, wind, solar, batteries, modular energy systems, nano-materials
Information Technology: Knowledge Mgt Technologies, machine translation, text extraction, multimedia exploitation, search, visualization, analytic and predictive systems, middleware/SOA, rich internet applications
Venture and Private Equity activities: Sourcing, technology evaluation, deal-flow, negotiations, term-sheets, private placement
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (10 months)
Responsible for technology leadership, insertion and consulting. Duties include technical and development team leadership, product development advisory in a range of technology areas. Specific focus and expertise on analytical tools and technologies with emphasis on text, multimedia and foreign language analytics.
(Computer Software industry)
January 2007 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Providing consulting services, architecture/design, systems engineering with a specific focus on analytical tools including text and multimedia data mining, support for foreign language tools, middleware technologies and rich internet application technology for services oriented architectures.
Key Customers Include:
DIA, CIA, DEA, NCTC, FBI, Justice, DoD/JIEDDO, DNI, Redgate Group, Intelliware, Carahsoft, Agent Logic, Basis Technologies, Endeca, Attensity, KMWorld/InfoToday, BAE, CACI.
(Defense & Space industry)
January 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 5 months)
Responsible for technology leadership, insertion and consulting. Duties include technical and development team leadership, product development advisory in a range of technology areas. Specific focus and expertise on analytical tools and technologies with emphasis on text, multimedia and foreign language analytics. Also specialize in alternative energy solutions including solar, wind, battery, hydro electrolysis, liquid fuels and coal to ammonia technologies. I write a regular monthly column with KM World Magazine on emerging technology. Customers include: JHU/APL/JIEDDO
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Oil & Energy industry)
December 2006 — July 2007 (8 months)
Energy Sciences is developing novel high efficiency energy and clean tech extraction technologies for coal gasification that are more efficent and with much lower carbon emmissions than todays standard combined cycle coal gasification technology. Our reverse carbon cycle single phase technology holds the promise to increase the efficiency of converting coal to hydrogn and syngas using approximatley 90% less water than currently possible and increasing overall energy extraction efficiencies by 15% to 25% overall.
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
July 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 5 months)
Greg Pepus joined In-Q-Tel as part of its Technical Team in 2001 as a Visionary Solutions Architect (VSA). Technical responsibilities included identification of and investment in companies focusing in KM, text data mining, document data exploitation, intelligent agents, middleware and artificial intelligence systems. Investment responsibilities included deal negotiations, due diligence, market analysis, deal structuring and related deal development activities.
In mid 2003 Greg was promoted to Director of Federal and Intelligence Community Strategy/Portfolio Partner. Primary responsibilities included 1) Outreach to systems integrators and defense contractors on behalf of the portfolio and 2) Providing federal market sales strategies for the entire portfolio 3) Continued follow-on and new investment activities. In mid 2004 Greg was promoted to Sr. Director Federal Outreach/Portfolio Partner and joined In-Q-Tel's Sr. Management Team.
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
April 2003 — June 2005 (2 years 3 months)
In-Q-Tel, Arlington Va, Primary responsibilities included 1) Outreach to systems integrators and defense contractors on behalf of the portfolio and 2) Providing federal market sales strategies for the entire portfolio 3) Continued follow-on and new investment activities. In mid 2005 Greg was promoted to Sr. Director Federal Outreach/Portfolio Partner.
TS/SCI
(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
September 2001 — March 2003 (1 year 7 months)
In-Q-Tel, Arlington Va, Technical responsibilities included identification of and investment in companies focusing in KM, text data mining, document data exploitation, intelligent agents, middleware and artificial intelligence systems. Investment responsibilities included deal negotiations, due diligence, market analysis, deal structuring and related deal development activities.
TS/SCI
(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)
January 2001 — September 2001 (9 months)
US Customs, Washington DC, Was a subcontractor to a consulting firm. Was hired by US Customs to help redesign their enterprise (world wide) messaging architecture and infrastructure. Project supported up to 30,000 users world wide. Few people realize that US Customs is the second largest provider of tax revenue in the United States. The messaging infrastructure was and continues to be critical in collecting tariffs, levies and duties imposed on foreign imports to the US.
TS/SCI (multiagency clearance including Treasury, FBI, CIA, DoD)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1996 — January 2001 (5 years 1 month)
Digital Architects, Washington D.C., specialized in providing high-end Systems Architects/Project Mgrs to large fortune 1000 and fortune 500 companies. Services included systems architecture, design, development and implementation with spiral lifecycle management, CMM support and project mgt oversight. Customers included Motorola, Intel Corporation, Bank One, Anderson Consulting, Greater Phoenix Economic Council, Phoenix Airport Authority, Salt River Project, American Express, IBM, Lotus Development Corporation, Integrion Banking Consortium, Ruby Tuesdays, FISERV, CIA, US ARMY, FBI, Dept. of Interior, World Bank Group, IFC and others.
I managed daily operations, oversaw internal staff & subcontract staff as well as customer staff on projects. In various projects situations I managed dozens of staff members. I was responsible for all financial planning, tax planning, strategic business relationships and partnerships. I also oversaw market, sales and HR staff.
Secret Clearance
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 1998 — March 1999 (1 year 2 months)
Document Architects, Rockville MD, was spun out from development that Digital Architects did with Lotus Development Corporation's Architected Solutions Group and IBM Global Services. The shared intellectual property (IP) was a software system that performed long-term high fidelity document retention, metadata management, data mining and search. The creation of Document Architects was specifically intended to commercialize the IP developed with IBM. To support this we raised a round of friends and family in late 1998 for about $150K. Note this included funding from Digital Architects as well. We had 5 full time developers plus a business development person. We had light house customers at the World Bank Group. Round A financing was pursued through NextGen Capital in late 1999 early 2000. Unfortunately, the bubble burst in 2000 and our round A financing fell through. The company wound down in mid 2000.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1994 — December 1996 (3 years)
SNT, Phoenix AZ, specialized in providing high-end technology trainers for technology training and training development. Areas of focus included: Novell Networks, Lotus Groupware, Microsoft Networks, Data Link Layer networking protocols, network layer protocols (e.g. Netbios, Netbui, TCPIP, AppleTalk) and multiprotocol router specialties specifically CISCO as well as bridges, switches and repeaters. Other areas of focus included operating systems including Windows NT, OS/2, UNIX, Novel Netware and database systems including Ingress, Oracle and DB2. We supported developer training in languages including ADA, C, C++, Visual Basic, Lotus Script, Java and Smart Talk. We also supported specialty training courses in network/computer access security and data recovery.
Customers included US ARMY, USAF, Harris Corporation, Fronteir Airlines, American Express, University of Arizona IT Support, Intel Corporation, Motorola Corporation, Phoenix Police Department and many others.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 1991 — December 1993 (2 years 4 months)
Simp/IX OS, London, England, a small technology partnership (now defunct) focusing on collaborative technologies and training services. Located in the London Technology Corridor around Lond Polytechnic and Elephant and Castle, Simpl/IX had a variety of customers including Kent County Council, London Boroughs, Lloyds of London, Reuters, Bank of Scottland. Most of the focus was on helping with messaging systems development, collaborative software, and helpdesk systems development and training. This position included extensive travel throughout Europe. It also included travel to Australia/New Zealand as well.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1990 — December 1993 (3 years 3 months)
IIR Technology, London UK, where I was a self-employed contractor, was the technology seminar subdivision of the International Institute of Research. IIR Tech Management like what I was doing so much in the US that they invited me to the UK for a few years. IIR Tech offered technical training courses in PC operating systems administration and technical support, networking, data recovery, and computer and printer hardware and maintenance. I supported all the advanced level hardware, operating system, networking and data recovery courses and developed many new courses including authoring over 10 different course books. Note that my wife and I relocated to London England in 1990 from Washington DC. We owned a flat in central London.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1990 — October 1990 (10 months)
American Institute, Washington DC, where I was a self-employed contractor offered technical training courses in PC operating systems computer administration and technical support, networking, data recovery, and computer and printer hardware and maintenance. I supported all the advanced level hardware, operating system, networking and data recovery courses and developed many new courses including authoring over 10 different course books. This position included extensive travel nation wide.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
February 1987 — December 1989 (2 years 11 months)
Zenith Federal Systems, Washington DC, a subsidiary of Zenith Inc provided PC hardware to the US government. I worked as a Systems Engineer on various government bids (RFP) and requirements. During this period Zenith competed for and won the USAF Desktop I, II, III, IV and the AFCAC 251 multiprocessor UNIX projects all of which I participated in. Development work included working on the integration team developing the first multisymetrical UNIX in partner ship with the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO UNIX). We also worked on developing device drivers and networking hardware for early versions of Microsoft Windows 286 and 3.0. This included support for early releases of TCP/IP and Novell Network version 1.0 and 2.0. Zenith pioneered extremely high quality PC desktop and laptop computers and my division delivered PCs and laptps not only to the Airforce but also the Navy and the Marine Corp.
(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 1986 — December 1987 (1 year 4 months)
Taught a variety of computer classes as well as provided technical support in advanced information management seminars and I supported research projects in artificial intelligence. My advisor Jay Liebowitz was a renowned leader in Artificial Intelligence at this time. Plus I was a general dogsbody as most graduate fellows are.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
April 1985 — September 1986 (1 year 6 months)
MCI, Crystal City VA, worked as a network engineer to monitor traffic and utilization on MCI's western long-distance and data networks in its Western Division. Monitored traffic on about 14 different DMS and Ericson Switches. Managed the routing and billing database, engineered trunk sizing and new trunk development. Worked in the 24 hour operations center.
na, various knowledge management technologies, 2001 — 2008
Training by individual companies:
1) Agent Logic - all products
2) Endeca - Endeca 5.x
3) Basis Technology - Rosette Language Platform
4) Spotfire
5) Inxight Smart Discovery Server and other products
6) Attensity - SDK and other platforms including Link and Ontology Factory
7) Kofax/Mohome
8) Stratefy
9) BBN Speech to Text, Video To Text
10) Pixlogic - PixServer
11) Adobe - Flex basic and advanced training
12) 3VR
13) @Last and Keyhole (now Google Products)
14) Ruby 4 Rails
15) J2EE and Tomcat/JBOSS training
16) Call Miner
17) ArcSight
18) FMS
19) IDELIX
20) Initiate
21) Language Weaver
22) Meta Carta
23) Network Chemistry
24) NovoDynamics
25) Tacit Systems
26) Thetus
27) Visual Sciences
28) Traction Software
29) Ember
30) Dust Networks
21) Softlinx (now Lockheed Martin)
22) Mark Logic
23) Allegro Graph
24) Twister SMSi
CNI, Certified Novell Instructor, 1987 — 2001
Continuous education in a variety of Novell Technologies including: Netware 2.11, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x. Multiprotocol support Appletalk, TCPIP, Netbui/Netbios, ODI/NDIS, OS390 protocol router and many others. Support at least 10 different Novell network courses.
MBA, Information Systems and Artificial Intelligence, September 1985 — December 1987
My first two semesters I worked full time for MCI Telecommunications and then won a graduate fellow ship at GWU School of Business and went to graduate school full time until graduation in Dec 1987.
Bachelors of Science, Economics, June 1980 — December 1983
Graduated with Honors, minor in computer studies
LCI, Lotus Certified Instructor, January 1900 — December 1901
Continuous education as an instructor in multiple Lotus collaborative technology courses including. Lotus Notes 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, 5.x, 6.x, Lotus Dominio 1.x ..., Lotus Script, Multiprotocol Router, Lotus Server Infrastructure, Complex Application Development, Database Middleware Development and Design, Instant Messaging Design, early versions of Expertise Engine and many other courses.
MSCI, Microsoft Certified Instructor, January 1900 — January 1901
Microsoft Networking, Operating Systems and Visual Basic development.
Long time interest in alternative energies including hydrogen, better batteries, wind power, fuel cells, solar cells, nano materials. The $64 million question I am working to answer is "Where will the hydrogen come from in the future hydrogen economy". I am happy to converse on the energy in any topic, wind, solar, alternative fuels such as animal waste processing, fusion, new methods of clean fission, hydrogen storage, wave power etc, nano-materials for use in power generation or storage etc. I have family living in Montana and spend as much time as possible fly fishing on Western US rivers, streams and lakes. I regularly spin and lift weights. I sing in an adult choir
Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Associations (AFCEA)
Intelligence anad National Security Alliance (INSA)
US Geospatial Intelligence Foundation (USGIF)
Certified Novell Instructor,
Lotus Certified Instructor
Microsoft Certified Instructor, Imperial Bank/Comerica
2005 In-Q-Tel Innovators Award
Alpha Kappa Psi - Business Fraternity