Kent Langley

Current

• Sr. Director, Sales Engineering at Joyent
• Director of Networking and Systems at SolutionSet

Past

• President at RW Environments, Inc. / Snapp Gardens
• IT Manager at Autodesk , Inc.
• Web Systems Team Manager at Autodesk, Inc

• Web Operations Manager at CNET Networks Inc.
• Manager of Technology Operations at CNET, Inc.
• Owner at Langley Technologies, LLC

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Education

• Bellarmine University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Kent Langley’s Summary

I have been managing, designing, building, and deploying scalable and highly available systems for well over a dozen years. This includes the creation and management of the teams and infrastructure necessary to support critical business functions. My primary area of focus has been on web based technologies and services.

In particular, I have been fortunate to work with talented people to build and launching community/social sites since the late 90's.

My primary goal is to always keep learning and successfully applying existing and new technologies to solve real business needs.

Kent Langley’s Specialties:

Web Applications and Technology Operations

Source control, deployment, advanced caching, and CDN's

Design, Deploy, and Manage Highly Available and Scalable Web Applications

Audit, plan, and recommend client web systems architecture

Manage Technology Operations for internal IT and outbound web operations services

Plan, Grow, and Improve Virtualized Development Infrastructure

Complex account and project management

Design, implement, and monetize partner relationships

Kent Langley’s Experience

• Sr. Director, Sales Engineering

  Joyent

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2008 — Present (3 months)

  Finding solutions for companies, IT, and individuals to leverage the power of Cloud Computing.

• Director of Networking and Systems

  SolutionSet

  (Partnership; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Technical lead on implementing the Systems Infrastructure, Technology, Process, and Consulting for the production, development, scaling, and building of world class web sites.
  
  Some Recent work:
  
  Infrastructure Consulting: http://community.kaboose.com
  Infrastructure Build: http://www.education.com

• President

  RW Environments, Inc. / Snapp Gardens

  (Construction industry)

  January 2005 — January 2007 (2 years 1 month)

  My responsibilities primarily include Corporate Finance, Information Technology, Sales, and day to day business operations.

• IT Manager

  Autodesk , Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADSK; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2005 — December 2005 (5 months)

  Managed team a global team of engineers and their projects. Engineers were in Switzerland, US-East, US-West, and Singapore. I was a key member of several infrastructure selection committees. I truly enjoyed this position and its challenges at Autodesk.

• Web Systems Team Manager

  Autodesk, Inc

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADSK; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 2003 — August 2005 (2 years 6 months)

  Design and manage the implementation of web systems hardware, networking, software, vendor relationships, web systems engineers, and deployment of upgrades and new products and features.
  
  •Management of a geographically disbursed team
  •Design and improvements of web technology infrastructure in a heterogenious environment
  •Management Reporting
  •Infrastructure Strategic Planning
  •Budgeting and Spending planning
  •ITIL Process Implementations
  •NAS Consolidation Project
  •Extensive documentation of Infrastructure and process
  •Application server migrations and upgrades
  •key part of http://discussion.autodesk.com architecture re-launch

• Web Operations Manager

  CNET Networks Inc.

  (Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2003 (4 years)

• Manager of Technology Operations

  CNET, Inc.

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; CNET; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1999 — April 2003 (4 years 3 months)

  • I had a peak staff of 3 responsible for http://www.techrepublic.com and http://www.builder.com infrastructure. It was Solaris, Java App Server (Dynamo), MS SQL 3-tiered architecture. It received several million page-views per month. I was a key part of the planning, design, and implementation for the original and redesigned discussion communities.
  
  Senior Web Operations Engineer
  • In the role I was responsible for the overall design, architecture, technology operations for http://www.techrepublic.com. I was responsible for training new engineers that came on staff as we grew.
  
  Web Operations Engineer (TechRepublic, Inc)
  • I was given the task as the lead engineer to build a high end scalable web infrastructure that was flexible and fast for the technology content site techrepublic.com. I did this very successfully.

• Owner

  Langley Technologies, LLC

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; KENT; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1996 — February 1999 (3 years 1 month)

  I performed outsourced IT services for companies w/ 1-50 employees. This included servers, email, desktop sourcing and installation, training for employees, email, and storage systems. Running my own business was an amazing experience.

Kent Langley’s Education

• Bellarmine University

  BA, Business Administration, 1993 — 1995

  What I learned at Bellarmine was that learning is critical and one should study across boundaries and silos of knowledge to achieve balanced knowledge and abilities.
  
  At Bellarmine, the diversity of the eduction into areas other than my major was a requirement. I found that rewarding and balancing addition to my studies and would have likely taken more classes and subjects if time and money had permitted.

Additional Information

Kent Langley’s Interests:

Computers, Solar Energy, Peru, South America, Business Process, Hiking, Technology, Science, Water Management

Kent Langley’s Groups:

•    Joyent
•    Bellarmine Alumni
•    Autodesk Alumni Network

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