
Founder at Philtro
Washington D.C. Metro Area

Founder at Philtro
Washington D.C. Metro Area
I'm a entrepreneur, angel investor and business consultant based in San Francisco and Washington, DC. Since 2005, I've helped businesses like yours improve themselves through better processes and systems. I also write a blog that thousands read everyday.
My work increases the energy, growth and cash from your business. Less stressing out. Less messing around. It isn’t rocket science. It’s about being relentlessly effective.
Business strategy, management consulting, business planning, web strategy, branding, marketing, mergers and acquisition
(Internet industry)
January 2009 — Present (11 months)
(Management Consulting industry)
2005 — Present (4 years )
My work increases the energy, growth and cash from your business. Less stressing out. Less messing around. It isn’t rocket science. It’s about being relentlessly effective.
(Construction industry)
June 2002 — Present (7 years 6 months)
Directly responsible for long-term and short-term business operations utilizing technology background, business management skills and masonry construction experience. Actively serves as a member of the steering committee. Highly involved in business development, R&D and overall business strategy.
Developed overall brand strategy, marketing strategy and business growth strategy. Additional strategic planning included business plan and sales strategy development.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2008 — February 2009 (8 months)
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
December 2007 — July 2008 (8 months)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SYMC; Computer Software industry)
December 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 1 month)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 2 months)
Highly involved in designing overall architecture of the core technology platform that drives all UpSolv technology initiatives using Red Hat Enterprise and various other open source packages. Evaluated various message queueing and consuming components such as ActiveMQ, STOMP and MQS to engineer optimal messaging capabilities for the core platform and ensure that all data exchange occurring between the public cellular carriers and the UpSolv core platform was handled efficiently and securely. Also worked with various reporting tools and accounting systems such as Jasper Reports, Pentaho, Datavision and webERP to assure proper business intelligence gathering capabilities were easily accessible to management. Directly responsible for long-term and short-term business operations utilizing technology background and business management skills. Actively serves as a member of the steering committee. Highly involved in business development, R&D and overall business strategy.
(Internet industry)
May 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Responsible for defining metrics to measure SLA compliance. Responsible for managing internal and external help desk teams, network engineering teams and system administration teams. Directly manages all planned and emergency system administration tasks including kernel upgrades, server/OS maintenance, firewalling, package upgrades, and vulnerability testing on Gentoo and Red Hat systems. Responsible for engineering a higher level of redundancy within existing systems and performing other forward-looking operations to improve system performance and reduce chances of downtime due to single points of failure. Interfaces directly with all enterprise level clients and manages all related projects. Directly manages all engineering aspects of new customer rollouts into our various datacenters including power, cooling and space requirements. Advises senior management on streamlining business operations, leveraging new business management tools and pushes for increased documentation.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 9 months)
Administrated a Red Hat Linux based environment consisting of six development servers, four production servers and 25 workstations. Optimized all existing services including Postfix, Apache, LDAP, Samba. Designed, tested, and implemented NAS backup systems and Bayesian SPAM filtering systems.
B.S. , Computer Engineering , 1999 — 2006
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