Randy Bias

Current

Founder at CloudScale Networks (Stealth Mode)
chief tactician & CEO at neoTactics

Past

Director - Applications Engineering at NetEnrich
Director - Product Management & Founding Team Member at kozoru
Chief Security Architect at Grand Central Communications

VP Professional Services at iAsiaWorks, Inc
Director Engineering at Dataway, Inc
Director Engineering at EdgeNet
Sr. Network Engineer at InterNex Information Services
Sr. Sysadmin at Kalpana
Sr. Sysadmin at Calera Recognition Systems
Sr. Sysadmin at Megatest

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Randy Bias’s Summary

- Savvy
- Skillz
- Clue
- Courage
- Speed
- Integrity
- Diligence

Randy Bias’s Specialties:

- Operations
- Architecture
- Systems Management & Automation
- High availability, high-performance
- Virtualization, Storage, and Networking
- Amazon Web Services (S3, EC2, SQS, FPS)

Randy Bias’s Experience

Founder

CloudScale Networks (Stealth Mode)

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

March 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Stealth startup in the area of virtualization and on-demand computing bootstrapped via my consulting business, neoTactics, Inc.
chief tactician & CEO

neoTactics

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

March 2006 — Present (2 years 7 months)

Internet operations consulting practice focused on CIO/CTO & architect services in the areas of:

- Operation processes & procedures
- Storage systems design & planning (SAN, NAS, S3)
- Machine virtualization
- Complex networks
- Distributed systems
- High-performance clusters (Grid, EC2)
- Sophisticated security deployments and assessments.

Clients include: eGain Communications, ServePath, GoGrid, 8x8, Packet8, Vendio Services, Primitive Logic, PeakStream, Support Intelligence, Microsoft, Hooked Communications, Telephia, ArchRock, Wichorus, AskJiles (a David Warthen venture), Kennedy Technology Group, StandSure Systems, and BlueO2.

See website (http://www.neotactics.com) for more information.
Director - Applications Engineering

NetEnrich

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

May 2005 — January 2006 (9 months)

Contribute to product marketing, technical pre-sales, post-sales implementation, and business development efforts. Also led multiple engineering efforts, including re-design and implementation of rock solid high-availability clustered network management appliance.

Built sister managed services company, Luminalto, www.luminalto.com. Luminalto offers a variety of managed IT services based around a NOC in India and use of customized commercial and open source tools.

Luminalto eventually absorbed by NetEnrich and now forms it's core business.

Left to take the plunge and start my own business, neoTactics, Inc.
Director - Product Management & Founding Team Member

kozoru

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

June 2004 — May 2005 (1 year)

kozoru is dedicated to bringing to life next generation search technology that provides specific targeted answers to posed questions.

As one of the first two employees and one of the initial founding members, I worked closely with the kozoru founder and CEO on all aspects of product development and management. My role at kozoru included not only facilitating the work of the developers, architects, linguists, and ontologists, but also maintaining the product roadmap, working hand in hand with sales & marketing, maintaining investor relationships, and acting as the overall product guru. Eventually as timelines and deadlines became more stringent, became very hands on with the operational, QA, and product development. Built the initial v1.0 FreeBSD-based search appliances.
Chief Security Architect

Grand Central Communications

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

August 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 9 months)

Grand Central Communications was initially a B2B web services integration platform servicing Fortune 500 organizations. It was started by Halsey Minor (CNet) and eventually re-constituted into a new unrelated business focused on voice solutions.

Responsible for all strategic and technical aspects of security across the business, coupled with ongoing product security from implementation, through development, to deployment. Extensive input to product development team on key product security features. Highlighting both GC’s product security features and our internal security controls with our executive team enhanced key account sales and marketing collateral.

Successfully passed security audits of several Fortune 100 companies including GE and Wachovia, which resulted in major sales wins.
VP Professional Services

iAsiaWorks, Inc

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; IAWK.PK; Telecommunications industry)

February 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 6 months)

iAsiaWorks was the first pan-Asian datacenter and ISP business. It was listed on the NASDAQ in August 2000.

Developed initial Pro Services unit business plan, presented to executive management, and was given full support. P&L responsibility for first year included revenue targets of $4.5 million. Built and managed a 15+ consultant pre/post sales proserv organization across 5 countries: Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. Major accounts included Sony, Proctor & Gamble, AT&T, Adecco, OOCL, Double Click, and Hyundai.

Previously, while running the network security department, designed and deployed the first managed vulnerability scanning service based on nCircle technology. This complemented our managed security service offerings.
Director Engineering

Dataway, Inc

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

May 1997 — January 2000 (2 years 9 months)

Dataway was one of the earliest Bay Area Managed Security Services Providers (MSSP), specializing in managed firewalls, IDS, and security audits for enterprise customers.

Hired and led most of the engineering team. Helped build the business from three full-time security engineers to 15+ when I left.

Individually responsible for the architecture and development of their managed security service product based around Checkpoint's Firewall-1.
Director Engineering

EdgeNet

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

January 1996 — April 1997 (1 year 4 months)

EdgeNet was the number one independent TN ISP when I began consulting there and was successfully sold to Mindspring after I architected the redesign of their statewide network.
Sr. Network Engineer

InterNex Information Services

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

June 1994 — November 1995 (1 year 6 months)

InterNex was an early Bay Area ISP that ramped from 1 Point-of-Presence (POP) in Menlo Park to 30+ POPs across California. We eventually built out a nationwide backbone and were acquired by Concentric and then XO communications.
Sr. Sysadmin

Kalpana

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; CSCO; Computer Hardware industry)

May 1993 — May 1994 (1 year 1 month)

Kalpana was the inventor of the Ethernet switch and eventually purchased by Cisco.

Singlehandedly ran the Novell and UNIX systems for 80+ employees. Designed and ran the Silicon Valley's first fully switched Ethernet network.
Sr. Sysadmin

Calera Recognition Systems

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; NUAN; Computer Software industry)

May 1992 — May 1993 (1 year 1 month)

Calera Recognition Systems provided OCR software and was eventually absorbed by Caere/Nuance.
Sr. Sysadmin

Megatest

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; TER; Computer Hardware industry)

September 1990 — May 1992 (1 year 9 months)

Megatest provided memory and logic wafer fab test devices. It was eventually absorbed by Teradyne.