Vice President of Operations at Power Assure, Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Vice President of Operations at Power Assure, Inc.
- Past
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- President / CEO at Ripcord Networks, Inc.
- Co-founder and Advisor at Wheels of Zeus
- CTO at Tri-Valley Data Centers / Colo
- West Coast Manager Platinum Network Engineering at Exodus Communications
- Sr. Engineering Scientist / Engineering Manager at Apple Computer
- Education
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- San Jose State University
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Alex Fielding’s Summary
Alex Fielding has spent his career innovating in the areas of advanced research and development of networking and communications products. His passion for green tech, security, and data centers has spanned senior level positions at Power Assure, Ripcord, Apple, TVDC, Wheels of Zeus, Cisco, DEC, and Cadence.
Alex serves on the board of directors of PharmaCapture and CAWEW. He is a technology advisor to TED Med.
He also is a member of ARIN, and active contributor to the IETF, and a contributing member of two NIST working groups on SCAP. Alex is a prior member of MENSA. He is a founding member of Singularity University at NASA Ames Research Center. Alex is also a contributor and co-author on several patent applications.
Alex Fielding’s Specialties:
business development, board development, mergers and acquisitions, licensing negotiations, purchasing, international software law, encryption, satellite systems, management of challenging individuals, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPAA, SAS-70, pre-compliance, ISO, R&D, research and development
Alex Fielding’s Experience
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Vice President of Operations
Power Assure, Inc.
(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)
2009 — Present (less than a year)
As VP of Ops at Power Assure, I'm applying my passion for data centers and security with Power Assure's mission of helping data centers save over 50% off their power consumption by using Power Assure's SaaS platform and technology.
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President / CEO
Ripcord Networks, Inc.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
2004 — 2009 (5 years )
Ripcord Networks built the first end-to-end encryption software and products to secure VVoIP communications between a variety of handsets and platforms including Mac, Linux, and Windows.
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Co-founder and Advisor
Wheels of Zeus
(Privately Held; Wireless industry)
2001 — 2005 (4 years )
Venture funded by Mobius and DFJ; Wheels of Zeus was a GPS R&D and Solutions Company building GPS locator tags for kids, dogs, and other assets. I co-founded wOz with my long time friend, Steve Wozniak, Apple's founder. Company was sold to Zontrak.
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CTO
Tri-Valley Data Centers / Colo
(Telecommunications industry)
2001 — 2002 (1 year )
CTO, Chief Technology Officer, of TVDC. An east-bay area data center company.
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West Coast Manager Platinum Network Engineering
Exodus Communications
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; EXDS; Internet industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
Exodus, EXDS, 47 data centers, 5.1 Million Sq Ft of raised floor hosting the worlds largest dot coms and brick and mortar businesses.
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Sr. Engineering Scientist / Engineering Manager
Apple Computer
(Public Company; AAPL; Computer Hardware industry)
1996 — 1999 (3 years )
Some of the most talented engineers anywhere reside inside the Cupertino campus and they are all family and will always be family. I followed a few of them to Exodus. :)
Alex Fielding’s Education
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San Jose State University
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Alex Fielding’s Interests:
sailing, venture capital, investing, medical, biotech, genomics, mountain biking, aviation, guitar playing, sushi, surfing, wireless, security, voice recognition, exploring new areas of technology, innovating through design, networking
Alex Fielding’s Groups:
ARIN, IETF, MENSA, Santa Cruz Yacht Club, Exodus Alumni, UNICEF, Apple Alumni, Woz Alumni, Santa Clara County Sheriff's Advisory Board
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Silicon Valley Capital Club SVCC
Alex Fielding’s Honors:
Patent contributor on several early inter satellite routing protocols.
Patent applied for -- "First Response Computer Virus Blocking"
Patent applied for -- "Digital Rights Management Utilizing Partial Hash Data In Transit"
Cisco Systems Exceptional Employee Award -- 3 Times In A Row!
iCon - Steve Jobs Biography (quoted in)
Art of Deception - Kevin Mitnick's First Book (listed in thank yous)
Art of Intrusion - Kevin Mitnick's Second Book (listed in thank yous)
iWoz - Steve Wozniak's Auto-Biography (listed in thank yous)
Apple Mac OS 8.6 - Listed Inside The Easter Egg
Alex Fielding’s Contact Settings
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