Executive Vice President / CTO at American Internet Services
Greater San Diego Area
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- Executive Vice President / CTO at American Internet Services
- Past
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- President & CTO at Web Communications Concepts, LLC
- US Marine at United States Marine Corps
- Flight Instructor at Oceanair Flight Training School
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Richard Sears’s Summary
Managed ISP data centers and engineers for 15 years.
Involved in six separate and successful mergers and acquisitions of other internet providers.
Designed and currently manage a total of 105,000 sq. ft. of data center space in S. CA with multiple OC48 backbones and fully meshed BGP interconnectivity to eight backbone providers and 50 private peers.
I hold a Commercial Pilot's License with Single and Multiengine instruments ratings for fixed wing aircraft and a Private Pilot's license for Rotorcraft / Helicopters.
Also Certified Flight Instructor and Certified Instrument Flight Instructor.
Cisco Certified CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, CCDP, CWLSS and CWLDS
Asterisk Certified dCAP
F5 Certified System Engineer
Richard Sears’s Specialties:
Internet Company mergers and acquisitions, LAN and WAN Network Design and implimentitation, data center facilities and systems design and management, performance based routing configuration and management.
Many years of experience with vendor and carrier negotiations and auditing of carrier and vendor bills and invoices.
Richard Sears’s Experience
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Executive Vice President / CTO
American Internet Services
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
2000 — Present (9 years)
Manage all aspects of data center operations, sales engineering, network engineering and vendor negotiations in regards to the day-to-day operation of our internet data center.
Participate as a member of the executive management team in regards to the day-to-day operations of the company as a whole. -
President & CTO
Web Communications Concepts, LLC
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
January 1995 — March 2000 (5 years 3 months)
Started WebCC and grew until we were aquired by American Internet Services.
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US Marine
United States Marine Corps
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)
June 1986 — January 1991 (4 years 8 months)
Honorable Discharge from the US Marine Coprs after serving for almost 5 years. Participated in Operation Desert Storm.
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Flight Instructor
Oceanair Flight Training School
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)
1989 — 1991 (2 years)
Worked at Oceanair as a primary and instrument flight instructor.
Additional Information
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Richard Sears’s Interests:
Flying, SCUBA Diving, Business, fishing, camping, CFI, CFII
Richard Sears’s Groups:
President ECHS School Board,
NAFI,
AOPA,
EAA,
Young Eagles,
Angel Flight,
Homeland Security Emergency Air Transportation Volunteer Pilot & First Responder
