Senior Enterprise Solutions Strategist at Advaiya, Inc.
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Senior Enterprise Solutions Strategist at Advaiya, Inc.
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
(Computer Software industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
January 1999 — Present (10 years 11 months)
Windows IT Pro is the largest independent Windows community, second only to Microsoft. Its web site has 2.5 million unique visitors every month, and the print magazine has more than 100,000 subscribers.
- Over 33 articles published in the magazine, beginning shortly after its inaugural issue
- Author of the cover article for magazine issue included with the Windows 2003 launch packet around the US
- Invited participant in select group of 40 IT professionals spending the day and dinner with Senior Vice Presidents Bob Muglia, Ron Markezitch, and CEO Steve Ballmer at the Executive Briefing Center to discuss Microsoft’s interaction with the IT Pro community
- Write feature articles on Windows Server technologies, focusing on directory services
- Provide technical edits of incoming Windows Server articles
- Advise magazine on strategic directions and technologies
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Sports industry)
May 1984 — Present (25 years 7 months)
Co-founded club in 1984 with sensei Ilene Smoger. Participated in the instruction and promotion of 45 students to shodan (first degree black belt) or beyond, 19 of whom are either current OKCD instructors or have founded their own dojos in other cities.
Currently teaching Tuesday evening classes and substitute Saturday senior / instructor's class.
Holds ranks of
- Godan (5th degree black), Shobayashi Shorin-ryu karate-do
- Yondan (4th degree black), Shudokan Karate-do
- Nidan (2nd degree black), Kobayashi Shorin-ryu karate-do
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; intc; Computer Hardware industry)
July 1997 — January 2008 (10 years 7 months)
Senior engineer and technical lead of the group responsible for supporting Intel's corporate directory service. Influence the architectural and strategic direction of this very large service.
- Architect, Corporate Active Directory: One of the original designers of the Intel corporate forest, and the last still active in this area.
- Microsoft TAP Program Manager / Team Lead / Directory Engineer: Key Intel participant in every Microsoft operating system technology adoption program since Windows 2000.
- Active Directory Design Lead, "Redwood" divestiture: Responsible for the critical design to migrate the users, groups, and computer accounts of several major Intel business units into a new flash memory manufacturer.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)
June 1999 — June 1999 (1 month)
Authored "Windows 2000 Server: Planning and Migration", Macmillan Technical Publishing (ISBN-13: 978-1578700233). Rated 4.5 of 5 in Amazon customer reviews.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TXN; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)
July 1982 — July 1997 (15 years 1 month)
- One of two architects of TI’s 40,000 user, 17 country Windows NT 3.5 network
- Lead engineer for the NT Engineering team
- Senior IBM VM (Virtual Machine) OS system programmer, 1983-1993
BSEE , Electrical Engineering , 1977 — 1982
Co-founder of Okinawan Karate Club of Dallas and fifth degree black belt in Okinawan Shorin-ryu karate; bicycling; Olympic recurve archery
Fellow conference speaker, Publishing, Fellow MVP, Okinawan Karate Club of Dallas
Microsoft Windows Server MVP, directory services (2004 - 2007)