Vice President in Global Technology at Bank of America
New London/Norwich, Connecticut Area
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- Vice President in Global Technology at Merrill Lynch
- Owner at gnu-designs, inc.
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- Enterprise Filesystem Integration & Packaging at Starpoint Solutions
- Linux on POWER Developer Program Manager/Strategist at IBM, Inc.
- Open Source Research Engineer at Wild Open Source
- Developer/Research Engineer at Linuxcare
- Information Specialist (Research) at Pfizer, Inc.
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David A. Desrosiers’s Summary
I am a VP in Global Technology at Bank of America (formerly Merrill Lynch) in downtown Manhattan. My primary role is to lead up the "EFS Packaging and Operations" efforts within Architecture and Engineering.
For the last 15+ years, I have been working with several companies solving various business problems with high-technology solutions resulting in a multi-faceted success rate using a hybrid mix of proprietary and Open Source solutions.
Over the last 10 years, my work has focused almost entirely on Open Source and Linux solutions.
I am a technically-sophisticated, business-savvy management-level professional, software architect and developer with strong leadership qualities and over 15 years of experience in the industry.
I am known for my expertise in the mobile and embedded environment, and come with over a decade of Open Source leadership skills as well as building and sustaining communities. I have a deep understanding of problems and solutions involved in producing secure, scalable, future-resistant, solutions. I have a team-based management style and excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
My background includes Linux, UNIX, Microsoft, embedded systems, and handheld technologies, recently focused on the Palm platform. I am very active in many Open Source communities and within projects that allow me to utilize my skills in these areas.
I am very active in the Free Software community in many projects that allow me to sharpen my skills in these and other areas. This includes development and deployment of applications, portals, and userland tools that are used to help leverage and promote these technologies. My skills range from mobile and handheld to high-end clusters and server environments.
David A. Desrosiers’s Specialties:
I solve problems.
David A. Desrosiers’s Experience
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Vice President in Global Technology
Merrill Lynch
(Research industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
I am currently working as a VP in Global Technology at Bank of America (formerly Merrill Lynch) in downtown Manhattan as an "EFS Packaging and Integration Engineer".
This role finds me building, installing and maintaining thousands of Open Source and vendor packages into an intelligently-managed, enterprise-wide file system (EFS) used for global deployment of software and similar solutions. There's always a new challenge to face every day. -
Owner
gnu-designs, inc.
(Think Tanks industry)
March 1994 — Present (15 years 10 months)
I started gnu-designs, inc. from the ground up as a web-design and hosting company in 1994. The initial charter was to provide gratis hosting and development resources to Open Source sofware developers who did not have a way to promote their projects on their own. It ballooned into a global service that now provides design, consulting, management and hosting for commercial clients as well as gratis hosting for the Open Source community.
We strive to better the Internet experience through clean, functional, usable designs. Every site deployed is assembled from the best solutions possible and is built using, clean, validated, future-proof standards to reach the broadest audience possible. -
Enterprise Filesystem Integration & Packaging
Starpoint Solutions
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
February 2008 — September 2008 (8 months)
I am a consultant with Starpoint, contracted to Merrill Lynch in Manhattan with Starpoint Solutions, LLC to as a Linux/UNIX Package Builder and EFS Filesystem Engineer.
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Linux on POWER Developer Program Manager/Strategist
IBM, Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2005 — July 2007 (2 years 5 months)
Responsible for helping design, manage and deliver the IBM Linux on POWER effort, focusing primarily on Open Source and Linux developer resources for the IBM Systems & Technology Group (STG) in several global communities; The role is roughly 80% developer-centric in the Open Source community, 20% ISV and customer-facing relationships.
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Open Source Research Engineer
Wild Open Source
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2003 — January 2005 (2 years 1 month)
Ongoing consultant for various companies migrating, deploying, developing, and utilizing Linux in their operations. Much of the work is focused on higher-end server hardware, IBM BladeCenter, Linux-based clusters, and other "highly-available" configurations.
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Developer/Research Engineer
Linuxcare
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years )
Survived 5 rounds of layoffs before resigning in December of 2001 to relocate back to the East Coast.
Responsible for researching, designing, and developing of solutions to solve vendor, customer, and user-level problems utilizing Free Software and Open Source solutions where possible, utilizing Linux and FreeBSD. This included onsite research, Internet data harvesting, and developing custom applications. Target customers included Sun, HP, IBM, Dell, Gateway, Tricord, the National Security Agency, and others. -
Information Specialist (Research)
Pfizer, Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PFE; Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 2000 (5 years )
Pioneered and created a group, 'Emerging Solutions', with two other colleagues to further develop and deploy advanced solutions. This group eventually grew to a total of five (5) people to develop new solutions for Pfizer Global Research.
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Software development, intrusion analysis, security, privacy and anything related to technology. Hobbies include cycling, throwing knives, competition darts, photography and travel.
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