Also known as: patrichards
Information Systems Executive with extensive years of progressively challenging experience in the IT industry with the last five years focused on building a world class software development organization in the highly competitive internet advertising space. These technologies include grid and virtualization systems, digital media systems, open source solutions, petabyte scale data warehouses and hadoop clusters, advanced web technologies, and state of the art hardware solutions. Adept in working with large systems software installations, maintenance, system re-engineering, hardware/software evaluation and selection, software development processes, data center operations and data warehousing. Issued many patents resulting from work and received multiple patent recognition awards from IBM. A natural leader, an aggressive self-starter, team builder, innovative “outside-the-box†thinker, with proven process improvement skills. Visionary, strategic thinker who is able to make those visions become reality by using strong management and leadership skills. A seasoned professional, able to combine exceptional technical knowledge, problem solving, and first-rate business skills to deploy systems that create a competitive advantage for an employer. Specialties Co-Founded the "SoCal DevOps Meetup" to help bring together development and operations engineers with leaders in the DevOps community. Within 6 months, the community has grown to more than 200 members with approximately 150 people in attendance at events that occur every 2 months.
