Ray Nugent

Campbell, CA *****

408-***-****

acx9vt@r.postjobfree.com

www.linkedin.com/in/raynugent

Hands-on Technical Director

Highly Scalable Platforms / IoT and Mobile / Cloud / Open Source Infrastructure

Hands-on manager and architect deeply involved in open source initiatives within the Linux Foundation, Openstack and Apache foundations

Known for delivering complex infrastructural projects

A dynamic technical leader with a proven track record of recruiting and scaling highly productive, globally distributed teams, creating a culture that fosters collaboration, agility and innovation and building strong cross-functional partnerships

Technologies

Cloud: Openstack, AWS and supporting AWS, Azure, GCP, vCloud

Infrastructure: Apache Spark (Graph, Machine Learning, Streaming), Hadoop, containers (Docker, Rkt, Kerberos,LXD) and Kafka, OpenStack/Open Daylight, SDN OpenStack based NFV orchestration platform, PaaS based cloud platforms (CloudFoundry), NoSQL Data Cassandra

Mobile: iPad/iPhone (Swift), iOS (Objective C), Android (Java) mobile platforms, Mobile web (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript)

Languages: Experience with C/C++, Java, Python, Golang

Methodologies: Agile SDLC

Technical Management Experience

Granulocity Consulting LLC

Technical Consultant, Cloud and IoT platform 2013- to Present

Drove new architecture for streaming data system for processing billions of networking events using Apache Spark (Graph, Machine Learning, Streaming), Hadoop, containers (Rkt, Kerberos,LXD) and Kafka transforming 40-year-old Telecom network to OpenStack/Open Daylight platformed NFV Cloud.

Initiated and contributed substantially to a new telecome architecture that was intended to move from hardware to the cloud

Chaired meetings, refereed debates, introduced technologies/open source solutions compiled and presented results

Developed business plan for a highly competitive, ground up $100 million opportunity for client in virtualization of networking infrastructure automation resulting in new 5000 head business unit to execute on the plan.

Researched, analyzed, synthesized market data, technology, effort, go to market, competitor intelligence and built a proposed business plan

Presented to senior management and prospective partners.

Built partner ecosystem for customer labs program in China, EU and US. Business development role developing relationships with open source data center software partners, server and storage hardware partners and integrators to create a robust ecosystem for integration test and demonstration of CORD and OPNFV stacks

Prospected numerous technology companies and drafted them to join an ecosystem centered around technology interoperability labs.

Developed program objectives

Drafted program details

Led technical program management process transformation from waterfall to agile and proprietary software development to open source.

Grew open source development contribution model from bottom rank to top 10 and developed an IP protection scheme that firewalled valuable IP from leaking to open source

Initiated transformation of end to end product road map from hardware to software for China based 5G mobile manufacturer supporting networks of 800 million mobile subscribers.

Developed business and technical strategy for large scale SDN OpenStack based NFV orchestration platform.

Cisco, San Jose 2011-2013; 2000-2007

Head, Cloud and Mobile Security Engineering (2011-2013)

Led team of 40 Product managers, software developers, Quality, and DevOps engineers in the multi-geographic effort for development of $85 million business for large scale security cloud, a highly available SaaS application for enterprise customers (Linux, React, AngularJS, Django, Python, and Cassandra) to process analytics for threat flows

Managed business unit’s Mobile security apps for iOS (Objective C and Swift) and Android (Java) mobile platforms as well as Mobile web (HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript)

Managed email security team for 15 million user’s activities resulting in new revenue source (analytics data) for the product line

Migrated the team’s dev/QA process from waterfall to agile SDLC and reduced average release cycles from 52 weeks to 12 weeks and improving system scalability and reliability

Built a new development center in Eastern Europe and staffed development team there focused on OpenStack and PaaS based cloud platforms (CloudFoundry). Incorporated NoSQL Data stores with Cassandra, Streaming data analytics using Spark, batch analytics with Hadoop.

Sr. Manager, Software Engineering, Home Automation and OTT Video (2000-2007)

Led the technical side of SaaS consumer video initiative. Identified the embedded platforms requirements to consolidate and deliver metadata and streamline digital content from numerous third-parties with a slick user interface to navigate real-time content on mobile and set top devices.

Devised a novel partner integration automation abstraction layer platform for rapid partner on-boarding for over 100 media partners. Managed 3rd party tools vendor relationships with partner companies including software features, delivery schedules, NRE content, licensing, support strategies and SLA

Functioned as a hands-on software developer for real time fault management (C/C++, Java, Python).

Smartscale 2007-2011

Founder/CTO

Founded fast-paced SaaS mobile automated cloud control plane and cloud management startup, developed product road map, staffed and managed people in a globally distributed team of software developers, user experience and product managers

Formulated mobile app product strategy and definition and funded a Startup Environment on a innovative platform for Cloud Systems Management for Datacenter virtualization developed on AWS, and supporting AWS, Azure, GCP, vCloud and Openstack cloud management

Led the development of unique HTML5 iPad/iPhone (Swift) mobile app and cloud backend providing drag and drop cloud management with slick user interface to simplify multi-cloud management

Designed and patented unique technology for federating clouds by turning infrastructure into algorithmic software managing large numbers of virtual objects

Served as lead product manager and visionary, wrote product requirements, managed arcs, documented stories, burn down lists and conducted user feedback.

Education

BS, Computer Engineering, California State University, Chico

MBA coursework, International Management, San Jose State University

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