Product Development Information Technology

J E R O D P O W E L L

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER / BUSINESS CONSULTING EXPERT / IT LEADER Dynamic, result-driven senior executive leader with over two decades of experience in building and managing technology-based firms focused on cloud computing, hosting, managed services and product development. Expert in all aspects of IT, strategic planning, project management, M&A, process optimization, compliance and organizational development. Expansive and deep knowledge of technical areas including: enterprise and hosting architecture and design cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS), software deployment, IP creation, and building effective Information Technology companies. A long track record of delivering refined, proactive and innovative solutions designed to support organizations through rapid growth and expansion. An accomplished businessman with strong leadership and strategic vision, combined with a proven ability to drive revenue growth, market shares and international market expansion. Business consulting expert and trusted advisor, accomplished coach and mentor. Core strengths include: ability to identify and capitalize on market trends, conceptualizing and flawlessly execute innovative ideas, enterprise architecture and design, product development and market delivery, staff development and budgeting. CR ITI CA L C AR EE R H IG HLI G HTS

Published in several magazines and articles and made the cover of Channel Pro magazine discussing the Private Cloud and recently Business Solutions Magazine educating MSP’s and VAR’s on how to evolve and transform into a cloud based business model.

Part of the Cloud Advisory Council for Microsoft.

Won Cloud Partner of the Year West Coast or Northwest Area Partner of the Year for Microsoft 4 out of the last 5 years taking 3rd in the world in 2011 behind only CDW and another Japanese firm 100 times INFINIT’s size.

Speaker at WPC and other events around the world discussing cloud business models and how to transform your business to align with the new cloud economy.

First partner in the world to receive Ingram Micro’s Cloud Marketplace.

Author of numerous technology articles for online and print publishing.

Achieved Microsoft Certified Gold Partner in Small and Mid-Market Cloud Solution, Big Data, and Cloud Platform Competency in less than 9 months.

Successfully orchestrated the sale of his highly successful cloud computing and managed services business in July of 2020 after building the company from the ground up, with an initial investment of $2500.00 grew the business from 0 in revenue to over 6 million when the business was sold, over 80% of the revenue was MRR. CAR EE R T RA CK

Chief Information Officer, Assure Neuromonitoring/Assure Holdings Inc. June 2021 to February 2025

Led the implementation of a new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, optimizing business processes and enhancing data-driven decision-making across the organization.

Developed and executed a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy, fortifying the company’s defenses against evolving threats and ensuring compliance with industry regulations.

Established a centralized data analytics platform, enabling leadership to utilize real-time insights for driving strategic initiatives and operational improvements.

Collaborated with executive leadership to align IT priorities with the company’s overarching business goals, ensuring technology investments directly supported organizational growth and profitability.

Instituted new processes and control frameworks for improving, auditing, and maintaining HIPAA Compliance, successfully passing the annual Joint Commission audit.

Developed a SOX IT 404 compliance framework, implementing controls and an ongoing testing methodology when Assure went public.

Directed a digital transformation initiative, integrating various IT Business Solutions for a comprehensive view and on-demand analytics of all systems, automating manual data integration processes and saving nearly three weeks per month of error-prone work.

Automated the creation of 10K and 10Q reports.

Implemented an automated surgeon revenue reporting and reconciliation solution, significantly improving the time to pay surgeons and increasing visibility across the company.

Designed and implemented an automated billing solution for end customers after insurance payments, generating an additional $300,000 in revenue within the first two months and eliminating errors that caused financial reporting issues and delays.

Oversaw the implementation of an AI and predictive analytics solution to automate forecasting with extreme accuracy, as well as accrual-based reporting to the SEC.

Architected and led the migration to a cloud-native IT architecture, successfully transitioning all legacy servers to the cloud, with 85% of infrastructure running as PaaS services. This greatly reduced costs, increased security, and improved overall data visibility and integration options.

Managed a team of over 45 IT professionals, promoting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Vice President, Ergos, Inc. July 2020 to June 2021

Supported the transition of INFINIT Consulting, Inc.’s customers to Ergos following the sale of INFINIT to Ergos. Achieved an 89% success rate in transitioning INFINIT clients to Ergos.

Ensured the successful integration of INFINIT employees into Ergos, contributing to their adaptation to Ergos culture. Most former INFINIT employees continue to work at Ergos today.

Assisted with rebranding Ergos.com utilizing the superior marketing and branding elements from INFINITConsulting.com.

Created and deployed a new Managed Security Offering for Ergos, successfully selling and implementing it to their four largest clients.

Played a key role in sales and large-scale Azure migration projects before transitioning to a new role in June 2021.

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, INFINIT CONSULTING, INC. August 2006 to July 2020

Led company to over 2 Million in capital in less than 9 months of existence with a $2,500.00 initial investment.

Keeps the company at the center of every major technology break.

Pioneered numerous innovations in the IT industry.

Develops strategic business plans, identifying key IT services to support business objectives.

Key facilitator in developing partnerships to support business priorities and objectives.

Project leader for enterprise client engagements in USA, Europe and Asia.

Hires, places and supervises all consultants on customer projects.

Creates training plans for ongoing professional development.

Performs sales forecasting and define revenue goals.

Achieved Microsoft Certified Gold Partner in less than one year.

Successfully leads several acquisition projects for a leading publicly traded manufacturing company. Acquisitions ranged from 60 to more than 600 employees in size with locations in Israel, Japan, Hungry and the US.

SOX 404-compliance manager for several companies in and around the Bay Area. Lead all clients to successful Sox compliance, with cost savings vs. previous years ranging from 100K to over 500K.

Became the first Microsoft partner in the Bay Area to sell a BPOS deal.

Transitioned from an enterprise consulting company to an MSP.

Sold the second most cloud services in the US, second only to CDW, on the first year selling cloud services.

Invented new product named INFINIT Cloud Intelligence and Entered a co-development partnership with Gridstore to develop it.

Achievements and highlights include:

o 2008 – Cloud Revenue of $124,000, first year.

o Won Microsoft West Coast Cloud Partner of the Year. o 2009 – Cloud Revenue of $150,040 with 21% growth. o Won Microsoft North West Area Partner of the Year. o 2010 – Cloud Revenue of $187,550 with 25% growth. o 2011 – Cloud Revenue of $630,168 with 336% growth. o Won Microsoft West Region Commercial Cloud Partner of the Year, took 3rd in world. o 2014 – Cloud Revenue of $913,743.60.

o Won Microsoft North West Cloud Partner of the Year. o 2015 – Cloud Revenue of $1,525,951.81 – with 67% Growth. o Won Microsoft North West Area Partner of the Year. o 2015 – Launching 3 cloud products this year, Cloud Manager for O365, Meetings for O365, Signatures for O365 and has two more in development. o 2016 – Cloud Revenue of $2,243,873.83 & Doubled Total Company Revenue over 2015. o Won Microsoft West Region Area Partner of the Year o Won Ingram Cloud Marketplace Partner of the Year o Keynote speaker at NexGen Cloud Conference 2016

CEO and former CIO and Vice President of Consulting Services, March 1999 to September 2006 MAGPIE INTERNET COMMUNICATIONS, CORP.

Brought in to help owner start an outsourced database hosting company and was named President in 2003.

Acted as Lead Project Manager for Mid-Market and Enterprise customers of the company.

Worked as Rapid Deployment Program specialist. RDP projects included MOSS 2007 enterprise portal design & migrations, business workflow design using SharePoint V3, & identity management integration with MOSS 2007.

Led SOX 404 Projects.

M&A IT consolidation for global enterprise based in US Europe and Asia.

Led projects for many Enterprise Active Directory and Exchange Projects including: planning, migration and deployment.

Oversaw network security audits and security plans and Implemented corporate firewall and VPN technologies.

Developed business contingency plans.

Managed placement of consultants on projects in and around the Bay Area.

Wrote corporate upgrade plans and fallback procedures, SOX process control RCM’s and Narratives, architecture design plans, M&A integration process for IT and finance systems, and UAT and functional test documentation.

Participated in speaking engagements on various technologies including SOX 404 for the mid-market enterprise, enterprise messaging architecture and design, and building service-based IT departments. Functional Team Lead – Senior Systems Engineer, MICROSOFT CORP. January 1997 to March 1999

Acted as Production Support Lead on the Microsoft OnEBill online billing system.

Performed maintenance, monitoring, troubleshooting, and debugging of the OnEBill/Encarta IIS servers.

Managed content updates to the OnEBill/Encarta IIS servers.

Reconciled billing data in the SQL 7.0 and Oracle 8 DB’s with the information contained in the Accounting and Sales systems.

Authored, monitored and debugged automated batch jobs that ran against the backend Oracle DB and OnEBill web infrastructure.

Resolved billing issues escalated by Financial Operations through the use of database queries.

Assisted with SQL/IIS support of the Microsoft Highlander Authorization\Authentication system, which is presently known as Windows Live.

Created documentation on production environment support procedures.

Performed updates on the tax servers as needed to insure proper taxation of customers. Functional Team Lead – Senior Systems Engineer, MICROSOFT CORP. Cont’d

Optimized IIS servers for optimal response and security.

Wrote several SQL queries that checked consistency in the Oracle and SQL Databases.

Managed OnEBill documentation in the team Visual Source Safe tree.

Orchestrated upgrades to new versions of OnEBill, develop UAT and functional testing procedures and production implementation and failback processes.

Went from a member of the OneBill functional support team to the Functional Team lead in 3 months. Server Support Manager—Level Three Support Engineer, September 1996 to December 1998 TECHSERV SYSTEM, INC.

Acted as Level Three Support Engineer for a 2-billion-dollar conglomerate, and the 3rd largest direct PC manufacturer in the world at the time, behind Gateway and Dell.

Managed the Windows NT Server support team comprised of over 200 engineers.

Provided level three escalation support for NT Server\Workstation and MS BackOffice products.

Designed & implemented networking solutions using Microsoft & Novell products.

Installed and configured Microsoft Exchange Server for internal and external clients.

Integrated Novell NDS and Microsoft NT 4.0 domains.

Installed and maintained an Intranet Server that hosted the technical knowledge base.

Implemented security standards for the administration of Intranet website.

Evaluated and tested various eCommerce software packages and presented recommendations to executive and marketing groups.

Delivered technical training on computer hardware/software including: General Networking, IIS 3.0 & 4.0, NT Server 4.0, TCP/IP, Windows 95, NT Workstation, MS Small Business Server, SQL 6.5, GroupWise, Modems, Motherboards, Sound Cards, Video Cards, Monitors, Ring Central, & Video Phone.

Identified common problems with new hardware and software builds, developed solutions to problems, and documented solutions that were used on the internal and external company websites.

Led technical resources for over 400 Network Support Engineers.

Created business proposals and set pricing for network consulting practice.

Built consulting services team and service delivery methodology.

Led a team on a special project called the Power Module Initiative, responsible for organizing a team of top performing support technicians to develop metrics determining problem resolution vs. % of calls taken, average time to resolution, customer satisfaction index, and typical RMA thresholds. B OAR D R OL ES A ND AD VIS OR Y P OS I TI O NS

CLOUD PARTNER ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR MICROSOFT FOR THE LAST 4 YEARS M&A CONSULTANT FOR A LARGE MANUFACTURING FIRM IN THE BAY AREA, SUCCESSFULLY LEAD SEVERAL ACQUISITIONS RANGING IN SIZE FROM 60-1000+ EMPLOYEES IN ISRAEL, JAPAN, HUNGRY, IRELAND AND THE US TIER 1 CLOUD CHAMPION AND WEST COAST OR NORTHWEST PARTNER OF THE YEAR FOR MICROSOFT 5 TIMES AND 4 OF THE LAST 5

SMB ADVISORY COUNCIL – MICROSOFT

LEAD SOX 404 CONSULTANT FOR SEVERAL COMPANIES AROUND THE BAY AREA, LEAD ALL CLIENTS TO SUCCESSFUL COMPLIANCE WITH A COST SAVINGS VS. PREVIOUS YEARS RANGING FROM 100K TO OVER 500K INGRAM MICRO PARTNER ADVISORY COUNCIL

MEMBER CLOUD COMMUNITY COUNCIL

MEMBER CLOUD CHAMPIONS CLUB – MICROSOFT

FUNCTIONAL LEAD AT MICROSOFT ON A 200+ MILLION-DOLLAR PROJECT CALLED ONEBILL, SUPPORTING BUSINESS, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND ENGINEERING

Board of Directors for Be A Mentor

EDU CA TI ON, C ER TI F IC AT IO NS A ND SP E CIA L T RA IN IN G STEVENS-HENAGER COLLEGE Computer Science

CLOUD PROFITABILITY TRAINING

CBE CREDITS

NUMEROUS IT CERTIFICATIONS INCLUDING Microsoft Azure Certified Security Architect, MCSE,

MCSE + SECURITY, MCSE + INTERNET, MCSE +

MESSAGING, SQL SERVER AND MANY MORE

MICROSOFT CRM VIRTUAL ACADEMY ONLINE

TRAINING

TRANSFORM YOUR DATACENTER IMMERSION

TRAINING

EMPOWER ENTERPRISE MOBILITY IMMERSION

TRAINING

EXTENSIVE OFFICE 365, INTUNE, EMS AND AZURE

TRAINING

DYNAMIC DATACENTER ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

MODERNIZE YOUR DATACENTER IMMERSION

TRAINING

BUILDING HYBRID CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE WITH

WINDOWS AZURE PACK

CLOUD AND HYBRID VDI ARCHITECTURE AND

DESIGN

CLOUD PROFITABILITY MODEL

CREATING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND

PROFITABILITY MODELS

SURESTEP PROJECT MANAGEMENT

MACHINE LEARNING AND BIG DATA SOLUTIONS

ACCELERATORS

THE FOUR DISCIPLINES OF EXECUTION

GRIDSTORE HYPER CONVERGED DATACENTER

DEVICE

SARBANES OXLEY COMPLIANCE

MICROSOFT BIG DATA VIRTUAL ACADEMY ONLINE

TRAINING

P UB LICAT I ONS

COVER CHANNEL PRO MAGAZINE WITH AN ARTICLE ABOUT VIEWS ON THE PRIVATE, GROWTH AND WHY IT WOULD SEE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH

BUSINESS SOLUTIONS MAGAZINE – COVER STORY, ONLINE PORTION RELEASES ON 9-20-2015 AND MAGAZINE RELEASE ON OCT. 1ST. TOPIC FOCUSED ON HOW INFINIT BECAME A CLOUD SOLUTIONS PROVIDER AND OFFERING ADVICE TO PARTNERS ON WHY THE NEED A CLOUD STRATEGY SEVERAL CASE STUDIES MICROSOFT PERFORMED ON INFINIT’S SUCCESS IN THE CLOUD, ONE THAT HIGHLIGHTS ACHIEVING 336% CLOUD GROWTH IN ONE YEAR

SP EAK IN G E NG A GE M ENTS

SEVERAL SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS AT MICROSOFT’S WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCES, ALWAYS ON THE LATEST CLOUD SERVICES AND COACHING PARTNERS ON HOW TO TRANSITION TO THE CLOUD OR THE NEW PRODUCTS INTO THEIR SOLUTIONS OFFERING. SPOKE AT 3 SESSIONS IN 2015, 2 IN 2013, AND 3-6 IN 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009 SPOKE WITH CINDY BATES, VICE PRESIDENT U.S. SMB AND DISTRIBUTION AT MICROSOFT SPOKE AT THE FIRST EVER MICROSOFT STORE EVENT ON WINDOWS INTUNE AND OFFICE 365 PRESENTED TO THE IAMCP GROUP SEVERAL TIMES IN MICROSOFT’S MOUNTAIN VIEW AND SAN FRANCISCO OFFICES. PRESENTATIONS WERE AGAIN FOCUSED ON HOW TO BUILD OR TRANSITION YOUR BUSINESS FROM WHAT YOU ARE TO A CLOUD BUSINESS MODEL

ASKED TO SPEAK IN BUSINESS SOLUTIONS MAGAZINE, FEATURED ARTICLE AND COVER STORY, ARTICLE FOCUSED ON THE CLOUD AND CLOUD PROFITABILITY

NEXGEN CLOUD CONFERENCE EXECUTIVE KEYNOTE

MICROSOFT WORLD PARTNER CONFERENCE 2016 – 4 SESSIONS ON DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION A WA RDS & H ON ORS

NUMEROUS WEST AND NW PARTNER OF THE YEAR

AWARDS

LED INFINIT TO BE THE FIRST MICROSOFT PARTNER

IN THE WORLD THAT WILL FEATURE THE CLOUD

MARKETPLACE

SELECTED AND FEATURED IN AN ONLINE VIDEO

MICROSOFT PUBLISHED IN 2010

SELECTED AND FEATURED IN AN ONLINE VIDEO FOR

INGRAM MICRO

TECH ELITE 250 AWARD

MID-MARKET EXECUTIVE OF THE YEAR 2016

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