Colorado Mesa University

Queen'S University Belfast

CEO / Founder @ Vapor IO

Austin, Texas, United States

Our mission is to create the world’s first safe-driving network. When you pair a Nexar-powered dash cam with the Nexar app, you join a network that uses artificial intelligence to detect road hazards and then alerts other drivers in the surrounding area.

Nexar Inc.

Member Board of Directors at Nexar Inc.

Forbes

Author

The Open19 Foundation started as a Concept in 2016 by LinkedIn, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and VaporIO looking for ways to create a community that will enable a common optimize data center and edge solutions enabling efficiency and flexibility.

Open19 Foundation

Member Board Of Directors

Infrastructure Masons are technologists and executives entrusted with building and managing the physical and logical structures of the Digital Age. They are dedicated to the advancement of the Industry, development of their fellow masons, and empowering business and personal use of the infrastructure to better the economy, the environment, and society.

Infrastructure Masons

Fellow 2nd Degree

Vapor is the creator of the world’s first intelligent, hyper modular data center solution.

Vapor IO

Stacking.IT is a new conference series which gives a cross-industry platform for the work of such open collaboratives as OpenStack Foundation, Open Compute Project (OCP), the Linux Foundation and similar efforts. Program coverage will be both the rapidly evolving technology and business landscape of software-defined infrastructure (SDI) and the data-driven data center (DDDC).

Stacking.IT

Chairman

Open Compute Project Foundation

Evangelist

Work with Cloud Connect China vendor companies and attendees to ensure great content and speakers are connecting with an engaged audience.

Cloud Connect China

Advisory Board Member

Provide engaging talks for STEM to engineering students with a focus on Open Compute and Open Source.

Notre Dame College

Guest Lecturer

Founding Executive Director of the OCP Project.

Executive Director

Building the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost.

Open Compute Foundation

Chief Operating Officer

Work with the storage community to establish and build a performant, flexible and scalable reference architecture for the Open Compute Platform.

OCP Storage Project Chair

Guide the general technology direction for all of Nebula's strategic business objectives.  Interface closely with our engineering team and the community to ensure the correct business decisions are being made. Create effective partnerships and channels within the OpenStack ecosystem.

Nebula, Inc.

Director of Strategic Alliances

The Linux Foundation

Cloud Advisor

Led the technology direction of all external servicesManaged engineering team responsible for deploying complex cloud solutions for the federal government across multiple US based data centers.Engaged with both DOD and non DOD companies where I served as an adviser for technology adoption

Autonomic Resources

Led internal data center consolidation / Green IT / Cloud strategy supporting all Dell business units including Dell Public / Dell PG / Dell Financial / Dell Professional ServicesIntroduced multiple hypervisor technologies to accommodate a wide range of run time environmentsLeveraged my personal credentials to increase partnership opportunities and strategic alliancesDeveloped and executed all Linux / Cloud related initiatives supporting millions of users worldwideProfessional public speaking engagements at world renown events

Dell

IT Strategist

Eventus Group

Partner

Introduced Linux and Grid Concept to the organization.Planned / executed company wide Unix to Linux data warehouse migration (Solaris based 9i to RH based 10g) with a support staff of 20+ staff engineers.

Cole Crawford