Richard Deal

Richard Deal is a seasoned professional with over twenty years of experience in designing, testing, and implementing cutting-edge IT solutions for various private and government clients.

His expertise includes network design and integration, configuration management, network security, backup & recovery, software analysis, operations & systems re-engineering, technology cost savings, enterprise systems procurement, high-performance computing, green data center design, and big data computing.

He holds a BS in Computer Science from Radford University and has pursued additional studies in Computer Science at Virginia Tech after completing high school at Fishburne.

Richard Deal has held key positions such as VP Director of Systems and Infrastructure at Geostellar, President at GreenIT Corp, Computer Systems Manager at J. Craig Venter Institute and TIGR, Director of Infrastructure Support & Systems Analyst at First Nationwide Mortgage, Senior Network & System Manager at Ultraprise Corporation, Network & Systems Engineer at Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, and Senior Network & System Manager at Naval Research Laboratory.

Notable achievements include a project where he replaced 60 older high-performance computing blades with 10 multi-core blades, resulting in significant power consumption reduction, increased performance, and lowered maintenance costs with a quick return on investment.