Chris A. Trees

Technology Management & Research Professional
Summary
Network technology professional with over 25 years of technology leadership experience including oversight of infrastructure, support and security services. Dedicated to customer success through effective use of technology solutions. Proven leader in directing operations, maintenance and support of complex systems. Develops creative business solutions, leveraging diverse methodologies and delivering engineering solutions for leading organizations. Highly adept in request for proposal development, technology needs assessments and staff training.

Work History

present2018

Management / Research / Consultant

CAT9, LLC Cedar Falls, IA (and remote)
  • Research remote services infrastructure platforms for assisted living.
  • Consultant for mixed media digital puppetry live performance infrastructures.
  • Researching SDN, SDS and CI/CD methods for Bare Metal infrastructure.
  • Researching deployment of Blender grid rendering using Bare Metal infrastructure.
  • Grant proposal for a digital media series on technology pioneers from Iowa.
  • Researching AI learning feedback algorithms for use in commodity markets.
  • Researching automated infrastructure deployment for remote hosted enviroments.
  • Researching building Blockchain foundations for IoT Edge Community project.
  • Consultant USDA Funding for Infrastructure funding of "Green Grid" hosting service.
  • Grant proposal for USDA broadband efforts in small rural communities.
  • Consultant for 5.4MW datacenter facilites design, contruction and maintainance service.
20182012

Staff Training / Research

Mail Services, LLC Des Moines, IA (remote)
  • Researched NFC production process to leverage USPS commercialization incentives.
  • Evaluated and integrated AGILE, CI/CD, QA testing and system virtualization.
  • Development staff recruitment and training.
  • Intro Team for Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket and Bamboo toolchains.
  • Assisted CEO with external technology partnerships.
20122010

Consultant / Field Sales Engineer

OvalPath San Jose, California (and remote)
  • Assisted CEO with target market research to refocus company marketing efforts.
  • First "Mobile Workflow" communications platform serving the commercial nuclear power market.
  • Established QA Test Automation and build documentation.
  • Worked as Sales Engineer with CEO to adopt the platform to specific needs of new customers.
20102002

Consultant

CAT Services Cedar Falls, Iowa (and remote)
  • Croft Utility Partners Cloud infrastructure design for small communities.
  • Grasshorse Animation Studio "Proto-Motion" mixed media stop motion animation.
  • Vianeta Communications Training materials for data center installation and testing.
20021985

Prior Employment / Projects

Various, California
  • Pantera - Co-founder and technical architect. Recruitment of marketing and technical staff.
  • Fusion One - Integration of Levient redundant high availability server infrastructure stack.
  • Monggo - Remote desktop service using WAP devices (cell phones).
  • Vertical Networks - Lead hardware & mechanical design for telephony product "Instant-Office".
  • Rapid City Communications - Built high-speed-density backplane for VLAN switch.
  • Sun Microsystems - Netra group consultant for an embedded user control console.
  • General Magic - Partner development systems. Created touch based magic cell phone prototype.
  • National Semiconductor - Custom FPGA for ISO-Ethernet product development kit.
  • Hughes LAN - ATM network switch hub chassis backplane and FPGA based control bus.
  • The Engineering Dept (TED) - PC Transporter Apple II card used to run IBM Software.
  • Lockeed MSC - P387 - Video display subsystem control board and test station.

Education

19851980

B.S. Electrical Engineering

Iowa State University Ames, Iowa
Math Honors, Nuclear Engineering Studies