From ken at jots.org Mon Jan 7 11:59:18 2019 From: ken at jots.org (Ken D'Ambrosio) Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:59:18 -0500 Subject: [gnhlug-jobs] VP/CTO-level buddy looking. Message-ID: Hey, all. W-a-y back in the '90's, in Manchester, at a company called Summa Four, I met a buddy of mine, Paul Miller -- perhaps the best hardware engineer I've known. We got acquired by Cisco, and he left to become the principal hardware architect for Cedar Point Communicaitons, out of Derry -- his back-end switch ran something like half the VoIP for Comcast customers. That company got acquired, and he worked his way up the ranks, eventually becoming CTO of GENBAND, Inc., where he hired me on. And I was very pleasantly surprised to see that not only was he excellent at hardware, but that his people, executive, and customer skills were all top-notch. Using his vision, he re-directed the entire company away from the legacy chassis model to cloud-based applications, which was precisely what the market wanted. He wound up making the company attractive, and it eventually merged with Sonus Networks, out of Westford. Alas, in the immortal words of Highlander, "There can be only one." In this case, "one CTO team." So, "because politics," the entire GENBAND CTO team got the axe. Paul immediately went to work trying to find jobs for those who'd been under him, feeling personally responsible for our suddenly becoming unemployed. Alas, his sense of responsibility has not served him well -- he, himself, is now having trouble finding local work, in no small part because positions at the level he's angling for don't just crop up, especially when you're trying not to relocate. He has not asked me to send this, but I figured it might be worth a shot: Paul is incredibly good at planning, presenting, working with engineers and customers, and has excellent -- even exceptional -- understanding of the technologies involved. [E.g., he set up an entire OpenStack cloud on his Mac, using VirtualBox, to be able to prototype ideas.] It was my undiluted pleasure to work with him, and if you either have or know someone who has a senior-level architecture/CTO-esque position opening up, I can't recommend him strongly enough. If you're still reading, feel free to check out his resume (and, yes, he put this together himself): http://clicktrack.one/resume.html