Jarrett Ridlinghafer's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

Mr. Ridlinghafer has an extensive & extremely diverse background spanning 25 years beginning at Netscape where he helped kick-off the “Internet Revolution” 1995-1999 & for the 20 years since Netscape, as an Entrepreneur, Inventor, Hands-On Executive & Generalist Specializing in Data-Center & Cloud Infrastructures with a focus on HPC, Security & Emerging Tech. Jarrett is now considered...

Mr. Ridlinghafer has an extensive & extremely diverse background spanning 25 years beginning at Netscape where he helped kick-off the “Internet Revolution” 1995-1999 & for the 20 years since Netscape, as an Entrepreneur, Inventor, Hands-On Executive & Generalist Specializing in Data-Center & Cloud Infrastructures with a focus on HPC, Security & Emerging Tech. Jarrett is now considered a HPC, DC & Cloud SME & Emerging Technology Visionary by many & is the successful inventor of the original “Bugs Bounty” & “Netscape Champions” Programs in 95, 1st Retail Plug-n-Play Firewall Router offered funding by KPCB in 2000, 1st AI Automated Email Response System 97, 1st SSL Security Certificate Tests with the NSA & Verisign in 96 are just a few of his many accomplishments to date. His stealth-mode “Virtual Think-Tank|Incubator|Accelerator” startup "Synapse Synergy Group"​ holds dozens of pending patents along with over 100 “new” product ideas which will be introduce into the market over the next few years along with the largest privately-owned high-tech laboratory in the world & the fastest, most secure & most reliable global cloud infrastructure, completely redesigned & like no other. Instead of Market Hype, it will show what the "Cloud"​ should & can be. Passionate about People & leaving the world a better place, his new startup will completely trash the current corporate business model while starting a cultural revolution stressing “People over Politics, Love over Money & Bridges over Walls”. To do so they have combined Netscape's Culture with the "MindValley" culture & added their own unique & crazy twists & ideas creating what is a truly a uniquely transformative culture where every single team member shares the success equally instead of only the top 3% of executives & founders becoming wealthy. I believe completely that Happy Employees are the #1 Key to Success & it’s our goal at SSG to have the happiest, most innovative, productive & loyal team members in the world!”Cloud, Data-Center, DevOps & Emerging Technology SME Consultant @ I advise Investment Firms, VC's, Global Research Firms, Fortune 500 Executive Teams, Startup Executive Teams, Marketing Firms and many others in the specific areas of technology where I am considered a Subject Matter Expert (SME) such as: Cloud Computing (All Aspects), Data-Center Infrastructures (All Aspects from Cage Build-outs to Tier III Greenfield), Data Security, Physical Security, Compliance, Virtualization, Automation, Robotics, Nanotechnology, Wearable Technology, Biotechnology, SDN, NFV, BYOD, Hyper-convergence data phenomenon and looming crisis, Cloud Crisis, Cloud Security & Compliance Issues, 3D Printing, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Lean methodology, Agile methodology, Network Operations, Release Engineering, DevOps, Open Source Technology, Linux, Data-Center Automation, Capacity Planning, Business Continuity (BC), Disaster Recovery (DR), Next Generation Firewall tech (NGFW), Next Generation Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems/Prevention (NGIDS/NGIPS), and many others... From June 2015 to Present (7 months) Tucson, Arizona AreaStrategic Technology Consultant, Content Development, C-Level Advisor & Trainer @ I am working with Fast Lane US to assist with cutting-edge technology and emerging markets such as IoT, SDN, BYOD/BYOC, Devops, Big-Data, Cloud Computing, etc... basically any and all transformative/disruptive technology, to assist with content development for the trainers and offer real-world perspective and strategic advice as a SME to both Fast Lane and its clients as needed. I will also assist with helping to define new market opportunities for Fast Lane client sales and professional services divisions by helping them to see and define new emerging market opportunities which they can exploit, assisting them with taking full advantage of those opportunities through content development (webinar, certifications, training curriculum, boot camps, etc) and c-level executive advisory services and training as needed. From March 2015 to Present (10 months) Tucson, Arizona AreaTechnology Author - Cloud & Technology SME @ Working with Packtpub.com to Author a number of technology book ideas. Development of Book Outline and all Drafts. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 4 months) Founder & CTO @ “Transforming Reality & the World with High-Tech Solutions through Innovative Collaboration” Synapse Synergy Group is a first of its kind "Virtual Global Think-Tank|Incubator|Accelerator" headquartered in Silicon Valley & located at the intersection of technology, opportunity and firing synapses. We are a new breed of unstoppable and innovative entrepreneurs, technologists, inventors,scientists and passionate executives dedicated to transforming ideas into sustainable business models utilizing only cutting-edge, transformative technology. We are a globally diverse company founded on the principles that business should be focused on People & Solutions through Collaboration. The fact is that truly innovative, sustained growth companies with huge customer loyalty (Netscape, Mozilla, Virgin, Google, Amazon) came from passionate, happy, loyal employees to which our corporate culture motto speaks "Transforming Business Culture with People over Money, Love over Politics & Bridges over Walls”. With 10 Chief Scientists out of almost 40 total team members, many with PhD's and MBA's and from MIT, NASA, Perdue, Stanford, UAE, Germany and now 70+ Product ideas & 24+ Patent Opportunities & nightly brainstorming sessions we're "Transforming Reality" not just enhancing existing technology. o #1 Ranked Startup Culture by 2016 Via a combination of Netscape's Cultural Philosophy & the MindValley Philosophy o Designing the largest privately owned high-tech laboratory in the world, in multiple locations comprising departments focused on the transformative & disruptive technology of the future such as: o Cloud Technology o Nanotechnology o 3D Printing o Robotics o Artificial-Intelligence/Machine-Learning o Biotech o Genomics o Chemistry o Physics o Mathematics o Cryptology o Hardware Design o Mobile technology o Sensor Based Technology o Wearables o Virtual Reality o Beacon Technology o Optics From October 2013 to Present (2 years 3 months) Technical Expert - Cloud & Technology Sector @ As the Technical Expert for Atheneum Partners I write opinion pieces on technology and the cloud for the global newsletter as well as consult on technical matters for clients world-wide. From June 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Berlin Area, GermanyFounder & Chief Cloud Architect Consultant @ I perform consulting work primarily on diverse and unique cloud solution projects. Working with Client Executives & Department Heads as well as individual contributors including Cloud Technology Solutions Analysts and Architects Engineers & Administrators, Software Programmers & Development Teams & DBA’s on an as needed basis. I am considered by many to be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on Cloud, Data-Center & Distributed, High-Transaction (ability to architect the movement of 6TB of Data in one second, across the globe for example) SaaS Infrastructures & Operations (both Network & Development aka “Netops” & “Devops”). The company performs cloud and data-center analysis, design and build-outs globally. typically I get called in to manage the more complex and challenging projects. Specializing: o Initial needs assessments, cost/benefit analysis, Scope Of Work (SOW) and Proof of Concepts (POC) while establishing client “on-boarding” & owner “buy-in” and then developing overall project proposal outline and ultimately the 3-5 year strategic cloud technology roadmap o Operational Processes & Procedures (Analysis, Improvements in Proficiency & Efficiency & Developed from scratch) o Complete Design and Build-out of any data-center and/or cloud solutions (complete from scratch as well as upgrades, integrations, consolidations & migrations) o Hands-on Troubleshooting & Configuration of anything o One-Off projects in the areas of “Devops”, “Automation”, “Virtualization”, “Server Config/Patch Management”, “Software Release Management”, “Security”, “DR & Business Continuity”, “Storage”, “Hybrid & Public Cloud Integrations”, “Application Performance Tuning”, “Distributed Networking” & WAN Optimization o Vendors: MongoDB, Hadoop, Chef/Puppet/CFEngine, Eucalyptus, Oracle, Cassandra, Tomcat, Redhat/Ubuntu/SUSE/Solaris, Jboss, Akamai, VCE, BMC, Citrix, F5, Cisco, Vmware, Dell, Radware, Netapp, Juniper, Hitachi, EMC, CloudStack, Openstack, Eucalyptus, OpenNebula, Nagios, Vormetric From May 2010 to Present (5 years 8 months) Cloud Data-Center Infrastructure SME @ Assisting as a SME Consultant with the build-out of F5 Cloud Customers from Concept to Production: Assessment, POC, Hardware & Software selection, Architecture, Capacity Planning, DR, Virtualization, Automation, Security, Business Continuity, Load Balancing, SDN, etc.. As a senior Cloud SME I help with all aspects from cage & power layouts to selection of cable management systems to selection of data-center automation solutions to formulating security policy and procedures and even helping build complete Cloud Operations Departments from scratch when needed. From January 2015 to Present (1 year) Tucson, Arizona AreaIndependent Consultant - Emerging Technology, Cloud, DevOps, Security & Compliance SME @ Short-Term Contract to assist one of the top 5 globally and Canada's largest Data-at-Rest (DAR) Storage Security Company through the development of an Executive Strategic Cloud Technology Roadmap a step-by-step 1-3 year guide to transform their business model from a traditional Enterprise IT Software Product Vendor to a Software as a Service solutions model in order to facilitate both their existing clients cloud storage DAR security needs and take advantage of the absolutely massive Cloud market growth and the increase specifically in the SaaS market annually which looks to be the overall winner and I predict will surpass all cloud models by the end of 2016. From February 2015 to July 2015 (6 months) Tucson, Arizona AreaSr Technology Consultant/Cloud Security & Compliance SME @ Authoring & Presenting technical webinar specifically addressing the history, current & future trends of Security & Compliance within Cloud and Data-Center Infrastructure environments. I am also available as Cloud SME Consultant as needed on large Cloud & Data-Center Infrastructure opportunities and technology trends in general. o Author & Presenter of online Webinars. o Author of Security & Compliance Whitepapers o Assisted large Credit Union Customer “CUNA” with 3 month Cloud Security & Compliance & Governance (GRC+) solution for dealing with the current CSP situation o Consulting on multiple GRC deals o Development of Corporate Security & Compliance Policy o As needed Cloud Infrastructure & Data-Center SME resource to the internal MetricStream team o Evangelist for the MetricStream product From June 2014 to August 2014 (3 months) Senior Cloud Technology Analyst & Author of Cloud Technology Column @ Author of the "Cloud Technology" Column for Hadoop Magazine http://hadoopmag.com/ From February 2014 to June 2014 (5 months) Sr. Cloud Technology Consultant @ I was contacted to assist with a confidential Cloud Security Analysis for a alrge company wishing to begin utilizing Public Cloud Solutions but having serious concerns regarding security, compliance and control. Initial Project First Phase: Tasked with developing a strategic operational framework from which to secure their data and meet all federal and state compliance requirements as well as formulate the tactical process and procedures they would be using to verify nothing slipped through the cracks and that all the CSP (Cloud Service Providers) of choice were meeting their needs with regards to security, compliance and critical/sensitive data storage. As one of the best consulting companies I've had the pleasure of working with to date, I have agreed to stay on and assist the Compass Executive Team in their ongoing efforts to build their Cloud Consultancy Business into one where they are a recognized Leader within the Cloud Consulting industry. In 2014 we will also be kicking off new and unique initiatives within the Five Core Technology Sectors which we've identified as "world changers" moving forward and about which I will be writing and speaking about over the coming months. I highly recommend "Compass Solutions LLC" of Washington, DC, with the Highest Integrity & Competency both Owners and Staff have been working together since 2003. You could not place your business needs in better or more trustworthy hands. From November 2013 to May 2014 (7 months) SR Cloud SME & Author - Openstack Cloud Certification Program @ Hired on a consultancy basis as the lead OpenStack Cloud SME (Subject Matter Expert) tasked with developing their brand new Openstack Cloud Certification Test from scratch. From January 2014 to April 2014 (4 months) West Palm Beach, Florida AreaFounder & CTO/Advisory Board Member @ Stealth Mode Startup and not free to discuss what I do there in detail however I advise on security, compliance and cloud infrastructure just to name two of my roles. From December 2012 to February 2014 (1 year 3 months) Former CTO & Adviser & Current 15% Owner @ The Founder of 4DHealthware came to me and asked for my via help multiple messages via Linkedin. She explained that she had put 3 years and everything she owned into the company and after three years they had NO PROTOTYPE, Not a single Software Developer or Technology Person on their founding team. I at first was not inclined to assist them and was told by Brig Burton, a good friend and Angel investor and other business advisers to :walk away as its obvious they do not know what their doing" however after speaking with Star I felt sorry for her position and knew I could help her and her company and I offered to perform three things in exchange for 15% of the company: 1. Develop their prototype from scratch - Which my company Synapse Synergy Group did over the next 7 months 2. Come on as Interim CTO and assist with their cloud infrastructure and the strategic technology 3. Assist them with obtaining funding through my and my co-founder Jake Tital who between us we have literally dozens of close investment contacts in the SV Area including Andreessen & Horowitz and many others. Up to that point we were told that Star and her team had been denied by over 50 investors from the East Coast investment community and up to then (Winter 2013) they had had zero success after 3 years After almost 8 month Star decided she no longer owed us or the over 13 SSG team members who worked on producing her website, marketing her & her company, putting her in contact with our investors & developing her software from concept to Beta & completely remaking her company into what it is today from a nobody no one had ever heard of Star has since claimed she owes us nothing, including the 15% promised, $1.5M for development of her cloud infrastructure SSG Has plans to sue Star Cunningham, 4DHealthware and everyone associated with that organization as soon as she has the funding for us to recover what is owed to us. From September 2012 to August 2013 (1 year) Greater Chicago AreaChief Cloud Solutions Architect @ Selected to Architect the Design and Development of a new Cloud Data Center Initiative in Los Angeles, CA.. The infrastructure was in support of a globally distributed, SaaS & Cloud data-center platform to enable the real-time distribution of massive amounts of data (20pb per hour and up to 1pb per minute) for the entertainment industry, and included both audio and video data, spanning multiple locations, multiple remote development teams, and multiple data centers around the globe. Specific Accomplishments: o Performed Six Step Analysis & Design of the complete project o Developed Implementation Plan based upon initial needs assessment, C/B Analysis, SOW, R&D, POC o Responsible for all hardware and software selection, POC’s, evaluation process, vendor contracts & partnership management o Designed Network Infrastructure utilizing Cisco, EMC, BMC CLM, F5 LTM & vSwitch, Dell, Oracle RAC, Oracle MySQL Cluster, Puppet, Chef & Bcfg2, RedHat Enterprise, Juniper and VMware as the primary Hardware & Software vendors of choice o Developed all Operational Processes and Procedures i.e., Change Mgmt., Trouble Ticketing, ITIL, Reports Dashboard, Log Server Analysis, Server Configuration Management, Inventory Management, Etc. o Developed Ops Departments including both “NetOps” & “DevOps” and designed the SOA Architecture along with Release Team & Test Automation processes and procedures o Designed Swat Team, Crisis Management, 24x7x365 Pager Duty & Escalation Processes & Procedures o Designed on/off site Data Replication, DR, High-Availability & Business Continuity solution o Designed a complete Cross-Training and Mentoring System Program o Designed Secondary NOC to monitor all 12 global data-centers, staffed and trained all NOC admins o Wrote complete Run Book & Training Manuals From October 2010 to May 2012 (1 year 8 months) Greater Los Angeles AreaFounder & CTO @ I spent 2 Years Developing and Marketing a Patented invention entitled “Wood Stabilization & Impregnation System” which was the first of its kind in the world and was very successful. We had the largest Violin Manufacturer in India who had need of multiple systems, a number of knife manufacturers in the US and our market was global in nature with Companies from Germany, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, UK, France, Canada and all across the US inquiring about and purchasing our systems. o Spent one year in R&D Designing and Developing the System and one year marketing it o Performed all Wesbite design and SEO functions making our website the #1 - #3 link for all major keywords within our targeted markets o Discovered and then Developed over 20 Market Verticals to sell our product into o Handled all Sales and Support o Managed all manufacturing and Shipping and Receiving o Was in charge of all Internet Marketing o Developed complete Business Plan and Financial Forecast o Managed all Business Partnerships o Developed Strategic Business Road-Map based on a three year and five year plan o Handled all Legal Filings and Incorporation documents and Patents From August 2008 to May 2010 (1 year 10 months) Director, Network Operations & SaaS Data Center @ I was directly recruited from SCEA as a “Hands-On’ “Director of Network Operations” (Building and Managing all three “NetOps”, ” DevOps” & “ITOps” Departments from scratch) to build a world-class 24x7x365 ASP/SaaS/IaaS/Cloud infrastructure to support the roll-out of a brand new Mobile Marketing Software Platform world-wide. My responsibilities included Designing & Developing the Network Operations Department from scratch. As the only member of the devops team for the first 6 months I did everything myself, including virtualization and cloud computing solutions and managing the design and build-out of multiple Data-Centers located around the globe. The position was responsible for the ASP/SaaS Java/Tomcat Application Architecture Design, Corporate IT Infrastructure, Software Development Environment and complete Network Operations design, implementation and management. Secondary, as the only direct report to the CEO I also helped facilitate the overall corporate strategic technology roadmap and vision. Responsibilities & achievements included o Project Managed the research and then the Implementation of “Levanta” the first ever data-center automation & high-availability cloud based solution into the network to facilitate complete Data-Center Automation, HA, Configuration Management & DR o Designed Corporate IT, Engineering and ASP/SaaS/Cloud infrastructures spanning multiple continents o Responsible for all Scalability & Reliability aspects of the network including all performance testing o Responsible for developing the complete network operational processes, procedures and policies o Venders utilized - F5, Cisco, Juniper Networks, Dell, EMC, Oracle, SUSE, RedHat, Symantec, Levanta data-center automation/virtualization and high-availability solution, Netgear, Coverity, IPSwitch, Radview, Asterisk, Trend Micro, SugarCRM Inc., Enterprise Datasafe Ltd, Novel, Rackable, Rackspace, SAVVIS, EMC, NetApp, VMware vCloud, vSphere & vFabric Cloud Platform, apache Cassandra From October 2006 to April 2008 (1 year 7 months) Greater Seattle AreaManager PS3 Online Gaming Data-Center Operations @ Contracted initially to help build-out of the new 24x7x365 PlayStation3 Online Gaming Data-Center which, consisted of the initial needs and requirements assessments through to the final deliverable of a live production data-center to coincide with the hugely anticipated Sony Play Station 3 Console Release. Concurrent with the build-out were both PCI & SOX compliance audits which had to be passed, they were. I was quickly asked to join full-time & did. We had 18 mo. to complete everything, it was. o Analyzed & developed Initial Needs Assessment & requirements list through comprehensive discussions with all stake-holders o Liaison and Project Manage meetings with the various stake-holder groups & departments to meet goal of 100% Customer Satisfaction o Helped design & implementation of complete Cage Layout, Network Architecture, Security Architecture, Data Integrity (Replication/Storage/Disaster Recovery) Architecture, Operational Application Infrastructure and Docs o Developed network & application operational performance metrics o First Company to certify RHEL & Oracle RAC working together. We convinced both companies (RedHat and Oracle) to develop the drivers and to use our project to perform the certification. o Vendor selection and contract negotiations o Vendors of choice: Cisco, EMC, Brocade, vmware, Dell, Sun, F5, Cyclades, Juniper, Oracle, RHEL (RedHat) o Passed both PCI and SOX compliance audits o Worked with release engineering on all processes and procedures o Facilitated both SUD (PS3 Startup Disk) and Online Store Sales software platforms running on Java and the Tomcat application server. o Responsible for all Scalability & Reliability aspects of the network including all performance testing From March 2004 to October 2006 (2 years 8 months) Founder & CTO @ Chief Technology Officer After leaving Netscape Communication Corp I founded DSL Designs, Inc. HQ in Downtown Los Gatos California. Designed and built complete new fiber optic data center/NOC and call center with multiple OC12 connections with fixed point-to-point and point-to-multi-point wireless, and multiple sat backbones. o Installed all Operational and Application Infrastructure needed for complete 24x7x365 Data Center Operations o Researched, designed, purchased, installed and maintained an OC12 & OC48 based network, consisting of multiple redundant Cisco Routers, Switches, Mail, Web, Commerce, Directory, News, DNS and Caching Servers and equipment to maintain over 2000 wired & wireless Broadband subscribers. o Researched, Designed, & Implemented state-of-the-art NOC & Call Center. o Designed Multi Redundant, Multi-Homed, Multi-Tiered Backbone infrastructure running on Cisco 7206VXR Routers utilizing BGP o Built from the ground up a completely new Data Center & Help Desk Departments with Multiple OC12 & OC48 Fiber backbone connectivity o Managed all Strategic Technology Research & Development o Supported sales and technical support departments in all aspects of the business o Implemented all ITIL Strategies, Policies & Procedures o Implemented & Managed all Change Control Policies & Procedures o Managed 24x7x365 with 99.99% Uptime SLA & 100% Customer Satisfaction From June 1999 to March 2004 (4 years 10 months) Manager World-Wide Support Operations @ After the takeover of Netscape by AOL & SUN Microsystems I continued on in my same capacity until AOL offered many of us a severance package if we would walk away. I had no desire to be part of AOL and so I took the money and RAN AS FAR AND FAST AS POSSIBLE :) It actually was the catalyst to start my first company DSL Designs, Inc. the First Broadband ISP in Los Gatos, CA. in 1999 where two of my first customers were Steve Wozniak and a Stealth-Mode startup called "NetFlix" From August 1998 to June 1999 (11 months) Manager, World Wide Support Operations @ Manager - Worldwide Support Operations My duties consisted of determining the operational needs of the 3500+ employees, researching & developing the processes and procedures to solve those needs in order to increase productivity & customer satisfaction. This involved researching new technologies, software development, vendor mgmt, emerging tech evals & mgmt of Large Projects. Working with varied & diverse business units to ensure that all needs were met. If the need was to be met by in-house development, then I would be responsible for the complete project from concept to production o Developed strategy to reduce support costs by a total of over 23 million annually o Drove all aspects of process development from recognizing initial need, researching, evaluating, designing, resource allocation, developing & managing teams to project completion o Liaison & co-ordination with engineering, IT, sales, support, professional services & marketing for project completion o Original creator of the very successful "Netscape Champions"​ program as well as the Netscape User Groups “NUGgies”. The “Champions” were a volunteer group who evaluated & provided feedback for all new software releases, greatly enhancing our product & increasing customer satisfaction. The Mozilla Champions today o Original creator of the famous & hugely successful "Bugs Bounty"​ concept & program & coined the phrase which is now mimicked by every major software company in the world. o Tasked with Discovery of new technologies, evaluating, testing & implementing them as needed to improve support operations o Annually received Above & Beyond award for my work as well as yearly stock and cash bonus due to outstanding peer reviews & completion of projects. o Managed software development of the Netscape CTS, Internal Help Site, External http://help.netscape.com site & Extranet o Creator 1st AI Automated Email Response System o Liaison with DB & software dev teams to implement key infrastructure improvements From 1995 to 1999 (4 years) San Francisco Bay AreaCUSTOMER SUPPORT & NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR @ Administrator for over 5000 BBS Subscribers on MajorBBS platform. Prior to the WWW and immediately following its announcement along with the Mosaic browser. From January 1988 to December 1993 (6 years) E3 Seaman @ Stationed aboard the USS Peleliu – LHA 5 A helicopter Carrier with the first Harrier Jump Jet Squadron and two Navy Seals Teams We traveled around the globe twice on two WESTPACS visiting Hawaii, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Philippines, Thailand, Alaska and more.... As the primary First Response for Security around the globe we had a compliment of 3000 Marines in a Marine Expeditionary Unit and 2000 Naval Personnel From January 1980 to January 1983 (3 years 1 month) Jarrett Ridlinghafer is skilled in: cloud architect, Executive Management, EMC Storage, Cisco Technologies, F5 BigIP, Cloud Computing, Cloud Security, Private Cloud, Cloud Storage, Cloud-based, Cloud Applications, Visionary, Information Technology, Technical Leadership, Technology Management