Résumé
Tim Pozar
423 Durant Way
Mill Valley, California 94941
415-665-3790
pozar@lns.com
EXPERIENCE
Consultant / Contractor for the Farallons Broadband Project
at California
Academy of Sciences (CAoS), October 2008–Present
- Designed and implemented 50Km RF path from San Francisco to the South East Farallon Island (SEFI)
- Designed and implemented a 20Mb/s layer 2 network between City of San Francisco's fiber network to SEFI
- Worked with a limited power and capitol budget to meet the goals needed by CAoS, Fish and Wildlife and Point Reyes Bird Observatory
- Continued support for the project
Consultant / Contractor for VoIP and Network Architecture at Unlimited Conferencing,
July 2009–Present
- Designing and deploying VoIP and network infrastructure based on
cisco and Asterisk platforms.
VP of Engineering at UnitedLayer, October 2004–January 2008
UnitedLayer is a managed services, colocation, transport and transit
provider that is located in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Palo Alto, San Jose, Chicago and Ashburn VA.
- Provided early capital investment into the company.
- Provided strategy for the direction of the company.
- Lead for data center acquisition and expansion of UnitedLayer (SF7)
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- Deployed and managed the tier one support team
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- Managed a team of network engineers and system administrators - Tier two and three support
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- Architected UnitedLayer's managed services network.
- Directed the architecture, Co-architected and managed UnitedLayer's national network including, peering, etc.
- Brought peering from 0 to 25% of total traffic in one year.
- Developed and implemented processes like the add/move/change processes for the network and other services.
Technical Director (aka CTO) at Electronic Frontier Foundation, May 1st 2004–August 2004
Principal Network Engineer at CSI Telecommunications Engineers, 2001–April 31st 2004
CSI is an engineering firm specializing in engineering and consulting
for the telecommunications needs of government and companies.
- Project lead engineer for a replacement tower for Santa Clara County's 911 Communications Center.
- Provided microwave path loss studies for various Northern California government departments such as Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Cruz counties.
- Designed data networks for Alameda and Santa Cruz Counties and the district of Pebble Beach.
- Designed, developed and maintained CSI's external and internal network and IT infrastructure.
Contract Microwave Engineer for the
Advanced
Networking Infrastructure and Research Project, 2001–2002
AN-MSI was a four-year, $6 million project funded by the National
Science Foundation to assist Minority-Serving Institutions as they
develop campus IT infrastructure and national connections.
- Provided site surveys and microwave path studies for deployment of high-speed data backbone networks for three Native American reservations.
- Designed reservation-wide data networks
Vice President of Operations at Disappearing Inc. (later
renamed Omniva),
April 11th 2000–2001
Disappearing Inc. is a service and consulting company that supports
electronic document retention for enterprise customers.
- Provided strategy for the direction of the company.
- Co-authored a patent (pending) on Intellectual Property (IP) management.
- Developed and managed IT/IS and customer Technical Support departments consisting of a staff of eight.
- Developed and deployed the IT and network infrastructure.
- Designed and installed operational metrics and feedback for quality control in IT/IS and Technical Support.
Co-Founder and Director of Operations at Brightmail Inc.,
May 4th 1998–2000
Brightmail provides a 24x7 anti-virus and anti-spam service for
ISPs and enterprise clients, involving an extensive array of redundant
machines and processes. Besides Kleiner Perkins and other VC
investments, Symantec invested early on in Brightmail was eventually
sold to Symantec for $370 million
- Designed and built the company's infrastructure for service, development and networking.
- Designed and built the service processes and managed the Brightmail service staff team of 20.
- Development included integrating multiple Sun and SGI workstations and servers (Ultra5 - E450s) and PC-based UNIX servers (Linux, *BSD).
- Managed the development and support staff consisting of a project manager, three system administrators and a database administrator.
- Designed the networking to be dual-homed via BGP for redundancy for both the office and server co-location using Cisco 720x and 26xx routers.
- Co-authored two patents (6,654,787 and 7,882,193) on spam control.
- Other responsibilities included guiding the company's direction in a senior management role, lecturing, developing new technologies, and integrating the needs of other departments into Operations. Played a key role in helping the company move from the startup phase to one with an established revenue and over 70 employees.
Director of Operations and Network Architect at Alexa
Internet and Internet
Archive, 1996–1998
Alexa provides a real-time indexing system of web pages that are
similar to the page the user's browser is actively looking at. It
is currently built into Netscape's and Microsoft's browsers. Internet
Archive is the non-profit side of Alexa to insure the preservation
of the data generated by Alexa Internet. Alexa was sold to Amazon in 1999
- Designed the networking infrastructure. Also designed the LAN and configured the gateway routers to the Internet, including multi-homing of DS-3 and DS-1 circuits.
- Developed and produced various papers on networking such as
- Designed, deployed and maintained the wireless infrastructure in the Presidio known as SFLAN. (SFLAN is a side project for Alexa/Internet Archive.)
- Designed and set up the Operations Department and the machine room.
- Managed the Operations Department, supporting the web gather and indexing for the Alexa service, as well as providing development and desktop support for the company. This included managing a staff of three system administrators.
Partner and Co-Founder
of TLGnet, 1992–1996
TLGnet was a well-respected San Francisco Bay Area Internet Service
Provider. TLG provided high-performance Internet access to corporations
and smaller ISPs. TLG was sold in 1996 for 1.6 Million to
Best Internet Communications, which
eventually was sold to NTT/Verio.
- Moved TLG from a shared infrastruture between 4 companies to a viable business.
- Provided strategic direction as a partner, including determining when it was appropriate to move into new markets.
- Developed relationships with other clients and strategic partners.
- Provided technical expertise in deploying infrastructure such as co-location and "meet me" sites.
- Managed the transition to Best when the company was sold.
Owner of Late Night Software (LNS), 1986–Present
LNS provides consulting and software development specializing in *BSD
and Linux operating systems, audio streaming and networking.
American Broadcasting Company Radio now Citadel Broadcasting for 2007–Present
- Architecture, programming and build-out of KGO/KSFO public archiving systems.
Bonneville International Corporation for 2005–2007
- Programming to support the News feed to the public web site from various national news wires.
Other work:
- Produced a mail and conference gateway software package called
UFGATE. It moved
mail and conferencing messages between the Internet/UUCP/USENET and
FidoNet, as well as doing smart mail handling. Co-wrote the mail
and conference mail "mungers" and wrote the UUCP (UUCICO, UUX, etc.)
programs.
- With UFGATE, managed a team of three other programmers who were distributed over the United States.
- Produced and wrote client-specified custom software.
Owner of T.M. Požar
Broadcast/Telecommunications Engineering, 1974–Present
T.M. Požar Broadcast/Telecommunications Engineering provides
consulting and contract engineering for broadcasting.
- Technical producer of a number of nationally distributed
broadcasts for Grateful Dead Productions,
Dave Mathews Band, Pacifica
Foundation and Nelson Mandela.
- Did engineering necessary for construction permit and license
applications for broadcast stations and saw the applications through
the process.
- Designed and maintained AM and FM studio and transmitter sites.
- Performed project management including budget, vendor and
resource management.
Director of Engineering for the San Francisco properties of Brown
Broadcasting Company, 1984–1996
BBC was the parent company of eight radio stations on the West Coast.
- Chief Engineer for KKSF-FM
and KDFC-FM (BBC's San Francisco
stations at that time); managed the Engineering Department of two
employees.
- Responsibilities included overseeing major projects such as
transmitter and studio design and construction and station acquisition.
- Acted as liaison between the Chief Engineers of each station and
the BBC.
Previous broadcast engineering experience resume available at:
http://www.lns.com/house/pozar/broadcast.resume.html.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND VOLUNTEER WORK
Pro bono Work:
Technical Advisory Board Member for Telx, 2007–Present
Telx manages a number of interconnection related colocation sites,
and provides technical support and value added services.
- Advising Telx's strategic roll-out of their peering product.
Co-founder and Director of the Bay
Area Research Wireless Network (BARWN), 2001–Present
BARWN is a research network using very low cost licensed exempt wireless
equipment to deploy a high-speed network for research and use by
individuals and government.
- Co-designed and managed a multiple county wide high speed wireless network.
- Co-directed the organization
Co-founder and Director of
the Bay Area Wireless Users Group
(BAWUG), 2000–Present
BAWUG is a user support group specializing in the education of wireless
data deployment.
- Co-directed the organization
Research Visionary Board Member for Motorola, 2003–2006
The RVB is a group sponsored by Motolora to look at current and
future trends.
- Generated reports on trends in wireless.
- Commented on other board members reports
Technical Advisory Board Member for CampSix, 1999–2001
CampSix was a VC incubator with a number of successful startups.
- Provided feedback on startup proposals.
- Kept Campsix informed of current technology trends.
Technical Consultant/Technical Producer of "The
Telecommunications Revolution," 1992–1995
A California Public Utilities Commission–funded live weekly
program broadcast to over 30 stations via the NPR satellite program
delivery system. The program explores the impact of telecommunications
technology on Californians and originates at the KPFA studios in
Berkeley.
- Provided technical consulting on both the content and production
of the show.
Active Member of the FidoNet
Standards Committee, 1986–1990
An organization that developed and documented standards relating
to the FidoNet message and conference computer network.
- Chaired a committee and developed standards surrounding the connection of FidoNet to the Internet and UUCP networks.
Other notable work...
LECTURES, PUBLISHED ARTICLES, AND PRESS MENTIONS
Lecturer on Networks and Wireless Infrastructure,
1986–Present
Active member and lecturer to organizations such as:
Examples of software and published work can be found at http://www.lns.com/papers
Photo and examples of press mentions can be found at http://www.lns.com/house/pozar/press.html
References and educational background available on request.
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