Ian Evans

Metify is revolutionizing bare metal server, storage and network provisioning in the datacenter and cloud. We have two products and one service: - A nimble and devops friendly bare metal provisioning appliance capable of provisioning 1000's of nodes using various RESTful open standards. We aim to keep server/storage provisioning open, simple, agnostic, cost effective and reliable. We make Kubernetes deployments across virtually any OEM server platform a breeze! Ask us how! www.metify.io - A rugged CBRS ready appliance. This appliance is carrier agnostic and is focused on providing a simple and stable connection experience for customers in hard to reach rural areas. The appliance takes a matter of minutes to bring up to a fully operational state. We fully support ATT, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon and of course our very own WISP as well. - We are also a WISP serving rural Virginia and rural Wisconsin. We have built our own custom packet core, edge and CPE device (not cheap boxed junk) into this solution and are now offering true low-latency high speed internet service paired with cutting-edge technologies like CBRS. Many happy customers and growing! As of 8/2021, we are offering a free Internet tier for low income families that qualify and have a remote education requirement for students.

I worked directly for the CTO's office and assisted with business development, technology alignment and many other high-profile engineering efforts with strategic partners. One of my focus areas was determining ways WWT could accelerate adoption of cost-effective open source technologies. This work included architecture planning activities with the some of the largest and most successful fortune 500 companies in the world. I also helped WWT build out a comprehensive strategy in the MEC and 5G space. This included working with Vmware, Red Hat, Cisco and key whitebox hardware OEM's like Supermicro, Dell, HPE and Quanta. As part of the Open Infrastructure practice, I built an awareness around Open Compute Project (OCP) and engineered several OCP architectures to meet very specific BTU sensitive datacenter footprint requirements. I was recognized in 2019 and given the "Impact Player of the Quarter" award for my work that implemented the first ever bare metal provisioning capability into Red Hat CloudForms using the DMTF Redfish standard.

As part of the cloud team at WWT, I worked with the business development office to help build a comprehensive go-to-market cloud strategy. In addition to building several successful business plans, I helped guide WWT's customers through various aspects of cloud adoption and migration. I also became the resident expert at WWT for all things whitebox and developed workshops, labs, etc to help customers lower CAPEX and OPEX in their private datacenter environments. I left WWT in 2019 to start my own business venture which aims to improve automation in the SDDC and edge.

I worked with a team of experts helping customers with the adoption and deployment of Openstack technologies. I also worked with customers to implement Ansible, Openshift and RHEV.

I was a senior member within the New Product Development organization focused on researching and planning new virtualization/cloud related products for use with Verizon's extensive network connectivity portfolio of products. I was also part of the team that build Verizon's Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) which allowed customers to establish MPLS connectivity to public cloud providers VPC's through approved carrier hotels. While at Verizon I introduced some cutting edge hardware platforms that substantially increased performance and throughput for SD-WAN products. I was given an innovation award in Q3, 2011 for my work and contribution on Verizon's Secure Cloud Interconnect (SCI) project.

Worked directly with fortune 50 companies to support and assist in the deployment of complex, Multi-AZ/Region IaaS. These deployments were very intricate and touched virtually all of the AWS services. As part of deployment planning, I also helped customers avoid major performance pitfalls and fully optimize AWS their infrastructure. This included doing deep dives into instance specific configuration, scaling policies, EBS sizing, disaster recovery planning, compliance/security and adhesion to vendor best practices.

I served as a program manager in Spawar's Unified Communications lab. I helped ensure the correct and most cost effective UC technologies were being selected for the U.S. Navy. I worked to architect solutions, perform pricing analysis, wrote test plans and did a ton of hands on work in the labs with Linux, FreeBSD, Windows Active Directory, Cisco UC, REDCOM, SIP, SS7, cable plant, custom whitebox builds and many other integration projects that eventually made their way onto Navy ships.

I worked directly with Military Sealift Command to plan and optimize technologies on naval vessels. This included engineering entirely new virtualized system to securing existing assets. I worked to dramatically lower CAPEX and OPEX for MSC by engineering cost-effective and highly optimized whitebox solutions that was paired with certified Open Source software. I also created a new security remediation program that would auto STIG systems prior to audits for ATO. The program saved hours of manual checking and certification and became a common tool used to secure common operating systems on MSC and Navy ships. I was recognized for my efforts and was given the award for Division 400 excellence.

Served as the Director for QA, Technical Marketing and Product Development. I designed and supervised a new quality and performance test lab, developed relationships with new manufactures, created new quality assurance plans/test procedures and established industry best practice guidelines for Wasabi's new 10-gigabit hybrid iSCSI SAN products.

I worked to build Wasabi's brand by creating in-depth technical marketing materials, building their development lab and creating storage architectures that were relevant for fortune 500 companies.

I was responsible for all hospital IT operations spanning an 80-acre medical campus with six remote healthcare facilities. I successfully built CTRH’s next generation datacenter and network to meet new technology mandates and accommodate new HMR+CPOE systems. I managed a multi-million dollar IT budget and supervised over 15 employees. I also helped the healthcare system successfully pass several Joint Commission audits.

Managed all Quintus Resorts IT systems in Genoa, NV, Lake Tahoe, NV, Kauai and Maui. During my time at Quintus, I updated all of the resort systems to a centralized Timeshare management system, set up wireless P2MP between resorts, upgraded T-1 links between Nevada and Kauai and migrated resort systems to centralized terminal services solution that resided in Genoa, NV.