Timothy M. Kunau has extensive experience designing solutions that optimize data flow for critical and complex systems. The focus is to encourage rich, natural communities and move from Data to Story.
Narrative skill is supported by technical experience and academic rigor.
Enterprise strategic planning demands a holistic approach. Fire-fighting and Tactical growth are unsustainable. Critical applications require clean and consistent power, climate controlled facilities, cost-effective carrier agreements, manageable I/O cabling, reliable high-performance storage, flexible schemas, supportable middleware, as well as elegant User Interface (UI) presentation, data visualization, and consolidated monitoring. Increasingly complex IT environments will grow organically without a clear Strategic plan.
Timothy leads enterprises to craft a corporate Vision, specify Strategic objectives, and execute appropriately integrated solutions on schedule and with-in budget. These solutions include designing OLTP and datawarehouse systems, high-performance (HPC) clusters, networking and cable plants, simplifying management techniques and Service Level Agreements (SLAs), VM consolidation, application tuning, data security, and regulatory compliance.
Timothy contributes to technical industry through publications, seminars and conference lectures. His communication skills enable him to clearly articulate complex solutions to technical and non-technical audiences. Timothy has worked in high performance computing and research for over 20 years. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Scientific Computation with an emphasis in Computational Biology, holds an M.S. in Software Engineering and Bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Philosophy.
Strengths
- 20+ years of industry experience: customer focused, broadly disciplined and internationally accomplished.
- I.T. infrastructure consultant for life sciences and clinical research, databases, computation, networking, security, and languages.
- Software development: MS in software engineering.
- Communication skills: presenting and training at national conferences.
- Abstract creativity.
- Quick study.
Academic Background
- Ph.D. student in Computer Science, University of Minnesota (Course work completed)
- M.S. Software Engineering, University of St. Thomas
- B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Philosophy, Luther College
Professional Experience
- Senior Enterprise Architect, Reliable Resources, Minneapolis MN
- Information Architect, CBRI, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN
- Senior DBA/Networks/Security, SGI, Eagan MN
- UNIX Group manager, Medtronic, Minneapolis MN
- Network Manager, Cray Research, Eagan MN
- Network Manager, 3M Corporation, St. Paul, MN
Selected Project Experience
- State Auto Insurance, Columbus, OH
Information Management Strategic Plan
New Data Center Design
Network (LAN, WAN)
Cross Platform Integrated Storage Solution
Network Operations Center Management Tools - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
HPC cluster design, deployment (LINUX, ROCKS), queuing (SGE, PBS)
Database Integration & Federation (Oracle, MySQL, Postgres)
Blade Systems Configuration Deployment
Consolidation & Migration
Storage Design
Vendor Management - University of Basel, Basel Switzerland FMI/Novartis, Basel Switzerland
Shared DMZ and Data Collaboration
Design for Multiple International Research Groups - SGI Inc., Eagan, MN
DBA (Oracle, Informix, Sybase, MySQL)
Web, Network, and Capacity Planning Services - Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN
Unix Platforms & Network Design - Cray Research Inc., Eagan, MN
Network Design
Graphics Lab Systems Design - 3M Corporation, St. Paul, MN
Network Systems Design - Miami University, Oxford, OH
Enterprise Storage Vendor Management - Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Austin, TX
Systems Capacity Planning - Nevada Higher Education, Las Vegas, NV
Technology Systems Assessment - Langley Federal Credit Union, Hampton, VA
Information Management Strategic Plan - Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, NC
Systems Capacity Planning
Professional Affiliations
- IEEE – Computer, Communications