Jim Lola
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Mike Forster
Jim and I worked concurrently at Lockheed Martin in San Jose, California. For part of that time, Jim reported directly to me as his manager. As a senior manager I observed and kept aware of the significant successes of his project teams as they applied innovative technologies to solve some very difficult issues for Lockheed Martin's US government and other customers. Jim provided strong strategic leadership to division-wide technology committees addressing the future needs of Lockheed Martin and its customers. He planned, managed, and led the development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of multiple applications. He worked collaboratively with departments across our division regarding budgeting, scheduling, resources, and staffing. Jim is knowledgeable about a more diverse set of technologies than anyone else I have known in my 38-year career as an engineer and manager. This knowledge covers systems and software architecture, applications, infrastructure, databases, and security. His knowledge is broad but also deep - he personally investigates and experiments with technologies, to fully understand and then apply the capabilities. He also very successfully leads and mentors teams of engineers to investigate and apply such technologies to solve difficult problems in creative ways.
Bob Tirva
Jim reported to me at Sonim, where was the Head of Information Technology for almost 3 years. As a recently public startup, Sonim was experiencing the growing pains of underdeveloped systems and a need to upgrade internal controls. Jim's broad knowledge and expertise was critical in both upgrading key systems globally and locking down access to valuable IP. He saved the company significant funds by consolidating multiple email, cloud storage and video conferencing applications into a single global standard. Through all these high level projects, Jim was never too busy to help an employee who was having difficulty with a laptop or a phone. He truly covered things end to end and took great pride in getting things done. Jim would be a valuable addition to any organization and I highly recommend him.
Mike Forster
Jim and I worked concurrently at Lockheed Martin in San Jose, California. For part of that time, Jim reported directly to me as his manager. As a senior manager I observed and kept aware of the significant successes of his project teams as they applied innovative technologies to solve some very difficult issues for Lockheed Martin's US government and other customers. Jim provided strong strategic leadership to division-wide technology committees addressing the future needs of Lockheed Martin and its customers. He planned, managed, and led the development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of multiple applications. He worked collaboratively with departments across our division regarding budgeting, scheduling, resources, and staffing. Jim is knowledgeable about a more diverse set of technologies than anyone else I have known in my 38-year career as an engineer and manager. This knowledge covers systems and software architecture, applications, infrastructure, databases, and security. His knowledge is broad but also deep - he personally investigates and experiments with technologies, to fully understand and then apply the capabilities. He also very successfully leads and mentors teams of engineers to investigate and apply such technologies to solve difficult problems in creative ways.
Bob Tirva
Jim reported to me at Sonim, where was the Head of Information Technology for almost 3 years. As a recently public startup, Sonim was experiencing the growing pains of underdeveloped systems and a need to upgrade internal controls. Jim's broad knowledge and expertise was critical in both upgrading key systems globally and locking down access to valuable IP. He saved the company significant funds by consolidating multiple email, cloud storage and video conferencing applications into a single global standard. Through all these high level projects, Jim was never too busy to help an employee who was having difficulty with a laptop or a phone. He truly covered things end to end and took great pride in getting things done. Jim would be a valuable addition to any organization and I highly recommend him.
Mike Forster
Jim and I worked concurrently at Lockheed Martin in San Jose, California. For part of that time, Jim reported directly to me as his manager. As a senior manager I observed and kept aware of the significant successes of his project teams as they applied innovative technologies to solve some very difficult issues for Lockheed Martin's US government and other customers. Jim provided strong strategic leadership to division-wide technology committees addressing the future needs of Lockheed Martin and its customers. He planned, managed, and led the development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of multiple applications. He worked collaboratively with departments across our division regarding budgeting, scheduling, resources, and staffing. Jim is knowledgeable about a more diverse set of technologies than anyone else I have known in my 38-year career as an engineer and manager. This knowledge covers systems and software architecture, applications, infrastructure, databases, and security. His knowledge is broad but also deep - he personally investigates and experiments with technologies, to fully understand and then apply the capabilities. He also very successfully leads and mentors teams of engineers to investigate and apply such technologies to solve difficult problems in creative ways.
Bob Tirva
Jim reported to me at Sonim, where was the Head of Information Technology for almost 3 years. As a recently public startup, Sonim was experiencing the growing pains of underdeveloped systems and a need to upgrade internal controls. Jim's broad knowledge and expertise was critical in both upgrading key systems globally and locking down access to valuable IP. He saved the company significant funds by consolidating multiple email, cloud storage and video conferencing applications into a single global standard. Through all these high level projects, Jim was never too busy to help an employee who was having difficulty with a laptop or a phone. He truly covered things end to end and took great pride in getting things done. Jim would be a valuable addition to any organization and I highly recommend him.
Mike Forster
Jim and I worked concurrently at Lockheed Martin in San Jose, California. For part of that time, Jim reported directly to me as his manager. As a senior manager I observed and kept aware of the significant successes of his project teams as they applied innovative technologies to solve some very difficult issues for Lockheed Martin's US government and other customers. Jim provided strong strategic leadership to division-wide technology committees addressing the future needs of Lockheed Martin and its customers. He planned, managed, and led the development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of multiple applications. He worked collaboratively with departments across our division regarding budgeting, scheduling, resources, and staffing. Jim is knowledgeable about a more diverse set of technologies than anyone else I have known in my 38-year career as an engineer and manager. This knowledge covers systems and software architecture, applications, infrastructure, databases, and security. His knowledge is broad but also deep - he personally investigates and experiments with technologies, to fully understand and then apply the capabilities. He also very successfully leads and mentors teams of engineers to investigate and apply such technologies to solve difficult problems in creative ways.
Bob Tirva
Jim reported to me at Sonim, where was the Head of Information Technology for almost 3 years. As a recently public startup, Sonim was experiencing the growing pains of underdeveloped systems and a need to upgrade internal controls. Jim's broad knowledge and expertise was critical in both upgrading key systems globally and locking down access to valuable IP. He saved the company significant funds by consolidating multiple email, cloud storage and video conferencing applications into a single global standard. Through all these high level projects, Jim was never too busy to help an employee who was having difficulty with a laptop or a phone. He truly covered things end to end and took great pride in getting things done. Jim would be a valuable addition to any organization and I highly recommend him.
Credentials
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Data Analytics Applications: Finance and Economics
Coursera Course CertificatesSep, 2023- Nov, 2024 -
Marketing and Sales Data Decision-Making
Coursera Course CertificatesAug, 2023- Nov, 2024 -
Data Analytics in Product Development and Production
CourseraJul, 2023- Nov, 2024 -
Expanding Your Business Analytics Skills
CourseraMay, 2023- Nov, 2024 -
Analytics Techniques for Business Insight
CourseraApr, 2023- Nov, 2024 -
CSS Fundamentals
SoloLearnMay, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
HTML Fundamentals
SoloLearnMay, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
JavaScript Tutorial
SoloLearnMay, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
Python 3 Tutorial
SoloLearnMay, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
SQL Fundamentals
SoloLearnMay, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
jQuery Tutorial
SoloLearnMay, 2018- Nov, 2024 -
The Data Scientist’s Toolbox
CourseraAug, 2014- Nov, 2024 -
Program Management Professional
Lockheed Martin IS&GS Program Management BoardJan, 2008- Nov, 2024 -
Systems Engineering
School of Engineering & Applied Science, George Washington UniversityJan, 2008- Nov, 2024 -
HP Accredited Systems Engineer - HP AlphaServers
Hewlett-Packard Corp.Jun, 2002- Nov, 2024 -
HP Accredited Systems Engineer - Multivendor Storage Systems
Hewlett-Packard Corp.Jun, 2002- Nov, 2024 -
HP Accredited Systems Engineer - UNIX Systems
Hewlett-Packard Corp.Jun, 2002- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Sonim Technologies
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United States
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Telecommunications
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100 - 200 Employee
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Head Of Information Technology & Acting CISO
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Sep 2019 - Present
• Hired by the CFO and BOD, to turn around and save money in the IT Department. • Moved quickly to identify all IT-related problems and executed on a 30-day plan including an immediate full Litigation Hold on all systems satisfying Regulators. • Consolidating all User-centric systems from 10 systems to one Cloud-based system that was fully auditable with Legal controls in place at a yearly cost savings of 75% from the previous years. • Rebalanced the usage of multiple Cloud Services for an additional savings of 50% and an increase of new capabilities from weeks to days. • Invigorated IT as a trusted “Can do” partner for all departments by moving quickly, putting IT processes in place, increased communications and continuous improvements, and timely services. • Moved all IT services to secure Cloud environments with unified communications and collaboration supporting a remote workforce in advance of COVID-19 Pandemic requirements. • Implemented new Cyber Security defensive measures controlling Cyber-attacks from over 30 per day to 1 per week and exceeding CISA/FBI requirements by over 1 year in early implementation. Show less
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Privateer Systems, LLC
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San Francisco Bay Area
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Director, Project Management, and CTO
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Aug 2015 - Aug 2019
• Provided organizations with R&D-based expertise to solve hard problems and capture new business; reduce processing time and right-size organization for increased buy-in and output; accelerate deployments by leveraging the Cloud; and move operations remotely to drive growth. • Leveraged R&D experience to analyze potential acquisitions saving VC’s & Investment Bankers $150+ M. • Streamlined logistics processing for a distribution company saving 33% in process time & costs. • Implemented new Cyber Security practices and processes for several organizations bringing their facilities back online & recovering lost data. • Assisted in creating business plans, MVP’s, KPI’s, & prototypes for several startups allowing them to focus on developing their products and obtaining their necessary financial backing. • Designed & implemented new business processes for several organizations to streamline operations into the Cloud while addressing Audit compliance requirements. • Designed the integration of a Customer Support portal with a CRM System saving the organization 50% time in manual entry while increasing accuracy. Show less
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I2 Sentinel Associates, Inc.
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San Jose, CA
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Director, Advanced Technologies, and CTO
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Jul 2016 - Dec 2017
• Hired for experience in R&D to pivot their existing product creating new business opportunities and create efficiencies in their engineering processes to increase quality and decrease costs. • Refactored their existing product, pivoted, & re-spun the product, reduced the foot print so it was immediately 500 times faster, and easier to deploy and manage. • Trained the engineering team in using new technologies and repeatable development processes increasing staff retention and increasing software quality. • Leveraged new virtualization technologies along with new processes that streamlined product deployment from two engineers 6 weeks onsite to one engineer 3 days remote. Show less
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Lockheed Martin
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United States
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Defense and Space Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Chief Architect & Sr. Manager, Information Management and CyberSecurity R&D Programs
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Jul 2009 - Aug 2015
• Promoted to Chief Architect of R&D for Information Management programs, successfully managed 120+ engineers at over 8 sites, with budgets of up to $20M yearly, and delivery of 12+ programs per year supporting $6+B in annual program contracts.• Monetize R&D Project capabilities for new business opportunities – both commercial US & EU customers and government – creating a new P&L center with a ROI of over 200%.• Initially hired as Engineering Manager because of background in creating innovative technologies, led engineers in R&D and customer programs for Lockheed’s San Jose Facility. • Leveraging R&D experience, successfully hired, trained, and managed Teams in developing innovative programs that tackled hard problems in Information Management & Cyber Security Show less
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Chief Architect & Sr. Manager, IT Solutions R&D Programs
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Oct 2004 - Aug 2015
Additional Responsibilities:• Recruited, staffed, budgeted, scheduled, executed, and delivered up to 15 R&D projects per year (direct staff of 25, indirect staff of 100, budget from $10M to $20M per year) in Information Management, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Cybersecurity, and Enterprise Services. All internal R&D projects were managed as Corporate Innovation Startup Accelerator Investments. • Program Manager, Architect, & Engineering Manager for all Customer Programs including ownership for P&L. Programs were operated the same as R&D projects in terms Agile & delivery schedules.• Performed all aspects of people management activities – recruiting and hiring, onboarding, ratings and rankings, coaching and career development, performance reviews, promotions, performance improvement plans and terminations. • Drove the migration from a proprietary legacy systems development environment to Open Source technology and changing from a Waterfall software methodology to deployment of new capabilities using Agile development methodology. Show less
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Chief Architect & Sr. Manager, IT Solutions R&D Programs
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Oct 2004 - Aug 2015
Responsibilities: • In addition to being Chief Architect, in the Lean operational environment, took on multiple responsibilities as Product Manager, Project/Program Manager, IT Operations Manager, and Engineering Manager for multiple Products, R&D projects, and Customer Programs.• Key Member of Lockheed Martin Company’s Intellectual Property (IP) Review Board, worked closely with all of the Company’s Legal Staff to review all IP-related issues for ALL divisions on a weekly basis. • Drove technology vision, strategy, timelines, and roadmap for all Company Information Management, Cloud Computing, and Analytics investments – including monitoring all outside R&D and product development in these areas. Provided Program Management executive level briefings to internal, customer, and USG & UKG executives on LMT’s technology vision, strategy, and roadmaps especially related to Cloud Computing, Information Management, HPC, Big Data Analytics, and AI.• Innovator who introduced leading Open Source technology/best practices, tools and products (Linux/LAMP Stack/PostgreSQL/AngularJS/NodeJS/ApacheStorm/ApacheKafka/ApacheSpark/Cassandra/GitLab/Jenkins/Chef/Puppet) into the development and production environments, resulting in sizeable cost savings from licensing and substantial increase in productivity (minimum of 15% to 20% percent per project value per year). Sponsored the R&D developed LM StreamFlow as LMT’s first Open Sourced project: https://github.com/lmco/streamflow/wiki • Dedicated Corporate technology resource for: Agile methodologies, UNIX/Linux, HPC/Distributed Computing, Search, Complex Event Processing, R/T Computing, ETL, Information Management, Cloud Computing, IT Infrastructure, Systems & Storage, Data Center Automation, DevOps, Databases, Big Data Engineering & Analytics, IT Security/CyberSecurity/Information Security, Disaster Tolerance/Disaster Recovery, SCADA/ICS, and IIoT. Show less
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Chief Architect & Sr. Manager, IT Solutions R&D Programs
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Oct 2004 - Aug 2015
Projects:Project managed, architected, or engineered were: Big Data Engineering & Analytics, Cyber Security, Cloud Computing, Distributed High-Performance Computing, E-Commerce, Data Center Migration & Disaster Tolerance, and Data Warehousing. Technologies leveraged: Big Data Engineering, Big Data Analytics, IaaS/SaaS, Cloud Services, IT Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Enterprise Architecture, Micro Services, Containers, Agile/SCRUM development, Systems Engineering, Software architecture & design, Systems integrations, Service operations, DevOps support, Infrastructure Management, Product launch, Service Quality Improvement, Staff Developmentbash/csh, Python, SQL, Java, Scala, C/C++, JavaScript, AngularJS, ReactJS, NodeJS, Autopsy, CAINE, Wireshark, SIFT, NMAP, IDApro, Linux/LAMP Stack, UNIX, Bind/DNS, NTP, NIS, NFS, Apache Mesos, Kubernetes, Docker Containers, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Cassandra, MongoDB, Apache Server, Apache Storm, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark (including SQL, RDDs, DataFrames, Spark Streaming, & MLib), MapR FS, Hadoop, HDFS, Zepppelin, Jupyter, SAP/HANA, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, JIRA, Confluence, Trello, GitLab, Heroku, OpenStack, AWS (S3), VmWare (ESX & vSphere), MS Project, TOGAF/DoDAF, IBM DOORS, IBM System Architect for EA Modeling Show less
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R&D Principal Investigator, Architect, & Sr. Manager
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Oct 2004 - Dec 2006
Principal Investigator for over 20 IR&D Projects from 2004 to 2009 (including Data Mining, High Performance Ingest (using HPDC), Distributed File System, Data Compression/Compaction, Federated Query (Search and Data Repository), Adaptable Query Architecture, Complex Event Processing, Data Visualization & Dynamic Data Base Linking, Extensible Data Framework, Semi-Structured Data Storage & Search, Content Catalog Incorporation, Scalable File System, Enterprise Search Technology, P2P/P4P, Advanced File System (Hadoop, P4P, Distributed Cloud Infrastructure, and Lustre), GPU-based GRIDs, and Metadata Harmonization IR&Ds), responsible for:- Development of IR&D conceptual design and architecture with IR&D Team and Stakeholders- Manage R&D and delivery expectations with Stakeholders- Operate complex IR&D projects from design and development to proof-of-concept - Define and staff Team resources and schedule for project implementation- Plan and schedule project deliverables, goals, and milestones in conjunction with Stakeholders- Direct and oversee project engineering team - Manage overall budget, schedule, resources, goals and objectives, and IR&D deliverables Show less
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Genentech
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United States
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Biotechnology Research
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700 & Above Employee
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Systems Engineering Manager, Computing Technologies
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Jun 1999 - Feb 2004
- Leader of architecture and engineering team responsible for the evaluation and the implementation of new technologies, spearheaded the areas of: UNIX, HPTC, Clustering, HA, distributed processing, file systems, data management, a backup/recovery/archival/HSM, Disaster Recovery/Tolerance, and storage (SAN, NAS, FCIP, and iSCSI). o Standardized the UNIX/Linux configurations for the majority of operational systems providing a higher level of availability, security, and reliability; designed system and storage architecture that is flexible, scalable, uncomplicated, and manageable. o Provided L4 system level troubleshooting, performance tuning, and capacity planning needed for the enterprise to meet customers’ computing demands o Provided the integration of enterprise-wide applications and systems through custom systems level development to present seamless end-to-end solutions. - Directed 5+ developers in the UNIX/Linux/LAMP technology area. Technical execution & Project Management of discrete projects from traditional DevOps/TechOps for data centers, to Genentech’s HPC Farm (used for drug discovery), to SCADA/ICS process control systems used for Genentech’s pharmaceutical manufacturing plants. - Leveraged Telelogic Systems Architect for architecture modeling and DOORs for requirements tracking of both enterprise and process control systems. - Responsible for all technical evaluations, assessments, proof-of-concepts, implementation of new technologies, and integration of new technologies into Genentech to drive business advantages. - Specified technology, architecture, & design for implementation and deployment at scale - Represented Genentech on Customer Advisory Boards of: HP, HP Labs, Sun, EMC, Oracle, Informix, & BMC - Originated and executed processes for SOX, GxP regulations (including 21 CFR Part 820 and Part 11), and HIPAA, and their application to Genentech’s manufacturing and enterprise systems. Show less
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Education
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The George Washington University
Master's Degree, Systems Engineering -
The George Washington University
Graduate Certificate, Systems Engineering -
Kepner-Tregoe Workshops
Project Management, N/A -
The Deming Institute, Alexandria, VA
Systems Thinking, Leadership, and Innovation -
University of California, Santa Cruz
Certificate, Systems Programming -
University of California, Santa Cruz
Certificate, UNIX Systems Administration & Management -
National University
BS, Magna Cum Laude, Computer Science -
The George Washington University
AB, History & Statistics
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