AZSAGE Wednesday July 11th - Linux Update (fwd)
der.hans
plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 29 Jun 2001 00:38:09 -0700 (MST)
moin, moin,
guess TBD is somehow short for Thomas Knapp :).
ciao,
der.hans
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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 12:50:12 -0700
From: "Krueger, Terry (AZ75)" <terry.krueger@honeywell.com>,
AZSAGE <steering@azsage.org>
Reply-To: steering@azsage.org
To: azsagel@azsage.org
Cc: "'egieszl@us.ibm.com'" <egieszl@us.ibm.com>,
"'tknapp@us.ibm.com'" <tknapp@us.ibm.com>
Subject: AZSAGE Wednesday July 11th - Linux Update
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July 11, 2001
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DATE: Wednesday, July 11th, 2001
TIME: 6:30 - 7:00PM Sign-in
7:00PM Presentation begins
LOCATION: IBM
ADDRESS: 2929 N. Central Ave. Phoenix AZ 85012
CONTACTS: Terry Krueger, AZSAGE 602-436-5475
Eric Gieszl, IBM 602-217-2054
PRESENTER: Thomas A. Knapp
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TOPIC: Linux Update
This presentation will cover a brief discussion on the direction of where
IBM is going with all brands OS and will lead into the presenters view of
Linux today, problems down the road with Linux, Linux performance, and much
more.
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About the Presenter: Thomas A. Knapp
Profile
Mr. Thomas Knapp is the Western Region Linux Principal with IBM Global
Services. Thomas has over 12 years of consulting, engineering, operations,
marketing, sales, and business development management experience. Thomas
has broad and substantive experience creating long-term, executive level
relationships with service providers, Fortune 2000 companies, and channel
firms in order to create win-win vendor-client partnerships. Thomas brings
large corporate management experience placing technology solution sets
together to meet customer requirements, meeting both technology and business
goals. Thomas also ran, as CEO, a Linux-server appliance Silicon Valley
startup from initial seed inception to an M&A.
Successes
Most recently, Thomas was Founder and CEO of LinuxSolve, Inc., a leading
developer of secure server appliances for internet infrastructure. Thomas
grew the company to 12 employees, associates, and contractors, and led
exponential sales growth from ground zero at company launch. He also raised
$600K in Series A funding and grew sales revenue to $700K the first year of
the company. Thomas also is co-inventor and holds 3 patents for
LinuxSolve's GuardWorks Linux operating system, a hacker-proof OS. Prior to
LinuxSolve, Thomas managed channel marketing strategy for the Solutions
Integrator / reseller channel and Fortune 2000 market segment at AMD,
resulting in 200% market share increase in the corporate reseller channel
and design wins with Tier 2-3 channel OEMs for workstation and server SKUs.
He also launched AMD's corporate Linux Initiative, working closely with
Linux hardware and software developers to design and grow sales of AMD based
Internet Servers. Thomas led a matrix team of marcom, PR, strategic
planning, and Web promotions and developed joint demand-creation strategic
partners such as Compaq, IBM, Penguin Computing, Everex, Caliber Computer
Corporation, Mitsuba, Total Peripherals, Computer Associates, Red Hat Linux,
IBM Speech, and many others. Prior to AMD, Thomas was responsible for CRM
software strategy and implementation for Fortune 1000 clients of EDS. He
managed EDS, customer, and third-party ISV developer resources in order to
meet the end business rules & goals of Fortune customers such as AMD and
Philips Semiconductor. Thomas was part of the team responsible for growing
EDS's business at Philips to a $100 million account. Thomas has also held
various marketing and operations management roles, establishing world-wide
networks of distributors and manufacturers reps in Taiwan, Hong Kong,
Australia, Singapore, Korea, Japan, France, Germany, and the UK.
Other Direct Work Experience
Thomas also worked with, while with AMD, several Linux clustering projects
and product implementations. He worked with Penguin Computing to create AMD
based Resonate e-business cluster solutions. Thomas also holds expertise in
internet host security and survivability, having designed GuardWorks Linux.
Credentials
Thomas holds a BA and MA in English from San Jose State University. He has
also attended the MBA program at SJSU. Thomas completed and graduated from
AMD's Technical Sales Engineer program which focused on PC/Server
technologies and architecture. All AMD executives have completed this
program at some time in the past. Thomas has taken Wilson Sales Learning
courses, Counselor and Versatile Salesperson, which enhance his relationship
building skills. Thomas has specific technology expertise in Linux,
processor & PC/Server architecture, TCP/IP networking, Apache, Bind, Samba,
Sendmail, Qmail, Postfix, Wuftp, ProFTP, Webmin, Lilo, CGI, C, C++,
Cybercash, Verisign, SSH, SSL, Telnet, SCP, Aurum, and Windows OSs. He also
sits on the Technical Advisory Board of Unitek Information Systems.
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