Timothy M. Kunau has extensive experience designing solutions that optimize critical and complex systems. The focus is to encourage rich, natural communities and move organizations from Data to Story.
Timothy is an Enterprise Architect, developing and performing operational consulting projects for Fortune 500 companies and leading Universities. His Enterprise experience spans application architectures from the facility level to service presentation and process integration. He develops solutions, writes RFPs, negotiates vendor relationships, guides installation and migration, and codifies agreements and metrics to measure expectations.
Timothy’s career focus has been on infrastructure, planning, building, and managing large enterprise systems. The frameworks he helped develop over the last three years became the basis for the new BICSI 002-2010 Data Center Design and Implementation Best Practices standards.
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: Fortune 500 companies and leading universities.
- Software development: MS in software engineering.
- Communication skills: honed through years of project management, teaching, and conference presentations.
- Abstract creativity.
- Quick study.
Academic Background
- Ph.D. student in Computer Science, University of Minnesota (current)
- M.S. Software Engineering, University of St. Thomas
- B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Philosophy, Luther College
Professional Experience
- Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Programs in Software, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
- 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
- Tan Tao University, Duc Hoa District, Vietnam
Campus WAN/LAN concepts and strategic roadmap for new University
Campus inter-building and intra-building wireless network design concept - Palm Beach State College, West Palm Beach, FL
Network device inventory and documentation
5 campus WAN concept and strategic roadmap
RFP development resulting in $3.5M Cisco network hardware upgrade - State Auto Insurance, Columbus, OH
Information Management Strategic Plan: distributed application and storage dependency analysis
Green-field data center design
Network WAN/LAN design
Network RFP and vendor negotiation
Integrated 2.5PB storage solution design
Storage RFP and vendor negotiation
Network Operations Center management tools - MACC Commonwealth, Minneapolis, MN
IT services RFP for an organization of non-profit agencies: Citrix XenApp clients and VOIP - Miami University, Oxford, OH
Enterprise storage vendor management: IBM SAN - Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Austin, TX
Systems Capacity Planning: EMC - Nevada Higher Education, Las Vegas, NV
Technology Systems Assessment - Langley Federal Credit Union, Hampton, VA
Information Management Strategic Plan - Linwood Capital, LLC, Minneapolis, MN
Information Management Strategic Plan: a hybrid environment with Amazon S3
Enterprise network project: design and implementation
Telephony project: design and PBX implementation - Mecklenburg County, Charlotte, NC
Systems Capacity Planning: identifying consolidation opportunities - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
HPC cluster design, deployment (LINUX, ROCKS), queuing (SGE, PBS)
Database Integration & Federation: Oracle, MySQL, Postgres
Data warehouse: schema design, implementation, and tuning
Blade Systems Configuration Deployment: Sun SOLARIS/Sparc
Consolidation & Migration
Storage Design: Sun StorEdge and Thumpers
Vendor Management - University of Basel, Basel Switzerland FMI/Novartis, Basel Switzerland
Shared DMZ and Data Collaboration: Oracle on LINUX and Hitachi Storage arrays
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
Professional Affiliations
- IEEE – Computer, Communications