Don Preuss

CTO @ Starfish Storage

About

Experienced Chief Technology Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Databases, Life Sciences, Linux, Genomics, and Perl. Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor of Science (BS) focused in Computer Science from University of Maryland College Park.

Country

United States

City

Annapolis

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Public Trust, Database Administration, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Information Technology, Storage, Bioinformatics, Enterprise Architecture, Lifesciences, High Performance Computing, Cloud Computing, Data Mining, System Administration, Security, Analysis, Perl, Linux, Unix, Project Management, Networking, Data Analysis

Experience

CTO

Starfish Storage

2016-1 - Present · 10 yrs 8 mos

Waltham, Ma

Starfish provides end-to-end life cycle management for very large data collections Manage file collections across multiple storage devices for data managers, storage administrators and executives Gain insights into storage utilization trends Attribute storage costs to projects and grants Deliver on your data management plan obligations Meet backup and recovery SLAs Ensure the long term integrity of your digital assets Automate file-based workflows Capture metadata at key stages in the research pipeline

Varied

The National Institutes of Health

1984 - Present · 42 yrs

CTO

The National Institutes of Health

1997 - 1999 · 2 yrs

CTO to the Center for Information Technology at the NIH. Responsible for technical vision, advanced technologies, special projects, High performance computing and network. Worked a wide variety of projects including the NIH IRT, ITAS, NED, the NIH Portal.

Acting Branch Chief, IRB

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)

2007-4 - 2016-1 · 8 yrs 10 mos

Previously - Head of Systems Team Responsible for full range of technologies from Desktop to Servers, HPC, storage, networks and managed the systems team. Evaluation through operations of ScienceDMZ, Routing, Hardware Selection, Storage systems, and data center management Represent NCBI and NIH at OSTP committees, NITRD Big Data SSG, JET, and many more. Worked with AWS from early years and helped get the 1,000 genomes data set in place on AWS as one of the first large AWS public data sets.

Consultant

TCG

2003-9 - 2007-4 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Management review and technical projects across a range of agencies, USDA (Grants.gov), DOT/FMCSA, NIH/NIMH, SAMHSA

Skipper, Mechanic, Electrician

SV Enjoy

2002-10 - 2003-9 · 1 yr

Took a year off, went sailing with my family through the Caribbean and the Mediterranean Sea on a 42' Lagoon catamaran, S/V Enjoy.

Manager at the Information Systems Department

NIH Clinical Center (CC)

1994-6 - 1997-10 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Bethesda, MD

Managed Clinical and Hospital Information Systems. Procured and implemented a new Laboratory Information System, developed a Clinical Information Warehouse to consolidated 30 years of clinical research data. Migrated hospital from hardware terminals to an in-house developed custom terminal emulation for TDS (now Eclipsys)

Varied - Database, Network architect, Software Developer

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

1984-6 - 1994-10 · 10 yrs 5 mos

Bethesda, MD

Began work as a software developer on PDP11 (RSX11), creating real time, high speed data acquisition and analysis tools for flow cytometry. Created first NIAID LANs and WANs, using equipment from a little know company called cisco. Developed clinical research databases, and supported the NIAID intramural research program.