Dana French, CEO
Mr. French's career in the IT industry has spanned three decades and numerous industries. He is a recognized expert in the fields of business continuity, disaster recovery, high availability, virtualization and system administration. In addition to business and technical consulting with world wide organizations, Mr. French publishes articles and teaches classes in these subjects on a regular basis.
Mr. French is known most for his approach to system administration as an automated process than as an interactive one. An industry leader in the field of system administration, he has influenced the design and implementation of Unix systems in organizations all over the world, and coined the phrase "enterprise wide unique." His approach to problem resolution is from a business management perspective that recognizes the crux of business continuity and disaster recovery: to ensure the business is running.
He has designed, written, and implemented numerous software packages related to business continuity, disaster recovery, high availability, virtualization, and system administration. Well-known in the Unix community for his advanced shell programming skills, Mr. French is a noted advocate of Korn Shell programming.
Countries of engagement:
United States, Canada, Malaysia
Lance Lenz, CFO
Lance started his computer career in the late 70's, building and hacking a SWTPC 6800, forerunner to the modern PC. Mr. Lenz was not just interested in hardware, but software and the UNIX operating system.
Main Frames were great, but their cost prevented exploration. DOS was in it infancy and had design limits. UNIX was wide open, where great engineers were staking their claims. He went to the book store, picked up "The C Programming Language" by Kernighan / Ritchie and has never looked back.
Mr. Lenz has more than three decades in Communications, Computer Information Systems, and Security. Lance has worked for several distinguished, global corporations in the world; ROLM, IBM, JedCo and Mercy Ships. During his tenure at Mercy Ships, a non-profit organization using hospital ships to bring the two hands of hope and healing to the nations, Lance designed the Crew and Donor Management System. In 1996, it won Computerworld's coveted Smithsonian award "Honoring Those Who Use Information Technology to Benefit Society." Lance considers this award one of the peaks of his career, and with TriParadigm's exponential intensity, He will see many more peaks.
Mr. Lenz, working with American Automobile Association (AAA) - Western and Central New York, designed a 3"x3" military grade 286 computer, for their digital dispatch system. This was a great success, with over 400 units shipped, and zero failures in the disparate temperature ranges of the northwestern New York. With years of vulnerability and penetration testing, Lance believes that security processes must be interwoven into business continuity, creating a culture that reflects the very health, vitality and integrity of a business. The future of business in this great nation rests on free enterprise that adopts the proper security methodologies.
Countries of engagement:
United States, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Western Samoa
Common tag line on his E-mail:
4974277320676F6F6420746F20626520746865204B696E67
(It's good to be the King)
Joseph Stephens, CIO
In the IT industry spanning nearly three decades, Mr. Stephens has been providing business and technical consulting across the globe, from small industries to some of the largest corporations in the world today. He is a recognized expert in the fields of systems architecture, disaster recovery, high availability, virtualization and system administration.
Mr. Stephens is well known for his intuitive ability to understand critical situations quickly and to bring about a desired result. He has developed BC and DR solutions for some of the largest corporations in the world. He has also developed and implemented systems security and custom intrusion detection systems for large multi-national corporations, such as Mobil Oil and Exxon. His ability to effectively articulate both perspectives to each end of the corporate spectrum provides invaluable support for multi-national customers at all levels of management and technical staff.
Mr. Stephens has designed, written, and implemented several software packages related to disaster recovery, security and intrusion detection, high availability, virtualization, system administration, and performance monitoring and analysis. Mr. Stephens's passion for automation is most apparent in his software packages. Known more as a toolsmith than as a software developer, he has a passion for creating tools to make life easier in an increasingly complex world.
Countries of engagement:
United States, Canada, Ecuador, India, Germany
