Paul Young:
CLASS OF 1963
Elgin High SchoolClass of 1963
Elgin, IL
Paul's Story
Paul is from Elgin, Illinois. His schools include Elgin High School. He later attended Manchester College (Physics).
He is the founder of CloudOne CORP., and currently serves as it’s CSO. He is a Cloud Computing Architect and IBM Rational Tools Architect, which is the focus of CloudOne. He has over 40+ years of comprehensive computer systems experience, ranging from hardware systems and chip design, to UNIX system/database, networking infrastructure integration, application development, and IBM Rational tools environments and solution lifecycle implementations.
Before CloudOne, he was a Principal at ATS (previously Number Six Software/ECMS) and a Principal of ECMS where he led the IBM rational practice. Mr. Young specializes in IBM Rational Enterprise architecture and implementation. His expertise includes the complete array of IBM Rational Tools and their respective integrations). He has worked within large (5000+ people) and small (50+) enterprise environments, and has performed services for clients in a variety of industries and in various project roles, including Sr. Enterprise Architect, Project Manager, Configuration Management Consultant, Large system Performance Testing, Database Architect, Product Architect, Team Leader, and Software Developer. He was a presenter at the 2002 and 2004 IBM Rational User Conference.
Company’s Founded/Co-Founded
1968- FECRS: Far East Import/Export.
1980-MicroStandard Tech: First “luggable” portable computer
1989- UNI*Quality: UNIX Professional Services
1993- VastarrSat: Credit Card clearance system- Ukraine Import/Export Bank
2000-ECMS: Professional Services Company. Rational Services Division
2008-CloudOne: SaaS for IBM Rational- R&D for TWO years.
2010-PRODUCTION Data Centers, IBM SaaS Contract, and first Capital Infusion (Angel).
2013- Data Centers in KY, IL, Canada, coming in Japan, etc.IBM Global SaaS Cloud Hosting Partner (only one in world).
CAREER TECHNOLOGY FIRST's:
1975-Dayton Communications/United Airlines
• Project Architect – Flight Information Systems Div., DAYCOM. Developed first Integrated Flight Information System for the United Terminal at the new Dallas/Ft. Worth airport.
1976-Mostek/Ford
• Trained Ford engineers and co-developed the first Open Throat Carburetor controlled by a single chip computer (F8).
1978-HeathKit
• Trained HeathKit engineers and co-developed the first aircraft flight system controlled by a single chip computer (F8).
1979-Boeing
• Worked with Boeing engineers on a 747 to integrate Mostek’s Z80 in the first redundant, fully automated airplane brake landing system.
1979-HeathKit
• Trained HeathKit engineers and co-developed the first aircraft flight system controlled by a single chip computer (F8).
1980-MicroStandard technologies
• First “luggable” portable computer to have both CP/M & UNIX & MS-DOS. Competed with Kaypro and Compaq.
1993-Vastarr
• Implemented the first Credit Card clearance system with the Import/Export Bank of the Ukraine via KU band satellite from Chicago to Kiev, shortly after the collapse of the former Soviet Union
2009-CloudOne
• Architect-ed (with Vishal Kapashi) the first single-tenant secure Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) for IBM's software tools.
Career History:
2008-2012 CloudOne CORP Founder CSO & Architect
2005-2008 HCSC, Chicago Principal, #6 Software Enterprise Rational Architect
2004-2005 Citadel Trading Principal/CTO ECMS Enterprise Rational Architect
2003-2004 SEARS Principal/CTO ECMS Enterprise Rational Architect
2003-2003 McDonald’s Principal/CTO ECMS Enterprise Rational Architect
2003-2004 Beltone Corp Principal/CTO ECMS Enterprise Rational Architect
2002-2003 McDonald’s Principal/CTO ECMS Enterprise Rational Architect
2001-2002 British Petroleum (BP) Principal/CTO ECMS Enterprise Rational Architect
2001-2001 Rockwell E.C. Principal/CTO ECMS Enterprise Rational Architect
2000-2001 Motorola PCS Principal/CTO ECMS Enterprise Rational Architect
1999-2000 Motorola ICSD/WAP Principal/CTO ECMS Enterprise Rational Architect
1998-1999 Lucent Technologies Independent Consultant Enterprise Rational Architect
1997-1998 Ameritech.net Independent Consultant CC/CQ Rational Specialist
1996-1997 Ameritech Independent Consultant CM/CQ Rational Specialist
1996-1996 COMTEK Comm. Independent Consultant CM/CQ Rational Specialist
1995-1996 Wallace Forms Independent Consultant CM/CQ Rational Specialist
1995-1995 MasterCard HQ Independent Consultant CM/CQ Rational Specialist
1995-1995 CP Railroad Independent Consultant CM/CQ Rational Specialist
1994-1995 Transamerica Independent Consultant CM/CQ Rational Specialist
1993-1994 EXIM Bank-Ukraine Founder/CTO VastarrSat CTO & Principal Architect
1993-1993 Vastarr Founder/CTO VastarrSat CTO & Principal Architect
1989-1993 Many Engagements UNI*Quality Co-Founder Enterprise Architect
1985-1989 AT&T Bell Laboratories Independent Consultant Massively Parallel System
1980-1984 MicroStandard Tech. Founder & CTO/Visionary “Luggable” Portable Computers
1975-1980 MOSTEK Sales App. Eng. Mgr. Mgr. East Coast App. Eng’s.
1974-1975 DAYCOM Sr. Project Engineer DFW/United FIDS
1969-1971 FECRS Founder Far East Import/Export
1967-1971 USAF SSIR Crypto Crypto System/Computer Spec.
DETAILED CAREER HISTORY
CloudOne
Health Care Service Corporation [Blue Cross Blue Shield of IL, TX, OK, NM] 2005/2008
AS Principal of ECMS, sold ECMS first POC into the ITG/EAS/IDEAS team[Enterprise Architecture Services/Integrated Development Environment and Architecture Support] at HCSC. This team was responsible for enhancing/architecting the enterprise-wide development tooling environment across geographically distributed sites [IL, TX, OK, NM] as part of an overall process/tooling improvement initiative, for a user community of over 3,000.
Citadel Trading 2004/2005
Initial task was Server/Client task to upgrade various IBM Rational tools from disparate revisions (4.2 to 2003.06.00) to a common base of 2003.06.13 on all servers in an interop environment, while maintaining 24x7 availability.
SEARS 2003/2004
Following the failure of two previous “architects”, he developed and deployed a successful global SCM environment architecture to support the Implementation of an Enterprise-wide Solution Development Framework based upon IBM Rational’s Software Tools and Processes.
McDonald’s Corporation 2003
Implemented ECMS’ previously proposed global architecture of an Enterprise-wide Solution Lifecycle Management Framework Based upon Industry Standard Best Practices, and Rational Software Suite’s Tools and Processes.
GN ReSound (Beltone Corp) 2003
Acted as Architect and led a team of senior Rational SCM technical associates who transitioned an operating Microsoft .NET Source Safe environment to ClearCase/UCM with a mandated three week deadline (successfully).
McDonald’s Corporation (2002)
Completed a comprehensive assessment of the SCM environment, resulting in a comprehensive global architecture for the Implementation of an Enterprise-wide Solution Lifecycle Management Framework (SLMF) based upon Industry Standard Best Practices, and Rational Software Tools and Processes.
British Petroleum (BP) (2001/2002)
Global Architect for world-wide implementation of Rational’s Suite’s and ClearCase for a multinational petroleum company, including a global Rational Software Tools Center, and 24x7 SLA support.
Rockwell Electronic Commerce (2001)
Analyzed and corrected the architectural implementation of the enterprise-wide SCM development tools in a multi-project cross platform development environment. He established an ECMS team to port PVCS to Rational.
Motorola PCS (2000/2001)
He provided critical assistance and Project Team technical leadership/expertise for the re-architecture of one of the largest ClearCase/MultiSite installations in the world. The re-architecture included co-locating export servers in the new regions, and establishing regional sync hubs based on geographic replication loads around the world.
Motorola ICSD/WAP (1999/2000)
Mr. Young, acting as S/W Configuration Management Specialist, was brought in initially (by Rational) to correct a ClearQuest schema/SQL Server Database problem. The system supported the divisions systems engineering and design teams with an integrated engineering development environment that encompassed software tools, processes, for configuration management, change/issue tracking, requirements management, test management, document publishing, and project management.
Lucent Technologies CIO-GPLS (1998/9)
Mr. Young acted as the Software Configuration Management architect. He developed recommendations for the enterprise-wide Object Development Environment, and managed the implementation effort/team. He established, managed, and mentored an architecture team that implemented Rational’s Enterprise Suite into Lucent’s GPLS division.
Ameritech (1997/8)- Advertising Internet Development (Ameritech.net)
As an enterprise architect for an international Fortune 50 telecommunications company, Mr. Young participated in various roles during the formation of their corporate Internet Services (ISP) Provider Company.
Ameritech (1996/7)
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e was Architecture Lead for Ameritech’s Full Service Internet offering where he functioned as a Lead Business Analyst/Architect.
COMTEK Communications (First Half 1996)
As a client/server architect for an international consulting firm, Mr. Young had the overall responsibility to implement a systems consulting group focusing on Internet/Intranet and World Wide Web database integration and establishing an electronic commerce capability.
Wallace Forms (1995/6)
As a senior client/server architect for a major computer forms manufacturing company, responsibilities included the design of strategy and architecture to support the development of a nationwide sales and order processing system’s architecture.
MasterCard HQ, St. Louis (1995)
As the Team Leader/architect of the development environment re-architecture group, his responsibilities included developing the strategy and architecture to support the migration from legacy systems to a three-tier Client/Server implementation.
CP Railroad, Toronto (1995)
As the Senior Architect Specialist his responsibilities included completion of an enterprise-wide BPR on the company’s IT department. The project included a complete re-architecting of the existing architecture throughout the IT department to true three-tier client/server as well as IT-wide technology based educational initiatives.
Transamerica (1994)
He was the Technical Architect on a corporate-wide conversion from Novell to Windows-NT for 1800+ users.
EXIM Bank-Ukraine (1993)
He was the Sr. Architect and Project Manager on a project to automate the Ukrainian Export/Import Bank. The EX-IM solution was a TWO Phase approach, based on an HP-9000 (T500). Phase TWO was designed as a migration to a three-tier C/S architecture across each of the 25 cities in the country. Inter-city connectivity was provided by frame relay, FDDI through the subways of Kiev with 64Kbps drops, local 900Mhz 64Kbps wireless solutions for inaccessible locations.
Vastarr (1993)
Mr. Young orchestrated a leveraged buy-out of VASTARR, Inc., Hart-Marx’s former satellite division, in order to provide general Telecommunications, Information technology and Visa/Mastercard transaction services for the Export/Import Bank(EX-IM) of Ukraine (former Soviet Union). The final architecture provided satellite/telecommunications and data technology connections to Eastern Europe from Chicago, as well as connecting voice, data, video, and MC/Visa transaction capability to Kiev, Ukraine. He also found it necessary to develop the local political, technical and government level contacts (including the US Ambassador, Ukraine Speaker of the House, parliament, the ERDB, Nunn-Lueger Fund, TDA, ACIA, etc), established the operating partnership and subsequent JV, and set-up the plans and relationships for subsequent US Government funding.
UNI*Quality, Inc. (1989/93)
Mr. Young served as VP of the systems integration division (and a founder) of UNI*Quality, Inc., growing it into a profitable entity with sales in 1992 of $12 million (120+ people), selling it in 1994 (became UQ Solutions) to focus on VASTARR and it’s target market, the Ukraine. UNI*Quality, Inc. focused on customer applications for the Fortune 1000.
AT&T Bell Laboratories (1985-1989)
Mr. Young was a senior contractor at AT&T Bell Laboratories Large Computer Development Laboratory and software tools department for 5 years. He took one of AT&T’s newest document and code storage systems, COMPAS, from a local in-house software productivity tool, to a Worldwide AT&T supported tool (and eventually external product), accessible to all organizations at Bell Labs.
MicroStandard Technologies (1980-1984)
Mr. Young was a founder of MicroStandard Technologies (MST)[E.F. Hutton group], manufacturers of military grade portable computers. MST was first known as Micro Source, Inc., a specialty consulting company that installed the first "Mill-wide" energy automation system at US Steel's Pittsburgh (Carnegie) 5-inch hot strip steel mill designed around D.E.C. hosts.
As founding entrepreneur, he led the architecture team that designed a portable (luggable) computer. These “luggables” competed against Kaypro and Compaq (his previous supervision at MOSTEK founded Compaq- LJ Seven/Ben Rosen Inc.) luggables. Micro Source produced hundreds of these luggables.
Mr. Young also served as Sr. Architect during the development to convert the luggable line from CP/M to MS-DOS/UNIX for commercial use after E.F. Hutton bought out Micro Source and renamed it Micro Standard Technologies.
MOSTEK (1975-1980)
Mr. Young joined MOSTEK corp. where he was in charge of the Field Applications Engineers in the Midwest (and eventually headed the Applications Engineering Council), and was the lead architect. He undertook a number of firsts in the microcomputer world, with the vendors, including:
• Designed and programmed the first under-the-hood open throat carburetor control system at Ford in 1978, utilizing single chip microcomputer technology.
• Provided the initial architecture and managed the team that implemented the first distributed energy control system for heat pumps (also multi-processing between units) at General Electric.
• Designed, coded and provided applications engineering support for the engineering team that developed Heathkit’s portable airline computer.
• Designed and programmed the first under-the-hood open throat carburetor control system at Ford in 1978, utilizing single chip microcomputer technology.
• Provided the initial architecture, prototype coding, and applications engineering support to the team that implemented a distributed microcomputer gas-pump system at Tokheim Corporation.
• Provided initial multiprocessor architecture and demonstration prototype of the first fiber-optic (wireless) computerized car for GM at their Delco plant.
FECRS (1968-1971)
Mr. Young founded and operated the Far East Corporation Research Service in Tokyo, Japan, while in the United States Air Force. At the time, it was one of only 20 companies that had the right to exchange foreign capital through Japan’s Import/Export bank via a special bill passed by the Diet of Japan. This was managed by Mr. Young’s best friend from college, Ryuji Ishikawa, President of Daichii Toso Kogyo (the first painting Company of Japan). His projects while in Japan included:
• Constructing and installing the lighting, stereo and entertainment systems for the most popular Discotheque in Ahiahabara, Japan, which provided a place for the FECRS staff to drink and entertain.
• Constructing and installing the lighting, stereo and entertainment systems for the first Dual-bar British Pub in Tokyo (Roopongi). Owned by Romy (her father was Winston Churchill’s furniture maker, and her husband Akira) this club provided a convenient meeting place for all manner of people and events, which at the time was the peak of the Cold War.
• FECRS built the first automatic integrated Circuit tester for Ricoh Corporation.
USAF (United States Air Force (1967-1971)
Mr. Young was notified of an immediate draft status, but chose to join the USAF in 1971. He was assigned to an Air Force cryptographic Squadron where he bypassed the first 6 months of non-classified schooling. After 6 subsequent months (with his wife at Lackland, Texas AFB), he was assigned to the 5th Air Force base at Fuchu Air Station, Japan, where he was progressively cleared from Secret to Top Secret-Crypto. He was then chosen, and cleared for, the highest access of SSIR (Security Services Indoctrination Required), and was promoted from E1 to E5 in under two years.
SSIR access mandated:
• A Travel Restricted status. He was not allowed to travel within 200 miles of a communist border.
• Medical restrictions. He was not allowed to take anesthesia without an OSI (Air force FBI) agent “in presence”.
• He had a 25-year “hold” on him after leaving the Air Force.
• Various other “mind boggling” restrictions and policies.
The SSIR Crypto group operated from a small, extremely secure message switching center, of which only two existed at the time. One was in Japan and the other was in Wiesbaden, Germany. At each was located a custom, on-site, locally designed, constructed and installed switching computer system. After the construction, all construction equipment was buried on the grounds of the center. This was Mr. young’s opportunity to be involved “from the ground up” on the most advanced computer systems (of the day), and he took advantage of it.
EDUCATION
Manchester College, Indiana [Physics] (1963-1967)
University Of Maryland-Tokyo [Associate Prof. - TTL Design] (1968-1970)
Case Institute of Technology (1971-1973)
LANGUAGES
Retain some functionality in Japanese, although it has been 35 years since I used it.
CONFERENCES
RUC 2002- BP architecture
RUC 2004- Sear’s architecture.
MILITARY CLEARANCES/Accesses
Secret (1967)
Top Secret-Crypto (1967)
SSIR (Security Services Indoctrination Required) (1968)
NOFORN, EYESONLY, Travel Restricted, COMINT, ELINT, Yada; Yada; etc. (late 1968)
HONORS AND SPECIAL AWARDS
Scout Master- 5th Air Force Boy Scout Troop (1968-1970)
Fuchu, Air Station, Tokyo Japan
Awards from the Commanding General of 5th Air Force
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