Edward Wustenhoff

STRATAFUSION PARTNER

IT Infrastructure Strategy & Management, CTO & Technology Entrepreneur, Technology Product Direction

Edward Wustenhoff is a technology leader with a passion for moving businesses forward by structuring the best teams, applying the right technologies or developing new solutions. He has worked with IT leaders, CIOs and CTOs across a spectrum of industries.

As a CTO, Edward has designed and developed applications to model compute and storage, datacenter and network designs, focusing on economics and systemic qualities, and addressing cloud challenges. At companies like Sun Microsystems and Netflix, he has deployed leading edge IT Management practices and large-scale infrastructure design to internal and external customers alike. Around the same time, he developed the Operations Management Capability Framework and Model to help benchmark IT organizational efficiencies.  At Complete Genomics he was responsible for the infrastructure design and management that sequenced their first human genome. Even before ITIL became an industry standard, Edward was a thought leader in IT process management and automation tools.

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Sharing his knowledge is a career passion, and Edward thrives on helping start-ups develop effective roadmaps that align with the ambitions of the business while also mentoring aspiring IT executives.

BOARD POSITIONS

• Cloud Panel Moderator at TiECon

• Video: TiEcon 2013 Media Lounge - SDI Infrastructure/Cloud Services

• Video: TiEcon 2013 Media Lounge - How IT will be Transformed to become a Broker of Services

• Presenter at CMG

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PUBLICATIONS & ARTICLES

• Selecting Cloud Services (2010)  

• Top 10 Things to Consider about Cloud Services (2011)  

• Service Level Agreement in the Data Center (April 2002)

• Operations Management Capabilities Model (February 2005 - PDF)

• The Decision Velocity Challenge in IT Infrastructure, (LinkedIn)

• HPC and the Cloud

• Burstorm, Co-founder and Board Member​

SPEAKING & EVENTS