Tech Debates Austin
Building an engineering team from start-up to scale. Survival tactics for CTOs, technical leaders, and those that aspire to lead technology departments. Join us on November 5th from 5 to 7PM for a lively discussion about building an engineering team for a start-up. This session is ideal for CTOs, technical leaders, and those that aspire to lead technology departments.
Speakers
Senior VP and CIO, Q2ebanking
Highly accomplished professional with a distinguished 20+ year career leading the architectural design, development, implementation and integration of enterprise-wide solutions to meet global business, financial and market demands. Change agent with strong automation, transformation and turnaround leadership. Skilled in building, integrating, optimizing and expanding enterprise technologies, teams and processes to achieve compliance, reduce costs and enable growth. Strategic analyst, planner and problem solver with implementing infrastructure. Strength in modernizing networks, implementing SLA management, consolidation of applications, cross-system synchronization, introduction of database clustering, server farms, load balancing and network topologies that failover and scale. Natural team leader with proven ability to motivate, energize and lead to success. Proven ability to develop long-term loyalty, staff, coach, motivate and guide cross-functional teams sharing common vision and goals.
VP of Cloud Operations
Reed is a technology executive who has led teams of many sizes and disciplines over the past decade. Most recently, he has focused on building cross-functional operations capabilities by meshing systems, network, storage and DevOps personnel to build scalable and resilient application infrastructures. Reed has held technology leadership positions at numerous organizations, and is currently the Vice President of Cloud Operations for an Austin-based software company.
CTO, Austin Energy
Greg Flay joined Austin Energy in October 2016 as Chief Technology Officer. In his role as Chief Technology Officer, Greg oversees corporate strategic planning, technology roadmap management, enterprise architecture, technology selection and research and development functions — including oversight of Austin Energy’s relationship with the Electric Power Research Institute. His focus is on transparency, operations and the speed and strategic alignment of technology acquisition. Greg has more than 20 years of leadership and management experience in the power industry and related fields. His diverse leadership roles include information technology; mergers and acquisitions; business operations; business analysis; strategy; technology process controls; program and project management; technology portfolio management; and enterprise architecture. Greg has a large amount of experience in the wholesale power generation and competitive retail segments of the power industry. He also has experience in residential solar and home services markets, including smart home, HVAC, electrical and plumbing services. Greg holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science degrees in geography from Penn State University as well as a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Minnesota with a focus on spatial analytics.