Contact Information
Skype (ID: davidfavor) and WhatsApp (Number: 512-590-5581) are best methods to reach me.
Voice calls receive fastest response. SMS text messages may go a very long time before a response is made.
Resume Overview
Since 1972, Marketing - Copywriting. Direct mail. Email marketing. Radio publicity. Video based courseware.
Since 1974, Public Speaking - Website Speed. Email Delivery. High Volume Audio/Video Streaming. High Performance Health. Business/Marketing Design.
Since 1978, Tech Consulting - High Speed Websites. Email Delivery. High Volume Audio/Video Streaming.
Since 2000, Fractional CTO/CMO - High Traffic, High Speed Websites. High Delivery Email. Mass scale Audio/Video streaming. Related marketing systems.
One point about my experience. There are 2x types of Fractional CTOs. Those that hire talent and those that have talent/experience.
Generally I tool/retool tech myself, then turn over tech to others, as requirements dictate. My work comes from direct talent/experience, rather than relying on others.
My Personal Project Approach Rules
Rule 1. Everything's already broken. You just don't know it yet.
Rule 2. Since everything's already broken/hacked, how many minutes to bootstrap all tech back to full money flow.
Rule 3. Money 1st. Tech 2nd. Avoid shiny new things. Only use reliable, old school tech, guaranteed to work.
Rule 4. Plan for success. Most tech crumbles under the weight of business success. Ensure tech can tolerate success.
Rule 5. Secure everything. Starting with each site/project running in it's own LXD container, minimizing hack effects.
Rule 6. Measure everything, daily. Specifically, track DMARC reports and Apache/PHP/MariaDB logs.
Rule 7. Only trust DMARC reports for email delivery statistics. Avoid costly email consultants and services.
Rule 8. To measure everything implies configuring deep logging proving enough history to debug problems, as they arise.
Rule 9. Run all tech - Apache, PHP and MariaDB - at RAM speed, reducing Disk/Network I/O to a minimum.
Rule 10. Only use Stealth Marketing. Ensure no competitor can ravage your money by understanding, then cloning, your marketing.
Common Work Progression
Generally I start work as a CTO (Chief Technology Officer), then as tech stabilizes...
Switch over to becoming or assisting the CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) with marketing and monetization. Revisiting tech constantly, to ensure tech survives increasing success.
Along the way, many times I engage public speaking for stealth marketing, as required.
Industry Summary
1978-2005: Industries where I've worked include commercial software development, semiconductor fabrication, oil exploration, airline reservations, global telecommunication control systems, aircraft manufacturing and chemical production.
2000-present: Evergreen Summit/Docuseries/Content sites using launch cycles, where massive traffic peaks occur on a regular basis.
Personal
Excellent health. No travel restrictions (valid passport).
Project Details
:::: David Favor Consulting - Owner (Austin, Texas), January 2000 to present
Primarily LAMP (Linux/Apache/MariaDB/PHP) Wordpress Sites running inside chroot/LXC/LXD containers tooled for Speed + Stability + Security + SEOity.
Where Audio/Video streaming is required, tooling high speed, mass user YouTube like technology. This involves transcoding initial streams, then streaming transcoded streams to large audiences. Streaming is all self-hosted, so no 3rd party service is involved, which can instantly put any project out of business, instantly.
Marketing done through public speaking at private masterminds, Meetup groups, conferences.
This marketing approach prioritizes client quality over client quantity.
:::: IBM - Consultant (Austin, Texas), April 1997 to March 2005
Design, Implementation & Customer Service of Highly Available (HACMP/HAGEO) Clusters. The goal being, near 100% uptime.
What I learned was IBM's approach was overly costly/complex/fragile.
For most businesses, simple solutions (easy to implement/understand/maintain) are far better than the IBM approach. There are various ways to achieve near 100% uptime, most businesses can take.
:::: IBM - System Architect (Austin, Texas), October 1996 to March 1997
Architecture for HACMP/AIX/Java version of the OM Click Trader (Commodities and Futures trading system), ported from VMS and C.
:::: IBM - Senior Developer (Austin, Texas), June 1995 to February 1996
Pre-release work on HotJava and Java for AIX. Port of the OS/2 WebExplorer to AIX in C.
:::: The Corridor - CEO/Senior Architect (Austin, Texas), June 1994 to Sept 2000
This was a company I founded providing high speed hosting and email services (send/receive/read) to clients.
This project was the predecessor to my Fractional CTO work.
:::: Motorola - System Architect (Austin, Texas), June 1993 to May 1995
Development of of various software tools to maintain and enhance semiconductor fabrication yields.
Coding levaged various UI centric tools like X11, Motif and SAS.
:::: Tandem - Developer (Austin, Texas), April 1993 to May 1993
Enhancement of the UNIX kernel, shells, X-Windows and Motif for the Non-Stop UNIX operating system in C.
:::: Dazel - System Architect (Austin, Texas), January 1993 to March 1993
Development of the Motif-based Dazel GUI, which controls the MIT Palladium document delivery system, enterprise-wide device access (via DCE) and system management functions in C.
:::: Tivoli Systems - Developer (Austin, Texas), June 1992 to December 1992
Enhancement of an object-oriented application framework that implements a GUI system administration tool (Works) for large networks. Participated in the preliminary design of OSF/DME and an extensible method server that processes shell scripts, executables and dynamically linked libraries in C.
:::: Eaton Semiconductor - Developer (Austin, Texas), November 1991 to May 1992
Extended and optimized a custom Motif-based widget set used to represent and control a variety of complex electrical, pneumatic and optical components used in semiconductor ion implantation equipment (NV8200P) in C.
:::: Chevron Oil - Developer (Houston, Texas), February 1991 to October 1991
Enhancement and conversion of a character-based user interface tool-kit (TTI) from VMS/FORTRAN to UNIX/C and Motif. Development of a code management system that allows UNIX developers to incrementally develop VMS and MVS projects without learning DCL, JCL or operating system details in C and FORTRAN.
:::: ARCO - Developer (Plano, Texas), September 1990 to January 1991
Enhancement of the OSF/EASE product, an application development environment and API that abstracts operating system services (GUI, database, network) independent of target platform. Collaborated on the implementation of a software environment that supported programming, configuration management and release control for cross-platform development of OSF/EASE and FORTRAN.
:::: American Airlines - GUI Architect (DFW, Texas), February 1990 to August 1990
Design and development of the Motif/Oracle/UNIX-based ICAPS product, which supports the daily operations of commercial airlines including profitability analysis, reservations, flight and crew scheduling, planned maintenance and spares deployment in C.
:::: Hewlett Packard - System Architect (Seattle, Washington), December 1989 to January 1990
Design and development of an on-line document management system (STIP) for Naval shipyards in FORTRAN.
:::: IBM - Developer (Westlake, Texas), September 1989 to November 1989
Design and prototyping of the MS-DOS OfficeVision client in C.
:::: CogniSeis - Developer (Houston, Texas), April 1989 to August 1989
Porting and optimization of the DISCO geophysical analysis product from VMS to UNIX in C and FORTRAN.
:::: Texas Instruments - Developer (Houston, Texas), November 1988 to March 1989
Design and development of the GeoSys geophysical analysis product in C.
:::: Shell Oil - Developer (Houston, Texas), November 1987 to October 1988
Enhancement and optimization of a real-time control system (CAO) that supports the daily operations of oil production facilities. Prototyping of an X-Windows replacement system in C and FORTRAN.
:::: GTE Sprint - Developer (Los Colinas, Texas), April 1987 to October 1988
Enhancement of a real-time control system for telecommunications networks using MPE and VMS in SPL (C-like) and FORTRAN.
:::: MCI Telecommunications - Database Architect (Plano, Texas), January 1986 to March 1987
Enhancement of a real-time control system (NACS) for telecommunications networks in FORTRAN.
:::: Celanese Fibers - Database Architect (Narrows, Virginia), April 1985 to December 1985
Enhancement of a real-time control system for the extrusion of synthetic materials in FORTRAN.
:::: Prestwick Circuits - Developer (Dallas, Texas), October 1984 to March 1985
Production readied a three-axis robot used for the rapid prototyping of printed circuit boards in C.
:::: SEDCO Offshore Drilling - Developer (Dallas, Texas), June 1983 to September 1984
Enhancement and maintenance of several real-time control systems used on offshore oil exploration vessels including ship-wide power management/distribution, dynamic vessel positioning and video monitoring of well-head operations using HP/RTE and VMS in SPL (C-like) and FORTRAN.
:::: Boeing Electronics - Test Engineer (Irving, Texas), June 1980 to May 1983
Design and development of software and hardware associated with the automatic testing of commercial avionics packages (727, 737, 747, 757 and 767 aircraft). Enhancement of the PMS-3000 (Shop Floor, Production Management) product SPL (C-like) and FORTRAN.
:::: Dallas Instruments - Technical Sales (Plano, Texas), July 1978 to May 1980
Marketing, design, prototyping and production associated with a product line of custom analog and digital panel instruments, set-point controllers and strip chart recorders.