He spent the last several years leading development teams in the Systems Management software space, most recently as VP Engineering at Boundary and Zenoss prior to that. A veteran of multiple startups, Rick was also a key technical member responsible for developing early VM Hypervisor technology at Meiosys which was acquired by IBM. Rick has a solid background in Java and .Net development, extensive experience with large scale IT infrastructures, and has authored a half dozen patents related to targeted VM placement, multicore processor power efficiency, model driven event correlation, and more.