Richard Schatzberg, CEO
Richard is the Chief Commercial Officer of NeST Technologies, Inc., a global software services and business/knowledge process outsourcing (BPO/KPO) firm.
In his capacity as CCO, Richard leads North American operations and provides sales and business development leadership in other global markets, including Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Richard is a technology entrepreneur, having founded several businesses that leverage technology to create positive social, economic and business impact, including a business dedicated to leveraging technology to provide increased access to education, employment and community involvement for people with disabilities.
Richard serves on various Boards, including as Treasurer of the Abilities Fund, a non-profit organization providing seed capital to entrepreneurs with disabilities, the Board of Abilities, Inc., a part of the Henry Viscardi Center, the Board of the National Business and Disability Center (NBDC), and as a member of the Board of Visitors of the Albert Dorman Honors College at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).
Philip Failla, COO
Philip Failla is an experienced corporate executive and has been an equity partner in a variety of businesses, including information technology, healthcare, office products and ecommerce.
His background includes investment banking, corporate finance and ecommerce development and operation. He has been both an active manager as well as a passive investor in a number of successful companies.
Phil is currently an advisor to a rapidly growing business application and consulting company and a founding member of the National Cloud Technologists Association; an educational resources association for technology professionals to become Certified CloudMASTERS. He is presently the CEO of Landis Revin, LLC, a consumer products company that markets and distributes worldwide.
Hart Singh, CLO
Hart Singh is Chief Learning Officer. He is an MIT-educated software entrepreneur. His passion is to spot large, “under-your-nose” opportunities and solve the end-to-end problem.
He earlier co-founded Enforsys, an end-to-end police department Information System (ERP) solution now used by more than 150 New Jersey Police Departments, 500 Police Departments in 14 states and as a platform for Homeland Security.
His company OpCenter LLC has a team of developers in Chennai and makes products for US mid-market customers. OpCenter has 27 cloud-based cross platform and cross device products, and the products are distributed by Apple, Facebook and the Sage VAR Channel. OpCenter’swebBooks product: “QuickBooks inside your iPhone” was rated by InfoWorld magazine as a top 5 business app on App Store, in the company of Oracle and Salesforce.
As Adjunct faculty, he has taught entrepreneurship to 22 classes of MBA students at Rutgers University, Brooklyn Polytechnic and Fairleigh Dickinson University. He is a member of the Intuit Speakers Bureau. He teaches the course for Certified Cloud MASTERS and Cloud GURUs at NJIT, under the auspices of National Cloud Technologists Association, of which he is founding member.
Eugene Fucetola, Instructor
Eugene (Gene) Fucetola is a seasoned IT executive with expertise in design, development, deployment and support of global business systems, architecture and infrastructure. He has broad and deep knowledge of and experience with numerous information technologies and platforms.
Currently, Gene is the President of Eugene D. Fucetola, LLC, which provides IT consulting and training services to the corporate community. He is also certified as a Professional Life/Executive coach and is an experienced facilitator for Franklin Covey and David Allen personal and professional development programs. Gene has a proven track record and knows how to get things done.
With over 30 years of experience working with information systems with Mars Information Services, Gene led the Global Infrastructure and Operations Group. In addition, he served as the Technology School Lead for the IT College of Mars University.
Gene established a solid record for delivering results at Mars. He is recognized for enhancing productivity, driving operational effectiveness, and creating a proactive high performing organization through training, coaching and mentoring globally dispersed teams and associates in multi-cultural locations.
He brings a wealth of experience and his training, coaching, and mentoring skills to the NCTA where he delivers the Cloud MASTER certification program.
Mohammad (Mo) Zaman, Instructor
Mo Zaman is Director of Cloud Platform Services at Virtustream, which provides professional and operational services such as IT Infrastructure-as-a-Service, modern data centers, fully managed application solutions, and a portfolio of security tools to large global enterprises.
He specializes in designing, consulting, and executing IT strategy.
He has written numerous white papers and been a featured speaker at seminars on Cloud Computing, with a focus on governance, regulations, compliance, security and disaster recovery.
Over the past 20 years, he has designed, managed and optimized technologies related to cloud computing, data center, LAN and WAN, voice and VOIP, infrastructure, storage, and virtualization.
Mo has both an MBA in Global Technology Management and a BS in Accounting and Computer Information Systems from American Intercontinental University and Baruch College respectively.
In addition, Mo has also earned numerous professional certificates and designations, including CISSP, ITIL, COBIT, FRAAP, MCSE, CCNA, and CCDA.
Kevin L. Jackson, Instructor
Kevin L. Jackson is a senior information technologist specializing in solutions that meet critical commercial and government operational requirements. Currently working as an independent consultant, prior positions include VP & General Manager Cloud Services NJVC, VP Federal Systems at Sirius Computer Solutions, Worldwide Sales Executive at IBM, Vice President Global IT Project Office at JP Morgan Chase, and CTO at SENTEL Corporation.
Through his “Cloud Musings” blog, Kevin has been recognized as one of Cloud Computing Journal “World’s 30 Most Influential Cloud Bloggers” (2009, 2010), a Huffington Post Top 100 Cloud Computing Experts on Twitter (2013) and the author of a FedTech Magazine “Must Read Federal IT Blog” (2012, 2013). In 2012, he was also named a “Cyber Security Visionary” by U.S. Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine.
Kevin retired from the U.S. Navy in 1994, earning specialties in Space Systems Engineering, Carrier Onboard Delivery Logistics and carrier-based Airborne Early Warning and Control. While active, he also served with the National Reconnaissance Office, Operational Support Office, providing tactical support to Navy and Marine Corps forces worldwide.
Kevin is also the founder and editor of Government Cloud Computing on Ulitzer electronic magazine. His first book, GovCloud: Cloud Computing for the Business of Government was published by Government Training Inc. and released in March 2011. His second book, released in 2012 by the same publisher, is titled “GovCloud II: Implementation and Cloud Brokerage Services”. He is also a co-author of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance whitepaper “Cloud Computing: Risks, Benefits, and Mission Enhancement for the Intelligence Community”.
Kevin has been deeply involved in the broad collaborative effort between industry and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology on the federal government’s adoption of cloud computing technologies. He is the Rapid Deployment Executive for the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium and also serves and the consortium’s Cloud Computing Working Group Chairman. His formal education includes a MS Computer Engineering from Naval Postgraduate School; MA National Security & Strategic Studies from Naval War College; and a BS Aerospace Engineering from the United States Naval Academy. Mr. Jackson is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Applied Information Technology at the George Mason University Volgenau School of Engineering.
Vamsi Sistla, Instructor
Vamsi is an innovative technologist with over 17 years of experience in the Television, Digital Media & Financial industries. He has built various enterprise quality software and technology platforms. Along with Technology, Vamsi has worked extensively in the areas of Product Strategy, Product Pricing and Go to Market Strategy.
Currently, Vamsi serves as part time CTO for two early stage startups in Smart TV and FinTech industries. He teaches Cloud Operation Technologies (Azure, Rackspace, Heroku, Amazon and Salesforce) and Big Data at various local institutions.
In the past he served as CTO of digital venue company LiveStage. Vamsi also co-founded following start-ups – Telvetto (Social TV Platform) and Mogozz (Mobile Events Platforms).
He is an active Angel investor in ARC Angels, Eniac Ventures and TIE SV Angels. He is also active in social & impact enterprises as a mentor (The Unreasonable Institute, TechStars London IoT Spring 2013, 37Angels, FP Angels), advisor to various early stage startups (Jump2Spot) and a board member (Chaupal India). Vamsi is an active volunteer for 21st century education and global entrepreneurship. He holds MS in Engineering from Oakland University.
Arvind Jiyalal, Instructor
Arvind has over 20 years’ experience in Enterprise Architecture, Application Development and software Product Management. He has IT leadership and management experience in Fortune 50 and Global 1000 IT Consulting Services companies. He has implemented innovative IT solutions using Distributed, Web, BI/ DW and Cloud computing technologies for large Financial Services and Insurance corporations.
As an executive handling Offshore Operations for Fujitsu Consulting he delivered complex software development initiatives for North America from Global development centers in North America. As the Director of Application Development at MetLife, he led custom software development across a diverse set of technologies and led large enterprise strategic programs that originated at the CEO/ CXO level and had budgets of $25+ million and 200+ resources.
He runs Cloudsteppe, a cloud products/services company that builds software products on the Microsoft Azure platform. Currently, he works for a Silicon Valley-based open source software product engineering and services company where he manages their software product development focused on multi-tenant, big data, analytics solutions for a diverse industry domain.
He is the organizer of the Princeton DevOps Meetup which promotes growth of an IT community around IT Development/ Operations with focus on using automation to consistently implement Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) using software code and tools such as Opscode Chef to on-premise or cloud data centers.
He has a Bachelor’s in Science and a Master’s in Computer Science. He is a NJIT/ National Cloud Technologists Association (NCTA) certified CloudMASTER®, Stanford University Certified Project Manager (SCPM®), ITIL Foundations (ITIL®) certified, and a Zachman CertifiedTM Enterprise Architect. He has industry certifications from Life Office Management Association (LOMA) and CompTIA.