Shaun Coleman
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Shaun Coleman is an American entrepreneur. He is the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer of Vector Launch, Inc, where he is also a board member and the company’s first investor.[1] Coleman also heads Vector’s GalacticSky Software Defined Satellite division as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Space Data Systems in San Jose, California[2] where his company is working to change the landscape of space by bringing virtualization technology to small satellites. [3]
Early life[edit]
Coleman was born and raised in Livermore, California where his grandparents immigrated from the Azores Islands of Portugal, becoming dairy farmers and later, wine makers. Coleman grew up near to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory a US Department of Energy research and development institution for science and technology applied to national security. This closeness to the laboratory greatly influenced his early years as many of his teachers in elementary school and later high school also worked there. It exposed him to science and computers at a very early age leading him to develop the OrionBBS a science and technology focused bulletin board system in the late 1980s, one of the largest BBS’ in the San Francisco Bay Area at the time,[4] at the age of 14.[5][6] In late 1994, Coleman caught a young hacker on his bulletin board system leading to what would become one the earliest cases of computer hacking prosecuted in California.[7]
Coleman was hired by Sandia National Laboratories at the age of 16 where he was a programmer developing applications to tear apart aircraft wings and perform other complex material testing processes. From there, he moved on to working at Livermore National Laboratories at the age of 20 where he was a systems engineer and an Information Security Officer responsible for computer security in the Lasers Division.
Career[edit]
Coleman currently leads a project to develop software-defined space systems for Vector Launch, Inc.[8]
Coleman has been Chief Sales and Marketing Officer as well as SVP/GM of Vector Launch’s Galactic Sky[9] since August 2016. Prior to that, Coleman co-founded CloudVolumes, Inc.[10] and served as its Vice President of Products & Marketing from 2011 to August 2014 when it was acquired by VMware[11]. CloudVolumes was named one of the five strategic acquisitions that reshaped VMware.[12][13]
He served as the Director of Product Management at Citrix for XenDesktop and was the first hire in the desktop virtualization group at VMware in 2006 where he managed and helped create VDI[14] and VMware View.
Coleman also founded the security startup company Reconnex which was acquired in 2008 by McAfee.[15] He was one of the first cryptography sales engineers at RSA Data Security and he has held various senior management positions at Proofpoint, Array Networks, and RSA Data Security.
Racing[edit]
Coleman began racing automobiles when he was 20 years old but grew up if a racing family having a father who was a drag racer in the 1950’s in Oakland, California. He started his racing career in BMWCCA racing BMW M3s where he partnered with his then racing instructor, 24hr of Lemans veteran Tony Adamowicz[16]. He then moved into vintage automobile racing,[17] racing in several premier events including the Monterey and Sonoma Historics[18][19] and has restored a number of classic American race cars,[20] restoring Roy Mayne’s 1965 Chevy Impala NASCAR in under 40 days for the 2010 Monterey Motorsports Reunion.[21] Coleman has also participated in the 25 Hours of Thunderhill, as part of the Vector team,[22] and other vintage races throughout the United States and Europe.
References[edit]
- ↑ "Shaun Coleman - Investor & Board Member @ Vector Launch, Inc. - Crunchbase". Crunchbase.
- ↑ "Shaun Coleman". Bloomberg.
- ↑ "Vector & Citrix to Bring Virtualization Software Technology to Micro Satellites". Parabolic Arc. May 2017.
- ↑ "Getting to the Grid: Shaun Coleman — Wonderkind". 2017-03-20.
- ↑ "510 BBS List". bbslist.textfiles.com.
- ↑ https://media.licdn.com/media-proxy/ext?w=800&h=800&f=n&hash=fzKD8vPSPYpjjaxcHRoXA3UQli0%3D&ora=1%2CaFBCTXdkRmpGL2lvQUFBPQ%2CxAVta9Er0Vinkhwfjw8177yE41y87UNCVordEGXyD3u0qYrdfyS9cc7cKuOpuQhFen8clABkfvKhRjK1D5O4et7veNh2jcPjcY24ZxUBbFImi24
- ↑ https://media.licdn.com/media-proxy/ext?w=800&h=800&f=n&hash=dl4%2FMuYLF9gtpZrrGKSMYycVckc%3D&ora=1%2CaFBCTXdkRmpGL2lvQUFBPQ%2CxAVta9Er0Vinkhwfjw8177yE41y87UNCVordEGXyD3u0qYrdf3LhL5Pce-SnuV0TfH4clFU6f_L6RWKzD5u5It_vfdRz2MKxLY24ZxUBbFI8lWxI
- ↑ "About Us". vector-launch.com.
- ↑ "Space upstart plans public cloud in low Earth orbit".
- ↑ "VMware buys CloudVolumes. Here's our full analysis".
- ↑ https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2014/08/20/vmware-acquires-app-delivery-startup-cloudvolumes.html
- ↑ MSV, Janakiram. "Five Strategic Acquisitions That Reshaped VMware".
- ↑ "Q&A: Interview with CloudVolumes Talking Integration and Enhancements to VMware ThinApp : @VMblog".
- ↑ "Desktop virtualization". 30 July 2018 – via Wikipedia.
- ↑ "McAfee Buys Out Data Loss Prevention Specialist Reconnex".
- ↑ "Tony Adamowicz - Today".
- ↑ "About Us".
- ↑ "'65 NASCAR Impala: A Barn-to-Track Story - In My Garage". 25 January 2011.
- ↑ "Historic Grand National Stock Cars - Shaun Coleman's 1965 Chevrolet Impala #46". www.historicgrandnational.com.
- ↑ "Stangzilla Building The Ultimate '66 Mustang Fastback - FordMuscle". 17 February 2014.
- ↑ orionbbs (11 November 2010). "Interview of Shaun about Roy Mayne Impala at 2010 Monterey Motorsports Reunion" – via YouTube.
- ↑ https://nasa25hour.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/2016results.pdf
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