Company
Ivan Labra
Basic
Inhaber, Principal, somatisch.io
Stuttgart, Germany
Timeline
Professional experience for Ivan Labra
Current 6 years and 6 months, since Sep 2016
Principal
somatisch.io
5 years and 8 months, Dec 2010 - Jul 2016
Program Manager
DRS Technologies
Worked as the lead strategist, chief technologist, and solutions architect for the International Division of DRS Technologies. Corporate lead in defining the Cyber Security Product/Services strategy for the company which included the development of over $2B in pipeline. Functioned as the solution architect for large business captures for IT, Cyber, and Software Services and supported capture of over $1.7B in contract value resulting in over $120M in revenue in new markets.
2 years and 2 months, Oct 2008 - Nov 2010
Research Faculty
Naval Post Graduate School - Cebrowski Insititute For Information Superiority
Researched “Generative Networks” self-propagating, distributed, and dynamical systems that unify effort across organizations that are normally in a state of non-cooperation. Researched computationally supported collaboration and innovation, the development and deployment of new technology, process adoption, and organizational composition. Developed prototypes, using social network analysis, and evaluating technologies in complex distrubuted operations such as pandemic and humanitarian response
2 years, Oct 2006 - Sep 2008
Lead Architect Multinational Interoperability Group
SPAWAR
Designed and developed open source engagement/investment models and methodologies for building a SaaS (software as a service) platform. Performed consultant duties to ASD NII - CIO of the defense department office Integrated ICT Support Developed $100,000 R&D investment into programs with annual combined budgets of $12 million per year Scaled cross-discipline team from 2 to 42 members
3 years and 1 month, Sep 2003 - Sep 2006
Software Services Group Manager Europe
SPAWAR
Functioned as CTO for division defining technology roadmap and managing technology portfolio and skill development Managed the Software Services Group for the European Division of SPAWAR Systems Center Charleston. Led multiple multi-million dollar software development projects. Designed operational model for group. Designed project rollout and stakeholder, user, community and engagement approach.
7 months, Mar 2003 - Sep 2003
Learning Systems Architect
MC Dean
Designed, developed, and deployed Learning Management System as a service (SaaS) for NATO/PfP
1 year and 11 months, Jan 2000 - Nov 2001
Engineering Project Manager, Architecture Group
Certive
As early stage employee in this well funded startup worked with the VP of Engineering, VP Product Marketing, and C level staff to define product and implementation plans Led team of 22 engineers to three successful deliveries of Certive’s first revenue generating product, a financial project portfolio management and analytics ASP targeted at small to medium size (long tail) Professional Service Organizations.
1 year and 1 month, Jan 1999 - Jan 2000
Consultant - Software Operations
Matson Navigation
Reported to Director in support of all areas of internal mission critical systems development Implemented methods and processes for project management, risk management, quality assurance, requirements analysis, system modeling, data modeling, and business case evaluation of development efforts.
1 year and 6 months, Aug 1997 - Jan 1999
Technical Documentation Specialist
IBM
Worked with cross-functional professional services teams in support of customers such as Bank of America, Wells Fargo, MTC, Southwestern Bell, and Charles Schwab, to develop and deliver technical RFPs and RFIs Delivered technical papers, architectural models, business analysis, and project plans
1 year and 5 months, Apr 1996 - Aug 1997
Emerging Market Software Development Team Administrator
IBM
Fourth member of the team responsible for the full life-cycle development of the San Francisco Java Beans project Supported IBM's first offshoring international object oriented software development team that grew to over 300 developers in Beijing, China; Riga, Latvia; Minsk, Belarus; and Bangalore, India, serving as focal point for international communications Researched emerging technology markets, development methodologies, and business practices for new technology frameworks
Educational background for Ivan Labra
1 month, Mar 2010 - Mar 2010
Distributed Collaboration and Team Management
Pluralistic Networks
Workshop on computation and collaboration in diverse distributed teams
1 month, Aug 2009 - Aug 2009
Social Networking Analysis
Harvard University
Workshop on Social Network Analysis Using R and statnet
1 month, May 2001 - May 2001
Business Metrics
American Management Institute
Professional course in metrics based management approaches, TQM, PMI
1 month, Mar 2001 - Mar 2001
Software Engineering
CONSTRUX
Professional course on CMMI and PMI fundamentals applied to rapid application development models
3 years and 9 months, Sep 1990 - May 1994
Art history, philosophy
Pomona College
Studied the history of symbolic systems, semiotics, and representation and relationship to systems of reasoning.
Languages
English
First language
Spanish
First language
German
Intermediate
Italian
Basic