{ "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json", "basics": { "name": "Ian B. MacDonald", "label": "Technology Executive (CTO / CIO / VP Engineering)", "email": "ian@netstatz.com", "phone": "(416) 988-0856", "url": "https://www.netstatz.com/", "summary": "Founder-to-exit technology leader building and operating high-availability network and service platforms with disciplined security, compliance, and customer experience outcomes. Current focus: agentic AI orchestration — supervised multi-agent harnesses with human-in-the-loop gates, autonomous workflow execution, and credential governance — and privacy-first local LLM deployment, where harness guardrails let local models deliver frontier-grade results so sensitive data never leaves the client environment.", "location": { "city": "Etobicoke (Toronto)", "region": "Ontario", "countryCode": "CA" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "LinkedIn", "username": "ianbmacdonald", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ianbmacdonald/" }, { "network": "GitHub", "username": "ianbmacdonald", "url": "https://github.com/ianbmacdonald" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "Westfield Partners Ltd.", "position": "CTO", "location": "Hamilton, Ontario", "startDate": "2025", "summary": "Technology leadership for a family-office investment firm.", "highlights": [ "Led a cybersecurity audit aligned to Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) requirements; directed remediation and achieved compliance outcomes with a continuous-improvement security strategy.", "Implemented monitoring, alerting, and automated plus human-in-the-loop remediation workflows for web service infrastructure.", "Launched multi-agent workflows to maintain CRM data freshness and integrate new data sources for prospect development and sales forecasting.", "Established enterprise adoption patterns for generative AI tooling: governance guardrails, best-practice enablement, repeatable workflows; estimated 25-50% productivity gains in select roles.", "Enabled AI-assisted knowledge capture and reuse to reduce key-person dependency." ] }, { "name": "Dotto-One (Rally Internet Corp.)", "position": "President", "location": "Toronto, Ontario", "startDate": "2023", "endDate": "2025", "highlights": [ "Integrated financial, support, and network systems and staff into the parent organization post-acquisition.", "Led relationship transition for a landmark 5-year multi-property bulk Internet/TV contract, securing over $1M in net new recurring revenue.", "Identified and corrected management and security flaws in a 10,000-unit router deployment.", "Implemented a vendor-agnostic upgrade workflow and remote support capability for on-prem appliances.", "Engineered and deployed a proprietary fault-detection appliance across 150 points of presence, reducing power-related truck rolls by 90% (est. $50K+ annual savings)." ] }, { "name": "Dotto-One Inc.", "position": "CEO & Founder", "location": "Toronto, Ontario", "startDate": "2014", "endDate": "2023", "highlights": [ "Built and led a technology-driven ISP from inception through successful exit; owned full P&L, strategy, and execution.", "Orchestrated end-to-end M&A including technical due diligence, financial negotiations, and integration planning.", "Designed a high-security, high-performance ISP architecture with minimal resources and fully remote operations.", "Continuous modernization (evergreening) framework: +200% update cadence, 100% reduction in unplanned outages during scheduled maintenance; services deployed in 2014 remain in production and current today.", "Only Canadian ISP (1000+ subscribers) with zero complaints registered with the CCTS public registry.", "Secured fibre construction permits under a Municipal Access Agreement with the City of Toronto." ] }, { "name": "Quartet Service Corporation", "position": "Director, Network Services", "location": "Toronto, Ontario", "startDate": "2012", "endDate": "2014", "highlights": [ "Accountable for network infrastructure, professional services, and customer help desk teams.", "Migrated operational teams and clients to ConnectWise professional services automation." ] }, { "name": "N8 Identity Inc.", "position": "Director, Product Management", "location": "Burlington, Ontario", "startDate": "2008", "endDate": "2012", "highlights": [ "Led a software engineering team building an identity and access management (IAM) product.", "Delivered solutions for large Canadian enterprises including Rogers, Loblaws, and OMERS, and a five-year IAM strategy for a major financial institution." ] }, { "name": "Systemware Innovation Inc.", "position": "Principal", "location": "Toronto & Pickering, Ontario", "startDate": "2005", "endDate": "2008", "highlights": [ "Program and vendor management for Ontario Power Generation; IESO Energy Markets day-ahead commitment implementation.", "Delivered classroom training for Sun Microsystems Management Center across North America." ] } ], "volunteer": [ { "organization": "prpl Foundation", "position": "Chair, AI Tiger Team (AITT)", "startDate": "2026-03", "summary": "Chair the foundation's AI taskforce since its inaugural meeting (March 2026), driving AI collaboration across member companies in the open-source carrier/CPE software ecosystem." }, { "organization": "lemonade-server (lemonade-sdk)", "position": "Contributor", "summary": "14 merged upstream PRs to the AMD-sponsored open-source local LLM runtime: backend, packaging, and deployment contributions (ROCm/Vulkan), reproducible install guides, and community support." }, { "organization": "219th Toronto Scout Group", "position": "Treasurer & Scout Leader" } ], "awards": [ { "title": "Winner, AMD developer enablement contest", "date": "2025", "awarder": "AMD", "summary": "Recognized for contributions to AMD ROCm and the lemonade local LLM runtime; awarded Strix Halo (Ryzen AI Max+ 395) hardware." } ], "publications": [ { "name": "Strix Halo on Ubuntu looks great", "publisher": "Netstatz", "url": "https://netstatz.com/strix_halo_lemonade/", "summary": "Reproducible Ubuntu/Debian + ROCm + Lemonade deployment guide." }, { "name": "From Zero to Tokens: ROCm 7.0.2 Quickstart on Cloudrift's 8-GPU Node", "publisher": "Netstatz", "summary": "Multi-GPU inference bring-up guide." } ], "education": [ { "institution": "Queen's University", "area": "Electrical Engineering (B.Sc.H.) and Economics (B.A.)", "studyType": "Bachelor", "startDate": "1995", "endDate": "2000" }, { "institution": "Neuchâtel Junior College", "area": "Secondary School Diploma with Academic Letter", "startDate": "1994", "endDate": "1995" }, { "institution": "University of New Brunswick", "area": "Shad Valley Program (Nortel sponsorship)", "startDate": "1993", "endDate": "1993" } ], "skills": [ { "name": "Agentic AI", "keywords": ["Multi-Agent AI Orchestration & Harness Design", "Autonomous Workflow Execution", "AI Enablement & Governance", "Human-in-the-Loop Automation", "Knowledge Management & Institutional Capture"] }, { "name": "AI Infrastructure", "keywords": ["Local LLM Deployment & Optimization", "Data-Privacy-First AI", "GPU Computing (AMD ROCm)", "Cloud GPU Inference & Serving (vLLM)", "Azure ND MI300X v5-Series", "Elastic Per-Minute Cloud GPUs"] }, { "name": "AI Tooling", "keywords": ["AI Desktop Automation", "Claude Code", "Codex", "pi-coding-agent", "LLM API Routing (OpenRouter, Cerebras, Hot Aisle, NVIDIA NIM)"] }, { "name": "Leadership", "keywords": ["Technology Strategy & Roadmapping", "P&L Ownership", "Founder Leadership", "M&A Technical Due Diligence & Integration", "Vendor Management & Negotiation", "Change Management"] }, { "name": "Security & Compliance", "keywords": ["Cybersecurity Audits & Remediation", "Regulatory Compliance (OSC)", "Identity & Access Management (IAM)"] }, { "name": "Reliability", "keywords": ["Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity", "Reliability Engineering", "Monitoring, Observability & Automated Remediation"] } ], "languages": [ { "language": "English", "fluency": "Native speaker" }, { "language": "French", "fluency": "Bilingual" } ], "projects": [ { "name": "Multi-Agent Orchestration Harnesses (hermes, openclaw)", "description": "Fleet of supervised Claude Code orchestration harnesses with documented cross-harness delegation contracts, machine-readable governance, scoped credential service accounts, and auditable change logs. Recent autonomous-execution results: full WordPress dev-environment clone rebuilt in under an hour (previously a documented two-day initiative); overnight bare-metal LLM-server bring-up reduced from a full day to a three-hour autonomous run on a local Qwen dense model on Strix Halo hardware.", "url": "https://www.netstatz.com/" }, { "name": "Linux kernel contribution (mainline)", "description": "Authored 'net: thunderbolt: Allow reading link settings' — ethtool get_link_ksettings support enabling Thunderbolt networking in bonded interfaces; merged via net-next (commit 7a3d3279a566, 2026).", "url": "https://patch.msgid.link/20260115115646.328898-5-mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com" }, { "name": "claude-session-rescue", "description": "Open-source tool to repair broken Claude Code sessions.", "url": "https://github.com/ianbmacdonald/claude-session-rescue" } ] }