Timothy Appnel
Education
Stevens Institute of Technology
, -
Baruch College
, -Work Experience
Red Hat
Current
Red Hat
Ansible by Red Hat
2015-07-01 - 2018-03-01
Ansible by Red Hat
Merrill Lynch
2011-06-01 - 2015-07-01
Merrill Lynch
Open Melody Software Group
2009-06-01 - 2011-06-01
Open Melody Software Group
The Appnel Group
2002-05-01 - 2011-06-01
The Appnel Group
Agency.com
1997-04-01 - 2002-05-01
Agency.com
Oculus Magazine
1991-10-01 - 1999-06-01
Oculus Magazine
Ajilon
1995-08-01 - 1997-04-01
Ajilon
The Adecco Group
1994-01-01 - 1995-01-01
The Adecco Group
Olsten Staffing Services
1991-01-01 - 1994-01-01
Olsten Staffing Services
Skills
Summary
Tim has over 30 years of corporate IT and startup experience across numerous industries. Currently he is working for Ansible, a Red Hat company, in their product management team as a product evangelist focusing on Ansible and Kubernetes. Prior to joining Ansible, Tim worked in the finance industry leading a team of engineers focused on automated testing, deployment, orchestration and configuration of trading systems. Tim also operated his own consultancy, The Appnel Group, specializing in web publishing, social networking and cloud computing solutions. Tim is an active member of the Ansible open source project community almost since its inception in addition to other open source projects He was also an active member of the Movable Type (MT) blog/web publishing software community since version 1.2 (December 2001) that included the foundation of an open source fork of the software called Melody. He is widely credited with spearheading the development of the first corporate weblog to use MT. In addition to being a technologist, Tim also has a background in amateur publications ("fanzines"), which include co-founding Oculus Magazine, a free indie music and arts publication, in 1991 and managing it for over seven years. Tim's outside interests include strength training, volleyball, making (and drinking) craft cocktails, travel, listen to his growing and eclectic music collection and DJing amongst others.
