Marty Lyons has been involved in distributed computing for three decades, in development, academia, research, finance, and consulting. Currently he is in the early research stages for a new start-up company. Previously he co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer of KineticTide, the principal technology later extended at Avvenu, which was acquired by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) in 2007. He was one of the founders and Chief Technology Officer at OneMain.com (previously NASDAQ: ONEM), which in six months became one of the ten largest Internet Service Providers in the U.S. with over half a million customers and service in 28 states; OneMain was acquired by Earthlink (NASDAQ: ELNK) in 2000. From 1993-97 he served as Director of Network Operations at America Online (previously NYSE: AOL), where he led the team which built one of the largest and most complex distributed networks in the world, growing to support over eight million customers in just three years.

He has also held management and research positions at South Pole Station, Antarctica (southern-most data and communications center); Ultra Network Technologies (world's first 1Gb/s supercomputer network supporting Unix and IBM mainframe connections), Lockheed (large-scale heterogeneous compute and network facility), and the New Jersey Institute of Technology (development of the EIES computerized conferencing system, and joint research with IBM Palo Alto Scientific Center).

His consulting and advisory experience includes customers ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500 in computing, telecommunications, software, finance, security, and challenging environments such as the high arctic; consulting is managed through Sprocket Labs, LLC. Marty holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Maryland, a Master of Software Engineering from Seattle University, a M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Washington, and has studied technology management at the MIT Sloan School; he is a Senior Member of the IEEE and ACM.

Marty's research interests include organization of customer-centric enterprises, design and operational issues in large systems, autonomous and self-optimizing architectures, macro and monetary economics, nanotechnology, biological and quantum computing, transportation, aviation and space systems, and the history of technology.

photography

As a photographer, Marty has published internationally with particular emphasis on landscapes, adventure, travel, city, and sports imaging, as well as environmental portraiture. A large catalog of work of the Canadian high arctic (North Pole, expeditions and support) is available. Most work is in 35mm format, with a large library of panoramic Xpan images (24x65mm), as well as 6x6 medium format. All images are available color-calibrated and press-ready from Imacon scans, and are licensed directly to the client. Cut sheets from published work are available upon request. Custom prints are available in various sizes, depending on the image type. Completed work, including stock library and for-sale prints, is available at http://photos.martylyons.com. For specific or complex requirements, please send email.

field skills

Using one car Marty has driven through all 50 U.S. states (including all significant geographic points), every Canadian province (including complete route of the Trans-Canada Highway, and north across the Arctic Circle to Inuvik, NWT), and into Mexico. He was the first person to ever celebrate New Years in all 24 time zones (while at the South Pole); has landed on sea ice at the North Pole by small aircraft multiple times; can pilot or drive almost every type of craft (from aircraft to dogsleds); can navigate well by dead-reckoning, pilotage, or celestial methods; is skilled in backcountry trekking and challenging environments (polar regions, mountains); can repair and fabricate components quickly out of a variety of materials; and has designed and hand-crafted an environmentally-sensitive house and landscape. He has yet to run a mile in less than 5:00.