Drew Flaada
Chief Technology Officer at Ambient Clinical Analytics
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
About Drew Flaada
Drew Flaada is Chief Technology Officer at Ambient Clinical Analytics. Location: Rochester, Minnesota, United States.
Technology Executive with proven success leading significant new startup initiatives from initial concept into production and delivery. Respected leader with experience leading both small, highly talented teams as well as large international organizations. Known for developing strong collaborative relationships and creating and fostering a culture of innovation. > INTRAPRENEURING: Created teams from scratch to build successful new technologies and products in the areas of Cloud computing, healthcare and life sciences, high performance computing, and stream analytics. > PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT: Led large technical engineering organizations (150+ people) in both software and hardware development to successfully deliver new products and technologies, as well as manage their ongoing life cycle and support. > PRODUCT MANAGEMENT AND STRATEGY: Formed and led high performance teams to set cross-company product strategies, and then defined and managed the portfolio of products resulting from the strategy. > CLOUD COMPUTING AND OPENSTACK: Most recent experience in setting a corporate strategy around leveraging OpenStack as the core Infrastructure as a Service layer, and then building an international development team to engage in the community and deliver solutions based on OpenStack. > COMPLEX COLLABORATIONS: Established and led a multi-year complex collaboration between IBM and Mayo Clinic that completed multiple projects in the areas of individualized medicine, clinical genomics, and medical imaging analytics.
Skills
Additional experience
Senior Nordic/Alpine patroller
National Ski Patrol
Started January 1985
Education
- MSMOT, Technological Leadership Institute, University of Minnesota
- BSEEE, North Dakota State University