Jack Pressman

Managing Principal & Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Pressman has over 25 years of experience in designing and deploying advanced IT projects. He has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering.

Mr. Pressman has been designing and building mission critical IT facilities and wide area networks for the past over 15 years. He was the Technology Architect for the new Chicago Police Headquarters, the Chicago Police Wide Area Network, the Ford Supplier Campus (Chicago), the Burlington Northern Sante Fe Intermodal (Joliet) and the DuPage National Technology Park (West Chicago).

Mr. Pressman has extensive industry experience in enterprise-wide Business Continuity and Disaster / Workplace Recovery Plan implementation. Mr. Pressman is currently CDGI’s technology architect for developing over 1,500,000 SF of Tier 3 / Tier 3+ data center, collocation and disaster / workplace recovery facilities in conjunction with deploying a secure private 10 / 40 GbE optical network throughout North America.

Email: jackp@cyberdevgroup.com

Al Thomas

Chief Network Operations Officer
Mr. Thomas worked for over 33 years at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory where he most recently served as Assistant Division Head for network planning. In that capacity, he functioned as the principal architect of a dense wavelength communications link connecting Fermilab and the Starlight World-Wide Network (www.startap.net).

From 1990 to 2002, Mr. Thomas was the head of the Distributed Computing and Networking Department with ancillary duties as Assistant Division Head, Coordinator of Special Events and designated DOE Computer Program Protection Manager. Mr. Thomas oversees all Network and Optical Transport design engineering for CDGI.

Email: alt@cyberdevgroup.com