LEADERSHIP TEAM

Olocity’s leadership team puts decades of diverse open source and standards experience to work for each of their clients, as well as the online community of developers they have fostered. Respected industry leaders, they each play an active role in advancing standards and creating innovative IT solutions that help end users around the globe better monitor and manage their data centers.

Kurt Krems, Chief Executive Officer

In his role as chief executive officer for Olocity Corporation, Kurt Krems is a consummate advocate for open source and open source communities. He is the architect of the xIM test and monitoring infrastructure, and the visionary and creator of StorageIM – a passion that began during the off-hours of his day job to find an open source standards solution that reduces IT costs.

With more than 15 years of software development experience, Kurt has built standards-based management applications for companies like Tek-Tools, Diogenes Labs, McData, Level 3 Communications and Crosswalk Inc. Kurt has worked in all facets of software application development, gaining a clear understanding of the best practices in design. He also led and designed stand-alone software, database-driven applications and e-commerce-based applications. He has fulfilled various roles during the software development life cycle, such as project leader and manager, database architecture and administrator, software developer and standards architect.

Kurt is known for his vast expertise developing highly scalable, rich enterprise-class applications based on CIM, SNMP and Web services-based technologies for client discovery, events and provisioning.

He served as co-chair for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) MAP working group, as well as helped develop client test cases for a SNIA client testing framework. During his downtime, Kurt enjoys relaxing with his wife and daughter, as well as honing his woodturning skills, a specialized form of wood working.

Hope Hines, Chief Operating Officer

As chief operating officer for Olocity Corporation, Hope Hines leverages her 20-year track record of success. During that time, she has managed high-profile IT programs for Fortune 500 companies; won the CEO Award of Excellence at State Farm Corporation; and led computer industry vendors to deliver breakthrough enterprise management technologies, tools and standards like SMI-S.

Hope also has planned, designed and implemented numerous IT projects within data centers and network operation centers (NOC), with particular emphasis on systems management, deployment of networks and applications, and data centers from the ground up. She has held numerous leadership positions within her professional organizations, and currently serves as a program consultant for emerging technologies for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).

Much of the management and leadership experience that helped Hope succeed in the corporate world came from her military background, where she was responsible for training teams that supplied battlefield management systems in Desert Storm. Today Hope advises young, enlisted personnel about their military career options, as well as volunteers time to help them make smooth transitions into professional life as civilians.

Hope earned her Masters of Science degree in Project Management from Colorado Technical University.

Scott Baker, Chief Technology Officer

Scott Baker is well recognized for his expertise in standards-based storage management. He has received several industry honors, including awards from the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), where in the last year he was named SMI Distinguished Engineer.

During Scott's extensive career, he has contributed in multiple roles including architecture, management and marketing. During Scott’s storage career, he has worked at iStor Networks, Aristos Logic, CMD Technology and Storage Concepts. At iStor Networks he architected and deployed one of the first embedded SMI-S agents for a storage server.

A charter contributor to the Storage Management Initiative (SMI), he has authored several SMI-S profiles enabling interoperable management of high-availability, RAID mapping and iSCSI. Scott currently serves as chair of the SNIA Disk Resource Management technical working group, has chaired the SNIA IP Storage technical working group, and is a core member of the SMI Technical Steering group. In support of SMI, Scott has participated in the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) Network and Schema management working groups.

Scott holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of California at Riverside.

In his leisure time, Scott enjoys Telemark skiing, as well as interpreting railroad history to the communities throughout Southern California as a fireman on an operating mainline steam locomotive.