Andrew Stanley

Andrew Stanley, SMS' Chief Technology Officer, joined in 2002 as a junior network engineer, supporting Department of Defense IT infrastructures and leading programs for the Executive Office of the President and DARPA. Promoted to Director of Engineering in 2021, he drove talent development and innovation across the company. A private pilot at 16 and former U.S. Army Information Systems Analyst, Andrew earned an IT degree from George Mason University through the Army's Green to Gold program. View Andrew's LinkedIn

Leading vs. Following: Innovations in Reasoning AI

OpenAI's O1 and O3 models showcase groundbreaking reasoning capabilities, while efficient alternatives like DeepSeek R1 and s1 demonstrate
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The Crowdstrike Debacle: A Teachable Moment

In the wake of the recent Crowdstrike outage, we must reevaluate trust and security procedures.
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The Many Faces of Agile Integration

Programs, even simple projects, can seem like exercises in herding cats. I’d like to discuss an approach to
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Automating Operating System Hardening

Learn the importance of operating system hardening and how to automate your process with OpenSCAP, Ansible, Packer and
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SMS HCIaaS With Nutanix

IT infrastructure-as-a-service (ITaaS) models, such as hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) as a service (HCIaaS), are becoming more popular as
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Bare Metal to Kubernetes as a Service – Part 3 of 3

Integrating Rancher with Openstack simplifies the deployment and management of production-ready Kubernetes clusters at scale on any cloud,
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Bare Metal to Kubernetes as a Service – Part 2 of 3

Deploy an Openstack cloud on top of hosts managed by MAAS using Canonical's Juju, an open source application
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Bare Metal to Kubernetes as a Service – Part 1 of 3

For all of the gains made by Kubernetes as it relates to managing applications, there is a general
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