Tim Kehres Consulting – Network Infrastructure and Strategic Planning
This is the personal website for Tim Kehres. I am a senior systems architect and technical strategist with over 40 years experience designing, building, documenting and stabilizing complex infrastructure. I help companies avoid costly mistakes and scale reliably. I bring full lifecycle experience (startup through operational) with a breadth of experience across disciplines applying long-term systems thinking to bring business and technical requirements into alignment.
I am a US citizen and run my consulting business through my San Antonio, Texas address where I also have local phone access and US banking. I maintain full US government tax and FICA compliance making it very easy to work with me for US companies. At the moment I work out of my fully connected office in the Philippines and also maintain a small data center presence in Hong Kong. Flexible working arrangements allow me to overlap client operating hours or use a follow-the-sun approach as needed to best accommodate client needs.
Current Projects
I am currently experimenting with several local AI models running on our network. The intent is to be able to easily create local AI applications, first for our use and later for partner companies based on local proprietary data. For more information please contact me and I can share more specific details and possibly access to some of our test systems.
Career
I started my career as a hardware engineer designing microcontroller solutions based on the Intel 8748 (both hardware and software). Then moved into the systems area working for some of the first Silicon Valley companies providing commercial UNIX machines and later the first company commercializing the TCP/IP protocol stack. I later did applied R&D for LLNL where I was fortunate to work on new electronic email technologies and solutions together with International standards work. After LLNL I continued my work in the areas of electronic mail technologies by providing consulting services in the Silicon Valley area, eventually founding International Messaging Associates (IMA) where we built some of the first MIME-compliant gateway solutions for PC networks.
International Messaging Associates and the Move to Asia
In 1994, we relocated IMA to Hong Kong and grew it into a multi-million dollar business, later opening a second office in the Philippines to handle most of our test engineering, support, marketing, sales, and writing work. After IMA, I launched Jade Networks to offer Internet IT services, including datacenter management, consulting, and writing services. Through Jade Networks, we supported the development of the new Macau Name Registrar. Jade Networks continues to provide Internet services and consulting while developing educational solutions built on these services.
Consulting Services
I provide consulting services in the areas of Business and Technology Strategy and Planning, Systems Engineering, Infrastructure, Business and Technical Writing, Software Development, and IoT Design. Solutions include design, deployment, audit, capacity planning, and the security and monitoring of enterprise class servers, services and networks.
You can find more details on my Consulting Services pages.
Specializing in business and technology strategy and planning, I provide Strategic Technology Advisory for the AI Era. The core mission is to work together with and guide established enterprises, startups, and investors through the full lifecycle of technology-driven transformation.
I provide end-to-end expertise for modern infrastructure. In today’s environment of AI workloads, cybersecurity threats, and pressure to modernize infrastructure, organizations need more than generic cloud advice—they need proven solutions that spans decades of real-world deployment.
I help take the guesswork out of the design, operation, and expansion of your networks and applications. This includes operational areas including system, network, physical security, disaster planning and recovery, policy planning and analysis, server, application and network audits, data protection, and asset management.
I provide business and technical writing services in Enterprise Architecture, Security, API and other reference materials, RFPs, Business Plans, Marketing and Sales collateral. Deep domain and hands-on engineering experience help me create authoritative, clear, and concise documents that readers can easily understand.
I design, build, and run systems in high-availability environments including mission-critical code (C/C++, Python, JavaScript, jQuery, Shell, and Perl) in real-world Internet and data-center settings I bring full-stack networking expertise—from low-level sockets to high-level application protocols and services.
I’ve been involved with microcontroller based hardware design since the early 1980’s with the 8748. Recent work has been with the Raspberry Pi SBC and various Maker related microcontrollers (Arduino, Pico W, ESP32 and others). Related technologies include MQTT, IoT security, Node-Red in addition to numerous sensor and motor solutions.
For More Information
Explore my resume and work experience pages to learn more about my work history. Other information including how we can work together can be found on the Frequently Asked Questions page. Feel free to contact me at anytime with questions or for further information. You can reach me via email, instant messaging or phone anytime.