David Brewster began his technical career in the USAF with a focus on electronic engineering technology. In the military Dave operated and maintained systems utilized for Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR).

Dave separated from the military and accepted an IT position within a leading financial services firm. There, Dave was a large-scale enterprise UNIX engineer supporting UNIX, mainframe, and storage infrastructure solutions. Following the financial services firm, Dave transitioned into healthcare IT operations and engineering for one of the nation’s largest hospitals. As a hands-on IT manager, Dave continued supporting UNIX and storage solutions while expanding his involvement into network routing and supervising support of end-user compute.

Dave then moved to a global manufacturer where he provided complex UNIX and storage engineering for an ERP environment. Here, he helped lead the transition from mainframe to ERP on supercomputers, implementation of SAN fabrics, and deployment of self-healing UNIX automation.

Following these successes, Dave joined the professional services division of the global leader in enterprise data storage solutions. Dave delivered complex and large-scale technical projects across numerous business sectors and industries. Dave progressed from Implementation Specialist and Solutions Architect to Practice Manager. As a Practice Manager, Dave led a team of resident consultants throughout the Midwest region of the US during years of rapid growth in the tech industry.

After 9 years with the data storage leader, Dave launched his own firm, Olenbrook Technical Services with a focus on developing tools and methodologies for migrating compute workloads and datastores between on-prem data centers and cloud data centers, along with advanced UNIX automation. The firm was granted access into IBM’s Global Entrepreneur program and supplied with numerous IBM software and assets and intellectual property. Dave’s firm expanded its portfolio to offer numerous infrastructure optimization assessments. This ultimately led to Dave joining one of the big 5 management consulting firms to bring the offerings to a broader market and at a larger scale.

In 2013, Dave joined a data center infrastructure channel partner as a Consulting Manager to help the organization grow its Professional Services organization. There, Dave led a team of virtualization specialists, network engineers, storage consultants, and project managers. Dave also provided Management Consulting to executives. This was accomplished by co-creating value with customer sponsors through planning sessions to identify and understand the customer’s targeted business outcomes, followed by the deployment of applicable solution strategies.

The impact of COVID-19 on the economy spurred Dave to step away from leading technical services and focus on assisting the greater technology industry and cross-sector economy. In 2020 Dave moved into the role of Technology Sector Director for one of the nation's leading economic development firms. In this role Dave worked to boost innovation, drive job creation, and invite new capital investment in the State of Ohio.

Dave provided management consulting and functioned as a subject matter expert for electronics design and manufacturing, electronics packaging, semiconductor foundry services, data centers, cloud infrastructure, software development, IT service providers and integrators, XaaS firms, and more. Dave consulted with academic institutions, venture capital firms, start-ups, public and private sector companies, real estate developers, research firms, and more.

Early 2022 proved to be break-out year for Ohio and brought Ohio onto the global stage. Dave served as semiconductor industry SME and Technical SME for a multi-tier economic develop team of local, regional, state, and federal resources, that attracted a multi-billion-dollar computer chip megafab to Ohio. The first of its kind to the State and U.S. region, bringing and estimated $100BIL in capital investment to Ohio, when fully developed. The complex has the potential of being the largest computer chip manufacturing campus on the planet. The chips fabricated in Ohio utilize the latest in manufacturing technology. This win for Ohio and the nation, emboldened a broader strategy to grow the semiconductor industry and electronics manufacturing throughout Ohio. Since this major fabrication win, Dave has continued to work at building out the semiconductor ecosystem in Ohio by targeting R&D, design, and advanced packaging for both commercial and defense use cases.

Ohio's technology sector is rapidly expanding as a result of investment by companies of all shapes and sizes, who deliver solutions addressing the needs of a broad spectrum of technology use cases both within commercial and defense applications.

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