David Brewster began his technical career in the USAF, focusing 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 left the military and accepted an IT position at 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.

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, the implementation of SAN fabrics, and the 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, focused on developing tools and methodologies for migrating compute workloads and datastores between on-prem and cloud data centers, along with advanced UNIX automation. The firm was granted access to IBM’s Global Entrepreneur program and supplied with numerous IBM software assets and intellectual property. Dave’s firm expanded its portfolio to offer numerous infrastructure optimization assessments. This ultimately led Dave to join one of the Big 5 management consulting firms to bring the offerings to a broader market and on a larger scale.

In 2013, Dave joined a data center infrastructure channel partner as a Consulting Manager to help grow its Professional Services team. 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 Technology Sector Director role at 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 served as a subject-matter expert in 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 a breakout year for Ohio, bringing the state onto the global stage. Dave served as semiconductor industry SME and Technical SME for a multi-tier economic development 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 an 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 and electronics manufacturing industries across 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.

While continuing to support Ohio's semiconductor, AI, and technology investments, Dave is currently placing extra emphasis on the adoption of quantum computing to develop an Ohio quantum computing ecosystem. Hubs that advance quantum sensing, quantum networks, photonics, and invigorate use cases in advanced materials, aerospace, defense, finance, agriculture, energy, and healthcare.

Dave has achieved multiple MIT certificates on quantum computing and has daily access to IBM's Quantum Platform.