Experience

DDN Storage

• United States
• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Tech Lead, Software Defined Storage

  • Apr 2017 - Present



bartonsoftware.com

• Bristol, United Kingdom

• Director

  • Jul 2016 - Mar 2017

  Consultant - high performance storage Consultant - high performance storage



Intel Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Architect, High Performance Data Division

  • Jul 2012 - Jun 2016



Whamcloud

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Jul 2010 - Jul 2012

  Scalable Storage for High Performance Computing Scalable Storage for High Performance Computing



Oracle

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Engineer, Lustre Group

  • Mar 2010 - Jul 2010

  Technical lead for the Lustre engineering group. Technical lead for the Lustre engineering group.



Sun Microsystems

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lead Engineer, Lustre Group

  • Oct 2007 - Apr 2010

  Technical lead for the Lustre engineering group. Technical lead for the Lustre engineering group.



Barton Software

• Consultant

  • Jun 1998 - Oct 2007

  Consultant on HPC computing and networking. Worked on Lustre from 2002. Consultant on HPC computing and networking. Worked on Lustre from 2002.



Hyundai Electronics America / Axil Computer

• Concord MA

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Feb 1997 - Jun 1998

  Worked as an NT kernel programmer, implementing support for Axil's 8-way SMP. Also benchmarking and tuning sqlServer. Worked as an NT kernel programmer, implementing support for Axil's 8-way SMP. Also benchmarking and tuning sqlServer.



Barton Software

• Consultant

  • Feb 1996 - Feb 1997

  Consultant on High Performance Computing and networking. Consultant on High Performance Computing and networking.



Meiko

• Co-founder

  • 1985 - 1996

  We produced what today would be called HPC clusters, starting from the Transputer, through Transputer + Sparc/SunOs to Elan + Sparc/Solaris. Led the software team and personally implemented many subsystems including pfs (a parallel filesystem) and application communications libraries. Also worked with Oracle to port Oracle Parallel Server to the cluster and implemented the distributed lock manager and block storage services. We produced what today would be called HPC clusters, starting from the Transputer, through Transputer + Sparc/SunOs to Elan + Sparc/Solaris. Led the software team and personally implemented many subsystems including pfs (a parallel filesystem) and application communications libraries. Also worked with Oracle to port Oracle Parallel Server to the cluster and implemented the distributed lock manager and block storage services.



Inmos

• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant Technologist

  • 1980 - 1985

  Implemented Fat Freddy (symbolic layout, interactive DRC) / Hed (Floor planning, full chip DRC & circuit verification) components of the Inmos VLSI design system. Implemented Fat Freddy (symbolic layout, interactive DRC) / Hed (Floor planning, full chip DRC & circuit verification) components of the Inmos VLSI design system.