Experience

Starfish Storage

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal Solutions Architect and GUI Product Manager

  • Sep 2017 - Present



Dell EMC

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

• Principal Solutions Architect

  • Sep 2014 - Apr 2017

  Involved in many aspects of technical marketing and solution architecture on small team at DSSD (bought by EMC, bought by Dell). Activities / accomplishments included: - Wrote first technical product slide decks, technical whitepapers, FAQs - Tested, benchmarked, proved, documented internally and externally, determined best practices, and presented various solutions, esp. clustered file systems like GPFS (IBM Spectrum Scale) - Presented customer executive briefings, architected solutions, support sales teams in proposing solutions - Hands on deployment work (various Linux distros), debugging, performance tuning, ongoing POC support - Supported other team members via tech editing, document writing, copy editing, PRD review, knowledge transfer, tech advice, product management input. Show less



Pluribus Networks

• United States
• Computer Networking Products
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Solutions Architect

  • Aug 2012 - Sep 2014

  As Chief Solutions Architect helped Pluribus Networks (www.pluribusnetworks.com) to move from stealth-mode startup to a world-class datacenter component. As CSA I created the first technical presentations and documents, presented to customers and at conferences, implemented solutions in the field and provided customer feedback to product management. I also wrote FAQs, blogged, tested and benchmarked solutions. As Chief Solutions Architect helped Pluribus Networks (www.pluribusnetworks.com) to move from stealth-mode startup to a world-class datacenter component. As CSA I created the first technical presentations and documents, presented to customers and at conferences, implemented solutions in the field and provided customer feedback to product management. I also wrote FAQs, blogged, tested and benchmarked solutions.



Anewdomain.net

• Senior Contributor

  • Dec 2011 - Dec 2013

  Senior contributor to the start-up technology web site Anewdomain.net Senior contributor to the start-up technology web site Anewdomain.net



Byte Magazine

• Senior Contributor

  • Apr 2011 - Apr 2013

  One of the team helping to restart Byte Magazine. One of the team helping to restart Byte Magazine.



CTI DATA

• United States
• Data Infrastructure and Analytics
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • Jun 1995 - Sep 2012

  Corporate Technologies provides IT consulting services, project staffing, and systems integration to clients seeking continual transformation and optimization of their IT and Data infrastructures. Through the effective use of Virtualization, Cloud Computing, and High Impact Business Intelligence, we help our clients reduce operational costs, protect critical IT assets, and position themselves for growth. Strategic Partners include: Commvault, F5, IBM, Microsoft, NetApp, Oracle, Oracle/Sun, SAP, Symantec & VMware As CTO, my responsibilities ranged from helping acquire new customers to on-boarding best-of-breed products for us to sell and support, through to hands on implementation of some of those technologies. Work also included blogging, technical thought leadership, presentations, responding to RFPs, sizing and proposing professional service projects, and helping with personnel decisions. My last project was jumpstarting our cloud computing consulting practice including designing and executing cloud readiness assessments. Show less



Boston University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Instructor

  • Jan 2011 - May 2012

  Teaching EC 440 - Introduction to Operating Systems Teaching EC 440 - Introduction to Operating Systems



USENIX Association

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Instructor

  • 1990 - 2010

  Teach tutorials about Solaris, security, ZFS, performance Teach tutorials about Solaris, security, ZFS, performance



Brown University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Manager

  • Sep 1989 - Jun 1995

  Systems Manager at Brown's Computer Science Dept, with lead technical responsibility for the infrastructure, including networking, a firewall, Sun servers and 160 Sun workstations. Systems Manager at Brown's Computer Science Dept, with lead technical responsibility for the infrastructure, including networking, a firewall, Sun servers and 160 Sun workstations.



Yale University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Systems Programmer

  • Jul 1987 - Aug 1989

  Systems programmer at the Computer Sciences Department at Yale University, installing and managing all of the system and application software. Systems programmer at the Computer Sciences Department at Yale University, installing and managing all of the system and application software.



University of Texas at Austin

• MS Student

  • 1984 - 1987

  Thesis involved adding atomic transaction support to the SunOS kernel Thesis involved adding atomic transaction support to the SunOS kernel