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Waltham, MA, US

Massachusetts, United States

Technical leadership of Delphix Connectors to adapt Delphix Virtualization to SAP HANA, IBM DB2, Postgres and MySQL databases, and to provision Delphix datasets as persistent volumes into Kubernetes-orchestrated containers.This role is a very good intersection of passions for database internals, & computing performance, combined with tens-of-years of.

San Jose, CA

Xcalar enables enterprises to integrate & unify modern data (structured+semi-structured+unstructured) - to extract value & insight from disparate, scattered raw data through relational algebra implemented entirely in-memory at massive scale.

Massachusetts

Technical expert and delivery quarterback for multiple, concurrent customer implementations of network-based storage virtualization and data masking. Heavy emphasis on computing ecosystem design, sizing/configuration and measurement (ie: computing hosts, hypervisors & vm’s, network and storage). Accountable for overall post-sale customer.

Teradata Labs

Analyst, researcher and advisor on in-memory and large-memory architectures for database operations in Teradata products and strategy. Larger caches, storage tiering with DRAM+flash+hdd, columnar data organization, and integration of unstructured methods/technologies were areas of focus.Responsible for closely tracking SAP Hana and HP Vertica as innovators.

Ownership of Netezza benchmark strategy for competitive positioning; hands-on design, execution and publication of benchmarks. Worked closely with engineering to maximize results, illuminate issues and explore enhancements.Technical advisor to strategic accounts and evanglist to user community.Teamed with IBM Competitive Project Office to benchmark Netezza.

Technical and organizational leadership of a Professional Services firm focused on large, eclectic enterprise-class information systems and solutions. Often requiring differentiated expertise in relational database and application technologies, the ultimate objective is to achieve practical, reasonable and efficient information systems to solve business.

Merged into Kana senior management team after acquisition of Aperio during summer of 2000. Primary responsibilities: technical architect, technical practice leader, engagement and account/project management for multiple, large-scale customer engagements. Specific emphasis on optimization and parallelization of database applications to achieve high volume.

Founding member of Aperio, a professional services firm that focused on marketing process & automation, marketing technology and marketing systems development. Responsible for technology strategy and platform selection of CRM and Marketing solutions. Emphasized strategic value of relational database technology in the solution stack.Aperio was ultimately.

• Technology and project leadership, delivery & management for Tanning, a strategic systems consulting organization that specialized in enterprise systems for Fortune-500 organizations. Tanning specialized in deep.
• Systems design, architecture & selection
• Physical database design
• Database performance measurement & optimization
• Technical methodology development
• Technical team leadership & development

• Charter member of performance/benchmark, technology and performance laboratory to attract high-end business computing market attracted to SGI by potential for high-performance, high-capacity SMP systems.Major.
• proof-of-concept and benchmark design, execution and management
• industry benchmark (TPC) execution and optimization
• hardware, operating system & database performance measurement
• strategic technical support of established customers
• escalated customer problem resolution

KSR manufactured massively-parallel hardware systems, which patented a proprietary large-memory design called All-Cache to allow large programs and datasets to reside and operate in main memory. KSR's primary competitors were Thinking Machines and Ncube during this era. KSR ported Oracle7 to 64bit Unix. KSR offered parallel query capabilities and.

On-site technical lead for Oracle Consulting at various strategic customers, primarily focused on database topics and internals for strategic customer consulting engagements. Communication hub for RDBMS technical support at strategic customer accounts. Member of National Technical Response Team for escalated technical matters. Engaged in over 50 customer.

Designed, developed, deployed and managed suite of applications and computing infrastructure for science and administration of Physics research. Evolved home-grown applications into a cohesive set of systems based on Oracle technology in support of academic and administrative applications at MIT LNS.Had to "wear all the hats" to convert home-grown.