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Multi-disciplinary Systems and Software Engineering Professional balancing the power of innovative technologies with the demands of real-world implementation. Experienced in all aspects of systems from architecture/design, product selection, installation/configuration/provisioning, and testing, to ongoing life-cycle administration, monitoring, backup, and updating. Proficient from embedded systems, hardware infrastructure and networking, up the “stack” through virtualization, API libraries, to high performance, low-latency applications, and large data flows. Expertise in both low-latency transaction processing/messaging and HPC-oriented large data flows, big data, and stream processing. Expert in disk and tape storage, SANs, NAS, networking, and performance optimization and troubleshooting including device driver optimization. Identifies and manages risks of immature technology. Known for encyclopedic-like knowledge and experience of hardware, software, and business processes. Trusted advisor and “go-to” person. Excellent communication skills and techniques to convey information with appropriate levels of details. Company spokesperson on technical issues. Quick and lifetime learner. Active member of technical forums and communities.Multiple-disciplinary, subject matter expert available for staff augmentation and “Special Projects”. Expertise in:• Technology assessments, performance, and capacity planning, critical troubleshooting, mentoring, and knowledge transfer. “Special Projects”• Proof-of-concept evaluation, testing and deployment using automation tools for improved time-to-results.• Automated provisioning, configuration and patching using Ansible and other automation tools. • Performance troubleshooting, auditing, monitoring and optimization. Network, CPU, Memory, Storage, Virtualization, Hyper-Converged-Infrastructure, and Applications.• Trusted advisor and “go-to” person

Brookfield, Ct, Us

Multiple-disciplinary, subject matter expert responsible for supporting and designing enterprise-level traditional and HPC systems and data centers for the semiconductor photomask industry.• Hardware selection, proof-of-concept evaluation, testing, and deployment of 30-node proprietary hyper-converged cluster, using NVMe SSD storage, quad 100 Gbit EDR InfiniBand, and native InfiniBand storage. Automated provisioning, configuration, and patching using Ansible and other provisioning tools. 4.7 GHz overclocked CPUs were used.• Analyses, installs, modifies, and supports operating systems, data bases, and utility software in both a HPC-cluster and non-HPC environment. Virtualized and non-virtualized.• Upgraded VMware ESXi/Vcenter clusters from version 5.5 to 6.5 using Ansible playbooks.• Plans, conducts, and directs the analysis of business problems involving automated workflow systems.• Contributes to the development, testing, evaluation, and design of system and infrastructure architecture used through the IT solution set, including cloud-based environments.

San Jose, California, Us

Multiple-disciplinary, subject matter expert for a scale-out, ultra-high-performance, storage vendor. Engaging spokesperson for Panasas products, high performance storage technologies, and workflows.• Provided design, verification, and implementation services for 100+ GB/sec. scale-out storage systems. • Optimized media and entertainment workflows by improving performance while maintaining consistent IO latencies demanded by video.• Spearheaded project to improve per-client performance beyond 1 GB/sec.• Prepared technology-related marketing “white-papers” papers.• Enhanced corporate marketing presentations to better engage the customer.• Provided pre- and post-sales account management.• Delivered show-floor product presentations as exhibitor at industry conferences.

Bristol, Ct, Us

VP-level "Special Projects". Multi-disciplinary knowledge resource for executive management, providing “Gartner-like” research for CTO and other executive management.• Designed "Google Storage" for ESPN with stellar performance, lowering storage costs five+ fold, and enabling new generation of useful workflows. Achieved 50% more performance than vendors’ “best practices by identifying and resolving bottlenecks hindering scaling. Deployed 13 PB in five years. Gained significant competitive cost advantage. 3,600 MB/sec per 4U shelf with no flash needed. Used IBM GPFS.• Optimized block IO and networking IO stacks, gaining competitive advantage for production workflows.• Researched technology advancement in video production and distribution, including video distribution into and within the home and the underlying infrastructure technologies to store and deliver video. • Prepared technology-related briefing and research papers. • Identified and assisted deployment of new technology into operational departments.• Successfully resolved virtualized Exchange performance problem with business-critical impact, unable to be resolved after three months of vendor escalation.• Member of Enterprise Architecture committee. Represented ESPN in SMPTE standards committee.

Bristol, Ct, Us

VP-level “Special Projects”. Multi-disciplinary knowledge resource for CIO and executive management in the Media and Information Technology department. Provided input and recommendations to management and staff. Prepared technology-related briefing and research papers.• Researched and tracked technologies for the data center, five+ years out.• Identified promising technologies, promoted their use within the company, and assisted deploying these technologies into operational departments. • Performed “make vs. buy” assessments resulting in more effective use of budget and staff.• Assisted other departments as requested in the areas of technology assessments, performance, and capacity planning, critical troubleshooting, mentoring, and knowledge transfer. • Assisted in technology and intellectual property assessment for potential acquisitions.• “Go-to-person”, used to get conceptual “arms” around a problem, who was then often tasked to bring the solution to fruition working with operational department.

Marlborough, Ma, Us

Offer feedback on Sepaton's product roadmap

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Providing pre-sales support, solutions architecting, and performance consulting to the TSG Northeast group. • Active member of elite EMC SPEED performance-specialists group sponsored by EMC R&D.• Resolved three performance-related customer escalations, maintaining customer satisfaction and expanding multi-million dollar accounts.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Senior staff individual contributor working on special engineering projects as directed by management:• Resolved several performance-related customer escalations• Provided pre-sales technical support of large customers• Reviewed and contributed to ongoing unannounced development projects

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Member of core group used to launch new Network Attached Storage (NAS) overlay sales and systems force:• Recruited, staffed, and trained fellow members of new 300-person NAS sales/systems team. • Developed detailed NAS evaluation test plan used nationally in several large sales campaigns.• Developed training and presentation material for NAS topics• Co-taught internal EMC training for NAS SE’s• Established strong technical rapport with customers• Exceeded all quarterly sales goals. • Worldwide NAS revenue expanded from $300M to $1000M during this period.

Las Rozas, Madrid, Es

Business-Unit-level staff position focusing on pre-sales and post-sales technical issues of major DG customers, including leading-edge architecture, design, and deployment of large complex systems, involving multiple terabytes of storage, clustered systems, data replication, SAN and Ethernet networking.Generated $100K-$300K/year “expert” level consulting revenue stream used to drive additional DG hardware revenue.Improved customer satisfaction and increased ongoing revenue flow of these major multi-million dollar/year accounts.Created tools and standard processes to reduce complexity and improve quality of design, layout, and administration of such large systems. Deployed large multi-tier client-server enterprise applications involving: • Citrix• Oracle• Oracle Financials• SAP• Oracle Parallel Server• DG/UX Clusters• Windows NT/2000 clusters• Brocade SANs Developed custom system stress tests to validate design and proper operations.

Las Rozas, Madrid, Es

THE senior technical field resource for Data General Open Systems in North America.• Company spokesperson, both internal and external, regarding DG’s Open Systems products and strategy (Intel 80x86 Unix, NT, Motorola RISC UNIX, CLARiiON disk arrays).• Multi-disciplinary, internal and external consultant for DG supporting pre-sales and post sales initiatives. Participant in internal DG “task forces” with executive visibility. Provided critical consulting support for large international customers in UK, France, Mexico, Japan, and Australia.• Strong experience with porting software to different platforms. Sales Million Dollar Club Award in 1996 (as SE). Professional Services Systems Engineer of the Year in 1992.

Las Rozas, Madrid, Es

Senior member of initial Open Systems overlay group for new Data General Open-Systems products in the Eastern US.Product launch and rollout of new strategic product line (AViiON) based on Motorola 88000 RISC processor and UNIX and Data General transition from proprietary to open systems platforms. • Technical and commercial focus• Coordinated all business unit technical issues• Technical marketing feedback to corporate product marketing and R&D• Hands-on resolution of technical, marketing, and training issues• Consulting services to the field branch sales/systems for both pre- and post-sales issues • Project management • Brainstorming • Task group building • Mentoring/training• Software development• Managing proprietary product cannibalization Dotted-line responsibility for staff development and direction of field-level overlay UNIX-specific Systems Engineers

Las Rozas, Madrid, Es

• Multi-disciplinary, internal and external consultant• Provide chargeable expert-level consulting for major customers in the eastern U.S.• Provide consulting services to the field branch sales/systems departments for both pre-sales and post-sales issues• Provide staff-level debriefing to the Eastern Operations management (VP level) on technical product issues which effect business unit.• Coordination of technical marketing feedback to corporate product marketing and R&D• North American representative on corporate product committees and task forces involved with the product launch and direction of DG’s major high-end products (the MV/40000 and AOS/VS-II).• Taught several internal and external seminars on DG products• Authored portions of DG operating system internals manual• Developed many performance-oriented, analysis and utility toolsNorth American Systems Engineer of the year in 1986.

Las Rozas, Madrid, Es

• Dedicated to the newly created national General Electric marketing effort. • Coordination of all DG Systems Engineering services to GE worldwide• Provided direct Systems Engineering and consulting services to GE Corporate. Revenues increased from $14 million to over $30 million and several new divisions were penetrated.

Las Rozas, Madrid, Es

Senior SE providing systems engineering and consulting services to DG’s major customers in southern New England. Assisted in initial staffing and SE training for a new Data General office.Regional Systems Engineer of the year in 1982.

Las Rozas, Madrid, Es

Providing Systems Engineering services to DG’s customers in Connecticut, including on-site contract consulting.Authored business case to expand systems engineering consulting services as a business, including required software development methods needed to maintain appropriate control and ensure software quality and customer satisfaction. Pilot approved.Undergraduate and graduate instructor in Assembler Language Programming at the University of New Haven. Guest-lectured at Hartford Graduate Center.

West Haven, Ct, Us

Undergraduate and graduate instructor in Assembler Language Programming (Part Time)

Intel 8080 assembler language programmer for R&D project developing new word processor system. Responsible for design and implementation of: • User interface• Command processor • File management system • Power-up routines

Washington, Dc, Us

Officer, Nuclear Power Program. Navy ROTC scholarship 1971-1975

Troy, Ny, Us

• Ported batch matrix algebra program to timesharing system. • Supervised a department of six people providing “help desk” services to timesharing users.

Ms, Computer And Information Science

Nuclear Power Systems

Bs, Computer And Systems Engineering