CTO Telecom Transformation Recruited by the Office of the CTO to a dedicated incubation team for NFV and Carrier Grade Cloud initiatives.Generation of strategic plan, technology roadmap, business positioning, and development required to reinvent Enterprise Cloud offerings for emerging CSP NFV initiatives. Integrated technical expertise and solid engineering practices with an understanding of customer needs to identify quick hit opportunities and areas for critical investment. Fostered partnerships with product teams, manufacturing, sales, services. Re-envisioned customer engagement model from traditional product-by-product to incorporate multiple product technologies, 3rd party elements and services to enable bespoke but repeatable implementations. Coordinated with industry forums, technology partners, and early adopters. Efforts combined experience in Enterprise class deployments, core storage technologies, converged Infrastructure, virtualization, real time analytics, development and quality practices, manufacturing integration, and lifecycle service support. Developed converged infrastructure system architecture to achieve key performance and massive scale-out requirements. Defined roadmap for new server/switch platforms optimized to CSP application. Drove product redesigns to industry unique compliance and environment requirements. Collaborated with software and professional services teams to develop orchestration tools and deployment services offerings needed. Heavy emphasis on open platform and OpenStack implementation hardened for Carrier Grade application and No-touch automated deployment. Engaged global partners on joint bid proposals and POC deployment opportunities.

OEM Engineering Services Leadership Staff for a newly organized OEM Business Unit focused on application of EMC product technology in emerging data driven offerings within industry leading verticals. Coverage included engagements in Oil&Gas, Telecom, Security, Video Surveillance, Energy, and Healthcare. Built engineering capability to deliver EMC product as embedded technologies in purpose built solutions. Primary engineering consult for field teams to enable partner implementations. Coordinated activities with OEMs' engineering teams and internally between product teams, manufacturing, services, business, and logistics teams. Addressed vertical unique issues of product applicability, customization, standards conformance, brand alignment, performance optimization. Influenced product roadmaps and design for recurrent application.

Solutions Integration EngineeringLeadership covering Solution Engineers with direct product team interaction and Systems Engineering with responsibility for system design and product structure. Established hardware solutions development as a central resource for product organizations. Simultaneous engagement with numerous product teams supporting independent product release plans.Hardware systems development for Xtremio, VMAX SP, GreenPlum/HADOOP, Avamar, Recoverpoint, VPLEX, RapidPath, Centera, Rainfinity, ATMOS, RSA (DPM/DLP/SecurID), Kazeon, CTA, CDL/EDL, DLm. Intel server platform support for Symmetrix, USD, Isilon, Data Domain. Managed initial engagements with RSA envision/Silicium, HPC, FBU, VCE, and CTO NGDC Adv Dev. Responsible for complete portfolio of partnered servers/switches spanning multiple vendor relationships and technology generations. Led System Integration engineering for execution of the end to end solutions. Multi-discipline team provided expertise in release structures, configuration, software drivers/tools, stackup, cabling, Power/Thermal and DFx considerations. Engineering System/rack level design, power/thermal analysis, and first article support with manufacturing. Provided coordination with Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Service organizations. Executed architecture and development ranging from standalone appliances to complex multi-element scalable systems. Provided multi-discipline development expertise with special emphasis as first point of contact for EMC technology acquisitions and software centric product teams. Balanced “commonality with customization” approach to address diverse target applications while realizing efficiencies cross-organizationally, including shared hardware and software, supply chain, manufacturing, service support, and customer experience. Approach drastically reduced development cost and TTM for both products and technology refreshes.

OEM Platform EngineeringLeader for Platform Engineering responsible for Server class platforms and Network switches. Championed efforts for standards based platforms to augment traditional purpose built proprietary approaches. Coverage included server based platforms, network switches, and power components. Executed vendor/platform selection, qualification, customization, configuration, application integration and lifecycle support inclusive of hardware, firmware/BIOS, and software/tools. Forged relationships with key platform and integration partners including; Dell, Intel, Foxconn, Cisco, Brocade, Allied Telesis, Arista, Network Engines, Arrow, Avnet, Flextronics, Whalley.

Centera - Hardware Systems EngineeringLaunched industry's first Content Addressed Storage leading to widespread adoption of object based storage. Engineering lead responsible for all aspects of system development. Hand-picked for an internal “Start-up” for incubation based on a software technology acquisition. Key contributor to 5 Generations of Centera Archive Storage beginning from initial product concept.Engaged directly with key technologists and executive management to establish product and market targets. Established a mutli-discipline team and partner-enabled development strategy to successfully execute a fast turn, revolutionary product with limited time and resources. Drew on past experience to balance proprietary value ownership with open platform leverage. Established OEM and third-party relationships still in active deployment today. This model became EMC standard for integration of software technology acquisitions.Broke with tradition of purpose built proprietary hardware system to implement company's first scale-out Linux based cluster architecture. Responsible for all aspects of Server Platforms, Networking, Linux OS/Software/Tools and System Integration. Drove hardware and software hardening required to transform technology concept to readiness for Enterprise class expectations. Pioneered alternative approaches such as software-driven system resiliency, self-grooming service models and seamless technology generation migration.

CLARiiON - Hardware Engineering ArchitectureCross-organizational role responsible for roadmap and architecture guidance for EMC CLARiiON product. Advisor to CLARiiON executive management in influencing strategic direction for hardware product. Led adoption of new technologies in interface standards and processor architectures leading to new levels of performance and scalability.

CLARiiON - Hardware Engineering Introduced leading edge technology in High Availability RAID Storage development bringing new levels of scalability and robustness to midrange storage. Progressively increasing contribution from individual contributor responsible for Storage Processor design and ramping to responsibility as Engineering Manager of Hardware inclusive of SP engineering, CAD, PC Design Engineering, and Signal Integrity. Key contributor to CLARiiON SCSI RAID Product, CLARiiON Fibre Channel Scalable RAID Products, multiple generations of CLARiiON Storage Processors and full product series.Founding member of a startup-styled environment for development of disruptive technology. Garnered executive management support for entry into storage market. Leadership role in organization's transformation from a concept to an industry recognized leader in storage. Breadth of responsibilities inclusive of technology/product advocate, system architect, engineering design. Active pioneer for new technologies, including RAID, Fibre Channel, and new concepts in High Availability and scalable systems. Drove acceptance for new standards and directly influenced specifications and features with external technology partners and industry forums.

MV Systems and Communications ProductsDesign engineer for computer systems and communication controllers with a mix of proprietary and standards based. Worked as both individual contributor and team leader responsible for hardware design ranging from board level products to system level offerings. Key contributor for Communication system options, MV1500/3500, MV5500/5600 Systems, Data Channel and MRC SCSI Interfaces products and MVHADA RAID System.Contributions evolved to fit business trends, beginning with communications products, expanding to desktop systems replacing mainframes, and transitioning to storage product focus as an untapped market. Led development on numerous product with increasing levels of technical, cross-functional, and management responsibility. Recognized for attention to design quality, cost and schedule.

Assumed a variety of roles including computer center operations, software build release manager, and hardware engineering technician. Operations responsibilities covered both early datacenter management and maintenance of telephony customer “Big Data” Rate-Route database. Executed software source management and release builds for Unix based OS. Engaged in proof of concept development for rack level RAM-DISK Solid State storage system.