Christopher Hertel Email & Phone Number

Member of the Samba Team, developers of Samba (http://www.samba.org/).Lead author (under contract) of Microsoft's [MS-CIFS] and [MS-SMB] protocol specifications.

I have been writing software and contributing back to the community for many years.

St. Paul, Mn, Us

Advisory board member, overseeing the Bachelor of Applied Science in Information Technology Infrastructure at the College of Continuing and Professional Studies (CCAPS).https://ccaps.umn.edu/information-technology-infrastructure-bachelors-degree

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

Organize and manage a DevOps and AppDev team providing infrastructure and computing support services to major research projects.Hire team members, provided technical guidance and training, organized development efforts, and coordinated resource allocation.Coordinate efforts between multiple departments and international research partners.Ensure compliance with University and Government data handling requirements.

ubiqx Consulting provides computer network and software design services, including protocol design and documentation, specializing in the SMB/CIFS network file system.http://www.ubiqx.com/

Santa Clara, California, Us

Managed a distributed team of filesystem engineers supporting a complex and powerful NAS platform in a dynamic environment.

jCIFS is an Open Source CIFS client toolkit written in Java.

Campbell, California, Us

Responsible for bringing Windows Interoperability to the Weka.IO distributed file system.

Eden Prairie, Mn, Us

Guru role covering storage protocols such as SCSI and SMB, plus management protocols.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Enterprise network storage protocol specialist and idea developer.

Leveraging my past experience and connections to provide Data and Storage Network design and support services to individuals and organizations of all sizes.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

Developed and taught INet 4032 - Storage Design and Administration

San Jose, California, Us

Consulted on integration of Windows ACL support (as presented via the Samba VFS later) with the underlying file system.

Home media networking company with the goal of creating new technology to manage and access digital media. This included both tools for end-users and commercial providers.

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Mayor's committee to study and report on Internet connectivity, Broadband, Wireless, and Digital Inclusion issues. (See also: http://www.stpaul.gov/depts/ot/wifi.html)

Storage systems consulting, design, and development.

Houston, Texas, Us

Co-developed a tiered storage subsystem for Cray supercomputers.

Minneapolis And St. Paul, Minnesota, Us

Design and roll-out of campus-wide NAS services and iSCSI SAN.

Design, deployment, and management of campus network infrastructure and related services, including off-campus connectivity and campus WiFi.

Author of "Implementing CIFS: The Common Internet File System", a guide to Microsoft's SMB/CIFS network file system protocol suite. Samba and jCIFS are implementations of SMB/CIFS. The book was published as part of the Prentice Hall PTR Bruce Perens Open Source series, and is available in printed form or on-line under the terms of the Open Publication License.

Us

Part of the team responsible for the AmigaDE Operating System release. Consulted on distributed processing, and OS internals, as well as distributed authentication and inter-process communication.

Montrouge, Fr

Proposed, designed, deployed, and supported a client/server PC network based on DEC Pathworks. Pathworks was an early third-party implementation of the SMB protocol.

Computer Science

Computer Science

Ba, Biology

Biology, Philosophy, Computer Science

Education record