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California, United States

Santa Clara, California, US

Santa Clara, California, US

Cross-discipline technical product management of 3 generations of P4-programmable Ethernet switch chips, with 15 SKUs in 7 packages, with bandwidths ranging from 2Tbps to 25Tbps.

Santa Clara, California, US

Customer-facing solution architect working across business and engineering disciplines to define next gen high performance data center fabric platforms

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I am working with customers and engineering to develop new product architectures that leverage Barefoot technology for applications beyond traditional switching and routing.

Architecting Machine Learning and NVMe-over-FC enhancements to Analytics product line to allow storage admins to optimize and troubleshoot their dual protocol (SCSI and NVMe) SANs on their own. Recently wrote NVMe over Fibre Channel for Dummies, ensuring customers are fully aware of Fibre Channel as the low risk, high performance fabric that offers the.

San Jose, CA, US

Advocated for Brocade's technology strategy, especially around Software Defined Networking (SDN) which finally enabled customers to control their own network behavior. Responsible for both IP and storage networking customers across Europe, Mid-East and Africa region. Gathered inbound product requirements while I continued my role as chair of Open Network.

San Jose, CA, US

While serving as Chair of ONF's Open Datapath Working Group, I led the effort to translate the dream of post-1.0 OpenFlow into a model driven reality through the development of “Table Type Patterns” (TTPs). The ONF had taken ownership of the OpenFlow protocol, almost synonymous with Software Defined Networking (SDN) in those early days. SDN promised to.

VH is an NGO working in Sierra Leone villages to improve health, education, living conditions and economic security. When the founder and president of VH asked me to join the board, I took the opportunity to contribute my business experience to the organization, as well as to get first hand familiarity with the needs of NGOs on the ground in developing.

US

Under contract with a former employer, I was tasked with adapting the firm’s microprocessor trace technology (which I had originally architected years earlier) to work on ARM processors. I architected and wrote Verilog for Altera FPGA for dual lane 6.25 Gbps/ lane ARM serial trace stream.

San Jose, CA, US

Worked with product management teams on two efforts to expand into adjacent markets, each of which required both technology and path-to-market innovation. The later effort, implemented as an “internal start-up”, targeted enterprise file storage virtualization (in contrast to Brocade’s block storage focus) for Windows clients. The earlier effort leveraged.

As Cofounder and Director of ASICs, I co-developed Rhapsody’s ASIC / hardware / software system architecture and microarchitected the ARM-based dual protocol Gigabit Ethernet / Fibre Channel port chip and cell-switching core fabric chip. I hired the ASIC team, chose the tool and ASIC vendors and managed ASIC vendor relationships. Rhapsody was acquired by.

US

Parachuted into a management crisis. Moved it from an overstretched CEO-led engineering model to a scalable org. Drove key changes (new building, comp models) to attract talent. Reduced turnover, boosted recruiting, and created QA department. Decided what NOT to do in order to meet commit dates and rebuild damaged Intel relationship.

CA

New to the networking domain, I started with design and architecture work, then took on management of hardware and ASIC teams. Architected and led teams building 12 x 100Mbit port chip and a “Layer 3 Forwarding Engine” capable of line rate min-sized packet forwarding up to 3 Gbps, the max bandwidth for our upcoming pizza box. Prior to that, architected MAC.

Managed a team and created chip/system architectures for 10/100/1000 Mbit Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ethernet switches. Retained this position after Bay was acquired by Nortel.

Mba, Business

Bs, Physics, With Math Minor