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Loomis, CA

Folsom, CA

• Acted as product expert interface between Toshiba’s SSD SRDC (Storage Research and Development Center) and Marketing and Support teams. Engagements focused on the Data Center and OEM customer markets.
• Partnered with Toshiba Marketing on customer Concept and Design Reviews.
• Led and managed joint engineering/IT project creating Service Desk customer support web portal interfacing into internal JIRA support and engineering databases.
• Executed pre-qualification testing for Toshiba NVMe Data Center SSD’s with Facebook OCP server technologies and SATA OEM SSD’s with Dell Gen 14 servers.

Roseville, CA

• Led transition of Site Replication feature test and qualification for the 3Par array in Roseville from existing Tier 2 OS SLES Linux testing to Windows 2016 to align with HPE’s Tier 1 operating system support strategy.

Roseville, CA

• Acquired Emulex Corp. – 2015Acquired Sierra Logic Inc. – 2006
• Collaborated with enterprise storage customers (vendors and OEMs) in a client facing role to ensure integration and implementation of both embedded multi-storage protocol bridges and CNA (Converged Network Adapter).
• Provided “high-touch” multi-year customer management for co-development, encompassing pre-sales firmware and product feature requirement definition phases, test and qualification through GA, and field support for.
• Multi storage protocol bridging technology with Sierra Logic included SATA, Fibre Channel, and SAS technologies in virtualized HDD and SSD back-end array applications. CNA target technologies with Emulex included Fibre.
• Skills utilized were triage and debug of customer found firmware and driver issues, in-depth protocol analysis, issue database management and tracking, and test implementation for customer specific applications.

Roseville, CA

• Test Lead responsible for the development and direction of test and debug efforts.
• Drove integration of a Fibre Channel to SCSI bridge product into a large scale data center application.
• Skills utilized were vendor co-development across HP divisions, SCSI and Fibre Channel protocol analysis, and test plan development.

San Jose, CA

• Scope of work included implementation and installation, as well as pre-sales configuration of tape backup and SAN solutions.
• Worked with and attended training for disk array products from EMC/Clariion, LSI, Hitachi, and tape backup software products from Veritas and Legato.
• Deployed solutions into both UNIX and NT/2000 environments.

Roseville, CA

• Conducted IO performance characterization and modeling of HP’s line of mass storage products including the FC60 midrange disk array and the EMC and XP family of high end cached disk arrays. Also, did preliminary work.
• Responsibilities included performance measurement through the use of configuring test scripts, evaluating the quality of the results, and processing that data into graphic form. Other responsibilities included the.

Roseville, CA

• Supported the EMC and Hewlett-Packard joint R&D efforts to ensure HP-UX compatibility with EMC’s line of Symmetrix integrated cached disk arrays.
• Work entailed optimizing Symmetrix configurations for HP’s various testing methods, debugging error codes internal to the Symmetrix, and relaying that data to EMC headquarters for upgrading of firmware code. Also, ran.
• Training included in-depth courses focused on the Symmetrix product line of EMC.

Roseville, CA

• Worked on a two year contract for Hewlett-Packard in a Research and Development lab certifying new mass storage for use with HP-UX through testing of new storage device compatibility with released products including.
• Responsibilities included design and implementation of test plans for certification on HP’s UNIX servers with all supported HP-UX operating systems, investigation of new tests and optimizing current testing techniques.
• Skills utilized also included System Administration of test software servers and use of HP logic analyzers.

Sacramento, CA

• Responsibilities entailed supporting Falcon’s product line of UNIX storage solutions including mass storage devices such as SCSI and Fibre Channel RAIDs, as well as debugging and developing Falcon’s own line of NFS.
• Activities included field support for products already sold as well as performance and compatibility testing for new products.
• Skills used included System Administration and networking with UNIX (HP-UX, AIX, SGI Irix, Digital-UNIX, Solaris, and SunOS), NT and NFS systems, Shell Scripting, and writing HTML files for a product configuration.

Computer Engineering

Activities and Societies: ACM/IEEE-CS member, UNIX discussion group member

Associate’S Degree, Natural Science