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California, United States

Sunnyvale, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

• Designed, developed, and supported distributed web server application (Grails, Groovy, Tomcat, Linux, Xen, IBM BladeCenter) providing virtual machines to 100’s of IBM developers reducing repeated configuration overhead from hours to minutes and providing shared resources across multiple development centers (US, Germany, India).• Successfully trained team of engineers onsite in India, in 6 weeks, to assume management of above project. • Inherited project from team in Germany, productively working together for more than a year.

San Francisco Bay Area

Designed and implemented console user interface for emulated IBM mainframe• Used Java Enabled browser GUI and embedded Linux C++/Python backend to Intel Itanium assembly firmware to implement mainframe console • Developed Linux drivers to send hardware signals to firmware running on other processors.• Utilized ACPI memory and processor information to assign memory and processors at EFI before Linux boot up.• Interfaced with and debugged Itanium assembly code.• Integrated Intel Itanium disassembler into development environment.• Patent application 20060107000 “Peer-based partitioning method for system resource sharing”

San Francisco Bay Area

• Startup team member, instrumental in designing and building EBusiness performance management software resulting in $1M+ quarterly revenue.• Innovated significant departure from traditional threshold base detection of problems that resulted in a patented method (6327677) for using automated statistical analysis to detect performance and network abnormalities in real time.• Drove development of Root Cause Analysis which searched time correlated abnormality records and applied infrastructure-based filters to determine root cause of performance degradation (patent 7131037).• Implemented dynamic meta data API giving users the power and flexibility to quickly collect, analyze and store custom performance data, allowing custom monitoring capabilities to be expanded without requiring code changes.• Solved user requirements by embedding Perl interpreter to provide flexible real time alarm notifications.

• Co-founders of NetLabs Inc. (sold to Seagate Software).• Designed and developed NerveCenter (still in use today), a state machine interface, for problem detection and automated correction.• Designed and implemented SNMP and CMIP protocol stack at core of network management platform that competed successfully with HP Openview and Sun Net Manager.• Designed low level map graphical user interface for network management platform.• Developed next generation network management architecture product which was bought by Sun and became the Sun Solstice network management product.