Daniel Romney Pyper Email & Phone Number

Eagle Mountain, Ut, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Work areas include PMCI PLDM support, GPU support

Houston, Texas, Us

º Senior developer of C++ Platform Services Hardware Abstraction Layer(HAL) Library for hardware health and asset reporting of clustered computing devicesº Primary Knowledge Expert of storage device management APIs ( OS, IOCTLs, SCSI) for Internal and External SAS RAID storage, SAS and FC HBAsº Authored/Maintained C++/Python HAL API Library Client Test Harness CLI tools spanning full scope of HAL Library APIs and Object Classes:   –Rack or Blade Compute Nodes ( servers)   –Internal or External Storage ( JBOD and RAID drive enclosures)  –Network Devices ( switches )   –Enclosure Devices ( blade enclosures, intelligent clustered enclosures)   –Associated anatomy of component and Field Replaceable Units (CPU, Memory, Fans, Power Supply, Temp and Power Sensors, key storage and network PCI devices NIC/FC/SAS HBAs, RAID Controllers and Enclosure IO Modules)º Authored and socialized HAL Library C++ and Python API examplesº Editor of Platform Services Product Manual chapter “Trouble Shooting Guide”º Coordinated low end device management feature/fix support of:   –Dependent server hardware device management utilities/agents software  –SAS Port Interconnect Topology

Houston, Texas, Us

o Owner of HP MSA2000 + Dot Hill technical meeting for VMware integration to VAAI and SRMo Technical Ownership over P2000/MSA2000 VMware deliverables (3-5workers)o P2000 Product point contact to VMware Storage Engineeringo MSA Storage Representative to HP Storage VMware Core Teamo Software Architect / Team lead / Team participant for MSA2000/P2000 host based device management softwareo Technical Lead to MSA2000/P2000 presales Deal Exception Transactionso Software Architect over MSA2000 G1 / G2 / G3 storage device management vendor requirements, HP branding, and HP Eco System Integrationso Owner of HP + Dot Hill technical device management bi-weekly engineering meetings for MSA2000 G1 / G2 and G3 NPI programs.o Technical Liaison to MSA Software Dev team contingent works (Modus contractors / Wipro East India contractors, 5 to 10+ workers)o Owned contingent hiring technical interviewso Owned submissions for Quarterly Hardware purchases for Houston MSA SW Dev Labo Maintained intra-team technical information coordination

Houston, Texas, Us

o SW technical lead over 3 full time SW engineers, 6 SW engineering contractors, and 4 full time SW engineers located in HP Indiao SW architect for the for MSA storage device management feature improvements for - Server Storage Drive Enclosures MSA30, MSA20, MSA60, MSA70 - Server Storage External SCSI, FC, iSCSI arrays: MSA500, MSA1000, MSA1500, MSA1510i

Houston, Texas, Us

o ProLiant Server Storage Representative to Corporate HP WBEM Technical Committee.o Member on the ProLiant Windows WMI Providers “Core team” and “Architect Team”o Team lead tasked with architecture, design, development of next generation “HP Insight Storage WMI Providers” o Team Lead assigned to drive to finish driver development efforts of HP MultiFunction NIC NC370 iSCSI Initiator driver for Windows Serverso Single Developer of the first generation iSCSI Initiator Insight Storage Agent for Microsoft Windows Serverso Technical Editor of version 1.0 / 1.1 editions of “HP ProLiant Storage SATA & SAS Storage Controller Specification for Third Party Storage Vendors” (code Omaha / API code name CSMI)

o Maintain software updates for Insight Storage Agents for NetWare for FC HBAs and Compaq FC attached Storage Enclosureso Authored the Netware Agent chapter of "HP Insight Storage Agent Requirement Specifications for Third Party Storage Vendors of FibreChannel HBA" (code name Rubah)

o Team lead over retrofit replacement of the factory / end customer Compaq Installation Assistant ( CIA - 16bit Windows App) with the File Based Installer (FBI - 32 bit App) using MSVC, Win32 SDK, C/C++o Senior Team member over all OEM Preinstall SW Moduleso Senior Team member over design / maintenance OS preinstall toolso Technical Liaison to Notebook/SMB Division for using preinstall installation tool set (File Based Installer - FBI)o Authored and Presented SW Engineering Developer FBI Training classes for Laptop and Small Medium Business Preinstall teams

o Software developer team member of the Commercial Desktop Restore CDo Reverse Engineered Desktop pre-installation software installation for the Restore CD Install

o Coordinate Desktop Product Software Engineering NT OS Break/Fix Resolutions o Coordinate Desktop Technical Transition to Microsoft IE 4.0 o Design and oversee implementation of the Compaq Desktop IE 4 Active Desktop Installer

o Write/ Review POR, Functional Spec, and Online Help of Desktop Management Features in Compaq Insight Manager ( CIM) GUI using Borland C++o Coordinate new Desktop/Laptop SNMP Management Agent Features o Coordinate Desktop/Laptop CIM source code updates o Manage (Desktop) CIM Dev / QA development meetings o Investigate future WBEM technologies

o Create, Maintain, Execute Functional testing of Compaq Insight Management Desktop Agent for Windows 95 and NT (Intelligent Manageability Software Agents) and Compaq Insight Manager (SNMP compliant Network Management Application.)o Create and Maintain C/C++ Test Harness Tools o Create and Maintain SNMP integration tool kit files for Openview and Netview

Houston, Tx, Us

º SW Project lead of multilingual Windows 3.1 based Man Machine Interface (MMI) –Authored Design Specifications, –Managed five consultants doing source code generation, debugging, and functional testing. –Foxpro used for multilingual database engine –Borland 4.5 used for 16 / 32 bit windows applications –Organized 6 station MS dev network using NT 3.51, WFW and RAS, º Project lead for Multi-Compressor Test Stand Data Acquisition MMI (PC based) –Wrote design specification, –Converted existing DOS MMI package for multi-configuration, º Maintained C' based serial communication drivers for GE Fanuc 90/70 PLC PCMs –converted GE 90/70 Genius library to work with Metaware HighC and Pharlap DOS Extender –performed all functional testing.º Converted existing PC based MMI package to Protected mode using Metaware HighC and Pharlap DOS Extender º Developed new features and maintained custom MMI s/w packages (PC based)º Created real time serial communication drivers for gas turbine and electric motor driven compressors instrumentation using 'C', BASIC, and Z80 º Developed and maintained communication drivers for DOS MMI to interface with VME based ATs, and GE Genius LAN interface (PCIM). º Created many 'C' utilities to test and to debug MMI features º Created and test C' based serial protocol simulators to simulate end devices for serial communication driversº Consulted Project Engineering and Marketing with design, implementation and feasibility of serial communication systems, MMIs and Redundant and fault tolerant PLC control systems. º Performed field engineering trip support and test department consultation supportº Conducted various feasibility studies: –PC based Data Acquisition and Vibration Analysis systems, –PC based Health Monitoring systems, GE and ABB PLC bench marking. º Authored software product user manuals