40+ years in software, firmware, hardware development, most in computer storage industry. Familiar with APIs for numerous RAID and storage controllers. Have decades of experience coding storage-related management (Using Seagate/Xyratex, WD and other enclosures - using ANSI-defined SES protocol.Storage and networking internals architect specializing in the glue that bridges the transport layers to the operating system and file systems. (REST, IP sockets, SMB, NFS)To summarize, call me a storage "internals" architect who makes black boxes that lets application software interact with the storage hardware directly to get it to do things that other people say can't be done.Specialties: Low-level storage diagnostics & management software development; custom RAID and storage diagnostics and utilities. SAS / SATA / SES / FC / SCSI architect. Familiar with pass-through in UNIX/Windows + VMS, as well as file systems. Write NAS/SAN appliance middleware & configurators. Doing interesting things with utilities for managing cloud-based storage at the moment with ZFS, enclosure management using SAS-2, SMP commands controller pass-through APIs.
Listed skills include Storage Management, Iscsi, Distributed Systems, Storage Virtualization, and 48 others.