Oversaw hardware installation directly at client sites and managed vendor installations remotely. Led a hybrid engineering and operations team at a vision-based autonomous checkout startup. Qualified systems for production based on evaluation outcomes. Set performance goals, conduct regular performance reviews, and provide feedback and coaching to team members. Monitored project progress, identify potential issues, and implement corrective actions as needed. • Conducted system evaluations for servers, edge compute, GPUs, sensors, cameras, and embedded systems. • Procured bill of materials (BOM) through selected vendors and coordinated installation with approved service providers.

Hardware Team Lead. Responsible for product deployment, QA, testing, maintenance, specification, vendor management, and design of computer systems, networks and cameras. Managed both physical servers and cloud instances with Ansible. Managed NFS and Lustre storage systems and clients.

Pre-sales storage engineer. • Lustre, GPFS & block storage.

HPC Scale-out Storage group. Managed engineering lab setups, including standalone systems, clusters, and networks on HPE DL & Apollo servers and SGI ICE & UV systems. Qualified Lustre solutions, benchmarked performance, and defined test procedures. Monitored databases using MySQL and PostgreSQL. Programmed in Python, PERL, C, PHP, and bash/csh shell scripting. • Maintained virtual machines using Linux KVM, VMware vSphere, and Docker. • Administered network filesystems, including NFS, Lustre, SGI DMF, and SGI's Cluster X File System (CXFS). • Supported Linux (Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo) and Windows 2008 systems with interfaces to storage arrays (NetApp, DDN, Dell) via Infiniband, fiber channel, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. • Lustre, ZFS, NFS, DDN SFA, NetApp E-series, Infiniband

HPC Systems Administrator, Global Benchmarking Center, B44IRIX & Linux. Clusters and large NUMAlink systems

Co-Founder of web hosting & design company. Network and Linux Systems Administrator.