Michael Hoard Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Serving as Chair for the SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (www.snia.org/groups/csti). Led formation and promotion of the Cloud Object Storage Compatibility Plugfest held on Sept 16-18 '24 at SNIA Developer Conference (www.sniadeveloper.org), working with Dell, Google, IBM, Microsoft and other stakeholders. Organizer, host and moderator for Cloud.

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

Responsible for integrating storage customer requirements into the Intel Xeon Plan of Record (POR) roadmap, covering Xeon SP, AP, D as well as IPU and accelerators. I actively collaborate with leading Hyperscalers, Enterprise, HCI and SDS storage system providers, along with SSD storage media providers. Leading creation of business case, go to market and.

Hillsboro, OR

Enabling HPC sales, served as Product Marketing Manager for Intel Omni-Path Architecture (OPA) HPC networking products, responsible for driving Intel OPA100 marketing collateral, web content, newsletter, competitive assets and editorial calendar.

Portland, Oregon Area

Community Development Activities: Volunteer active in several meetup communities, helped advise early stage blockchain based startup for three years, focused on decentralized governance and reputation system for collaborative communities. Portland Computer Human Interaction Forum of Oregon (CHIFOO) Portland TensorFlow NWPortland Blockstack Meetup. Seattle.

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

• Outbound Marketing Leader (contractor) working at Intel Hillsboro OR, responsible for driving Thunderbolt™ 3 awareness, demand-gen and adoption into commercial B2B
• Drove messaging into Intel 8th Gen and 7th Gen Core announcements
• Spun up programs with Intel channel and sales play initiatives
• Spearheaded enterprise IT customer trial to create testimonial results flowing into a worldwide enterprise IT influencer campaign with supporting sales tool collateral
• Recognized for announcement of Thunderbolt 3 integration into future Intel CPUs.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Collaboratively created and delivered worldwide product marketing for HPC and Big Data Analytic scale-out storage systems (ClusterStor 9000, 6000, 1500, Hadoop Workflow Accelerator and Secure Data Appliance), modular.
• Owned strategic go-to-market plan, value proposition, market messages, web content, internal sales and external partner training, educational story telling sales tools, and collateral supporting demand-generation.
• Acted as joint-marketing lead, teamed with eleven companies focused on national security and intelligence market initiative, created co-branded collateral published at GEOINT show, ecosystem partners included Lockheed.
• Announced HP re-seller alliance, created co-branded quick specs and evangelized value proposition via educational training webinar to HP worldwide sales and re-seller partners
• Key talents: expedited new product launches starting from blank sheet of paper and wrote original vertical market leadership articles working with sales specialists and analysts focused on national intelligence.

Portland, Oregon

• Conducted all aspects of worldwide outbound product marketing content creation and product launches for Xyratex Corporation (acquired by Seagate), including HPC, Big Data Analytic and cloud deployed Software as a.
• Launched ClusterStor 9000, ClusterStor 6000, ClusterStor 1500, ClusterStor CIFS / NFS Gateway, ClusterStor Hadoop Workflow Accelerator and ClusterStor Secure Data Appliance.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Managed and delivered all aspects of in-bound technical marketing requirements, customer and sales enablement issue resolution, product portfolio strategy, roadmaps, announcements, and product lifecycle management..
• Energized IBM and supplier teams, drove portfolio strategy, expanded support. Resulted in revenue up, profit up, and market share up, during very challenging year (2010)
• Created “Digital Media and Entertainment Market Enablement” initiative. New alliance partnership added green field sales segment focused on digital media content creation and broadcast production environments
• Acquired IBM i series enterprise customer input, drove cross-functional team. Resulted in creation of new market segment, IBM i OS attachment support and sales opportunities
• Drove introduction and launch on DS4000 and DS5000 products for open systems market, and DCS9500 and DCS9900 for high performance computing market

Portland, Oregon Area

• Managed and directed all IBM SAN switch and director products. Portfolio comprised entry to enterprise customers, four OEM partners (Brocade, CNT, McDATA, Emulex), one re-seller alliance (Cisco Systems), five product.
• Achieved industry first to market, Cisco SAN switch and director products.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Architect member of IBM eServer Design Council (eSDC) defined server division architecture best practices, identified and resolved technical issues across server platforms, proactively assessed server requirements and.
• Accelerated IBM SAN / server integration practices. Delivered knowledge transfer during IBM acquisition of Sequent. Drove 2 Gig Fibre Channel Switch Fabric requirements and supplier selection across IBM.
• Wrote “Storage Networking Subsystem Test and Validation Best Practices” including OS multi-path fail-over, host adapter, fabric, RAID systems, management APIs, and diagnostics.

Portland, Oregon Area

• While working for IBM Server Group, elected as Chairman of the Board for non-profit industry association. Managed budget, directed planning, priorities, moderated industry speaking panels, acted as spokesperson in.
• Inspired membership on core value and industry mission, wrote “Fibre Channel Industry Strategic Plan,” guided industry roadmap, and expanded SANmark interoperability initiative.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Engineering test team leader responsible for storage development team quarterly release cycle, including deployment of entire Sequent storage subsystem (EMC, Clariion, HDS, STK, Brocade, and Emulex). Managed test.
• Achieved Brocade Silkworm 2000 first to market. helped enable Brocade’s early 90% market share and set SAN switch industry de facto standard
• Proposed and delivered industry first, end to end SAN diagnostics data collection tool
• Working directly with leading laser device manufacturer and their team of PhDs, drove analysis and resolution of “self pulsation” degraded edge emitting laser devices, vertical cavity laser failure analysis, and.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Advanced Research Engineer responsible for definition of phase zero next-gen photonics network, within Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) integrated avionic architecture. Secret security clearance. Received Leading Edge Award.
• Defined visionary JSF unified network solution, successfully developed prototype including world first video to Fibre Channel adapter card, influenced industry standards and suppliers to build airborne qualified parts.
• Wrote network simulation in VHDL and software drivers in Ada, wrote avionic network specification within full F/A-18 aircraft requirements traceability initiative using Telelogic Doors
• Proposed and managed DARPA, Parallel Optics for Network Interconnects (PONI) program, and Joint Services, Scalable Multi-Processing System (SMPS) program

Msee, Laser Devices, Quantum Mechanics, 2D Image Processing And Multi-Dimensional Vector Space Math

Activities and Societies: IEEE Member

Bsce, Bachelor Of Science In Civil Engineering