Iris Wagner Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, Us

● Knowledge- Specializes in On-Prem/Hybrid Cloud/Multi-Cloud Storage Solutions: In-depth expertise in block storage solutions, file storage solutions, GPUDirect Storage, RDMA, NAS protocols (NFS, SMB, S3), and object storage. Conducted GDS and BasePOD Certificates testing. Proficient in system engineering in Storage, HPC, and Networking.- Distributed Infrastructure Expertise: Extensive hands-on experience with enterprise-scale robust, scalable, and highly available distributed infrastructure.- AI Tool Development: Deployed an open source trained LLM with RAG instance for internal knowledge base queries.● Skills- Software Development: Developed and maintained production code using Bugzilla, Git, Jira. Proficient in C, Java, Python, and Bash with strong knowledge in data structures and algorithms. Skilled in automation using scripting, API, and Ansible.- Containerization, Virtualization, & Cloud Expertise: Proficient in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), hyperscalers (AWS, GCS), and virtualization (VMware). - Technical Communication: Delivered technical deep-dive trainings, virtual/in-person presentations, TekTalks, technical whitepapers, technical blogs, and technical demo videos. Experienced in reporting to director/VP-level executives.- IT Infrastructure Consultant and Enterprise Architecting: Provided data center transformation strategies, migrations, and proposals, troubleshooting, Proof-of-Concept, and solution architecting for customers.- Performance Analysis: Conducted file and/or block storage I/O performance characterization benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning on Linux-based systems.● Awards- 1st Place Innovation Award at HPE Storage Business Unit- 1st Place CDI Innovation Awards

Houston, Texas, Us

Storage Go-To-Market ATC Tiger Team● Knowledge and hands-on with Kubernetes cluster for data intensive workloads, with Ezmeral Data Fabric/Bluedata and MapR● Specializes in on-prem/hybrid cloud/multi-clouds storage solutions for customers● Storage technology deep-dive training, TekTalk, Technical Whitepapers, and Tech demo videos for customers and internally ● Storage product Proof-of-Concept, storage solution architecture, and consulting● Troubleshoot, reproduce, and solve customer found and internal testing found issues● Data migration and backup solution architecting, consulting, and Proof-of-Concept● File and/or Block workload performance characterization bench testing and optimization in Linux and Linux VM environment● Production code development and maintenance (Bugzilla, Git, Jira) in C, Java, Python, and BashAwards:● 1st Place in Storage Business Unit Innovation Award at HPEI developed a phone app aiming to provide simple enough visual guidance of the step-by-step instructions for even a teenager with no technical experience to be able to cable an HPE Primera storage array. The app is now implemented as part of the Welcome Center for all HPE Priemra storage customer installs. Business value add is time and over millions dollars saved for HPE support (outside contract) resources spent for storage installs. Overall better end customer experience.

Fremont, Ca, Us

First level failure analysis of disk drives that are currently in development - Ethernet interfaced disk drive product:• Failure mode analysis of hardware, firmware, TCP/IP layer communication.• Reproduce and analyze failure mode, including hardware probing, signal analysis, noise injection, programming test scripts, etc.• Programming/debugging of product firmware (in C), test script (in Python), and open-source client libraries (in Java, C++, and Python), mainly in Linux environment. • Report and present failure analysis result in product team meetings; communicate to the team with a description of the problem, experimental result, data analysis, conclusion, and plausible solutions.

Fort Collins, Co, Us

Conducted Project – Optical Electronic Integrated Circuit for Immunoassay Biosensor Applications • Built an electro-optical integrated semiconductor sensor chip • Optimized the sensor detection limit using analytical calculation and FDTD simulation such as Rsoft and Lumerical (published at SPIE conference 2011) • Built a Lock-In Amplifier circuit as the sensor interface, involving signal modulation, multiplexing, and data acquisition • Built an optical grating coupler using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) photolithography for sub-micron sized features Conducted Project (MS thesis) – Fiber-Optic Electronic System for Environmental Enzymatic Biosensor Applications • Built and characterized the senor electronic and optical system (published at SPIE conference 2010, peer-reviewed journal paper in press). • Hands-on experience in areas of analog circuit design, fiber-optic system design, signal noise frequency components analysis, data acquisition automation using LabVIEW, data analysis using MATLAB, analytical calculation interface written in Java • Optimized the optical system performance (peer-reviewed journal paper in press)Independent Study Project – Compressed Sensing • Studied principles of Compressed Sensing Theory of Digital Signal Processing • Discovered a novel numerical method for time series analysis and data reconstruction processing for sparse sensingSenior Design Project – Wireless Automatic Proximity Detector • Built a wireless automatic proximity detector for a door opener system for handicapped individuals • Hands-on experience in circuit design, RF transceivers, microcontroller programming, PCB layout, digital signal processing • Wrote proposal for fundings (awarded with the IEEE-Denver Signal Processing Society grant)

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Designed and performed a screening process for testing the sensitivity of a product's IR emitter and detector • Assisted with PCB layout conversions from CadStar to Cadence Allegro • Circuit lab testing and trouble-shooting

Syracuse, Ny, Us

• Revised customer service application software in C language

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Ms, Electrical Engineering

Bsee, Electrical Engineering