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Redmond, Wa, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

- I lead a multi-disciplinary platform architecture team focused on designing the next generation platforms for Azure spanning the portfolio of AI and ML GPU systems, AI super computers, general and specialized compute, storage, HPC, hardware accelerators, cloud gaming, and more. This includes both commercial silicon and internal silicon based platforms. - Our work spans from platform design through co-design with the data center to enable Azure to build best in class infrastructure and some of the worlds leading AI super computers. - Identified and delivered disruptive innovation and designs to deliver >$2B in savings over iterative platform designs.

Redmond, Washington, Us

- I lead a multi-disciplinary hardware architecture team focused on designing the next generation platforms for Azure spanning the portfolio of general and specialized compute, storage, HPC, AI / ML / GPU, AI supercomputers, hardware accelerators, cloud gaming, and more. - Successfully led the team to deliver platforms supporting the Azure portfolio with industry leading performance and TCO. - Identified and delivered disruptive innovation and designs to deliver >$1B in savings over iterative platform designs.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Platform architect for the portfolio of Azure storage platforms supporting SSD, HDD, tape, and emerging technologies. Defined new storage system architectures and technology strategy across media technologies, storage accelerators, and new infrastructure concepts to shape the future of Azure Storage. Successfully brought these systems from concept to production. These systems power the Azure Premium, Ultra, and Standard storage product lines (disk, block, file, and object) as well as Azure Archival Storage. Responsibilities range from long range planning and strategy to near-term technology transitions, system design, hardware & fleet telemetry analysis, and TCO models. Led the 15mm E1.S form factor from concept to broad industry adoption. 5 patents granted, 9+ patents pending

Austin, Texas, Us

Bringing together a diverse community across the storage ecosystem from hyper-scalers to technology creators, to focus on collaborative engagements and innovations. The OCP Storage project spans from media components to storage systems, and the various technologies than enable this. Bringing the industry together to work to solve some of the toughest challenges enables accelerated technology creation and greater adoption.- Led the E1.S 15mm workstream- Co-leading the NVMe HDD workstream

Storage systems architect & technical lead for all hard drive, tape, and optical storage technologies and platforms. - Led the concept, system architecture and design for Bryce Canyon, a hard drive storage platform optimized for hyper scale storage deployments. This platform is the foundation for one of the largest storage deployments in the world. Overview: https://code.fb.com/data-center-engineering/introducing-bryce-canyon-our-next-generation-storage-platform/ Specification: https://goo.gl/eBS8Y1 - System architect for the entire portfolio of archival / cold storage hardware solutions ranging from hard drive based designs to optical storage designs ( Blu-ray 100GB and Archival Disc 300GB) known externally as Freeze-ray and tape based solutions. - Led cross functional teams to define the storage hardware roadmap, develop detailed SLAs, and TCO models to determine the best strategy to meet Facebooks exponential growth. - Created and managed the hard drive & storage media technology roadmaps. - Led the transition to 4kn sector HDDs as the first hyper-scaler to implement this at scale.- Enabled SMR HDDs for an all-new cold storage stack - Founding member of the Cloud HDD initiatives in OCP and led the hyper-scale community to help drive the direction of media and technology optimized hyper-scale deployments. - Led the design of the Cubby sub-shelf module for the Open Rack V2 design, and led the design of the bus bar clip for Open Rack V2 (including the variants internal variants used in Cubby, Bryce Canyon, Leopard and Yosemite platforms)- Active contributor into the Open Compute Project including the Bryce Canyon system- 30+ patents issued/pending, spanning HDD and flash (SSD) based system architecture & design, optical archival, and mechanical design.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Led a multi-disciplinary team to create the hardware and platform architecture for Dell Storage platforms to support Compellent, Equal Logic, and Power Vault.- System lead and architect for multiple x86 storage controllers- Hardware architect for next generation storage platforms including system level design, board design, and key technology enablement. - Lead multiple programs with JDM / ODM partners- Advanced Engineering / Research and Development for technology development- High speed SAS / PCI Express backplanes- Lead next-gen SAS 3.0 controller module design and 12Gb SAS design in guide.- Lead investigation of non volatile memory solutions- Designed a common system architecture with modular and scalable building blocks to leverage across the storage portfolio to reduce time to market- 11 patents pending

Round Rock, Texas, Us

- Schematic and board design for the prototype of the Power Edge VRTX system, as well as bring-up and debug of the system. - Expanded GPU support in the M610x blade servers by leading the qualification and integration effort for the latest GPUs.- Triaged and resolved several critical stop ship issues on shipping PowerEdge blade servers.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

- Developed solutions ranging from board design to system architecture across the EMC storage hardware portfolio including CLARiiON, Symmetrix, and the VNXe products. Board designs: - System management boards for SAN and NAS systems (Found in VNX and VMAX systems) - high speed backplanes - Storage controller modules based on Intel x86 architectures. (VNXe 3100 / 3150) - SAS and Fibre Channel controller cards - Debug and validation boards for fibre channel and PCI express. Key areas of experience: Fibre Channel, SAS, PCI Express, Ethernet, I2C, systems management, and micro controllers.Experience working with JDM / ODM partners.

Authored over 70 product reviews and managed content for a reader base of 400,000 monthly users. Developed relationships with companies across the industry and provided design feedback to shape future products.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Developed a PERL/CGI based tool suite to manage ASIC test verification data.