John Guthrie Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

I'm the Director of the EBS Storage Server and Data Science teams within the Elastic Block Store (EBS) organization of Amazon Web Services (AWS). The Storage Server team is responsible for the core platform where customer data is stored. We are responsible for the performance, availability, and durability of customer data. The Data Science team makes contributions to a broad and strategic set of projects including design and launch of multiple new products, continuously monitoring and improving the entire product portfolio, and detailed modeling of customer usage patterns.

Seattle, Wa, Us

[I'm hiring multiple positions in Seattle, let me know if interested] I'm the Sr. Software Development Manager for the EBS Storage Server team and Data Science team. The Storage Server team is responsible for the core platform where customer data is stored. We are responsible for the performance, availability, and durability of customer data. The Data Science team makes contributions to a broad and strategic set of projects including design and launch of multiple new products, continuously monitoring and improving the entire product portfolio, and detailed modeling of customer usage patterns

Seattle, Wa, Us

Software Development Manager for the EBS Server team as part of Amazon Web Services. We own the core parts of the EBS storage technologies that durably persist all the data written to the EBS volumes. As such the team is responsible for the performance, availability, scalability and durability of the EBS volumes.

Redmond, Washington, Us

· Led the initial development of RentExpert's vacation rental search and management platform.

· Provide IT consulting services for diverse client needs, including temporary executive services, offshore development, and startup and business model consulting.

San Ramon, California, Us

· Led development of company's primary storage appliance, managing team of developers, quality assurance, and technical support in development of Zetta Systems' unified NAS/SAN appliance.· Ported code from FreeBSD to Linux; collaborated with outsourced team in India to develop components of Zetta software for Windows integration.· Surpassed competitor products backed by larger development teams and financial resources, through effectively managing team, development strategies, budget, and timeline.

· Directed technical design, as well as team of three developers and five quality assurance experts, in developing startup company's storage product, a unified NAS/SAN storage appliance with unlimited snapshots (patented), instant rollback, file system, SCSI stack, Struts-based UI, and change block replication; product supported iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NFS, and SMB.· Established entire product life cycle and product roadmap; authored requirements, design, and coding standards documents.· Created processes for moving code from development to quality assurance to production; oversaw configuration management; led code review meetings.· Provided training to developers, sales, quality assurance, and support on product functionality.· Assisted marketing and sales teams in identifying target market and resolving sales roadblocks.· Aided sales efforts by provided engineering and technical expertise to potential and existing clients.· Secured angel funding after presenting to potential investors; kept shareholders informed on project status; oversaw due diligence during sale of company to Overland Storage in 2005 for $9 million.

· Designed J2EE applications supporting automotive dealership business processes.· Provided high-level system design as well as technology planning.

Us

· Led development of a comparison shopping and unified shopping cart technology enabling AT&T wireless customers to comparison shop and purchase various products from 100 stores through cell phone screens.· Managed development team and overall quality assurance throughout multiple projects.· Conducted product feasibility studies; advised CEO, CTO, and business unit managers on potential acquisition targets; performed technical due diligence on more than 20 acquisitions.· Architected distributed search system used by company to provide unified search across multiple disparate sites, allowing each site to manage its own search system.· Improved efficiencies and reduced product deployment and site maintenance resource needs by developing self-provisioning application grid that relocated applications and services to another server when exceeding predefined thresholds.· Developed backend licensing and billing system using C/C++ on Windows for try-and-buy licensing system for software applications.· Architected web-based site management system for DNS administration and AJAX-based site design.

Wallingford, Connecticut, Us

Worked on the design and development of Internet-based applications.