Jon Moran Email & Phone Number

Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area

Round Rock, Texas, United States

• Provided technical sales support; technical presentations and demos; design architecture and review; installation and deployments; issue resolution.• Engaged with new customers to design high speed network that met their application needs.• 396 node cluster: fabric design, installation, validation and training at TACC, Austin, Texas• 232 node cluster: fabric design, installation, validation and training at Durham University, England • Main liaison for two Centers of Excellence (large clusters listed above): provided guidance for logging into the environment and assisted customer application evaluations • Provided design, validation and training for 3 POCs with potential customers and 2 labs (Frankfurt and CSC) at Dell• Assisted Application Engineering team running MPI applications on TACC cluster including GROMACS, MILC, OpenFOAM. • Preparations and planning for testing during Texascale days• Created tools for designing 100+ node clusters including all design, build and validation documents.• Lead InfiniBand and other technical tutorials for the Rockport Field and App engineering teams

Austin, Texas Area

• Provided issue resolution; technical sales support; live demo presentations and videos; design architecture and review; installation and deployments.• Engaged with new customers to design solutions that met their needs. • Lead technical support and created technical product documentation.• Performed new deployment installations and provided technical training to customers.• Ran AI/DL performance benchmarks including ResNet50, Inception v3, UNet-Medical.• Created containers for running MPI benchmarks and implemented NGC containers.• Created trade show demos and responsible for equipment setup/teardown at the shows.• Ran the customer lab enabling hands on for the customers with various configurations to showcase GDR, NVMe-oF and MPI features. • NVidia 2020 and 2021 partner sales training completion.

Austin, Texas Area

Austin, Texas

• Technical liaison between customers and internal departments. Proven record of business growth and customer issue resolution.• Consulted customer and internal sales organizations providing networking and industry knowledge to create end to end solutions and streamline issues resolution.• Implemented customer POCs for NVMeoF, Multi-host, OVS offloads and DPDK solutions.• Advanced knowledge of Ethernet and InfiniBand networking standards; conducted InfiniBand training to customers; provided topology designs and reviews for end customers;completed design and program reviews; supported successful product integrations.• Guided 20 Ethernet NIC and 9 InfiniBand HCA design win qualifications over 3 Dell server generations leading to increased reviews every year. Headed complete product life cycle support.• Successfully drove adoption of 25GbE NICs into lead supplier on Dell’s 13/14G servers. • Assisted sales teams providing customer evaluations and technical explanations resulting in large (>1K 25GbE NIC) data centers deployments for: Uber, Salesforce, Comcast, Verizon, T-Mobile and several top 10 financial institutions. • Organized multiple large (>1800+ node) InfiniBand cluster developments including fabric design, bring up and validation for large customers: Uber Maps (formally Bing Maps); TACC Stampede and Ranger.• Performed Windows Server, Linux and VMware NIC testing and qualifications.

• Managed volunteers on receiving dock • Refurbished PCs for needy children • Priced furniture and appliance donations for resell in the store• Tested electronic donations for resell• Food distribution• Stock shelves

Austin, Texas

Technical intermediary between customers and development engineering; introduced new products, roadmaps and demos; performed design reviews; orchestrated successful product launches. Aided customer design bring up, issue debug and resolution. In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, WPA, wireless Access Points and wired Ethernet switches/routers. • Generated over $45M with over 20 new design wins. Products include: WiFi and Bluetooth chipsets; wired Ethernet NICs and switches; ARM based microprocessors.• Advised over 15 existing Ethernet design wins for continued product revenue and new project sales.• Furnished experience and knowledge to the sales organization and rep partners helping accelerate customer solutions and issues resolution.• Integrated customer requirements in marketing product definitions which reduced factory and customer development cycles.• Conducted performance, field and validation testing for development organizations building better sales factory relationships and quicker product development.

Austin, Texas

Key technical interface between the applications engineering department and customers; coordinated design reviews; approved schematic designs; solved customer’s technical issues; executed worldwide product launches; evaluated field failures; gave product and demo presentations. Advanced knowledge of Windows drivers and customer applications for WiFi devices.• Generated over $30M in WiFi design revenue, provided technical sales support leading to +10 new wins at Dell and other customers. Majority of the designs were WiFi adapters for notebook computers, but also included embedded designs. • Drove customer requirements into engineering product specifications generating continued revenue stream and new design wins. • Delivered guidance to sales team for WiFi products, Gigabit Ethernet PCIe adapters, 1394 PC adapters and USB controllers design wins leading to increased sales.• Produced $2M in revenue with 2 analog modem design for Dell consumer and commercial notebook lines.• Performed field WiFi, analog modem and Ethernet adapters product qualifications helping development to stream line the product design and development cycle.

Austin, Texas

Provided issue resolution; vendor interface; design review; project test schedule generation; management of 3 test resources and factory support. Conducted 12 new product launches including one worldwide launch.• Oversaw product verification of 10 analog modems into Dell desktop and notebook computers which contributed to cost savings in new Dell offerings. • Directed product incorporation of 2 ISDN modems into Dell desktop and server computers that enabled new market opportunities.• Standardized modem specifications and product definitions which cut down the time to qualify 3rd party products into Dell new PC introductions.• Created analog modem diagnostic application (Modem Helper) specifications and selected software vendor to code the program. The software enabled the PC user to analyze modem issues and provide suggestions for solution, reducing the amount of customer support calls. The application was factory installed on Dell PCs with an analog modem.• Formalized test suits and performance baselines shortening the validation process which reduced testing costs. • Analyzed and documented department procedures and definitions helped Dell Comms Team to get ISO certified.

Created project specifications and definitions; directed development programs from inception to validation; generated project schedules; supervised PCB layouts and routing; modified firmware; qualified components; provided technical support to manufacturing; managed 2 tests resources. Produced 5 production released telecommuter products.Led design, development and validation for the following products:• 2 ISDN (E1/T1) adapters for telecommuter application for new product offering.• 2 analog modem (V.90/DSVD) PC adapters for telecommuter application generating new revenue.• analog modem PC Card adapter for notebook PCs leading to new markets and revenue.

Generated device specifications; simulated circuits; created schematics; designed and validated analog and digital circuits; guided PCB layout and routing; generated bills of material; interfaced with manufacturing; wrote manufacturing test programs. Released to the field the second generation of Minx Video Conferencing equipment.• Led design and development of ISDN PC adapter for H.320 video conferencing application.• Designed RF PC adapter client for video conferencing application.• Developed RF adapter for video conferencing switch.• Verified 386 and 486 based motherboards.

Performed Electric Static Discharge (ESD), thermal, Power Line Transients (PLT) and functional testing of PC peripherals. The devices included PC motherboards, memory modules, hard disk drives, video display adapters and network adapters. Developed test scripts to automate testing speeding up the product development process.

Developed automated test sets for circuit card assemblies belonging to aircraft flight deck testers. Reversed-engineered circuit card schematics to develop test algorithms. Transferred existing schematics to schematic capture program (PADS). Produced PCB layout for production of replacement boards.