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California, United States

San Jose, California, Us

iXsystems is home to FreeNAS and TrueNAS and brings Open Source economics to IT infrastructure. Through the use of mature FreeBSD OS and feature-rich ZFS file system, we are building a family of High Availability platforms with enterprise-class data management for customers and software partners.

Kodiak Data containerizes clusters for data-heavy applications. Unique Virtual Cluster Infrastructure (VCI) technology enables hosted Clusters-as-a-Service (MemCloud) and on-premises virtual cluster solutions.

Colorado Springs, Colorado, Us

Joined Violin as its 1st business/marketing executive. Violin is the leading innovator in all-flash memory arrays and technologies and can be found at www.vmem.comExecutive responsibility for Marketing, Product strategy and Partnership strategy for Violin Memory, Inc. During my time, Violin grew from 13 people to 500, created a new category, became the market leader and went through the IPO process. Specific highlights of my time at Violin included included: - Brought to market the Violin 3000 and Violin 6000 Series arrays. Achieved 20% market share and #1 position in Gartner's survey. - Acquired Gear6 and integrated 10Gbe/FC gateway software into V6000 arrays. - Acquired GridIron Systems and launched the Maestro series of products. - Initiated the development of the highly regarded Symphony management product line.Had the pleasure of working with many talented and committed individuals. I wish them all well in the future.

Nemo developed a new method for efficiently implementing 10Gb/s and above ports on high-end switches and routers. Dozens of memory devices could be reduced to a single smart device.As part of the founding team, I was responsible for identifying and pursueing opportunities for the technology.All paths led to Cisco, which acquired the company early in its development.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Joined Cisco in Australia as 1st employee in southern hemisphere. There were about 450 employees worldwide at the time and the company had recently gone public. Great place to work!Initially responsible for technical pre-sales and post-sales in Australia & New Zealand. Built a great team and helped the Australian operation grow from $1M to $20M in a couple of years.Recruited to HQ as Product Management lead for WAN software, then high end routers and service provider infrastructure. Initiated the GSR12000, MPLS and L2F/L2TP products. Was instrumental in getting MPLS VPNS off the ground and deployed by AT&T as its first major service provider. Promoted to Snr Director and made responsible for the integration of Stratacom (Cisco's largest acquisition) into the Cisco product line. Initiated and managed the MGX product line and its integration with Cisco's other MPLS products.Assisted with post-bubble clean-up of Cisco's Service Provider business. General Manager of Carrier Voice Business Unit during that process.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Joined Telstra after leaving University. They trained me and I became involved in "fast packet switching" which became ATM and later IP. Highlight of my time at Telstra included: - Wrote the software for a small X.25 switch/gateway that enabled dial-up access. - Built the 1st ATM demonstration switch in Australia (1986) - Helped create the IEEE 802.6 MAN standard...the 1st practical ATM switching system. - Managed the architecture of FASTPAC, the 1st ATM-based network service anywhere in the world. 34Mbit/s across Australia!

Bridgewater, New Jersey, Us

Spent 6 months in Bellcore (later became Telcordia) working on ATM switching. They had serious R&D budgets and we were building a high bandwidth switching system. I was responsible for some of the initial architecture work of the Sunshine switching system.

B.Eng, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

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