Mark. E. Sorenson Email & Phone Number

Mark authored the novel, A Restaurant in Jaffa, a chillingly plausible cyber thriller that combines contemporary science with ancient settings and modern conflicts. A Restaurant in Jaffa features a talented computer entrepreneur who joins forces with an Israeli intelligence agent to battle hackers and revolutionaries who have infected essential computers in the United States, demanding a ransom that could change the entire landscape of the Middle East. Published through DartFrog Books, A Restaurant in Jaffa is the story of two talented individuals, Ryan Thompson and Eliana Beck, grappling with their troubled pasts while caught in the middle of a global conflict. While the traditional intelligence community struggles, these two are all that is left to prevent the most lethal attack on America since September 11, 2001.

Hopkinton Massachusetts

Mark is responsible for EMC’s Flash strategy and Flash products. His engineering team develops EMC VFCache, a server caching product that extends EMC’s FAST technology into servers. He is also responsible for all flash supplier relationships, flash M&A, and the advanced development of additional products that utilize and leverage flash technologies such as Project Thunder, a scalable, shareable server network flash appliance that is optimized for latency and IOP intensive applications.Sorenson joined EMC in 2003 as the general manager of EMC’s open storage software business which included replication products, backup technologies, infrastructure and management products. In this role Sorenson built the organization by successfully identifying and integrating intellectual properties internally developed and through a number of strategic acquisitions. This portfolio includes replication technologies EMC RecoverPoint, and Replistor, management software Data Protection Advisor, and Replication Manager, EMC PowerPath and data protection product EMC NetWorker. In 2006 Sorenson spearheaded EMC’s acquisition of EMC Avamar, which under his leadership became the market leader in backup deduplication. In 2009-11 Sorenson was the General Manager responsible for EMC’s mid-range storage array product line. In this role he directly managed over one thousand engineers and support personnel and drove the development of EMC’s VNX™ family of storage arrays —which was the result of converging EMC’s industry leading CLARiiON® storage area network (SAN) storage and EMC’s Celerra® network attached storage (NAS) system into a single, unified mid-range product line. The VNX series offers superior performance, capacity optimization, storage efficiency and comprehensive management functionality, while exploiting the benefits of Solid State Drives (SSD).

.Vice President of HP’s division responsible for the engineering, marketing, and product management of HP’s portfolio of storage management software products. The division’s charter includes the complimentary storage software business for HP’s storage arrays and server platforms as well as establishing an off-base business of open software. In 2002 this division was responsible for $300M in revenue and held the #4 position in market share for storage management software. Specifically;  Establish strategic plans for the division based on HP’s overarching business goals. Drove the definition and implementation of the group’s product and technology strategy, business and revenue plan.  Directly responsible for 500+ permanent employees, 200+ offshore resources, $75M budget  Responsible for storage software development, including design, development, and qualification.  Drove investment analyses of internally developed products vs. partner vs. acquire. Lead analysis and engagements of potential acquisition opportunities.  Responsible for storage software marketing activities including product marketing, AR/IR/PR etc…  Thru dotted-line reporting structure, work with sales in developing downstream strategies and field programs working with regional sales and marketing teams to collaborate in their implementation.

Vice President of Compaq’s storage software business. Managed a cross-functional team responsible for the development, business management and marketing of Compaq’s emerging storage business. From the initial instantiation of this business in 1998 to year-end 2001 the organization grew revenue from $40M to $200M and moved from #11 to #5 in market share. Specific responsibilities include:  Developed, managed, and executed the Compaq Storage Software strategy and business plan which was comprised of: a product plan, which ensured the development of best-of-breed products which tightly match technology trends and the requirements of the storage management market; a sales and marketing strategy to create broad market awareness and demand for products on a world-wide basis; and a strategic partner plan to ensure the maximum leverage of industry partners. Responsible for engineering for all storage software products, excluding firmware. Areas of focus included SRM, Virtualization, remote and local replication, and disaster tolerant solutions.  Managed product management, business development and marketing personnel, which were responsible for product business plans, pricing, competitive analysis, positioning, announcements, training, AR / PR.  Directed the team in working with other functional areas within Compaq on all facets of product commercialization insuring that the products were closely aligned with Compaq’s corporate technical directions, marketing strategies, service offerings and partner strategies.

Responsible for the overall business and strategy for Progress Software’s application development and relational database products on Digital Equipment Corporation’s platforms (e.g. Windows NT, UNIX, VMS).  Lead product management and engineering to define and deliver Progress products on Digital platforms. Lead the sales and marketing strategy for Progress’s Digital products including; print advertising, web marketing, AR/PR, direct mail, seminars, trade shows and other events.  Managed all strategic relationships relevant to the Digital market segment including system vendors (Digital), distributors (Avnet, Pioneer, Wyle), and VAR’s (QAD, Symix, JD Edwards, and others)

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1994–1995 Software Product Management, Group ManagerSenior Program Manager for third party vendors building clone workstations and portables utilizing Digital Alpha CPU’s, Digital Operating Systems and firmware. 1992–1994 Manager, Software Product ManagementProduct Manager for Digital's OSF Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) software which was comprised of; directory services, distributed security technologies, and remote procedure call software. 1989–1992 Software Engineering ManagerGroup Manager of 25 software engineers responsible for the qualification testing of all Digital software products prior to release for quality, compatibility, interoperability. Also provided internal training on quality techniques such as TQM, Contextual Inquiry, and the use of software metrics. Software Engineering SupervisorSupervisor of a group of 12 software engineers responsible for the development of internal testing tools used for the testing and certification of Digital software1986–1987 Senior Software EngineerDeveloper and project leader of a team of software engineers responsible for the development of a variety of software tools and utilities. 1984–1986 Software Engineer I & IIDevelopment and maintenance of a component of the VMS operating system, which provided system and peripheral (disk/tape/terminals) diagnostic tests for use by customer’s system administrators, field service, and tech support. 1981–1983 QA Test EngineerDeveloped and executed test programs against the VMS operating system, peripherals, VAX servers, and layered products