Mark Edwards Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Satellite division of SatixFy acquired by MDA

Manchester, United Kingdom

Cheadle, Uk

My original role was as a software/firmware architect for a high performance PCIe fabric attached storage array. The team transitioned in 2015 to become the early enablers for the new emerging 3D XPoint memory. The small Architecture team provided new controller designs to prove and explore the capabilities of this new low latency non-volatile memory. My responsibilities ranged across the whole stack from host access to managing the new media through FPGA services, ensuring that the systems merged seamlessly through the layers.Recent exposure to new memory-centric architecture with CCIX and Gen-Z.Elected representative of Employee Consultation Committee.

London, United Kingdom

Application Tap is a precision instrumentation environment with common APIs across Linux and Windows capable of performing latency measurments across highly distributed systems with high timing accuracy.Initially based around PCI hardware with high precision clocks synchronised with PTP, the AppTap API has expanded in to a de facto instrumentation standard with multiple low level implementations to suit different accuracy and cost parameters. Latest implementations include use of SolarFlare adapters in kernel bypass mode capable of handling over 8 million events per second.Other projects using SolarFlare adapters include high throughput packet capture modules for use with instrumentation and latency appliances.

Working contract for Windows device drivers for hardware assisted high resolution o/s and application instrumentation.

Deputy to the Chief Architect, tasked with designing a new platform architecture to streamline operations and make new service development and deployment more efficient. Also to act as program champion to maintain drive and momentum throughout the organisation.

A startup formed from the core engineering team made redundant by Adaptec. The company focused on iSCSI and fully integrated SAN management. Worked as architect, technical authority as well as implementing the live storage migration features of the product.The company later switched focus to virtual SANs to address the VMware market.

Worked for the CTO group in Adaptec exploring several ways of adding value to storage. Developed a prototype LVM for Windows that could mix DAS and SAN storage and also became an expert with MPIO.My most significant moment in this job came over Christmas 2004 when Adaptec's large customer was threatening to cancel the major business deal of the company. I flew to NC over Christmas to lead the crisis management and over 3 weeks recovered a disfunctional project to a state of product acceptance by the OEM.However, heavy losses, lack of vision and poor acquisitions lead Adaptec to a position where they had to shrink rapidly and as a result they closed the UK development office.

Elipsan was spun out of Eurologic when Eurologic was purchased by Adaptec Inc. At Elipsan we had the vision of creating easy to use and simple to manage iSCSI SANs.As early adopters of Microsoft storage technolgies to underpin the concepts we were for a time a Microsoft poster child.Elipsan became a major supplier to Adaptec servicing a large contract won by Adaptec. As a result Adaptec purchased Elipsan to bring the development in house (and royally scewed it all up).

Eurologic were one of the main storage appliance manufacturers based in Dublin. They purchased a small software team in the UK in order to move in to value add software in the storage market.My role was largely in research projects and involved major participation in the IETF efforts to create iSCSI. Although eventual products used Linux, I wrote a proof of concept iSCSI target for Windows when a major OEM was considering an iSCSI product. Tested by the OEM my software based target performed faster and more efficiently than all the early iSCSI HBA's tested.

Avantis produced CD-ROM server products, my role was to design and produce the next generation products more aligned with Windows.

I had several roles during this period as FTP continued its inexorable slide of mis-management in a changing market. Principal role was a long spell working with the Advanced Research Group and pulling the irons out of the fire for a long term failing project. Also worked a lot on prototyping network security, much of what we now see today in personal firewalls, not that the Company understood or took any interest in the work.

One of the more fun places I've passed through. Joined a very small company working on revolutionary technology to provide LAN access to the Internet. This is where I first participated in standards body activity and first came to work alongside Microsoft by helping to create Windows Sockets and was part of the Winsock Advisory Board that created Winsock 2.Saw the Company grow exponentially, through it's IPO and to its eventual sale to FTP Software Inc.

This company introduced me to networking protocols, they produced the first PC card for X.25. The card supported plenty of other protocols, largely within the OSI framework. Spent a year on secondment in New York as technical consultant on a large project. In my final role I produced the first commercial implementation of TCP/IP over X.25.