The S4 TWG develops a whitepaper for testing storage array performance in the presence of data reduction and other enterprise features.

The SNIA Workload TWG identifies terms, standards and approaches common to storage workloads for networks, applications, servers, clusters and storage arrays.

The SNIA Technical council defines technical standards, sets agendas and speakers for SNIA conferences and symposia and supports marketing initiatives such as training and a network storage dictionary.

Focused on performance characterization for the Pure Storage FlashArray and FlashArray Cloud solutions.Measured performance for both on-premise and cloud-based Pure FlashArray solutions.Provided daily performance- and PoC-related technical support to SEs, sales teams worldwide and to product teams in Mountain View. Helped SEs to design PoC performance tests and evaluated customer-supplied tests.Spoke on FlashArray performance and testing at new-hire training sessions

Worked with hyper-scale customers to deliver product road maps, discuss customer requirements, deliver sample products and firmware upgrades and documentation to customers.

Held a variety of roles in the company, including:Principal Systems Engineer and Technical Evangelist, specializing in storage infrastructure validation, application workload generation, and storage technology validation.Delivering white papers, presentations and methodology documents related to storage testing and application validation internally and to the SNIA.Speaking at symposia, technical conferences, sales conferences on storage array testing, application performance testing, product features and testing methodologiesCommunicating with sales and SEs to gather customer requirements for product marketing and engineering.Providing training and test design to help vendors validate storage protocol functionality, array performance/array limits and to uncover product defects.Designing tests to emulate storage applications, find performance limits and properly size storage arrays for single or multiple applications.Training vendors, customers and resellers in product operation/troubleshooting and technical sales in the US, APAC and EMEA.Writing release notes, product update documentation/presentations/example testsProviding technical customer support to vendors, end-users and resellers.

Product Marketing Manager for WANJet, F5's Wide Area Network acceleration product, which included WAN acceleration via compression, deduplication and synchronous/synchronous storage replication, and web traffic protocol optimization and traffic reduction. Worked with product management on new features; trained sales and SE teams, and produced release notes, product introductions and technical white papers.

Served as a Technical Marketing Engineer for the Avalanche L4-L7 stateful protocol and performance testing appliance, ThreatEx security threat and performance testing appliances, and Avalanche, ThreatEx and Carrier Ethernet testing features on Spirent TestCenter.Delivered Sales and Technical presentations, product updates, release notes and whitepapersSupported US, APAC and EMEA sales/SE teams and resellers.Presented at sales and partner conferences in the US and APAC.

I served in a number of roles with Nortel Networks as well as Bay Networks and Synoptics Communications Inc.- Managed local and metro Ethernet product lines, including Passport 1000/8000, as well as Accelar routing switches, IPivot security and performance appliances, and System 5000 and 3000 platforms.- Spoke at company events supporting multiple products. - Served as an expert sales and marketing resource, as Technical Sales Support Analyst serving the Americas and APAC and as Regional Product Manager in the APAC region. - Spoke at trade conferences including Networld/Interop, ATM year and others, as well as company sales meetings, technical training and partner events.I taught networking technologies such as Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI, routing and network management and Unix user courses.