• Worked with cross-functional Engineering, Product Management, Manufacturing, and Customer Support teams to deliver Dell EMC’s first generation Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA), the DP4400, which was awarded the Dell ISG product of the year in 2019, and most recently the Power Protect x400 purpose built backup appliances. These Hyper Converged Data Protection Appliances combine best of breed Data Protection software with a highly available VMware VSAN cluster. • Built initial pre-GA proof-of-concept IDPA appliances and worked with software engineering team to finalize hardware, cabling, software and configuration settings for production ready manufacturing process at launch.• Performed validation and verification of incremental VMware ESXi and vCenter builds, as well as underlying Dell EMC point products for successful integration into the IDPA platform.• Developed and delivered deployment lab environment to enable IDPA development and test engineers to efficiently rebuild their remote environments from bare-metal to support upgrades, rollbacks and re-installs as necessary.• Provided installation platform, process, documentation and training to manufacturing personnel enabling automated software installation of first generation DP5xxx and DP8xxx Integrated Data Protection Appliance (IDPA) hardware. • Researched and identified appropriate hardware platforms and system and network components for Data Protection Division appliances. This included host, network and storage switch, storage array and disk drive firmware and BIOS qualification and validation, factory and system imaging, VMware ESXi hypervisor builds and customizations, and Virtual SAN (vSAN) configuration.• Delivered FRU/CRU part replacement procedures and developed and documented minimal downtime host and network switch firmware upgrade procedures.• Provided engineering support to field personnel for critical customer escalations.

• Performed DVT testing of new microcode features for latest generation of firmware (Enginuity) and EMC's flagship enterprise storage array (VMAX) • Worked with partners to integrate their Alpha and Beta products with VMAX during early stages of development in an effort to address potential design issues earlier in the development cycle thereby delivering a higher quality product• Performed DVT testing of incremental early access (non-public beta) builds of vSphere 5, including ucode and VAAI integration making it possible to provide day zero support of the new platform release. Participated in weekly partner interlock and development forum to help triage and expedite solutions to problems.• Performed DVT testing of incremental early access (non-public beta) builds of Microsoft Server 2012, including ucode and ODX integration making it possible to provide day zero support of the new platform release. • As a leader in the Virtualization QE initiative tasked with introducing and expanding test coverage with Virtualization across the QE organization, provided a presentation and demonstration to the larger team to introduce Virtualization concepts. • Developed and delivered hands on lab training materials and created a VMware lab environment to allow engineers to quickly and efficiently deploy dedicated test sandboxes. The environment is built such that a single physical server is supporting multiple VMware ESXi instances running on Virtual Machines and employing VMware's DirectPath I/O configuration. The result is a configuration that serves as both a proof-of-concept and reference architecture for a cost savings configuration that will become increasingly common in the testing environment. The environment has been used as an education environment for Symmetrix Engineering teams to gain hands-on experience in a VMware environment. Configuration is extensible and able to support additional hypervisors and host operating platforms.

• Supervised, mentored, and provided guidance to the Software Products Engineering and Applications DVT team.• Performed Design Verification Testing (DVT) and assured successful on-time delivery of several Solutions Enabler based layered software applications. Products included: • SRDF Cluster Enabler (SRDF/CE) • Timefinder Exchange Integration Module (TXIM) • Virtual Storage Integrator for VMware • Virtual Storage Integrator for Microsoft Hyper-V • Storage Pool Management (included SMC as well as VSI components) • SRDF Site Recovery Adapter (SRA) for VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager (SRM) • Verified new releases and updates of third party enterprise applications, host operating systems, and virtualization platforms work as designed with Symmetrix and Solutions Enabler. • Consolidated and updated aging equipment to better meet needs of Virtualization team. This resulted in more effective and efficient environment as well as an almost 75% reduction in footprint resulting in substantial cost savings. • Assured alignment between SPEA DVT and QE with eLab on virtualization platforms. Also maintained alignment with Solutions Enabler related product set and 3rd party virtualization platforms (e.g. vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V)

• Developed and executed DVT test plans and processes for validation and qualification of SRDF/CE, a geographically dispersed cluster solution for Microsoft Windows Server and Symmetrix Arrays. • Worked with Microsoft and EMC development teams to identify, debug and resolve functional, performance, and reliability issues. Activities included working on design issues with development, working with early builds, and building and maintaining complicated development and test environments. • Designed and executed proof of concept and performed DVT testing for SRDF/CE on VMWare's ESX hypervisor. After initial VMWare buy-in, oversaw the effort to satisfy VMWare's requirement that the solution be validated using Microsoft's Hardware Compatibility Test (HCT) suite. • Provided hardware and software support, debug and guidance to development team as needed for Windows 2003 and Windows 2008 platforms, Symmetrix and SRDF, and network and SAN switching during all phases of product development.

Developed technical training programs for pre-GA EMC and partner SAN hardware for delivery to Engineering and Customer Support personnel.

• Developed and documented best practices and proofs of concept for Symmetrix-based highly available data center solutions for use by Professional Services and Sales organizations. Created several Microsoft .NET E-Commerce solution sets working with Microsoft's Commerce Server engineering development group. • Team lead for development of EMC TimeFinder Exchange Integration Module (TEIM) component of Resource Pak for Windows. Supervised and mentored several software development engineers. • Developed Perl scripts that were basis and proof of concept for TEIM. Product enabled customers to minimize recovery time of failed Microsoft Exchange databases using EMC TimeFinder split mirror technology. Single mailbox restore time reduced from many hours to less than 15 minutes. Recognized with Marketing Excellence Award for solution. • Leveraged EMC technologies and Microsoft clustering and network load balancing technologies to help customers update online product catalogs without affecting online production. Provided scripted solutions to automate process. • Team lead for development of EMC TimeFinder Exchange Integration Module (TEIM) component of Resource Pak for Windows. Supervised and mentored several software development engineers. • Provided last effort support to field personnel and customers as required for Symmetrix in Microsoft environments. Also delivered training for field personnel and support for alpha customers of provided solutions. • Performed problem recreation and QA functions for integrated third party solutions employing EMC technologies. • Built and maintained integration and development lab network employing over $2 million in Intel-based Windows-based servers, in addition to a complex switched fabric Symmetrix SAN. • Presented "EMC Solution Sets for the Microsoft E-Commerce Platform" at the EMC Technology Summit 2002, Las Vegas.

• Developed and supported pre-functional test programs and equipment to test computer system components including the testing of complex printed circuit boards on GenRad 228X in-circuit testers. • Identified and resolved design related testability issues on new products.

Developed and supported GenRad 227X in-circuit (ICT) and Everett/Charles 550 manufacturing defects analyzer (MDA) test programs for manufacturing plants and subcontract vendors, on-site and remotely to test complex printed circuit boards.