John Sieber Email & Phone Number

Round Rock, TX

• Leads the Dell PowerEdge Leveraged Platforms (PLP) and Solutions engineering team. The PLP team enables products across a large scope of Dell’s enterprise portfolio including PowerFlex primary storage, PowerProtect.

Round Rock, TX

• Leads the PERC solution engineering teams to deliver firmware, software, and hardware solutions for Dell's PERC family of RAID controllers, delivering products that generates over $130 million annual revenue
• Leads the server storage technologists that are responsible for technical direction of Server Storage controllers for the organization.
• Partners with cross-functional core stakeholders across engineering, product management and other extended teams to lead the technology direction, facilitate key technical decision points, and take the architecture.
• Responsible for setting up engineering teams, mentoring, transition of work from other locations, working with teams in multiple geographic locations, mentoring future managers. Demonstrated predictable product.
• Set up, staffed, developed and managed multi-site teams including a new server storage team at the Dell Bangalore development site to expand Dell's server storage development capabilities in India.
• Provides on-time deliverables with emphasis on extensive testing, both functional and integration testing during the development cycle. Oversight of entire product lifecycle: requirements definition through.

Austin, TX

• Solution architect for Dell FluidFS based NAS programs focused on strategic development and planning for the NAS products, solving complex technical problems, and helping to improve the planning and execution of the.
• Architect and solution owner for Dell’s next generation storage appliance hardware platform

Round Rock, TX

• Created architecture specs for the PERC 8 program features, including Comprehensive Embedded Management (CEM), PERC 8 NVCache, Wide Port SAS, BayID, HDD temp monitoring, HDD power management, and Break Mirror
• Lead Engineer for Dell SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, including PERC 3, PERC 4, PERC 4e, PERC 5, SAS 5, PERC 6, PERC 7 and PERC 8 programs
• Mentored and coached several teams of engineers with mixed experience and backgrounds
• Participated in RAID Firmware and driver design, problem solving, debug and validation
• Extensive experience with working with third party vendors and OEM partners
• Performed hardware qualifications and validation

- Network Attached Storage (NAS) development engineer- Owner of the NAS tape backup solution- NAS volume snapshot software lead- Scripted factory imaging and deployment- Developed CD based and PXE based imaging solutions for NAS deployment- Co-developed and validated NAS server hardware and chipset solutions- Developed web applications for NAS Management.

- Storage Area Network (SAN) development engineer- Fibre Channel tape solution lead- Netware Application Transparent Failover (ATF) driver development lead- WebUI development and validation

- Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution development and validation- Qualified SCSI tape solution using direct CIFS file system backups and remote backups using NDMP protocols.- Cable Qualifications

- Developed and debugged code for Gated, a Unix gateway daemon.- Tested a new AIX system call, send_file, which is used to cache data for web servers.- Performed AIX system administration and set up lab networks using gateways between Ethernet, Token ring, and Fddi networks.

- Debugged memory controller using logic analyzers and digital oscilloscopes- Performed signal integrity testing on prototype cards and to qualify prospective third party SDRAM chips.- Performed AIX system administration and maintenance of AIX lab systems.

- Programmed manufacturing assembly line system diagnostic test cases using C++.

- Performed usability testing and quality assurance of Compaq’s new hardware products and device drivers in MS Windows NT 3.51 and Windows NT 4.0 environments.