Christopher Slater Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Architecting high performance infrastructure for server farms running AI (Models, Training, and Inference), Machine Learning, Analytics, EDA, and HPC workloads.

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Supporting evaluations and sales of the MinIO high performance distributed S3 object storage server. Architecting private cloud infrastructure for customers who are deploying Minio S3 object storage with Kubernetes, Hadoop, Spark, HBase, Presto and Hive applications. Supporting evaluations of MinIO at Box, PayPal, Seagate, Yahoo Oath, and Intel.

Chatsworth, Ca, Us

DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a provider of high performance storage systems for artificial intelligence, high performance computing, and big data environments.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Tintri provides products designed for Enterprise Cloud, virtual machines (VMs), and containers. The core product line is the VMstore, a storage system and software designed to simplify management in data center and cloud environments.My role as Systems Engineer allows me to focus on Enterprise accounts in San Francisco and Sacramento, including DropBox, Gymboree, IDEO, MedeAnalytics, Pfizer, and Rubrik. Achieved 148% of my FY2018 goal.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Meeting with customers and partners to explain how enterprise customers benefit when they deploy hypervisor and virtualization technology with Tintri VM-aware All Flash storage. Creating best practice guides, webinars, sales presentations, blog posts, training materials, and technical briefs that are used by Sales, Product Management, and Marketing. My primary focus is to quantify and illustrate the competitive advantages of deploying database workloads with Hyper-V, OpenStack, and VMware on Tintri "virtualization-aware" storage. Presenter at VMworld 2015, VMworld 2016 and various SQL Saturday events.

San Francisco, California, Us

Authored data sheets, best practice guides, competitive positioning briefs, blog posts, and product documentation for Panzura’s cloud storage gateway products that featured a global file system with global file locking technology.

Milpitas, Ca, Us

Supporting the growth of Fusion-io products by creating technical marketing materials, including solutions briefs, product requirements, technical training and best practice papers for the use of Fusion-io flash hardware and caching software with VMware, SQL Server and Oracle. Driving the technical portion of the OEM relationships with Fusion-io partners, including NetApp and others. Creating in-depth training for installing and diagnosing issues with the Fusion-io caching products and I/O profiling tools for use in training for OEMs and VARs.

San Jose, California, Us

Provided recommended architectures, best practices, performance tuning, technical training, and diagnostic support for all Yahoo properties – Mail, Flickr, Messenger, Games, Sports, Finance. Worked with the Oracle database teams at Yahoo! to deploy NetApp NFS storage with Oracle 10g RAC. Combed NetApp NFS storage, Linux servers, and 10GbE networking to provide multi-PB Oracle data warehouses with 6.5GB/sec I/O throughput. Drove uptime and stability at Cisco by focusing weekly status meetings to review support projects, cases, and recommended software releases. Drove features into new generations of D2D backup tools for Cisco. Technical architect for Oracle database technology with NFS storage at NetApp. Trained sales and systems engineering teams on how to identify, sell, and support deployments of Oracle databases on NFS storage. Created storage architectures for the Oracle Austin Data Center. Technical presenter at Oracle World and OAUG conferences around the world.

St. Petersburg, Fl, Us

Systems Engineer for worldwide sales of Y2K risk assessment tools. Provided product training and Y2K assessment training to multiple customers, including United States Navy Bases in Virginia and in Japan. Partnered with customers and product engineering to drive support for new features. Provided support and training for product installations on Windows servers.

Developed an enterprise market for Verity search engine crawlers, indexers, and search servers for use by Fortune 500 corporations. Customized search engine crawlers and indexers to create indexes of structured and unstructured data from corporate websites, home directory servers, and personal computers.

Systems Engineer and Product Manager for laptop based video conferencing hardware and compression technology. Pursued OEM opportunities with Toshiba Laptop division by meeting with Toshiba Laptop Division in Japan. Staffed booths in the Microsoft pavilion at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show.

Systems Engineer with an aggressive inside sales team that sold 4GL graphical development tools to harness the power of Oracle databases by quickly and easily building customized GUI applications for Windows PCs. Traveled the US and Canada to demonstrate the Gupta 4GL GUI tools. Guided customer evaluations. Provided live demonstrations of the 4GL tools at Oracle events including OpenWorld and OAUG. Contributions resulted in multiple sales leadership awards and attendance at sales club events.

Murray Hill, Nj, Us

Developed the first commercial email and calendar application with a GUI interface. This application was written in C for computers running Windows 3.0, used RPC to communicate to an Oracle database that provided the core of the application. The Oracle database ran on a server running the UNIX operating system. The leader in this space today is called Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft Exchange.

New York, Ny, Us

Developed real-time securities trading systems running on Stratus VOS high volume transaction processing systems. The application was written in VOS C and used successfully by Merrill Lynch’s proprietary trading floor.

Cardiff, Gb

Maintained an application for automating the storage and retrieval of hospital records based on “green screen” application terminals with light pen input and Burroughs mainframes.