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Austin, TX, US

Irving, TX, US

Leading team in the development of micro-services based application. Technologies used include MongoDB, JavaScript, Kafka, and AWS.

I am continuing my work at Ultimate Software through the merger with Kronos. Subject matter expert for MongoDB. Working as an internal consultant to dev teams as they design and optimize their services in a Cloud based, event processing paradigm. I often get deep into the code with the developers to optimize the data access algorithms, the schema, index.

Weston, FL, US

Developing managed services using Pivotal Cloud Foundry (bosh), OpenStack, BASH, Python, Java, Ruby, MongoDB in a DevOps environment. Automating deployments and fault remediation

Riverside, California, US

Lead Developer on the StrongLINK product, which is scale-out, distributed, file system archival product that provides meta-data search, meta-data classification, and other data management features.Developed a distributed information system as the backbend in Python using MongoDB and MySQL on Linux.

New York, NY, US

Provided implementation and operations advice and assistance to developers of cloud and/or scale out applications, including:* MongoDB performance, capacity planning, and security* OS and kernel, VM, and hardware configuration * Optimizing databased and schema design* Operating system configuration, including file systems and storage* Optimal software.

Round Rock, Texas, US

Software Defined Storage Product* Developed software development system in Python on Linux* As team leader, partnered with several internal groups and partner companies to optimize servers for Ceph distribution. Ceph is a open-source, hyper-scale, storage-defined, storage system. * This product was used as the storage backend for Dell’s OpenStack Cloud.

Writing and editing the new official specification of CIFS/SMB protocols for MicrosoftSee Microsoft site for latest copies of these specifications:http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee442092(PROT.13).aspxhttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc246231(PROT.13).aspx

Software development and architectureTechnical design and specificationsCustomers:Olicity Corp (sub for LSI)Ubiqx Consulting (sub for Microsoft)

Golden, CO, US

Olocity Corporation is an small, independent vendor of storage management softwareSenior member of development team, representative to customers, and representative of company to SNIA.* Developed storage management back-end using C++ on Windows using SLT and CORBA* Enabled a major storage vendor, to be manageable by their customers (e.g. HP, IBM, and Dell).

San Jose, California, US

- CTO Office, standards and architecture - Advisor on software design and architecture for products - POC and prototype development on management through web services - Contributor to CIM/WBEM standards in DMTF and SNIA - Develop standard implementor testor in Java- SNIA - former Technical Council member - Chair Management Protocol Working Group - former.

San Jose, California, US

Architect for the Advanced Technology Group.- Designer, architect, and implementor on storage related software products (information systems)- Support of SMI-S by VERITAS management product reduced the time required to add support of a new storage array from six months to three weeks.- Author of SMI-S, and recognized interoperability champion and.

Santa Clara, California, US

The SNIA TC is responsible for the technical efforts of SNIA, including the SMI-S and XAM standard.

Santa Clara, California, US

- Lead the plugfesting between vendor implementations of SMI-S- Lead mutli-vendor interoperability demonstrations of SNIA Storage Networking World at SNW USA, Japan, and Australia- Lead the development of CIM-XML protocol tester- Implemented profile tester

Palo Alto, CA, US

Engineering leadership over several geographically dispersed teams from various companies, multiple product delivery, and standards developmentTeam lead for storage management application project

Columbia, Maryland, US

Team lead for the design and development of a massively distributed information system and team lead for the definition of common semantics for data elements across many distinct supplier information systems.The hardened laptop based software, and companion server product, was used to service and diagnose farming and industrial equipment.

Brookfield, Wisc., US

Designed warehousing and service desk client/server application to program, ship, and troubleshoot the configuration of credit card terminals. This system was the master terminal entitlement system for the corporation and, as such, interfaced and provided service to with many other application systems.

Music Composition

Computer Science

Music Theory