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Hopkinton, Ma

Responsible for the development of embedded software for PowerMax, Dell EMC’s premier all-flash enterprise storage array. Functional areas include machine learning, quality of service and automated storage tiering, disaster recovery, high availability and migration technologies, open systems front end I/O infrastructure and protocols, performance and scale optimizations, thin provisioning, data compression and deduplication.

Hopkinton, Ma

Responsible for the development of VPLEX/VE (Virtual Edition), a software (vApp) version of EMC’s VPLEX product. Storage virtualization software that runs on the customer’s hardware assets, VPLEX/VE provides data mobility and high availability across various EMC and third party storage arrays in a VMWare environment. Provisioning and ongoing management of the software is done through a vCenter plug-in.Constructed and led a globally distributed team (direct and matrixed) of 100+ engineers and managers located across the United States, Canada, Europe and India, utilizing an agile (SCRUM) software development methodology.Worked with product management, marketing and customer/technical support teams to identify and prioritize product requirements.Successfully launched initial version of VPLEX/VE in 2014.

Hopkinton, Ma

Responsible for the engineering program management, development, integration and test of application and middleware software for EMC’s flagship Symmetrix storage array, as well as the CLARiiON, Celerra and PowerPath product lines.Led globally distributed software development teams of 65 engineers and managers located across the United States, China and India. Staffed teams to meet business requirements, created project plans (budget and schedule), prioritized tasks, tracked progress, reviewed internal and external product documentation, and simultaneously coordinated sustaining and design verification test efforts.Worked with product management and technical support field personnel to identify and prioritize new product requirements.Introduced new virtualization and cloud enabling applications, including the EMC Virtual Storage Integrator (VSI) for VMware vSphere and Microsoft Hyper-V, and the Storage Pool Manager.

Hopkinton, Ma

Delivered high availability and disaster recovery applications, including a Symmetrix adapter for VMware’s Site Recovery Manager, geographically distributed cluster applications (SRDF/Cluster Enabler and AutoStart), and on-line data migration tools (OpenMigrator for Windows and UNIX). Delivered storage resource management (SRM) middleware component of EMC’s Solutions Enabler toolkit. SRM provides mapping and controls of database, volume manager and file system objects.Delivered Microsoft tools including backup utilities for Microsoft Exchange and SQL Server (TimeFinder Integration Modules), and Virtual Disk Service (VDS) and Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) hardware providers for EMC’s Symmetrix and CLARiiON storage arrays.

Southborough, Ma

Responsible for the development, integration and test of embedded system software for the Celox SCx192, a fully redundant carrier class IP services switch. The SCx192 is a highly scalable, broadband network traffic aggregator, capable of supporting millions of subscribers. It has a highly distributed and parallel architecture built with a custom ASIC chipset, PowerPC 750 Microprocessors, an IBM Switch Fabric and a proprietary embedded operating system.Led distributed embedded software development teams of 25 engineers and managers located in Massachusetts, Missouri and India. Staffed teams to meet business requirements, created project plans (budget and schedule), prioritized tasks, tracked progress and reviewed internal and external product documentation. Initiated and managed sustaining and configuration management functions, balancing resources between new feature development and sustaining efforts.Defined development, integration, test, release and bug tracking processes for the software teams. Monitored and enforced compliance to these processes.Delivered routing protocols (BGP4, OSPF, IS-IS, RIP) and MPLS protocols (LDP, RSVP). Code initially ported from third-party stacks (Inverness, NextHop, Meridian), then modified to support scale requirements, management via SNMP MIBs, VRFs, route maps, route redistribution, traffic engineering and MPLS/BGP VPNs. BGP routing engine completely re-written, and OSPF Dijkstra algorithm staged in order to meet the scale requirements of the SCx192.Delivered network management components (SNMP agents, MIBs, CLI), and infrastructure components (inter-processor communication, fault management, event logging) in support of the entire SCx192 software stack.Delivered simulation and automated test tools/scripts to aid in the development, integration and design verification of software in the complex distributed operating environment of the SCx192.

Chelmsford, Ma

Responsible for the development of embedded system software for MPLS on Cisco’s new operating system (ENA: Extensible Network Architecture). Initial application was RSVP Traffic Engineering.Organized core team of 7 development and test engineers through external hires and internal transfers. Managed transition plans for internal transfers.Developed project plan, prioritized tasks, tracked progress and reviewed functional specifications, designs and test plans for the RSVP protocol, CLI and MIB interface software.

Westford, Ma

Responsible for the development, integration and test of software in C/Perl/Java on UNIX (Solaris, HP-UX, IBM AIX) and WindowsNT for remote network and application monitoring applications. These applications utilize SNMPv2, RMON, RMON2, HCRMON, SMON, ATM RMON and proprietary extensions to these standards to monitor, analyze and report on data gathered from dedicated probes and embedded agents. A view of the network is provided at the data link, network and application layers regardless of protocol or network topology.Led client software development teams of 14 engineers. Staffed teams to meet business requirements, provided technical direction, wrote functional specifications, created project plans, prioritized tasks, tracked progress and reviewed designs, code, test plans and user documentation.Delivered industry’s first network-based application monitoring solution.Initiated and managed sustaining and release engineering functions. Balanced resources between new feature development and sustaining effort.Developed design control procedures and C coding standards in support of the ISO 9001 certification process. Received ISO 9001 certification on first audit

Lowell, Ma

Led network software development teams of 32 engineers and managers. Staffed teams to meet business requirements, provided technical direction, wrote functional and design specifications, created project plans, tracked progress and reviewed designs, code and user documentation.

Lowell, Ma

Designed, implemented and tested distributed network applications and a name service to provide fault-tolerance, flexibility, load balancing, reliable and efficient data transfer, cost-effective routing, and broadcast capability. Designed an expert system to reduce the manual intervention required by the guaranteed delivery service.

Littleton, Ma

Responsible for the development and test of system software in C on OSF/1, ULTRIX, and VMS for ACMSxp, a distributed on-line transaction processing monitor and application development environment. The monitor utilizes OSF/DCE, Transarc’s Encina, and Digital’s distributed transaction manager (DECdtm) and relational database (DEC Rdb/SQL). The application development environment is based on the Structured Transaction Definition Language (STDL).Technical project leader for the ACMSxp development team. Led development effort for the STDL compiler and various run-time and system management components. Wrote product requirements, functional specifications, and high-level designs. Scheduled activities of 12 engineers, tracked progress, and reviewed designs, code, test specifications, and user documentation.Designed, implemented, and tested the STDL compiler code generation component to convert STDL task definitions into C function definitions, the STDL run-time library routines to handle data manipulation and exception handling, and an event notification service utilizing client/server technology and OSF/DCE.Designed object-oriented entity specifications for the manageable objects of ACMSxp and Digital’s transactional queuing product (DECmessageQ).Developed C Coding Standards for ACMSxp and DECmessageQ engineering, and designed a multi-platform (UNIX/VMS) development/build environment.

Whippany, Nj

Responsible for the development, integration and test of embedded system software in C for the Intelligent Interconnect (IIC), a high availability, high performance Local Area Network switch. The IIC uses a custom-built switch fabric and has 68010-based Bridge, Gateway, and Terminal interfaces.Designed, implemented, and tested a maintenance/diagnostic controller for the IIC. The controller polls the interface processors and receives unsolicited information from the switch, identifying faults and responding to alerts.Designed, implemented, and tested a host simulator and test bed to support the integration and performance analysis of the IIC’s Terminal and Gateway interface subsystems.Led the IIC system integration effort to test the combined functionality of the subsystems, measure performance, and verify conformance to the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model and required International Standards Organization (ISO) protocols.

Natick, Ma

Responsible for the development and test of system and application software for the Marine Corps Food Management Information System (MCFMIS). Designed, developed, tested, and documented MCFMIS access control software for a magnetic stripe badge reader and application software for accounting, inventory, and menu production.

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Associate Of Science (As), Business Administration