Hands-on technical manager having led globally distributed teams from 5 to 50 people. Currently leading performance engineering teams for Dell EMC's cloud storage and streaming analytic products. Expert in Linux/unix systems, networking, performance engineering, data analysis and visualization, cloud storage and architectures, Docker and Kubernetes, S3 and OpenStack Swift APIs. - Deeply technical: Decades of experience in architecture and performance of distributed systems. Expert in Linux and unix systems, storage, networking, kubernetes, and cloud architecture. Hands-on leadership style, both mentoring and teaching, as well as developing new processes, creating tools, and analyzing the most challenging issues.- Inspiring Leadership: Managed globally distributed teams up to 50 engineers. Grew and developed engineering teams on new products. Mentored junior engineers from college-level hires through principal level, fostering both motivated performance and attention to career development.- Technical expertise paired with business understanding: Earned MBA with honors from Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.- Clarity in Technical Communication Exceptional talent for technical communication. Extensive experience presenting technical concepts to internal teams and customers at user conferences, and supporting both technical and non-technical field teams on pre- and post-sale product matters.- Skills: Mentoring and talent development, Performance concepts, systems performance and architecture, unix internals, TCP/IP networking, kubernetes, data analysis and visualization, databases- Languages: C, Perl, Python, sh/ksh/bash, R, javascript, go- Tools: kubespray, profilers, system tracing (dtrace,linux perf, ktrace,BPF), network tracing (tcpdump,snoop,wireshark)