Todd Roberts Email & Phone Number

North Fort Myers, Fl, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Director of Engineering for Cray ClusterStor E1000 Storage Systems

Houston, Texas, Us

Cray Inc. purchased by HPE.Managing Software Platform and Datapath team focused on storage cluster installation, provisioning, configuration, Linux kernel, RAID stack, networking, and High Availability (HA) components for next generation storage products.Scrum Product Owner for software for next generation storage products.

Houston, Texas, Us

Seagate storage team transferred to Cray.Managing Software Platform and Datapath team focused on storage cluster installation, provisioning, configuration, Linux kernel, RAID stack, networking, and High Availability (HA) components for next generation storage products.Scrum Product Owner for software for next generation storage products.

Fremont, Ca, Us

Managed ClusterStor OS Group. Team focused on Linux Kernel, RAID Stack (MDRAID, GridRAID), networking, and High Availability (HA) cluster components.

Fremont, Ca, Us

• Developed Linux open source based cloud storage solutions. Focused on systems provisioning process.• Drove cluster virtualization strategy that enabled the team to provide 20 virtual storage clusters to accelerate solution development.• Designed and implemented software update solution for storage clusters.• Represented division in Seagate wide development team expansion into India. Provided technical interview support for division resulting in addition of 95+ additional developers for division. Helped to setup new college graduate hiring program for division which included connecting with key colleges / universities in India and participating in on campus recruiting events. Prepared and provided technical training for new hires.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Managed all aspects of global team of over 40 software developers working on all levels of software. Key projects and technologies that the teams were responsible for included: Linux open source graphics and multimedia drivers, Linux kernel porting, Linux BSPs and SDKs, Yocto Project solutions, Windows Embedded Compact drivers and BSPs, Virtualization solutions, Various RTOS, OpenCL solutions, DASH System Management, and coreboot.org firmware / loader development.• Drove creation of overall software strategy for division. Identified key software initiatives needed to drive platform sales and the software resources needed to implement the strategy. • Accelerated creation and enablement of key technologies by growing team from about 15 to over 40 developers.• Decreased software completion from 2+ years after launch to 90%+ available at launch while increasing overall software functionality and features.• Defined and implemented outsource strategy. Vetted and engaged with software companies on and off shore establishing long term relationships that included additional 8 to 10 software resources further expanding the capabilities of team.• Enabled millions of dollars in incremental sales through partnerships with key customers. Identified and documented software requirements to drive projects enabling additional features and functionality.

Developed software at all levels of the stack for various product prototype, evaluation, and reference systems.• Restructured the C/C++ based Windows DLL Ethernet PHY Library (EPL) and Python demo application to allow it to be able to support additional PHYs. Upgraded EPL to PTP v2 (IEEE1588-2008) based updates to the upstream open source PTPd project.• Accelerated product time to market by creating a flexible framework for creating desktop and web based applications to demonstrate National Semiconductor solutions.• Created a development toolkit and firmware / application framework for developing firmware solutions for ARM based processors. Documented package was leveraged by other teams allowing them to ramp up on ARM development and quickly create new demonstrations for their products.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Responsible for project planning / tracking, bug triage and management, validation software development / debug, validation infrastructure development, debug of platform, software, and silicon issues.• Actively participated on the Geode LX silicon design core team to define and implement the system level rack test and debug methodology allowing the team to launch the product on schedule.• Established AMD Embedded community presence by working with legal and IP management to create the process and methodology for developers to participate in the coreboot.org project providing a customer resource enabling to develop their own code thereby reducing the time to market for their products.• Managed the system software team to complete the required system software components for the Geode family of processors.

Santa Clara, California, Us

AMD Purchased Division from National SemiconductorCreated test software and tools for silicon validation, performed silicon and platform bring-up, debugged platform, silicon, and software issues.• Developed system validation tools that would be used to accelerate validation of the Geode family of processors and chipsets.• Participated in the bring-up and debug of the validation platforms including the daily bug triage and prioritization process.

Managed BIOS team including budget / resource planning, product definition, project planning / tracking, and miscellaneous software development / debug.• Worked closely with systems and silicon teams to define the BIOS requirements to support validation and customer product needs.• Managed the XpressROM BIOS team to complete the required BIOS features and components for the Geode family of processors and chipsets.• Worked closely with BIOS partners to integrate support for Geode into their products.• Completed and released XpressLoader as a free minimal loader alternative to a full system BIOS.

Drove platform software projects a lead developer responsible for product definition, BIOS and Boot Loader development, WinCE Boot Loader and OAL development, system debug, customer / sales / field support.• Led Geode GX and CS5536 platform BIOS development ensuring that the systems and silicon teams were properly supported and could complete the silicon validation on schedule.• Provided debug support to systems and silicon validation efforts.• Developed National Semiconductor’s first WinCE Boot Loader from scratch as an option ROM that allowed WinCE to be used without having DOS on the system that was normally used by x86 WinCE solutions.