Motivated, technical professional with a successful 20+ year track record of server and storage design and deployments. Talent for quickly mastering new technology, combined with excellent troubleshooting skills. demonstrated ability to find solutions to seemingly intractable business requirements.
Hold multiple patents related to SAN infrastructure, hard drive technology, and security aspects within the datacenter space. Integrate well into standards organizations such as the FCIA, T10, T10/T13, DMTF and SNIA.

Deep knowledge of specific Microsoft Architectures: Windows Server 2003-Windows Server 2016, Storage Spaces, ReFS, Scale Out File Systems, StorSimple, System Center Suite (SCOM/SCVMM/SCO/SCDPM),
Specialties: Protocol: SCSI/SAS/SATA, FC/FATA, FCoE/iSCSI, and Trace Analyzers
Array: HP MSA/EVA./XPS/CASA, HDS UPSV/AMS, EMC DMX/CX/AX/Invista, NetApp FAS (7-Mode & Clustered)/FlashRay/EnginioSeries, Many PCI Based RAID.
HBA: Emulex,Qlogic,Brocade, Cisco, JNI,LSI,Adaptec
Drive: RAMSAN,FusionIO,Intel,Samsung,STEC,FDE,TCG,MAID, Solidfire
Switch/App: Brocade All 1/2/4/8 GB/s Products, DMX, AP7420, AP7500, Cisco MDS95xx, Nexus 50x0/55xx/6000. McData, Qlogic, Decru, Neoscale
SnapShots(CoW, AoW),SnapClones(Replicas),Async & Sync Mirror
Server Profiling: File,Mail,Database,Web,Stateless/Stateful
Virtualization: Private vs Public vs Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-V, VMware
Benchmark and Performance Expectations; 7200RPM-15KRPM, SLC/MLC/TLC SSD, IOMeter, RAMDrive, NVRAM, etc