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Professional Experience
Senior Storage
Engineer January 2008 to Present
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Develop storage architecture
for Future Combat Systems (FCS) including ruggedization
of COTS RAID controller.
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Support data
storage requirements, developing innovative solutions.
Software Engineer January
2006 to December 2007
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Software Verification
Test for Future Combat Systems (FCS), Current Force and Future Force.
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Developed skills
with the following tools: DOORS 7.1, Clear Case, Clear Quest,
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Secret security
clearance.
General Dynamics
Advanced Information Systems
Software Engineer March
2006 to December 2006
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Software Verification
Test for Future Combat Systems (FCS), Current Force and Future Force.
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Developed skills
with the following tools: DOORS 7.1, Clear Case, Clear Quest,
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Secret security
clearance.
Systems Engineer October,
2004 to March 2006t
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Business
Development for General Dynamics data storage
products.
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Support proposals
in the with data storage requirements, developing innovative solutions.
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Support data
storage products in the field.
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Work with key
accounts: Northrop-Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raython
Systems, & Boeing.
Senior Systems
Engineer November, 2000 to October 2004
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Customer Support
representative on the SATA RAID cross functional team.
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Responsible for
customer application testing for Fibre and SATA products.
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Work with key DOD
accounts: Northrop-Grumman, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Raython Systems, & Boeing.
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Design, implement
& support heterogenous SAN and NAS solutions
based on ADIC’s StoreNext and Veritas
software on Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX and Linux.
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Responsible for
adding backup and restore solutions to Ciprico’s Professional Services.
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Development of
test and RAID utilites written in C and C++.
Principal Systems
Engineer June, 2000 to November, 2000
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Define the Fibre
Channel and SAN strategies for all of the Plasmon’s library products.
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Competitive
evaluation of emerging technologies being considered by Plasmon.
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Worked to define
the requirements for an Ethernet Remote Management Interface (RMI) to the
Plasmon products.
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Resource for
interface and connectivity issues.
Senior Systems
Engineer May, 1997 to June, 2000
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Extensive
customer interaction throughout the world including initial site analysis,
conducting performance analysis to customize solutions for customers, and
writing customer software applications.
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Presales support
for Sun, SGI and NT environments.
Included competitive analysis.
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Conducted
technical product training for Silicon Graphics Support Engineers.
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Conducted
performance analysis of Ciprico storage products and made recommendations for
improvements.
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Key engineer in
creation and development of design verification testing for Ciprico Sun and NT
utilities. Included development of GUI
utility for NT using VC++.
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Wrote and edited
technical manuals.
I-TECH Corp. January, 1988 to September, 1996
Co-Founder, 50% Shareholder,
Chairman of the Board, Chief Technical Officer
¨ Responsible for all the hardware, software and
manufacturing aspects of a $4.5M business.
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Numerous SCSI
test and analysis products were developed over a period of 8 years.
¨ Directed and managed staff of nine engineers and
operations department.
¨ Participated in technical training and support for distributors
and independent representatives on a worldwide basis.
¨ Developed and was granted patent for SCSI multi-thread
control design. Second patent on single
connector for Single-Ended and Differential SCSI.
¨ Successfully worked with management team to bring
products to market, eventually capitalizing on the opportunity and selling
interests.
Seagate Technology -
Magnetic Peripherals Inc. (MPI) - Control Data Corporation
Senior Controller
Engineer June, 1985 to August, 1990
¨ Software project leader for the drive firmware
development group.
¨ Responsible for the interface and controller
architecture of new disk drive products.
¨ Directed a staff of five software engineers.
¨ Developed code written in ‘C’ for PC-based Small
Computer System Interface (SCSI) tester which included menu interface and a
run-time environment.
¨ Wrote SCSI interface code for the EMD (
¨ Received multiple Great Performer recognition awards
for outstanding effort.
Systems Engineer February, 1983 to June, 1985
¨ Learned IBM’s 360/370 I/O communication structure.
¨ Wrote diagnostic routines to support Extended Error
Logging which involved code for the ‘Engine’ and Z80 programming.
¨ Annotated Speedmatching
Buffer Functional Code.
¨ Performed Functional Checkout along with Hardware
Checkout on IBM compatible 3380 Storage Director with Speed Matching Buffer.
¨ Software development under IBM’s VM/CMS operating
system.
Centech Corporation June, 1978 to December, 1980
Technician
¨ Designed and fabricated test fixtures for production
testing of printed circuit boards.
¨ Performed assembly testing and service repair of
ultrasonic pregnancy testers for pigs.
¨ Designed hardware and software including component
selection and board layout of microprocessor-based products using Intel’s 8085
and 8048.
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Education
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University of
Minnesota 1976 to 1982
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
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B.S. Electrical Engineering. Area of
Concentration: Digital Systems. Courses
of Special Interest: Digital System
Design, Instrumentation Control, and Software Structures.
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Wilson Learning
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The Versatile
Salesman.