20+ years experience in creating leading edge data-storage architectures, with special emphasis on innovating quality-of-service, data-integrity, high-reliability/availability and optimal cost/performance balance. Award-winning record of highly efficient visionary storage solutions. Pioneering and revolutionizing data-storage architectures, with optimal IO protocols, data-path acceleration and system topologies, and rich storage patent portfolio with 26 issued patents, and 9+ in process. Strong history of initiating and influencing new storage-industry standards, driving leading storage vendors’ roadmaps, and enabling customers with evolved and powerful storage solutions. Mastered the art of identifying and/or endorsing the perfect product idea, materializing it into a sellable product concept, rallying the critical technical and business teams around it, and then enabling it to happen!
Chief Technologist - CTO Office, Seagate Systems & Emerging Technologies at Seagate Technology
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering