SUMMARY

• Data Center Switch Fabrics, Software Defined Converged Infrastructure, White - box Open Source technologies, Storage networking (FC/FCoE, NVMe-RDMA, and IP) and their application to hybrid Software Defined Cloud Solutions.
• As networking Chief Architect advances technology vision and strategy as it impacts products with $600M annual revenue to ensure that market needs are met with high availability, performance/scalability, and security.
• Holds seven patents. Eleven patents pending and three in application stage. HPE technical lead at T11.3 for next generation Storage Networking including NVMe over Fabrics for flash storage. Contributor to NVMe WG, and OCP.
• Has operational and deployment experience from being a datacenter architect at VeriSign. Linked together the application development, QA, and the operations teams.
• As lead QA architect at WaterCove/Alcatel Mobile Group led hands on testing of GPRS-GGSM node end to end.
• Architected forwarding, switching, and Ethernet-over-SONET ASICs at Onex acquired by Confidential .
• As Software Manager & Consulting Engineer designed features for Confidential /Lucent and Nortel’s products, enabling new revenue for carriers. Managed departments in line and matrix organizations and worked on products with billion dollar revenue.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Datacenter Technology: Switch-Fabrics, Converged Infrastructure, Hybrid private/public Cloud, Disaster Recovery, High Availability, Performance Tuning, Scalability, Overlay Technologies, NVMe over Fabrics, Fibre Channel and FCoE, Hybrid SDN, IP/MPLS, QoS, LAMP/Oracle

Standards: NVMe over Fabrics, T11.3 FC/FCoE,, IEEE 802.x, MEF, IETF TCP/IP, BGP, MPLS; ITU-T, 3GPP, IMS, ATM/FR, SS7

Transport Protocols: Ethernet over SONET-G.707/G.709, Protection and Restoration Schemes, GFP/VCAT/LCAS, DOCSIS/PCMM

Configuration: HPE/Cisco/Arista/OPS/Cumulus Switch & Router Products, Wireless RAS/GGSN

Software development: ASIC sdks, Linux and Embedded Kernel & Driver, Disk I/O Systems, Socket I/O, Multi-threading

Programming skills: Python, C/C++, Java, SQL, Shell Scripts, Tcl/Tk, Assembly Language, Pascal, and Modula-II

Tools: GNU Toolchain, Eclipse, Virtualbox, Spirent, OPNET, MathWorks

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Chief Architect

Responsibilities:

• Differentiates HPE Networking products through development of innovative features, Intellectual Property, and technology partnerships and integration; e.g. telemetry FlexAnalytics Microburst detection and remediation.
• Forms and is a hands on technical lead of virtual global teams e.g. testing scale, stress/stability, and performance of HPE Flexfabric-Comware, Open Network-Operating-Systems: Cumulus, PICA8, and Arista-EoS products together with HPE storage and server eco systems. Migrated QA workloads to the Cloud.
• In external facing role engages key customer accounts to collect requirements and present solutions and troubleshoot difficult problems: JPMC and ATT currently, Sabre, BT, Fidelity in the past. Financial service industry experience.
• Influences features and product architecture, ASIC requirements & selection (Broadcom and Cavium), and drives target network architecture and designs e.g. Cloud Fabric, NVMe over Fabrics, Storage Networking, network support for VM/containers and Cloud Computing, and Hybrid SDN/SDN-2.
• Is lead contributor to T11.3 FC/FCoE and next generation of storage networking e.g. NVMe over Fabric and RDMA.

Confidential

Senior Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designs multi-vendor, multi-tier solutions that consist of server (web and application), database, storage, network, and security layers that meet BoM cost, availability, DR, performance, scalability, and standard quality requirements.
• Collaborates with business unit, development/QA, and operation groups to produce Technical Architecture Designs to ensure successful service deployments.

Confidential

Senior Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Validated two software releases and ensured contractual obligations to customers including billing accuracy.
• Approved new feature requirements & design for evolution towards IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS).

Confidential

Consulting to client’s VP of engineering

Responsibilities:

• Developed technical requirements for a proxy QoS manager for dynamic session control, enabling new service revenue, for next generation cable MSO using DPI features.
• Explored a DPI access product fit and opportunity in service provider evolution towards IMS.
• Designed network security and a VoIP solution for a 500 user, high security enterprise with international locations.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided technology vision and strategic direction for development of new ASICs, guiding roadmap from technical and standards perspective. Obtained customer feedback, won executive buy-in for new products.
• Led the team and efforts in MEF and IEEE 802 standards activities and contributed to Ethernet service definition and traffic management. Contributed to IEEE 802.17 resilient packet ring and 802.3x+ granular pause flow control.
• Key contributions: Traffic Management features of EoS Mapper, invented an “equalizer” algorithm for a 40G/s hybrid data/TDM switch element, invented and patented a non-blocking path hunt algorithm for multi-stage Clos networks, and proposed a two-level scheme for protection & restoration in communication networks; published at OIF, T1X5, ITU-T, and Photonics Networks journal.

Confidential

Consulting Engineer and Software Manager

Responsibilities:

• Product architect led and subsequently managed a team of seven software engineers developing IP differentiated services over a core ATM network using IP-Navigator MPLS capabilities. Solution was implemented on CBX500/GX550 multi-service WAN switching platforms with $400M quarterly revenue.
• Represented Lucent Technologies in IETF and ATM forum. Acted as liaison with Bell Labs, organized and chaired an extremely successful subject matter expert seminar series across the company.

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Recommended technology, developed specifications and high-level design for IP-VPNs for Nortel Passport-15K switch enabling new revenue for carriers. Contributed to IETF & defined QoS framework for IP diff-services.
• Developed techniques and evaluated BGP extensions for support of IP-VPNs including impact of area size on routing convergence, impact of routing transients and loops on layer-2+ tunneling technologies such as MPLS.
• Was responsible for performance evaluation and communication protocols of Nortel’s packet-switch, SONET- OC192 ADM, and DMS-100 SSP; products with billion dollar revenue
• Designed Selective-Repeat transport protocol for skinny networks used in managing MCI’s OC-48/192 long-haul transport network.
• Comparative analysis of TCP’s congestion control vs. congestion avoidance with explicit feedback proposed and is one of the first citations of random early-drop schemes to ensure fairness.

Confidential

Assistant Professor

Responsibilities:

• Teaching and research focused on the emerging field of Local Area Networks, 802.3/4/5 MAC protocols; 802.4 was the precursor to 802.11 MAC mechanisms. Supervised a graduate thesis and was a Masters and PhD examiner.