Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area
I am a strategic engineering leader with 20+ years building enterprise storage and AI infrastructure at NetApp and HPE/Nimble Storage. I have consistently been recognized for driving lasting, sustainable culture change aimed at making engineering as efficient as possible without sacrificing quality. I hold a senior level engineering leadership role across a 1,000+ engineer organization, am responsible for the technical strategy of a ten digit product line, and directly interface with NetApp’s most demanding technical customers on a regular basis.
As Distinguished Engineer in our CPTO/Product Architecture Group, I am responsible for System Engineering for ONTAP engineering * Lead architect on scaling AFX - NetApp's next generation disaggregated product line optimized for hyperscale AI workloads * Owner of software/hardware intersection points for all ONTAP new product introductions * Continued ownership over long term continued quality strategy across ONTAP
As Sr. Technical Director in our Product Engineering Group, I worked with over a thousand engineers to build best in class engineered appliances * Software Architect for engineered appliances responsible for software/hardware integration * Led our cross functional Systems group responsible for whole product interactions * Early adopter of pushing forward AI/ML agenda by leading early AIOps agenda * Test Architect for foundational code used for on prem and hyperscaler cloud deployments
As Technical Director for our Quality/Release Group, I led strategy for a 400+ person organization responsible for enabling optimal day to day productivity as well as driving maniacal focus on quality. * Technical Director responsible for leading quality improvements across NetApp technology groups and product development. * Spearheaded strategy that led to over 10x improvement in ONTAP field quality metrics over a period of 5 years. * Driving force behind best-in class engineering development infrastructure - Enterprise CICD, Common Regression Lab, Common Test Lab