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Member Since:: Feb 3, 2010
Last Logged In:: Feb 3, 2010 3:30 PM
Occupation:: Technical Marketing
Biography:: Currently a member of a select team at Brocade headquarters I am focused on FICON and System z technologies for my company. I have forty one years in the computer industry, including ten years as an end-user of which seven were spent as a mainframe systems programmer. I have spent thirty one years in the vendor world with positions at Amdahl, StorageTek, REAL Solutions (an IBM Business Partner), McDATA and Brocade. I am an industry-recognized authority on ESCON, FICON, and mainframe I/O. And I am a regular speaker at industry/vendor conferences such as SHARE, HP Tech Forum and the Brocade Technical Conference. I am also a published author on Mainframe I/O and FICON. My papers have appeared in zJournal and the CMG Proceedings. I am also active in the SHARE user group conferences. I am a Brocade Certified Architect for FICON and was among the first to achieve this professional certification. When not on the road talking with folks like you, I am based at my home office in Marietta, Georgia, USA. Outside of work I enjoy photographing the worldwide locations I visit, golfing with friends, SCUBA diving in exotic places, poking around in the ancient cities of Europe/Asia and snow skiing.
Expertise:: My specialties are: Big Picture, FICON vendors, mainframe I/O including ESCON and FICON performance, mainframe storage, cascaded FICON, FICON-FCP Intermix, Linux on System z, and FICON Design/Architecture.
Job Title:: Global Solutions Architect, System z Technology and Solutions
Company 2:: Brocade
Industry:: Technology
Years Experience with Brocade:: 10
Solutions of Interest:: Consolidation, Business Continuity, Migration, Server Connectivity
Services of Interest:: Data Center Networking
Products of Interest:: Brocade USD-X, Brocade Mi10K Director, Brocade 4100 Switch, Brocade M4700 Switch, Brocade 7500, Brocade 48000 Director, Brocade 4900 Switch, Brocade M6140 Director, Brocade 5000 Switch
OEM Partners:: Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), EMC, HP, Sun, IBM
Certifications Completed:: Brocade Certified Architect for FICON (BCAF)
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