Quality Assurance Engineer

D I M I TA R B OY N

**** ********** *** #* *** Sunnyvale, CA 94087 408-***-**** dimitar.boyn@io switch.com

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

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Assembling technologies used and depended upon by millions of people every day. An enterprising man with the

ability to adapt quickly in a rapidly changing environment. Have broad knowledge and expertise in many different

areas of computer science and mathematics.

Leads vision and strategy to translate business drive into maximum profits commensurate with the best

interest of shareholders, customers, employees, and the public. An expert in enhancing ROI; developing strategic

partnership initiatives and growing each segment of a highly innovative IT service portfolio. Dedicated to

maintaining a reputation built on quality, innovation, and uncompromising ethics.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Strategic / Tactical Planning Information Lifecycle Management Big Data

Mergers / Acquisitions Service Planes High Availability Continuous Information

Business Development Cloud Storage as a Service Protection

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

I/O SWITCH TECHNOLOGIES, INC. – SUNNYVALE, CA 2013 – 2014

OFFICE OF THE CTO

A stealth mode start up bound to disrupt the foundations of data storage architectures

Lead initital R&D – 2 patent applications and 8 claims

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Delivered first 2 MVP (Minimal Viable Product) Implementations of PCIe SSD Switched Fabrics

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CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. – SAN JOSE, CA 2005 – 2013

CISCO CLOUD SERVICES ( FORMER TECHNICAL ENGINEERING & OPERATIONS)

AAS PLATFORM ARCHITECT (2010 2013)

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Design a high performance storage cloud enabling policy based ILM at massive scale, while striving for ultimate

management simplicity.

Lead senior management business and technical level discussion involving business vision and strategy,

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enterprise level decisions, standardization of best practices, and project governance oversight.

Conduct risk assessments and quality assurance reviews to evaluate compliance with requirements and to

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identify potential gaps in policies, procedures and business processes.

Develop strategies to improve non performing compute fabric elements, reduce emergency failovers, and

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minimize recovery times to eliminate business side service outages. Identify potential problem technology debts

and provide guidance to staff in restructuring.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Created and architectural solution encapsulating both NAS and Global Object Store in common Cloud

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Architecture to provide Single Global Namespace, Policy Based Content Distribution where:

Datacentres can start small yet extend without limits (elasticity)

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CONTINUED …

Data serving mechanisms are self healing and fully resilient

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Scalable within 2.5X1011 number of files (objects)

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Footprint and density are unbeatable in the current industry formats

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Identified a technology stack allowing for building a unified storage platform where data is replicated near real

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time across failure domains independent of geo location, transparently available on failure of the

subcomponents, while versioned and potentially de duplicated. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE – CONTINUED

CISCO (WEBEX) MAIL

AAS ARCHITECT (2008 2010)

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ACHIEVEMENTS:

Re factored High Availability Concepts from "on premise" Software Edition of PostPath Collaboration Suite to what

became known as Cisco Mail SaaS Platform

Championed integration of the new product into the existing Cisco WebEx SaaS Cloud

Concept & Implementation of the Back End Multi Datacentre Clustered Computing Platform substantially reduced

overhead and operating costs

Improved and established product partnered relationships – a series of EMC “bleeding edge” product Beta program

cycles; pre HP acquisition excessive 3PAR benchmarks awarding “to be acquired” status; pre Dell acquisition extensive

Compellent benchmarking awarding “best virtualization” status.

POSTPATH, INC. (APPTRAN, INC.)

NNOVATION ENGINEER (2005 2008)

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PostPath, Inc. (Acquired by Cisco Systems in September 2008 for $250 million) developed the industry’s first

natively compatible alternative to Microsoft Exchange. Fully interoperable with the Exchange ecosystem, PostPath’ s

email and collaboration server provided enterprises a lean, high performance messaging infrastructure, a radically

improved cost model, and an innovation rich upgrade path for corporate collaboration.

ACHIEVEMENTS:

Concept & Delivery of the first prototype version of "PostPath Archiving Edition"

Concept & Delivery of the first 2 versions of PPVA (PostPath Virtual Appliance) published on VMware Market website

Series of Load, Performance and Certification tests including EMC Clariion, Intel Prototype Storage Servers, RIM

(Blackberry) Performance and Scalability Framework, Isilon Clustered Storage

Concept & Prove deployment of BES (Blackberry Enterprise Servers) in PostPath enabled MS

Exchange less Email and Collaboration Ecosystems

Concept and Prove of the first HA (High Availability) Virtualized PostPath Cluster based on the adopted by Redhat

Open Source technologies DRBD and Heartbeat. Later Released as "PostPath Remote Office Edition"

LANGUAGES

English Native or bilingual proficiency (since 1983)

Bulgarian Native or bilingual proficiency (since 1969)

Russian Professional working proficiency (since 1978)

Turkish Elementary proficiency (since 1988)

EDUCATION

MSC, COMPUTER SCIENCE

Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridsky – Artificial Intelligence

CORPORATE FINANCES

The University of Manchester

PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

Aikido (合合合) Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba is a synthesis of martial studies, philosophy, and

religious beliefs. Aikido is often translated as "the Way of unifying (with) life energy" or as "the Way of harmonious

spirit." (Since 1991)

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