David Bunch
*********@*****.***
EDUCATION
Bachelor's Degree,
September 2001 - June 2006
Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Computer Engineering
WORK EXPERIENCE
Systems Engineer - EMC Los Angeles, California
June 2012 - July 2014
- Consulted mid-tier and enterprise level businesses in the health, and media and
entertainment sectors on their big-data storage needs.
- Designed robust and flexible SAN and NAS solutions for enterprise and mid-tier
customers with 5-9s and above availability requirements.
- Designed and implemented customized backup and disaster recovery architectures to
meet clients’ RPO and RTO requirements.
-Consulted businesses on large-scale virtual desktop infrastructure, cloud computing,
business continuity and green IT initiatives.
- Gave demos, talks and presentations to EMC customers about new products, industry
trends, and company initiatives.
Technical Consultant - CCI Europe Atlanta, GA
May 2010 - June 2012
- Responsible for the rollout and delivery of mission critical, multi-million dollar, enterprise
publishing solutions for the world's largest newspaper publishers. The New York Times, The
Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, Times of India, etc.
- Troubleshot technical problems in complex, multi-tiered, mission critical publishing
systems.
- Met on-site with C-level newspaper executives to discuss requirements, roll-out
schedules, and give product demos.
- Traveled to customer locations to give training workshops to users and IT personnel on
the use and day-to-day administration of our publishing systems.
- Developed tools in Python and Java to aid in system integration and automation.
Software Engineer - Northrop Grumman Space & Mission Systems El Segundo, Cali -
fornia
February 2009 - June 2010
- Responsible for the design and development of several critical flight and mission planning
software components of autonomous reconnaissance drones and the F-35 Joint Strike Fight -
er.
- Supported Technical Fellow research scientist on intelligent prognostic health management
algorithms for use in autonomous reconnaissance and weapon delivery systems.
- Worked closely with U.S. Army intelligence officials to validate and verify software system re -
quirements and functionality.
- Recipient of TAP Award in November of 2009 for outstanding accomplishment for consist -
ently making critical deliveries early and under budget.
- Created high-level technical presentations for U.S. Army and DoD officials.
Firmware Engineer - Emulex Corporation Seattle, Washington
October 2007 - August 2008
- Responsible for developing and maintaining low-level firmware code for Emulex's advanced
fibre channel routing processor.
- Worked with hardware and firmware engineers to develop workarounds for ASIC hardware
bugs. Reviewed clients' designs and provided technical support and advice.
- Designed and developed a portable and maintainable software testing framework called
AFIT (Advanced Framework for Integration and Test) that increased firmware testing effi -
ciency by over 50% by decreasing the number of bugs in the tests, and significantly reducing
the time and learning curve needed to create them.
- Created a centralized Intranet knowledge base to help new engineers get productive sooner
and to prevent knowledge loss from personnel turnover.
- Primary documentation maintainer for several of the company's flagship products.
Systems Engineer - Boeing North American, Inc Los Angeles, California
July 2006 - October 2007
- Lead a team of software engineers in the development of a mission critical real-time encryp -
tion component called HAIPE (High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor) for military soft -
ware defined radio systems.
- Designed and implemented mobile network simulation software that allowed for more accur -
ate testing of dynamic network healing algorithms for mobile ad-hoc networks.
- Designed and developed configuration management tools and frameworks that are still in
use today.
- Automated and streamlined network configuration processes that significantly increased the
quality of our releases by eliminating configuration errors and allowing engineers to test more
configuration scenarios in less time.
- Streamlined and automated inefficient engineering processes significantly reducing testing
and integration time, opportunities for human error and increasing team productivity.
Systems Engineer Internship - PWI Technologies Seattle, Washington
September 2004 - February 2005
- Worked directly with clients to streamline their IT data centers to increase reliability and re -
duce their
total cost of ownership through service consolidation and virtualization using technologies
such as Vmware and Citrix.
- Responsible for traveling and giving pre-sales demonstrations of Citrix based data center
appliances to potential customers.
- Worked closely with network security and architecture experts to design custom enterprise
networks for clients.
- Responsible for custom system builds, upgrades, and data center installation and configura -
tion.
CERTIFICATIONS
EMC - Information Storage Associate (EMCISA) - August 2012
EMC - Isilon Storage Professional - October 2012
EMC - Data Science Associate (EMCDSA) - June 2013
EMC - Isilon Solutions Design Specialist - February 2014
LANGUAGES
English, German
SKILLS
VMware, C/C++, Python, Java, Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, Windows XP/7/8, Windows Serv -
er 2000/2003/2008/2012, Linux, MacOS, VCenter Vsphere, VLANs, NAS, SAN, SOA, Data
migration, Data Backup, Enterprise Storage, RAID, EMC Isilon OneFS
INTERESTS
green IT,Virtualization and cloud computing, photography, piano