Colin Hutcheson

Address: **** ****** ******

San Jose, CA, 95125

Phone: 408-***-****

Email: acyfql@r.postjobfree.com

Technical skills:

Storage: NAS, SAN, RAID, SSD, SCSI, NVMe, NVMf, MPIO Operating systems: Windows, Linux, Solaris, OSX, FreeBSD Hypervisors: ESX, Xen, KVM, Hyper-V

Filesystems: EXT2/3/4, WAFL, NTFS, BTRFS, ZFS, NVMFS, VMFS Protocols: CIFS, NFS, TCP, UDP, DNS, HTTP, NDMP, IB Benchmarks: iozone, fio, iometer, sysbench, JDSU Medusa, LoginVSI, Loaddynamix Swingbench, HammerDB, Oracle Orion, Oracle SLOB, ACT December 2015 - December 2016: M.T.S, Newisys (Sanmina) (San Jose, California) Working on high performance and future platform reference architectures with technology partners and O.E.M’s.

● NVMe/NVMf solution integration and testing

● AFA performance and application testing

● Platform reliability and performance testing

● Solarflare + NVMe appliance PoC for trading analysis

● Linux kernel performance + low latency tuning

● Windows storage spaces architecture design and PoC

● Internal PMEM appliance PoC

● Product support for OEM customers (HDS)

● Linux HA target (LIO + ZFS) re-work and design

● Failure analysis and escalation support

● Trade show and partner support

February 2015 - December 2015: M.T.S, Pi-Coral Inc. (San Jose, California) Leading QA and development efforts on all flash array (AFA). I moved into the core protocols tiger team to provide critical path sales and account support.

● Alignment of QA and development activities with Sales goals

● Competitive benchmarks using Oracle HammerDB

● Protocol analysis for SCSI HA and ALUA

● Performance analysis PLX PCIe, CPU assignments, numa alignment

● Design and implement data verification tests and test cells

● Working with OEM teams on NAND performance profiling

● Roadmap and feature planning

● Platform design temperature, hardware serviceability May 2013 – Jan 2015: Application Engineer, Fusion-IO (SanDisk). (San Jose, California) The Applications group supports sales, product marketing and business development teams by providing the hardware and expertise for benchmarks, PoC’s and OEM integration for Fusion-io products.

● VDI reference architecture comprised of Fusion-IO, CISCO UCS and VMware

● Development of 2 million IOP reference architecture for Fusion-IO and Vmware VSAN

● Competitive analysis of VM caching solutions, io-Turbine and VMware vFRC

● PoC for Microsoft Hyper-V over Infiniband (RDMA)

● Platform performance and latency analysis (NUMA/C-states/IRQ)

● Exploratory testing of object storage (Ceph)

● Reproduction and debug of customer performance escalations Feb 2012 – May 2013: Senior QA Engineer, Fusion-IO. (San Jose, California) Lead QA engineer testing Fusion-IO’s first AFA storage solution (ioN). Advanced testing of whole hardware platform and software stack from beta through to production.

● Platform qualification and validation (HP/Dell/IBM/SuperMicro)

● Linux performance tuning of drivers, modules (NUMA, IRQ, LVM, SWRAID, SCST)

● Working with development teams on roadmaps and enhancements

● Performance testing with iozone, fio, iometer, SQLIOsim, Oracle Orion

● Storage HA testing and compliance (ALUA)

● Data integrity testing and performance testing via JDSU Medusa

● Security and penetration testing of platform, UI and REST API

● PoC and evaluation support

● Vendor certification testing, VMmark, WHQL

● Windows driver and kernel debugging for mpio

Nov 2010 – Feb 2012: Senior QA Engineer, Drobo Inc. (San Jose, California) Lead QA engineer on Drobo’s first product line aimed at the SMB storage market (B800i + B1200i)

• PRD and HLD reviews

• Data integrity and performance tests using JDSU Medusa

• Introduced customer centric testing using Jetstress, SQLIOsim, VMmark and Oracle Orion

• Linux and VxWorks performance profiling and debugging

• Design and implementation of storage solution for QA data warehouse utilizing GlusterFS May 2010 – Nov 2010: Principal QA Engineer, Cloud.com (Cupertino, California) Primary resource tasked with testing the cloud management stack and its interfaces with storage devices.

● Integration and PoC testing of cloudstack with hypervisors and storage

● Security and penetration testing of cloud management stack Dec 2008 – May 2010: Test Architect, Pillar Data Systems (San Jose, California) Responsible for designing and improving NAS test methodology and execution in the QA organization.

● Assess and test the complete NAS stack for RFC compliance

● Investigate, design and implement new testing tools and processes

● Cross-functional advisor for NAS working with CS, sales and marketing Dec 2007 – Dec 2008: Senior QA Engineer, Pillar Data Systems (San Jose, California) Hired from the field to help improve the quality of the NAS product. Tasked with designing tests and frameworks to stress specific areas of the system.

● Created and executed test plans for new product features

● Test case automation utilizing PowerShell, Unix shell and ruby scripts

● Performance testing and benchmarks for NFS, CIFS, TCP and NDMP Nov 2005 - Dec 2007: Professional Services Consultant, Pillar Data Systems (London, UK) I had been recruited to help Pillar Data Systems open its operations in EMEA, adding NAS experience for their new product.

● Solution design, installation and implementation

● Customer demos, evaluation support and competitive analysis

● Partner and channel support

Jan 2005 - Nov 2005: Storage Consultant, Posetiv Ltd (London, UK) NetApp system design at the UK's largest independent storage reseller.

● Implementation and support of NetApp storage systems

● Training on NetApp technology and administration May 2002 - Nov 2004: Technical Global Advisor, NetApp (Sunnyvale, California) The Global advisor team at Network Appliance is responsible for all aspects of customer support for their enterprise and strategic accounts.

● Escalation level tech support in business critical situations

● Providing proactive support by analysis of bugs, product, system trends and field alerts Jan 1999 - May 2002: Senior Technical Support Engineer, NetApp (Sunnyvale, California) Provided direct technical support for Network Appliance customers, sales, resellers and vendors.

● Windows and UNIX cross-platform troubleshooting for security, performance and configuration

● Supported CIFS, NFS, FCP, ISCSI, NDMP FTP, HTTP

Education:

1991 - 1996 Easthampstead Park School, Wokingham, Berkshire, United Kingdom

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