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Top Skills

Storage

RAID

Debugging

Languages

Italian (Limited Working)

English (Native or Bilingual)

Publications

SanDisk Enterprise Solid State

Drives: Providing CostEffective

Performance Increases for Microsoft

SQL Server Database Deployments

Mark Henry

Technologist

United States

Summary

Technologist: Highly skilled in a wide range of technical subject matter.

Experience

Western Digital

3 years 9 months

Principal Engineer - Systems Design Verification Engineering April 2019 - September 2020 (1 year 6 months)

Irvine, California, United States

Engineering Enterprise Storage Solutions - Solid State Performance Engineering test execution for Firmware Development on future-tech products. Maintain lab and execution of Performance Tests for daily and weekly analysis of firmware development. Primary focus on customer storage including but not limited to Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, ByteDance. Impacted by a Reduction In Forces as a result of COVID-19. Responsible for defining and tracking test plans through product development cycles from Product Planning through customer qualification and Mass Production.

Monitor regression and qualification test cycles, perform first level FA and triage of failures, prepare and present testing statistics, and work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to drive issues through closure. Research and implement innovative ways to test and validate PCIe/NVMe SSD

Lead bug, code, sprints review meetings.

Act as gatekeeper for product release to customer. Maintain communication with Product teams to ensure test plans satisfy product and customer specifications and mirror customer tests/qualification procedures.

Scope test tools and customer hardware requirements, ensuring the lab has appropriate customer systems and debug tools.

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Technologist, Flash Products Group

January 2017 - April 2019 (2 years 4 months)

Milpitas, California

Engineering Enterprise Storage Solutions - Solid State Drives. Same duties as above.

SanDisk®

Senior Staff Test Development Engineer

February 2016 - December 2016 (11 months)

Milpitas, California

Enterprise Storage and Application Performance Engineering. I make fast things go faster. Working with firmware engineering as well as directly with our customers on performance and issue resolution for SanDisk Enterprise SAS SSDs in customer environments using various methods of testing storage performance and function. Automation expert - work smarter, not harder. Coder of many languages. Systems Integration Engineering (Milpitas Campus) Lab Owner.

Responsible for defining and tracking test plans through product development cycles from Product Planning through customer qualification and Mass Production.

Monitor regression and qualification test cycles, perform first level FA and triage of failures, prepare and present testing statistics, and work closely with cross-functional engineering teams to drive issues through closure. Research and implement innovative ways to test and validate PCIe/NVMe SSD

Lead bug, code, sprints review meetings.

Act as gatekeeper for product release to customer. Maintain communication with Product teams to ensure test plans satisfy product and customer specifications and mirror customer tests/qualification procedures.

Scope test tools and customer hardware requirements, ensuring the lab has appropriate customer systems and debug tools.

SanDisk

Technical Marketing Manager [Contract]

January 2014 - June 2015 (1 year 6 months)

Milpitas, California

Enterprise and Data Center application expert, helping our customers and end users achieve breakthrough performance with Flash technologies, including Page 2 of 5

SATA, PCIe, SAS, SSDs, DDR3 based UltraDIMM products, caching software, and memory data fabrics.

Executed SQL Server, Oracle, VMware, IOmeter Competitive Testing on flash products under multiple ecosystems. Setup lab for remote access to the entire power/server/storage ecosystem. Attended trade shows to demonstrate product performance. Provided engineering assistance to sales teams at partner summits. Served as architect for system and storage solutions for both internal and external Data Centers. Assisted Field Application Engineers in the execution of application specific testing to resolve customer issues. Produce marketing collateral and demos to showcase products. Self Employed

Senior IT Consultant

February 2012 - January 2014 (2 years)

Provided Information Technology solutions for companies in the U.S. and Saudi Arabia.

LSI

Performance Engineer - Norcross Performance Lab Manager May 2007 - February 2012 (4 years 10 months)

Norcross, Ga. US 30093

Positions held at LSI:

Ultimate:

DAS Performance Engineer/Norcross Lab Manager –

Daily duties include facilitating testing of direct attached storage components by specifying, purchasing, and maintaining lab equipment for a lab of which I designed and directed the build, execute various performance tests, assist other engineers in the execution of tests, work with development to resolve defects, analyze results and submit to marketing or development as needed for competitive testing and application testing such as Microsoft TPC-e, Microsoft JetStress, MySQL, IOmeter workloads.

Penultimate:

EUCC (End User Center of Competence) – Design and create website and content for channel marketing geared toward the end-user. Author/publish competitive analysis publications. Assist sales with customer requests for MegaRAID specific marketing and technical information. Design, implement, document, and execute test plans in order to provide storage ecosystem Page 3 of 5

compatibility reports to the public. Provide end-user analysis of components to product management. Assist marketing team in gathering key information for channel sales strategy. Support trade show exhibitions of MegaRAID products. Manage interactive forums and maintain current product marketing data. Produce marketing materials for channel sales calls. Work with vendors to provide interoperability testing for their products to increase market exposure in conjunction with MegaRAID.

Initial:

DAS Product Test (Engineer) - Design, implement, document, and execute test plans/scenarios for RAID Fibre Channel, SATA and iSCSI disk array storage systems. Detect and isolate problems within a complex multi-vendor system environment. Document product defects and work with development engineers across many engineering disciplines to drive closure on fixes. Develop test reports and any other required documents summarizing test results, restrictions and methodologies. Set up and maintain all test equipment. A List Consulting/DeluxeVIP

VP/IT Director

December 2003 - October 2006 (2 years 11 months)

Kennesaw, Ga

STARTUP.

Responsible for all phases of design, development and deployment of IT projects.

Duties included system building and networking infrastructure deployment to run database related ASP web presence for automotive industry based service provider as well as creation of said web application using .asp, java, visual basic script, and html code. Maintained the database and website after launch and assisted marketing by programming additional features specifically for customers as well as adding artwork specific to the customer. DISPRO

Senior IT Consultant

February 2002 - November 2003 (1 year 10 months)

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Atlanta, Ga.

Design and Deployment of Quadruple Windows 2000 Server based local area network/corporate intranet. Upgraded all clients to support Windows XP. Network deployment of Windows XP operating system to all clients. Remote Administration of Windows 2000/XP based network.

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Design and Deployment of Multiple Windows 2003 Server based local area network for SMDA (architectural firm) which included hands on management of all phases of construction with regards to the IT requirements for providing a turnkey solution from blueprints to completion at client’s new home office compound. Remote administration and remote deployment of additional servers as projected growth has been achieved.

PCAmbulance.com

Senior IT Consultant

January 1998 - February 2002 (4 years 2 months)

Greater Atlanta Area

STARTUP.

Deployed the business model for using ambulances for onsite repair of computer hardware, wherein the ambulance would serve as a mobile clean- room to work on hard down servers and workstations. Specified the required equipment the ambulance would need for said service as well as wiring the ambulance with the required inverters and power to supply power to equipment while in use inside the mobile lab.

Responsible for build/preinstallation of Windows 98, Me, 2000, Workstations and Windows 2000 Servers. Deployment of computer systems at client locations. Repair of existing computer systems at client locations. Deployment of networks both wired and wireless.

GLH Racing

Professional Motorcycle Roadracer

May 1990 - January 1998 (7 years 9 months)

United States

Expert Pilot in WERA and AMA American Roadracing Series Page 5 of 5

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