About Me

I have always known that I was going to do something with technology.  I went to Marist College because it was right up the road from IBM and I knew I wanted to work there while at school.  Sophomore year at Marist I landed my first job at IBM.  This really helped catapult my career. After I graduated, I moved to Mass where I started my technology career working at EMC.  The most amazing people worked at EMC.  I quickly saw the capacity of disk drives go from 9 GB, to 18 GB, to 36 GB, to 73 GB to 1 TB and 2 TB.  I wrote a lot of best practice papers on how to place applications such as MS Exchange on top of CLARiiON Storage.  The capacity growth of these drives caused numerous customers to try to place more work loads on top of these "available" drives - from a capacity standpoint.  Not knowing that IOPs (Inputs / Outputs) are more demanding then what the drives could yield.  So while there was available there was not enough performance to allow for frankly much of anything else to use the "available" capacity.  At EMC I wrote my first application called SIME (Snapview Integration Module for Exchange). I created a patent called the EFD FAST Mapper (auto storage tiering) and I quickly saw the EFD (enterprise flash drives) move the bottleneck to the storage processors on the arrays themselves and that was the start to my adventure in the world of startup companies.  I went from Virsto (acquired by VMWare) to MapR to Hortonworks to being a co-founder at OwlDQ to starting my own consultation firm called DRIT Consulting Services.  Needless to say its been a ride....and I look forward to see what the future holds.