david plomgren

storage platinum executive advocate

About

Managed high-end Storage system hardware architecture and development organization for IBM starting mid-1990's to present. Designed Storage system hardware for IBM early 1990's. Designed gigahertz GaAs chip tester data acquisition system hardware and firmware for Photon Dynamics in late 1980's. Designed S100 and other bus-based hardware in early 1980's for CompuPro. Designed process control computers (RCA cosmac elf) early 1980's. Owned and operated Vending machine company late 1970s.

Country

united states

City

san francisco

Industry

computer hardware

Skill

fibre channel, hardware architecture, architecture, san, hardware, storage, integration, business alliances, computer hardware, asic, firmware, cloud computing, data center, aix, linux, virtualization, storage area networks, sales enablement, system architecture, nas, high availability, disaster recovery, go to market strategy, solution architecture, enterprise software, channel partners, architectures

Experience

hardware design engineer

compupro godbout electronics

1982-10 - 1987-8 · 4 yrs 11 mos

Designed various S100 and STD bus based-computer cards. Intel 286/386/486, National 32016, Arcnet networking, 80186 coprocessing. Participated in S100 standards process.

member of the technical staff

photon dynamics

1987-8 - 1989-8 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Designed EO/1 data acquistion system hardware and firmware.

storage platinum executive advocate

ibm

2017-1 - Present · 9 yrs 9 mos

manager - logic hardware development

ibm

1991-7 - 2016-12 · 25 yrs 6 mos

I manage high-end Storage hardware architecture and design team. Products delivered are IBM RAMAC, Shark, ESS800, DS6/8000. We drive system hardware design, internal fabric, external SAN, resilient power. We specialize in hardware architecture, ASIC implementation, card design, system integration. My personal interests are resilient available systems, FibreChannel, optics, and SAN.