I'm a senior software engineering manager in the Solaris NAS Software group. I'm responsible for managing NFS projects in Solaris.

I work out of the Broomfield campus, where I enjoy a great view of the Rockies from my office window. I joined Sun in 1994 at the Rocky Mountain Technology Center (RMTC) down in Colorado Springs. I was an engineer in the Solaris Install group, where I wrote the Solaris 2.4 install GUI. I then spent a few years doing the GUI for Solstice Disksuite. When RMTC was shutdown, I left Sun to join the startup ChannelPoint, along with a number of other Sun folk. After realizing that situation wasn't for me (actually, I hated it), I returned to Sun under Network Storage in Broomfield, doing technical program management in support of a tape library partner. I also co-developed a disk enclosure management API called "libencl". Later I was drawn back onto DiskSuite, and eventually got a lobotomy and moved into management. Apparently the operation was irreversible. Yes, I really am done coding, but the inner-geek in me lives on.

I first managed a group doing administrative interfaces for Solarisdata technologies. I then managed the file system group, responsiblefor UFS and ZFS, and now manage NFS.

My organization is widely distributed. I have staff in Menlo Park, Broomfield, Austin, UK, Prague, and several iWork-ing from Atlanta, Chicago, Colorado Springs, and Oklahoma.

What do I value?

I get the most satisfaction out of my work day watching those I work with kick butt and have fun doing it.

I believe in continuous improvement, both in myself and my directs. Staying still is falling behind.

I believe in treating those I work with as family.

I believe in work/life balance.

Managing people is my professional passion. I should have minored in psychology in college.

Wanna know more?

My resume is here if you want to know more about my work history. No, I'm not looking for new work, I had to update for the University of Colorado Executive MBA program that I started last fall.

Big email attachments, ATT concall waiting-for-host-to-dial-in muzak, excessive "WFH" emails, unnecessary reply-to-alls, people who reply-to-all saying "please stop replying-to-all", idiots replying-to-all asking to be unsubcribed to the alias that everyone's replying-to-all to, snoring when on a concall, not using a mute button on a concall when eating or sleeping, interrupting someone else anytime, not reading ahead when replying to an email thread, not accounting for timezone differences when scheduling meetings, calendars not up-to-date or viewable by all, not showing respect to others in ANY form of communication.

ENOSPARETIME

See previous paragraph. Seriously, though...

I have a wife and an 9 year old son. My wife used to work at Sun as an engineer, so she understands the ups and downs of my day. I DO have a life outside of work. My life passions are:

• #1: faith and family. I will never compromise on this.
• really good, really strong coffee. Peets coffee kicks butt over Starbucks.
• running. For some reason, my brain keeps telling me I can run as fast as I could in high school. My body thinks otherwise.
• skiing, really really fast, trying to avoid tearing off my thumbs when crashing, like I almost did a few years ago. Can you say, 'yard sale'?
• model trains with my son. Money pit!
• sushi and single malt scotches
• really strong, good coffee
• heavy metal, jazz, blues, and contemporary christian music (how's THAT for a mix!)
• coffee, more coffee, more more more MORE!
• BBQ'ing (smoking) large chunks of dead animal parts
• Oh yea, better say something about work. I do love my job and working for Sun, and they didn't pay me to say that!

My life ambitions, beyond all the usual ones, are:

• Travel by train across Austria and Switzerland. IMHO, this is one of the most beautiful parts of the world.
• Go skydiving. I am terrified of heights. Go figure.
• Visit Volcanoes National Park in Hawaii, and poke lava with a stick. I am serious - fire suit and all - I want to play with molten Earth goo.

Will the road you are on get to my place? -God