Dan Hushon

Current

Sr. Director Information Architecture, OCTO at EMC Corporation

Past

Chief Technologist at EMC Corporation, Grid Business Unit
Chief Technologist, Sun Grid at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Chief Technologist, US at Sun Microsystems, GSO

Director of Strategy, Professional Services at Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Director, Pervasive Java Technologies at Sun Microsystems, Professional Services

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Education

Carnegie Mellon University

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Industry

Computer Software

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Dan Hushon’s Summary

Dan leads the techical architecture, cross-EMC alignment, and execution of EMC's grid and utility computing strategy. Joining EMC in July of 2006, Dan has been engaged at integrating information centric grid activities into a commerical platform the Information Grid, and realizing an information grid focussed on Business Information processing and specifically Customer Data Integration. This platform, is designed to offer a pre-integrated solution, designed for high-scale, high-throughput, information processing; leveraging SOA techniques, information analytics and PetaByte scale information management capabilities. Dan's specific interests include massive scale distributed computing/operating environments, distributed fault tolerant environments, and Web 2.0 / social collaborative computing.

Prior to joining EMC, Dan spent 2 years as the CT for Sun's Sun Grid program, a pay as you go, multi-tenant isolated network of computing resources linked by a network operating system, and a year as Chief Technologist for the US Sales Organization. While at Sun, Dan had been involved in a variety of Enterprise Technology Insertion projects in the telecommunications, defense, financial and manufacturing vertical markets. These projects had leveraged distributed service based architectures to integrate legacy systems,while creating a loosely coupled environment to facilitate service re-use and provide architecture resiliency to constantly changing demand/load as well as service composition. Dan's consulting experience ranged a broad set of Sun technologies that include the J2EE, J2ME, Jini Technology, Jxta, JavaCard, Edge, N1 and Blade services and deploying these technologies to a variety of enterprise infrastructure targets. The specific target markets have included wireless application and Internet Service Providers (WASP/WISP), Virtual Network Service Providers (VNSP), as well as broadband, digital television and traditional enterprise customers.

Dan Hushon’s Specialties:

Dan has been involved in both internal product development and customer facing field orgs. Dan's technical background lies in massively distributed service oriented architectures - either traditional n-tier with CORBA/J2EE/Web services or through peer oriented grid environments with SGE, Jini and Jxta technologies. Dan has been very involved in Grid stds orgs, and was named a fellow in Media Grid. Dan has also managed a $15M P&L and grown several practices in emerging areas to critical mass.

Dan Hushon’s Experience

Sr. Director Information Architecture, OCTO

EMC Corporation

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Chief Technologist

EMC Corporation, Grid Business Unit

(Public Company; EMC; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2006 — January 2008 (1 year 7 months)

Dan leads the techical architecture, cross-EMC alignment, and execution of EMC's grid and utility computing strategy. Joining EMC in July of 2006, Dan has been engaged at integrating information centric grid activities into a commerical platform the Information Grid, and realizing an information grid focussed on Business Information processing and specifically Customer Data Integration. This platform, is designed to offer a pre-integrated solution, designed for high-scale, high-throughput, information processing; leveraging SOA techniques, information analytics and PetaByte scale information management capabilities. Dan's specific interests include massive scale distributed computing/operating environments, distributed fault tolerant environments, and Web 2.0 / social collaborative computing.
Chief Technologist, Sun Grid

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; sunw; Computer Software industry)

November 2004 — July 2006 (1 year 9 months)

Driving the technology strategy for Sun's Sun Grid program which includes the delivery of a cascading set of utility offerings. These "stacked" offerings include the base level infrastructure to supply technical compute capacity on a multi-tenant shared infrastructure, and range to desktop, development and application services that may make use of the virtualized platform. This architecture makes extensive use of rule engines, markup technologies, federated observability, Jini, Java (including Real Time), Solaris 10(tm) and Sun's N1 product familiy.
Chief Technologist, US

Sun Microsystems, GSO

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; sunw; Computer Software industry)

November 2003 — November 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Responsible for the technology strategy for the US client services organization. Specific responsiblities include customer interface with an eye toward using technology as a strategic differentiator, management of field innovation / intellectual capital, strategic alignment, market analysis, technical staff development, new technology acquisition, strategic partnering, input into product requirements.
Director of Strategy, Professional Services

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; sunw; Computer Software industry)

July 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 4 months)
Director, Pervasive Java Technologies

Sun Microsystems, Professional Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; sunw; Computer Software industry)

March 1999 — July 2002 (3 years 5 months)

Dan Hushon’s Education

Carnegie Mellon University

BS , Physical Bio-Chemistry , September 1986 — June 1990

Activities and Societies:

President, Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity (Beta Sigma) 1990