Director, Advanced Development, LSI Storage Division
Greater Denver Area
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- Director, Advanced Development at LSI Logic
- Director, Engineering at Sun Microsystems
- Manager, SW Development at Adaptec
- Principal SW Engineer at Digital Equipment Corp (DEC)
- Education
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- University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
- Michigan State University
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Ken Gibson’s Summary
Storage Engineering Director with nearly twenty years experience delivering a broad range of enterprise-class storage products including OS storage stacks, SAN Systems, HBAs, RAID Subsystems and embedded Disk Firmware. Strength in building and leading strong engineering teams in the US and offshore that use disciplined development processes to predictably deliver new storage technology with enterprise-class quality.
Ken Gibson’s Specialties:
Storage Technology, Engineering process, offshore engineering, RAID, Data Services, SAN technology.
Ken Gibson’s Experience
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Director, Advanced Development
LSI Logic
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LSI; Semiconductors industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
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Director, Engineering
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)
December 1998 — October 2006 (7 years 11 months)
(2006)
Led the vendor engineering team for Sun's OEM'd Volume and Mid-range arrays. Responsible for product quality, technical features, system integration, technical marketing, and vendor engineering relationship.
(1998-2005)
Led the team responsible for the Solaris storage network stack as well as storage drivers for non-Sun operating systems (Windows, Linux, AIX, etc.). Responsible for creating the strategy, alignment with executive staff and peer directors, staffing and managing the team in the US and offshore, instituting quality engineering processes, managing the budget, understanding customer needs and defining product requirements, technical marketing and pre and post-sales support, and interoperability with partner products. -
Manager, SW Development
Adaptec
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADPT; Computer Software industry)
April 1994 — August 1998 (4 years 5 months)
Staffed and led the team that delivered Adaptec's first two generations of external RAID controllers. Delivered the first generation in twelve months by using modern SW development processes and creating a modular architecture that enabled leveraging existing components and rapid development on prototype HW. Then delivered the second generation with industry-leading features and performance in another twelve months.
Produced working drivers and firmware Adaptec's Serial Storage Architecture (SSA) HBA.
Developed a modular, resusable architecture for embedded disk firmware that enabled disk vendors to rapidly build controllers for new hard disk drives. -
Principal SW Engineer
Digital Equipment Corp (DEC)
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)
July 1987 — March 1993 (5 years 9 months)
Developed one of the first RAID controllers for networked storage environments. Created and first implemented key portions of the firmware architecture that was later used in the EVA family.
Lead firmware engineer for DEC's first IDE disk drive. Used modern software engineering practices and detailed understanding of disk hardware design to deliver industry-leading performance in less than nine months.
Ken Gibson’s Education
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University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
MS, Computer Science, 1985 — 1987
Thesis on Operating Systems and Distributed Computing
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Michigan State University
BS, Electrical Engineering, 1979 — 1983
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Ken Gibson’s Honors:
Inventor or co-inventor on over six patents relating to HBA, RAID hardware, and disk drive design.
Completed numerous business and management classes covering topics including Organization Design, Finance, Marketing, Sigma processes, and Leadership.
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