Chris Emura

Current

Senior Engineering Manager at Data Domain

Past

Senior Engineering Manager at Apple Computer
Vice Chairman, Board of Directors at Optical Storage Technology Association
Engineer/Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems

Engineer at SGI

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Education

Purdue University
University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business

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Industry

Computer Software

Chris Emura’s Summary

Engineering and engineering management in both high volume consumer and Fortune 500 Enterprise markets.

Multiple and concurrent roles involving next generation R&D, product development, support, quality/testing, and program management.

I enjoy public speaking and presentations -- from pre-sales and customer engagements through industry conferences and executive briefings.

Chris Emura’s Specialties:

Engineering management. UNIX based OS development, filesystem and storage technologies. Software product development.

Chris Emura’s Experience

Senior Engineering Manager

Data Domain

(Public Company; DDUP; Computer Hardware industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Data de-duplication or capacity optimized storage is now a pillar of the industry, with all major players providing solutions of some kind, bolt-on or otherwise.

I own all existing and next generation data replication products for Data Domain, which extensively leverage our data de-duplication foundation. This includes existing and next generation products used for general replication, backup, DR, and migration in both LAN and WAN environments.

Given our size, I also work very closely with our sales, marketing, support and QA teams.

Replication continues to enjoy one of the highest attach rates throughout all of our deployments and still leads the competition in terms of functionality, flexibility and performance.
Senior Engineering Manager

Apple Computer

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

May 2003 — March 2008 (4 years 11 months)

Filesystem engineering manager within Apple's CoreOS organization. Own next generation filesystem development and all local filesystems (ZFS, HFS, FAT, NTFS, UDF) development in both consumer and Enterprise environments. Efficient, focused team of 10-15 direct reports. Promoted to Senior Manager in November 2006.
Vice Chairman, Board of Directors

Optical Storage Technology Association

(Consumer Electronics industry)

September 2007 — March 2008 (7 months)

OSTA is an international standards organization whose primary focus is on optical technology. Membership is comprised of many global companies with various business and technical interests – from media vendors to systems companies, hardware, software, and service/integrators.

OSTA Director for many years prior. Resigned from OSTA after leaving Apple.
Engineer/Engineering Manager

Sun Microsystems

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

1999 — 2003 (4 years)

Clustering and High Availability product development. Largest revenue generation of all Solaris Business Units.

Started off with cluster filesystem development, then moved into management via HA data services (HA-NFS, HA-Oracle, etc.). Managed 14+ direct reports.
Engineer

SGI

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years)

OS related development and support of "Big Iron" through Enterprise server and desktop deployments.

Chris Emura’s Education

Purdue University

BS , Computer & Electrical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley - Walter A. Haas School of Business

Masters , Business Administration

Additional Information

Chris Emura’s Interests:

Tennis, motorcycles, and low calorie real estate investments. Also interested in career and business opportunities in Asia -- especially Beijing or Japan.