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Robert S. Printis
Phone/voice mail: (650) 574-9287
Email: bprintis@ieee.org
1120 Decatur Street, Foster City, CA 94404
Experience
Over 30 years in the computer software and hardware marketplace, with an emphasis on systems engineering, computer networking, and systems marketing.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to define and specify products, apply appropriate technology and deliver on time in highly competitive markets.
- Senior technology positions at Xerox PARC, Bell Laboratories and IBM Research.
- Development of vendor relationships for acquisition of software and hardware easing time to market
- Software development process management, including software QA, and release management
- Delivery of software, documentation, development tools, and services for systems products, ranging from distributed document services to network service.
- Design and management of corporate information management systems (business systems as well as engineering development systems)
- Built and managed teams up to 35 hardware and software engineers, scientists and staff.
- Have significant knowledge or technical competence in:
- IP Storage Networks, iSCSI Protocol
- Embedded Systems based on VxWorks, Nucleus, and RapidLogic software and software tools.
- Network services systems based on FreeBSD, Linux, WinNT, and Solaris
- Software development tools environments, including release and configuration management
Positions Held
- VP, Software Engineering, Silverback Systems – IP Storage Networks (iSCSI)
- Senior Director, Tut Systems, Inc – switches, routers, DSL and VDSL products
- Managing Director, Multimedia Laboratory, Mitsubishi – Internet cellular phone, multimedia research.
- Senior Architect, Xerox Corporation (Palo Alto) – Satellite Networks, LANs, Distributed Document Systems
- Systems Engineer, Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, NJ – Computer Networks
- Research Engineer, IBM Watson Research Center – Systems Research
Education
- University of Maryland, PhD, University of New Mexico, MSEE, Howard University, BSEE
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