1996 - ENTREPRENEUR

  • 2016 - 2017 Co-Founder, CEO. Campaign Storage, LLC.

  • 2011 - 2015 Founder, CEO, Parallel Scientific LLC & DocsForce

  • 2010 - 2013 Senior Vice President, Chief Software Architect, and Fellow, Xyratex Inc (acquired by Seagate).

  • 2009 - 2010 Founder, CEO, Chairman ClusterStor LLC (acquired by Xyratex)

  • 2007 - 2008 Vice President of Lustre, SUN Microsystems

  • 2001 - 2007 Founder, CEO, Chairman, Cluster File Systems (acquired by SUN Microsystems)

  • 2000 - 2001 Co-Founder, VP Engineering, Mountain View Data, Inc. (assets acquired by NEC and others).

  • 2000 - 2001 Storage Architect, Red Hat Inc.

  • 2000 - 2000 Chief Architect, TurboLinux

  • 1995 - 2000 Co-Founder, CEO. Stelias Computing, Inc. (acquired by TurboLinux).

1996 - SCIENTIST

  • 2019 - Visiting Professor of Physics, Oxford University

  • 2018 - 2019 Visiting Scholar, Center for Computational Astrophysics, Flatiron Institute, NYC

  • 2015 - 2017 Visiting Scholar, Pembroke College, Cambridge University

  • 2013 - Principal, Braam Research, LLC

  • 2007 - 2010 Adjunct Professor Chinese Academy of Sciences

  • 1996 - 2005 Senior Systems Faculty School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

1980 - 1997 MATHEMATICIAN

  • 1992 - 1993 Special Fellowship, Oxford University

  • 1992 Visiting Professor, University of British Columbia

  • 1991-1997 University Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow (tenured), St. Catherine’s College, Oxford

  • 1988-1991 Assistant and (tenured) Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Utah

  • 1987-1990 Junior Research Fellow, Merton College Oxford

  • 1987-1990 Christian and Constantijn Huygens Fellow, National Dutch Science Foundation

  • 1985 University of Utrecht, Research Assistant

  • 1981-1984 University of Utrecht, Teaching Assistant

EDUCATION

  • 1987 Oxford University DPhil in Mathematics, supervisor Sir Michael Atiyah

  • 1984 University of Utrecht MSc in Mathematics, supervisor Prof. J.J. Duistermaat

  • 2007 Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University - Certified Software Architecture Professional

  • 2004 Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University - Certified Team Software Process instructor and coach