Chris Stacey

About Chris Stacey

I am passionate about helping people and organizations realize their full potential and achieve their goals. I joined the tech industry because I believe that technology should be a tool that enables people and businesses to achieve their goals, not an end in itself, and I want to help make that a reality. Too often we are forced to adjust what we do to suit the technology. That is the wrong way around. Driving the development of great technology has led me to become a leader of people and teams. I am passionate about helping individuals and teams realize their potential, whether they be colleagues, internal partners or customers, through the development of great technology, processes, and organizational culture.Having started my career as a developer, then deploying and supporting IT systems and engineers as an IT administrator, I made the jump from the customer to the vendor side of the partnership. I have had a privilege of working alongside Product Management to plan, Developers to build, Sales to sell, and our Services organizations to deploy and support Dell Technologies\' unstructured data storage product journey. I now lead the Dell NAS Data Path Engineering organization made up of multiple world-class software development teams around the world.My time working on both the customer and vendor sides of the IT industry has given me first-hand experience of both using and building a variety of enterprise IT products in large, real-world, environments. My time living in New Zealand, Australia, England, New Zealand (again) and now the US, and working with teams in many more countries along the way has given me a deep appreciation for the challenges and opportunities of a geographically distributed organization and the value of diverse backgrounds and perspectives. As a Distinguished Engineer (Emeritus) in Dell\'s Technical Leadership Community I have the privilege of working alongside some of the best technical minds in the industry and an appreciation for the challenges and opportunities in the IT industry. Through all of this, I am still most energized by helping individuals and teams achieve great things, and helping customers connect the dots between the great technology that we build and how it can help them achieve their goals.

Experience

1. VP, Unstructured Data Storage (Uds) Engineering

   Dell Technologies

   Mar 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   I lead the product and in-market engineering teams for Dell\'s unstructured data storage products, PowerScale, ObjectScale, and InsightIQ.

Education

• University of Canterbury

  BSc (Hons I), Computer Science

• University of Wollongong

  PhD, Telecommunications Engineering

  1994 — 2000

Skills

• Storage
• IT Strategy
• Nas
• Disaster Recovery
• Nand Flash
• Storage Area Networks
• Storage Virtualization
• Virtualization
• Cloud Computing
• File Systems
• Fibre Channel
• Integration
• Emc Storage
• Infrastructure
• Enterprise Storage
• Enterprise Software
• Nfs
• Unix
• Storage Architecture
• Enterprise Architecture
• High Availability
• Clariion
• Security
• Distributed Systems
• Software Development
• User-Centered Design
• Storage Solutions
• Customer Oriented
• San
• Deduplication
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Network-Attached Storage (Nas)