David Thorson

About David Thorson

Information technology professional with over twenty-five years of experience covering High Performance Computing, Microsoft Azure compute and storage, data center infrastructure design, systems engineering, product and solution development, systems administration, project management, and people management.Specialties: Server and storage architecture, infrastructure operations, Azure NetApp Files & Cloud Volumes ONTAP, disaster recovery, data management, Windows and Linux technical workstations.

Experience

1. Technical Product Owner, Hpc Compute & Storage

   Chevron

   Jul 2025 — Present · Houston, TX, US

   Technical Product Owner responsible for development and operational support of subsurface technical computing environment including Azure compute clusters, Windows & Linux technical workstations, remote 3D visualization, technical storage, and high performance parallel storage.

Education

• University of Houston-Clear Lake

  BBA, Marketing

  1983 — 1985

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Mechanical Engineering, Business

  1981 — 1982

Skills

• Team Leadership
• Information Technology
• Vmware
• System Deployment
• Servers
• Itil
• San
• High Availability
• Nas
• Aix
• IT Service Management
• Data Center
• Wan
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Hp Products
• Hp
• Storage Area Networks
• Linux
• System Administration
• Virtualization
• Solution Architecture
• Enterprise Software
• Network-Attached Storage (Nas)
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Windows
• Architecture
• Storage
• Enterprise Storage
• Cluster
• Technical Support
• Unix
• Hardware
• Hp-UX
• Infrastructure
• Operating Systems
• Cloud Computing
• Disaster Recovery
• Network Architecture
• Project Management