Michael Hoard

About Michael Hoard

I serve as Chair for the SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative (CSTI), and recently…

Experience

1. Snia

   Jan 2020 — Present · CA, US

   Serving as Chair for the SNIA Cloud Storage Technologies Initiative Led formation and promotion of the Cloud Object Storage Compatibility Plugfest held on Sept 16-18 \'24 at SNIA Developer Conference working with Dell, Google, IBM, Microsoft and other stakeholders (focused mostly on AWS S3). In \'25, we will host two Plugfests (April and Sept) and develop open source test tools to automate compatibility testing. Register here to join the Denver Plugfest April ’25, https://members.snia.org/wg/Cloud-Plugfest-2025/dashboard Short summary on progress in \'24 and \'25 - Panel discussion on 1st Plugfest in \'24 - https://youtu.be/4W0blGtMuG4 Serving as organizer, host and moderator for Cloud Storage Industry Thought Leader public webinars to raise awareness on latest developments and direction. Awarded \"2024 SNIA Volunteer of the Year,\" and \"2024 SNIA Best Group of the Year - CSTI.\" Awarded \"2023 SNIA Excellence in Education\" recognition.

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  MSEE

  1987 — 1989

• University of Washington

  BSCE

Skills

• Product Marketing
• Strategic Partnerships
• Business Alliances
• Product Management
• High Availability
• Strategy
• Team Management
• Integration
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Management
• Enterprise Software
• Sales Enablement
• Testing
• Advertising
• Small Business Marketing
• Public Relations
• Cisco Systems Products
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Integrated Marketing Communications Planning
• Information Technology
• Storage Area Networks
• Storage
• Go-to-Market Strategy
• Data Center
• Fibre Channel
• Sales
• Small Business Management
• Cisco Technologies
• Leadership
• San
• Business Development