Stephen Gold

About Stephen Gold

Innovative and experienced senior product development engineer, over 25 years of designing and bringing to market industry-leading products for storage, server and software organizations with products ranging from SMB to Large Enterprise. Strong track record and cross-functional expertise across development, QA, docs/training, support and sales, and OEM partnership experience. Proven ability to innovate and design with highly complex technology to create leading-edge differentiated products with best customer usability and supportability. Particular expertise in SSD devices, storage products and in data protection solutions, and cloud-based storage as a service.Specialties: SSD Device Architecture/TechnologyRoadmap Management/portfolio strategyThought LeadershipInternal/External communication skillsSales Enablement (pre-sales and post-sales)Competitive analysis/positioningTesting strategy/planning/bug triageBest Practice and training material generation/presentationStorage technologiesSupportability designHigh Availability DesignScale-out Storage ArchitecturesTape DrivesTape LibrariesVirtual Tape LibrariesDeduplication/ReplicationDisk-based backupBackup SoftwareRAID disk arraysSCSIFC SANNetworking and network managementServer hardware designOperating Systems (Linux, Windows)

Experience

1. Distinguished Engineer

   新帝

   Jun 2014 — Present

   Working in the SanDisk Enterprise SSD team, performing analysis and Systems Architecture definition of future product roadmap concepts to identify technical gaps vs market requirementsIn-depth understanding of all aspects of SSD internal design including- Current/future front-end storage interfaces - FTL architecture - NAND - DRAM - Key cost factors - Power.Detailed system-level performance analysis/modeling of different customer performance workloads based on drive internal design variablesDetailed understanding of all major customer use cases in the Enterprise SSD market.

Education

• Brunel University of London

  BSc (hons), Information Technology (hw and sw)

  1985 — 1989

Skills

• Raid
• Communication Skills
• Tape Backup
• Thought Leadership
• Tape
• Competitive Analysis
• Disk
• Scsi
• High Availability
• Vtl
• Replication
• Storage Management
• Nas
• Storage Architecture
• Lan-Wan
• Deduplication
• Tape Libraries
• Hp
• Requirement Specifications
• Storage Virtualization
• Network Administration
• Unix
• Roadmap Creation
• Software Development
• Fibre Channel
• Storage Solutions
• Storage
• Disk Arrays
• San
• Enterprise Software
• Backup Solutions
• Sales Enablement
• Virtualization