Robert started his career at a parallel processing startup, and then at INMOS, worked on a distributed operating system for the Transputer. Next, Robert helped Unisys enter the commercial parallel processing market. He worked on single system image Unix and parallel database server technology. At Novell since 1998, Robert is architect for Novell's award winning Cluster Services, Business Continuance Clustering and iSCSI (target) products. He is currently working on Linux technologies for next generation data centers. Robert is co-author of Novell's Guide to Storage Area Networks and has presented the benefits of commodity server clustering and storage networking at various industry conferences. He has received Novell's Inventor Hall of Fame, President's and Engineering Employee of the Year awards. Robert earned a bachelor's degree (with honors) in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Kent at Canterbury, U.K, and won the G.E.C. Avionics second year student award. He holds patents on parallel processing (machine vision) and server clustering. |