Working as a Software Engineer I've been a part of the Boston area
computer industry for almost 17 years now. I began my career in 1983
at Digital Equipment Corp.. While working as a Field Service Engineer
during the day, I attended Boston University at night and worked on a
BSCS. DEC was rapidly growing and I quickly moved into the software
field, working as an Operations Analyst. These where the good old
days of VaxVMS, DCL, Decnet, and Pascal. I worked for an
Technology group that developed and deployed large VaxClusters.
During this time I gained valuable experience with - what I still
consider to be - one of the most advanced Clustering implementations
in the industry. (When it came to Clusting computers, and sharing
storage, Digital was years ahead of its time. And in may aspects,
Digital's VAXCluster technology is still the benchmark.)
In 1988 I left DEC to go and work at a small, growing company called
Clearpoint Research. I went to Clearpoint to gain some experience
with C programming (which I had only used academically up until this
point), PC's and, hopefully, with that new operating system - Unix.
Clearpoint was one of the early competitors of EMC, back when they
where making add-on memory for a living. Like EMC, Clearpoint was
diversifying by building storage products. It was here that I began
working in the storage industry; developing embedded software for HBAs
and working with a new protocol - SCSI. This was a very exciting and
challenging time, and everything went really well - until November of
1991, when Clearpoint layed me off. The company had suffered severly
in the high Tech industry downturn of 91/92. In fact, in eighteen
months Clearpoint went from nine million dollars in sales, to zero.
It was at this point that I began contracting.
Since that time I have worked almost exclusively in the storage industry;
developing high availability I/O subsystems and writing VMS, Solaris,
Linux, AIX, and Tru64 Unix device drivers. Some of my recent work
includes developing TruClusters Unix products for Compaq , and writing Fibre Channel and VI Architecture device drivers for Orca Systems Inc. (now Network Appliance).
In August of 2000, after nine years of working as a contractor, I took
a permanent job with the Sunnyvale CA based company: Network Appliance, Inc. and closed
my consulting company, Noble Technologies Inc..
For more information about my professional life, see my
resume.
I like computers but, before I can truly say that someone knows me, I
need to talk about something else; like my family and my faith. I am
married and have 5 children; ages 20 to 2. And I am a very serious,
radically reformed, Christian.
There is much that I would like to say about my faith. Although I
did, at one point, refer to myself as a "born again" Christian, I
distance myself - as far as possible - from the Televangelist image of
Christianity seen in our culture today. I am thoroughly
disenfranchised with the Christian sub-culture that we see all around
us. For me, Christianity is more about history than culture; and
faith about philosophy than "believing". There is a big difference
between thought and feeling; truth and perception, epistemology and
(what some would call) faith. I believe that there is only one way to
truly know anything about God, and that is through revelation. This
is the beginning point: if God is infinite and eternal, than how can I
- finite and created - know anything about Him?
If what I have written is in anyway important to you, then please,
talk to me. I would really enjoy the opportunity to share what is
truly important with you. When it comes right down to it, life is too
short to do anything else. In the mean time, here are some
interesting links to some possibly helpful Christian material on the
web.
Click here to send mail to the admin of this page: john@nobletec.com
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