Wayne Kosters
20901 Vernon Ave S
|| Prior Lake, Minnesota 55372
612-750-0038 ||
wayne@kosters.org
Principal Systems Engineer with a strong
background in data storage, processor, and network environments. Demonstrated the ability to provide innovative, cutting-edge
solutions to internal and external customers. Led systems
/ design teams proving the ability to manage projects using effective communication and presentation skills. International experience in Europe and
Asia with a focus on Japan. Willing to relocate.
Software Engineer, Data Storage Test
Test engineer focusing on storage on Cray's
high performance computing (HPC) systems; direct attached storage (DAS),
network attached storage (NAS) and Lustre based solutions.
·
Develop, plan and execute testing of current and new data storage
systems on Cray’s HPC systems.
o Work with vendors to resolve
complex file system and data storage issues.
Principal Systems Engineer, Data Storage Engineer
Provided technical
leadership to develop bleeding edge ruggedized computer systems with the
successful requirement and product definition, development, and integration of
over 10 hardware modules. Managed outside vendors, hardware
and software development, partners, and prime customer on $1.2B Army programs.
·
Defined, architected, and managed the development of a ruggedized 6U
VITA 46 RAID controller to support National Security Agency (NSA) Type 1 Fibre
Channel (FC) Encrypter (FCE) with an added IPMI management interface.
Responsible for formal vendor selection process, mechanical and electrical
layout, component selection to satisfy industrial temperature requirements for the
RAID controller. Also managed the media testing and vendor selection of
rotating and SSD media used by the RAID.
·
Responsible for defining requirements, for vendor selection, and for program
tracking of VITA 46 Line Replaceable Modules for the Army Brigade Combat Team
Modernization (BCTM) (731 requirements) to satisfy the Army and Prime
contractor’s needs.
o Ethernet Switch / Router,
based on Cisco IOS and SNORT Intrusion Detection System (IDS) (345
requirements)
o Ethernet Router, IDS, by
Juniper running Junos (383 requirements), worked with Juniper and Program
Management to define and implement custom product support contract to address
unique program requirements for 80 units.
o NSA Type 1 SATA Encrypter
(147 requirements)
·
Defined, architected, and managed the development of a JPEG2000 and
H.264 Video Co-Processor (VCP). Responsible for formal vendor selection process,
which was defined by the Prime contractor, and project management of Commercial
Off The shelf (COTs) vendors for the FPGA hardware.
Worked with external customers and multiple software development teams to
define and implement drivers and Application Program Interface (API).
·
Resolved Linux system integration issues including CPUs, Ethernet
Switch, router, Solid State Devices (SSDs) providing vendor’s sequences to
reproduce and proving analyzer traces.
·
Presented with an “Engineering Technical Excellence Award”
for initiative, flexibility, innovation, empowerment, and teamwork.
·
Secret security clearance.
·
Wayne Kosters,
wayne@kosters.org Page
2
·
·
Systems Engineer, Software
Engineer
Participated
in business development for General Dynamic’s data storage products
transitioning to formal Software Verification Test (SVT) for Army’s Future
Combat Systems (FCS), Current Force and Future Force.
·
Developed Test Plans, and Test Procedures and
wrote test cases to validate embedded Red Hat, and LYNUXWORKS RTOS using
Microsoft’s Visual Studio, C#. Proficient using DOORs, DXL, Clear Case, and
Clear Quest tools.
·
Worked with key data storage accounts: Northrop-Grumman, Lockheed
Martin, Raytheon Systems, Boeing, TOSA (France).
Senior Systems Engineer
Pre-sales, product validation, customer integration, for Redundant
Array of Independent Disks (RAID), Storage Area Networks (SAN), Network
Attached Storage (NAS) and shared files systems.
·
Business Development of RAID in Asia market with 50% of time spent in
Japan over 9 months.
·
Design, implement and support heterogeneous SAN and NAS solutions based
on ADIC’s StoreNext and Veritas software on Microsoft Windows, Sun Solaris, SGI
IRIX and Linux.
·
Provided presales support for Sun, SGI and NT environments. Wrote performance and competitive analysis to
assist customers in maximizing their installed RAID system performance.
·
Key engineer in creation and development of design verification testing
for Ciprico’s Sun and NT utilities. Initiated development of GUI utility for NT
using VC++.
Hardware and Software
Architect, and Technical Director of Engineering and Operations
Grew
company focused on SCSI and Fibre Channel (FC) test products and analysis equipment
expanding the company from 2 people to a team of over 20, from ~$100,000 annual
revenue to over $4.5M.
·
Directed and managed a staff of engineers and the operations department
in product definition, hardware and software development and production over a
period of 8 years.
·
Set up distribution structure which included 4 US product representatives
and 7 international distributors -- international focus was in Europe and
Japan.
·
Developed and granted patent, 5,715,409 for ‘Universal SCSI Electrical
Interface System’.
·
Developed and granted design patent D345,961 for
‘SCSI Bus Monitor’.
Senior Controller Engineer
Firmware
development, project lead for 3 generations of data storage controllers.
·
Software project leader for a drive firmware development group of ~5
engineers.
·
Responsible for the interface and controller architecture of new disk
drive products.
·
Wrote Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) code for the Eight-Inch
Module Drive (EMD) SCSI embedded synchronous controller in 8051 assembly for on
schedule first product delivery.
·
Architected and wrote Adaptec Development compatible SCSI tester code
written in ‘C’ with both menu interface and run-time library used for
production testing of disk drives.
·
Received multiple “Great Performer Awards” for outstanding effort.
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Bachelor of Science in Electrical
Engineering,
with emphasis in Digital System Design,
Instrumentation Control, Software Structures
Cray, XT / XE System Administration
Intertech, Complete Java (October 2011)
Intertech, Complete Android Development (September 2011)
Intertech, C#
Intertech, Windows Driver Development
Wilson Learning, The Versatile Salesman
Member American Society for Quality (ASQ)