| Data Storage Technology Development
Tom has over 25 years of experience in data storage engineering and management, ranging from floppy
and tape drives to hard disk drives and storage systems. His name is on 6 US patents
granted on heads and media design with other applications
pending. He was responsible for developing heads and media
for several disk drive programs at Seagate, Maxtor, Micropolis, and
SyQuest. This work involved debugging and problem solving,
including spending a considerable amount of time visiting
vendors and manufacturing facilities in Asia. He also have
considerable experience in materials and physical vapor deposition
technology. As co-chairman of the head standard committee
at IDEMA for the last 10 years Tom was responsible for many
recording head standards.
Project and Corporate Management
Tom was Vice President of New Product Integration at Nashua
Computer Products, responsible for disk product design and
customer qualification. He led good-sized groups developing
new disks (keepered media) and disk substrate (glass-ceramic
disk substrates) technologies at Ampex and Raychem
respectively. Tom helped get ATA-based nearline storage
established during a consulting engagement with Network
Appliance. His work included management of domestic
and Asian groups, both development and support
organizations. In the course of his work he has given
numerous presentations to customer and trade groups,
including several presentations at the Heads and Media
Technology Review, Storage Visions, Network Storage
Conference, IDEMA Diskcon, and IIST
Symposia. Tom is also the organizer of the annual
Storage Visions conference as well as the Creative Storage
Conference.
Market and Technology Forecasting
Tom has co-written technology analysis and forecasting reports
under Coughlin Associates as well as with Peripheral Research and Peripheral Concepts
Corporations:
- 2008 Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics and
2008 Survey on Digital Storage in Consumer Electronics
- 2007 Digital Storage in Entertainment
Creation and Distribution
- 2006 Hard Disk Drive Capital Equipment Technology
and Market Report
- 2006 Storage Systems User Survey Reports
- 2004-2007 Digital Entertainment Report Series
- 2005 Reports on Backup and Archiving and Business
Continuance and Disaster Recovery
- Computer Peripheral Test/Process Equipment Report,
1997-2007
- New Applications for Data Storage-A Market and Technology
Report, 1999-2003.
- Storage Area Networks Report, 2001.
- Articles written for magazines and journals such as
InfoStor, Computer Technology Review,
Data Storage Magazine, Storage for Entertainment and Post.
- Background Material provided to Scientific
American, Time, Doctor Dobbs Journal, UPI and other
publications.
- Presentations Storage Topics at Pennwell
Head/Medium Conference, IDEMA Diskcon and other events, NAB,
IEEE Consumer Society ISCE and ICCE, iNSIC and many other
events.
- Presentation on Storage Markets and Technology at
Storage Visions 2002 through 2007 and at the Creative
Storage Conference in 2007 and at the Japanese Storage Visions
conference in 2002 & 2003.
Technical Writing
Tom has over 50 published papers and articles on data storage
technology, including several articles in Data Storage Magazine, IDEMA Insight, InfoStor, papers in Journal of Applied Physics, IEEE Magnetics
Transactions, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials and the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology.
In 1999 and 2006 an article he co-authored on Magnetic Tape Equipment
was published in the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and
Electronics Engineering.
Educational Technology Classes
Tom has given talks and prepared a series of classes on magnetic
recording technology as well as storage systems for Santa Clara University.
Tom has been a voluntary professor at CalPoly in San Luis
Obispo.
Intellectual Property and Start-up Analysis
Tom has analyzed data storage patents portfolios for several
clients as well as assisted potential investors in analyzing
start-up opportunities in data storage, including network
storage companies. He has also helped investors with
technical evaluation of companies in bankrupcy.
Expert Witness
Tom has several experiences providing expert witness services
to clients on data storage related topics
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