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As part of his academic research as well as commercial product development, he has developed a handful of different array processors for application areas ranging from image processing and generation to signal and matrix processors. To enable this development he has extensive knowledge of the research literature of different array processor architectures. And as an excellent communicator, he can bring up to speed the novice as well as the expert.

He was the main performance architect for five generations of cache and memory controllers for the Intel Pentium and Pentium Pro chipsets. During this period, he developed a cache/memory simulator to help in design evaluations and performance optimizations. This system was used in a production environment.

Since 1992, he has been involved in commercial product design of personal computer processors, chipsets, graphics controllers, and I/O processors. He is the inventor of Intel's Observation Architecture, a diagnostics processor for the PC platform. His experience includes cost constrained consumer devices such as XBox, and PS-3, high-volume desktop and laptop chipsets and GPUs, and high-performance server chipsets and processors. As principal architect on many of these projects he has extensive experience in communicating and validating the architecture spec to/with the design team.

As part of his computer architecture design exploration research he has developed several large scale concurrent databases, simulators, and data analysis systems. More recently, he has moved on to MPI-based concurrent systems, and is working with MPI libraries such as PETSc and Trilinos for high-performance computing for finite element analysis and computational fluid dynamics applications.

As part of the Stillwater Supercomputing product development research, he is the principal architect for a new parallel architecture optimized for computational science. To develop this new architecture, the history and implementations of wide spectrum of parallel machines was evaluated; ranging from MasPar and Thinking Machines CM-1, CM-2 SIMD machines, and Thinking Machines CM-5 cluster architecture, and the more modern Cray XT and IBM Blue Gene architectures. Also, as a performance architect on NVIDIA Tesla, he is intimately familiar with parallel graphics processing units as well.

As the primary performance architect on the Intel Pentium and Pentium Pro desktop chipsets, as well as the NVIDIA nForce chipsets he drove the performance estimation and validation methodologies for these programs. He also managed a platform performance engineering team at Intel that was charted with performance characterization and optimization of chip sets and graphics controllers. He was also the principal performance architect on Intel's Pentium III x86 processor and Accelerated Graphics Port bus architecture and developed a performance characterization and estimation methodology for interactive graphical applications. Similarly, he developed such systems for the 3dfx OpenGL software stack, and for NVIDIA chipsets and GPUs.

To create innovative micro-architectures for his role as computer architect at Intel, 3dfx, and NVIDIA, he has developed many computer models of future products. This modeling expertise is essential to properly plan and execute new product development for electronic products. The architecture model allows for rapid design exploration, quickly identifying the best overall structure of the new machine. Once the basic architecture is agreed on, the architecture model acts as a gold standard for the implementation, and presents an executable spec for validation and verification. Having build more than a dozen such systems, he is uniquely qualified to help organizations set up and deliver world class research and development processes.

For seven years, he was involved in fundamental research in design automation for systolic architecture, with several papers published and doctoral research completed. As part of this research he built two different design systems for systolic architectures that started from an algorithmic description and automatically generated a working multi-chip systolic machine. Due to this research, he has deep knowledge of the literature and history of Systolic Algorithms. Having built two physical systolic chips and worked on Warp and iWarp, he has a first hand appreciation of the successes and failures of this class of algorithms and machines.

As CEO and founder of Stillwater Supercomputing, Inc. he has brought together a collection of companies and partners to develop and market a new platform for computational science. This platform is used in Europe, US, China, India, and Korea in environments as diverse as logistics, energy, and education.

The core product of Stillwater Supercomputing, the company that he has founded in 2006, is a Platform as a Service for business intelligence. This PaaS allows internal IT organizations and Stillwater partners to build advanced business intelligence applications that implement business process optimization through advanced business analytics.

As CEO of Stillwater Supercomputing, Inc. Expert is driving his team to leverage quantitative metrics to manage the business. We are using deep analytical metrics and compare these to industry standards as well as optimization models to identify new sources of business process innovation and margin.

As CEO and Founder of Stillwater Supercomputing, an innovator in advanced business analytics, Expert is responsible for not only the internal business processes to guide Stillwater, but also its customers. Since Stillwater's main product is a business analytics solution that resides in the cloud, new customers typically require active change management to take advantage of the cost benefits of using cloud computing for day to day operations.

Expert founded Stillwater Supercomputing and has direct experience in fund raising, pitching to professional investors, identifying and courting corporate investors and strategic partners.

The core technology of Stillwater is a BI Platform-as-a-Service that offers competitive benchmarking to its clients. The advanced business analytics services allow a customer to compare their internal performance to that of industry standards.

As CEO of Stillwater Supercomputing, Inc., Expert is constantly evaluating new competitive threads and technology innovations. This competitive intelligence is essential for a start-up to survive since a start-up's core value proposition is that of differentiation. One can only communicate this differentiation through thorough competitive analysis.

Expert directs the development of a new and unique BI Platform-as-a-Service that leverages high performance computing to support international consultancies and Fortune-500 companies. In this role, he is a thought leader in computer software technology innovation as defined by the emerging cloud computing concepts.

A fundamental technology that is being developed at Stillwater is a specialized semiconductor device optimized for
knowledge discovery and data mining. KDD is essential for advanced business analytics and Stillwater is unique in
this offering. Expert is the principal innovator to build information retrieval algorithms directly in hardware and
offer this electronic product as a business process improvement to customers.

Expert is the founder of Stillwater Supercomputing, Inc. and has complete deep market research to establish Stillwater as a cloud computing innovator.

The Platform-as-a-Service that Stillwater is developing is build as a massively parallel computing system that can run in on-premise clusters as well as geographically distributed computing grids.

Expert is driving continuous new product development at Stillwater Supercomputing, Inc., a startup that designs and markets a Platform-as-a-Service for advanced business intelligence applications.

The Stillwater Platform-as-a-Service for Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining encapsulates advanced parallel algorithms such as map-reduce as well as sparse matrix solvers and optimization algorithms. Expert is the principal investigator of these advanced algorithms and how they behave in real world applications. Furthermore, Expert has global recognition and can pull together thought leaders in parallel algorithm research at an international level.

Expert is a consultant for DeMatteo Monness, a boutique primary research firm and full-service broker-dealer, and advices hedge fund managers, professional investors, and CEOs on semiconductor technology, cloud computing, and high performance computing in business intelligence.Expert is an advisor to the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation on matters of supercomputing technology and business process optimization of computer aided engineering workflows.Expert is a consultant for a Chinese Cloud Provider with operations in China, Taiwan, Hong-Kong, and Korea regarding cloud computing technology and hardware technology road maps of HP, IBM, Intel, and AMD as well as the emerging smart client technologies.