Alan spent 5 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories working as a system administrator for the mainframe and Unix environments. He was responsible for tape backups. Alan joined Goldman Sachs in 1992. As an Information Technology Vice President, he founded the Storage and Capacity Management group and was responsible for the firm's storage infrastructure throughout the globe. In 2000, Alan left Goldman to join StorageNetworks (the first Storage Service Provider) as VP of Engineering. During Alan's tenure at StorageNetworks, customers such as Microsoft, Sun Microsystems and Network Appliance trusted their backups to the company. After a successful Initial Public Offering and being promoted to SVP, Alan left StorageNetworks to co-found WysDM Software. Alan received a MS in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania. |