Dave Parry, senior vice president and Product General Manager, joined SGI in 1992. He is responsible for all engineering, business management and marketing for SGI products. Most recently, Mr. Parry served as senior vice president and general manager for the systems and platform group with responsibility for server system and the development of underlying platform elements used in SGI visualization and high-performance data management product lines. In this role, Mr. Parry led hardware engineering for MIPS microprocessors, MIPS processor-based systems, and Intel� Itanium� 2 processor-based systems, including the SGI� Origin� servers and the SGI� Altix� family of servers and superclusters. Prior to joining SGI, Mr. Parry worked for MIPS Computer Systems, where he worked on the MIPS� R6000 microprocessor and associated RC6380 server system. After SGI's acquisition of MIPS, he worked as the engineering lead on the Power Indigo2 PMT module and in various engineering management roles for the development of the SGI� Origin� 200, SGI� Origin� 2000, and Gigabyte System Network (GSN) programs. Mr. Parry came to MIPS from Hewlett-Packard where he worked on high-end processor and server system design. He holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. |