Gregory G. Kenley
Senior Project Manager

Mr. Kenley is a senior level technology leader with more than twenty years experience with a track record of successful product designs ranging from high capacity, scaleable commercial web sites to large-scale client / server applications based on RPC, UNIX and NT technology.

In prior positions, Mr. Kenley has served as Senior Systems Architect, Vice President Engineering, and Director of Software Engineering - Network Storage Services with experience in various industries: storage management, financial services, e-commerce and telecommunications. He possesses a broad range of skills including the ability to manage, build, deliver and support high quality commercial software products. He is very focused on the needs of the users, and takes a "hands-on" approach to the architecture, design, development and delivery of the products he brings to market. He is an excellent mentor and public speaker.

Fortune 500 companies purchased two of the products that he architected and designed. As an Engineering Development Manager, Gregory has created a technical working relationship with Microsoft NT development twice to co-develop strategic technologies for EMC and Sun Microsystems. He has strong successes in recruiting world-class engineering teams that deliver working and supportable products on time and managed to the allotted budget. He has successfully managed geographically separate engineering teams in Europe and North America.

Representative major projects include the following:

• Successfully architected and designed the server platform for the Enterprise Storage Area Network (SAN) middleware software services. Led the engineering effort through development and production. The product was installed at Chemical Bank, Exabyte and Microsoft. Sun Microsystems purchased the company.

• Mr. Kenley recruited and led the world-class corporate thirty-five person engineering team to develop the Web-based Storage Resource Manager (SRM) 1.0 product on time.

• Established a strategic technical relationship with Microsoft Corporation to deliver the Remote Media Services as part of Windows NT 5.0 (RMS). Redeveloped RMS to be an add-on component to Windows NT 5.0 in order to align it with the company channel sales goals.

• For StorageTek: direct-line responsibility for all network storage software programs for Data Center customer base; principal server architect and platform designer for the NearNet family of enterprise network storage products, allowing Fortune 500 Data Centers to share Tape Libraries with Mainframes and Databases; provided hands-on technical and managerial leadership for the first Network Storage Management product worldwide in less than twenty-four months.

• Led the team that designed, developed and shipped StorageTek's first PC/NOS Network Storage Management product in less than six months.

Mr. Kenley graduated Georgia Institute of Technology, in 1986 receiving a Masters Science degree in Information and Computer Science and completed his undergraduate in Computer Science at College of William and Mary in 1979.