An extremely technical and seasoned technologist who has spent the last decade engineering and implementing large scale infrastructure and security architectures for organizations of all sizes - ranging from startup to Fortune 500. Today, Paul is managing the pre-sales engineering team that is helping customers design and architect various OpenStack powered cloud initiatives. Prior to Mirantis, Paul managed the Coraid Technology Group team who were responsible for developing custom solutions for customers and helping build reliable and scalable storage infrastructures leveraging enterprise-class Ethernet SAN technology. Prior to Coraid, Paul was the the lead architect for Carpathia's cloud solution, deploying numerous multi–petabyte cloud storage solutions that deliver hundreds of gigabits of Internet traffic. Paul was also instrumental in architecting Carpathia's federal and commercial cloud platforms, while playing a key role in the on–boarding of customer's applications into the Carpathia cloud platform.