Instructors

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David A. Deming is Founder, President and CTO of Solution Technology. With a degree in Electronics Engineering and more than 20 years of industry experience, David has designed courses covering a wide range of storage networking technologies. His active involvement in the various storage-related industry associations has enabled Dave to design and faciltate interoperability testing for the FCIA, and to coordinate the industry's largest Interoperability Lab demonstration for the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA). He also organized the interoperability demonstration for the SNIA Technology Center Grand Opening.
David Deming has been a voting member of the NCITS T11 Fibre Channel standards committee and served on T10 (SCSI) and T10.1 (SSA) standards committees. He is a member of the FCIA SANmark Program Group and the SNIA Interoperability and Education Committees where he has received recognition for his efforts and contributions.
Recent Accomplishments

Elected to FCIA Board of Directors
Elected President of FCIA by Board of Directors
Appointed FCIA Interoperability Program Leader
Released FCIA SANmark Program
Coordinated Storage Networking World & SNIA Interoperability Lab
SNIA Interoperability Committee "Star" for 2000
Keynote Speaker Japan Data Storage Conference, Tokyo
Organized demonstrations at SNIA Technology Center Grand Opening
Keynote Speaker Fibre Channel Event, Maastrict Netherlands
Hosted T11 Meeting, Hawaii

DAVE DEMING

Greg Alvey
GREG ALVEY

Greg Alvey has a Bachelors Degree in Electronic Engineering Technology from Missouri Institute of Technology. He has been in the electronics industry for more than 20 years, working in automatic test equipment production, engineering, and Test Engineering. During that time he has developed and presented numerous hardware and software courses on various types of test systems.

Since joining Solution Technology, he has performed virtually all of the training on Adaptec's SDS (SCSI Development System) product line. He has trained thousands of engineers and technicians worldwide on a variety of products including automatic test equipment for discrete semiconductor devices and SCSI systems. Greg has also developed and/or presented technical courses on Storage Area Networking (SAN) protocols including Internet SCSI (iSCSI), Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), and Serial ATA (SATA).

Robert W. Kembel is an independent consultant and the founder of Connectivity Solutions, a consulting and training firm that specializes in Fibre Channel, FICON, ESCON, and storage networking. He spent over 28 years in product development and I/O subsystem architecture and design before retiring from IBM. While at IBM, Mr. Kembel represented IBM's high-performance storage products at the ANSI Fibre Channel and SCSI committees X3T11 and X3T10.
As both an architect and experienced ASIC designer, he brings a unique blend of architectural Overview tempered with a strong dose of implementer's practicality to our training seminars. He is a member of the National Committee for Information Technology Standards, which is developing Fibre Channel Standards. Mr. Kembel is author of The Fibre Channel Consultant series of books which includes "Fibre Channel: A Comprehensive Introduction," "Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop," and the soon-to-be released addition, "Fibre Channel Switched Fabric."

Bob Kembel
BOB KEMBEL

Howard Goldstein
HOWARD
GOLDSTEIN

Howard Goldstein has over 25 years in the information systems industry specializing in data and telecommunications networking. He has a diverse background including positions in technology, management and education. He has practical technical experience in all aspects of network technology including architecture, design, planning, management, implementation, network systems programming and administration, operations and problem determination and resolution. His technical focus has been with various network architectures and products including TCP/IP and SNA.
Howard has many years experience teaching and developing both instructor-led and hands-on lab courses across a complete range of telecommunications and data communications topics including TCP/IP, IBM networking, LANs, WANs, OSI, Network Management, Broadband Communications, ATM, Frame Relay, Packet Switching, Fibre Channel and others.
Howard holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Massachusetts, and a Masters of Science in Telecommunications from Pace University at White Plains, New York.