Meet The Bloggers

Aaron Brezenski has been at Intel (Chandler, AZ) since 1995 and has been a product engineer for most of that time. He currently manages a team of product development engineers in STTD, but his nefarious purpose in ISN Blogspace is to highlight Intel Integrated Graphics in the Home Theater PC space from an end-user perspective.

Constant learner, enthusiastic teacher...skier, cyclist, chef, fly caster, volunteer, Orangeman, investor, media junkie and beer drinking party guy. Drop me a line at: aaron.c.tersteeg at the domain intel.com. I launched the mobile software development community in the summer of 2006 and am now the community manager for Threading for Multi-Core. In my current role my focus is software development evangelist and geek blogger. Started as a mechanical engineer (oil pump design didn't do it for me), moved on to Information Resource Management, worked as a Business Process Consultant, Fortune 500 Webmaster, Web Application Development VP of Sales and Marketing, Data Center Product Management and now Software Development. My wife likes to tell people at parties that I blog for a living. It is much more than that but it lets me share my ideas and hear what developers have to say.

I am the Manageability Developer Community Manager in the Software Solutions Group at Intel. I joined Intel in 1998. I have held various technical architecture, management and leadership positions across Intel's business. I like to make sense of complex technology and make it easy to solve real business problems. I believe that technology is only cool if it helps in fulfilling a compelling user need. My expertise is in bringing together talented teams to build successful business solutions. I have earned an engineering degree in computer science and an M.S degree in Management in science and technology. I love to blog mainly because it provides me with an avenue to challenge the status quo and engage in unique conversations.

Ajith is the Manageability Engineer at Intel working in various areas related to Intel® AMT. In the Manageability Developer Community Forum, he is supporting and enabling the developers writing applications to work on Intel AMT enabled systems. Ajith has started working with Intel AMT for the past year after many years of experience in embedded software development that included network processors to flash file systems. He is also interested in multi threading, parallel programming.

Alexei Alexandrov is a senior software developer in Intel’s Performance, Analysis and Threading Lab. He lives and works in Russia, Nizhniy Novgorod city. Prior to joining Intel in February 2004 Alexei worked for a local company in Saratov (which is a city about 350 miles to the south of Nizhny Novgorod) doing database-related things. Rewinding even earlier, Alexei worked as a software developer for a company which produced (and seems to still produce) computer-driven machines. Alexei graduated from Saratov State Technical University in 2002 with PhD in Computer Science. It was a research related to robots computer control. Currently Alexei’s interests are computer microarchitecture, performance tuning, software development and engineering. In his spare time Alexei plays basketball, listens to the music, plays guitar and reads books.

I love being outdoors hiking with my family and dog, but currently spend most of my "free" time as a typical soccer and basketball mom. My interest in learning and solving new challenges has led me along a non-linear path to become a Strategic Programs Manager for the Software Network. I started at Intel running local charitable giving and volunteer programs, simply because it sounded like loads of fun (which it was). I helped launch the Intel Software Partner Program and managed Intel's presence at software developer events (JavaOne, LinuxWorld, GDC, etc.). I've been an energy consultant, intern at Tokyo Electric Power Co., and Rotary Scholar in France. My French is fluent, but Japanese and German are rusty. I'm an Arizona Wildcat and Georgetown Hoya. Send me a note at amy dot barton at intel dot com.

Arch is the architect of Threading Building Blocks. He was the lead developer for KAI C++. At Shell he worked on seismic imaging on a 256 node nCUBE. He has a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois.

Arti is a product manager on the Intel Software Network team. She joined Intel in 1998 and in her 10 year tenure has worked on a variety of software engineering projects as a developer, architect, and project manager. She has now turned her focus on product management for the Intel Software Network site.

Arvind Kumar is Princpal Engineer and Chief Manageability Architect at Intel. Prior to joning Intel in 1994, he worked at Sequent Computers. Working in systems management area for last 14+ years, Arvind is also technical rep from Intel in DMTF for a long time.

Bill manages the Intel Software Network team. He enjoys working with remarkable people and technology. He joined Intel in 1997 after years of working on computer systems in airplanes. Bill spents his free time reading, taking pictures, dabbling in music, and exploring technology.

C.V. Vick is Intel's Mobile Software Architect responsible for defining and directing Intel's mobile application solutions, and the design and use of context aware and adaptive mobile software across Intel's product lines. C.V. Vick has held various technical positions at Intel over the last 10 years, including several years in Information Technology developing middleware and security solutions, and within the Software and Solutions Group where he consulted with external customers and end-users on solution architecture, and the design and implementation of Web Services and Mobile Applications. Before Intel, C.V. was a Consultant providing distributed systems design expertise for mission critical applications to Fortune 500 companies. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Software Engineering.

Chris Elford is a principal engineer at Intel Corporation and concentrates primarily on analysis and optimization of emerging technology applications. Chris joined Intel Corporation in 1998 after receiving his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign (concentrating on automatic optimization of parallel file system policies). Chris started at Intel analyzing how database applications intersect the underlying platform before transitioning to a team that works to ensure that Java applications work well on Intel processor based platforms. Chris and his wife spend their free time spoiling their pet bird.

Five things about Clay (4 true and 1 false): [1] Clay has studied and worked with parallelism and concurrency for over 20 years; [2] Clay, while an assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississppi, was initially confused as to why Green Bay Packer apparel was being worn so frequently around campus; [3] Clay pursued a Math degree while he was an Instructor in the CS Department at Eastern Washington University; [4] Clay's SF novel, "Bitonic Fallacy," has been translated into 5 languages; [5] Clay once had a cat named "Buffer".

Clayne has been with Intel for long enough to know alot of Intel acronyms. He enjoys coding so much that he forgets to blink while he does it. He has a lot of education in music, and enough in computer science to be dangerous. When he's not working at the office, he works at home with his wife to raise their 6 kids. If you can, send him a message in Chinese!

I am a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois. I have taught parallel programming for many years to computer science, engineering, and science majors.

I work with entrepreneurs identifying innovative companies and cool applications. I have built my career at a series of companies with an unorthodox mix of technical expertise and business savvy. My interests are most things software, digital media, bicycling, running, and really loud scooters.

David Stewart is a software engineering manager at Intel Corporation. David currently manages Team Open Solaris in the Software and Solutions Group. David's group charter is to ensure that Xeon is the best platform to run Open Solaris. Prior to this role, David held a variety of management positions in Intel's Desktop Boards and Systems division and Server Products group. Prior to joining Intel in 1997, David held management and engineering positions in consumer software products and server products. David holds a BS in Computer Science and MS in Computer Science from Colorado State University in Fort Collins, which he received in 1983. You can catch Dave's non-work thoughts in his personal blog, http://davestewart.livejournal.com

Dave currently manages ISV technology enabling progams as a member of the Software Partner Program team in the Software and Solutions Group. He has enjoyed working for Intel since 1984 in a variety of engineering, marketing, and program management roles. Dave enjoys hanging out with his wife Stephanie and their two young kids and occasionally unwinds by reading the latest new book about the American Revolution or The Beatles.

I am a Senior Technologist in Intel's Open Source Technology Center (OTC) where I work on the Moblin.org and LessWatts.org projects. I have been with Intel since 1998. Prior to joining the OTC in September 2006, I was the Operating Systems Engineering Manager in the Cellular and Handheld Group (CHG). Prior to Intel, I spent 15 years at Digital Equipment Corporation in a variety of software engineering and technical marketing management positions. I graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with a BS in Electrical Engineering and a minor in music in 1983 Outside of work, I enjoy spending time with my wife and 3 daughters, playing and listening to music, taking photos and videos and working on projects around the house. My latest time sink is playing "Rock Band" on our PS3 - I could do it for hours - I only wish they had a keyboard controller too...

Come visit me in Second Life at http://tinyurl.com/34chl9! My name is Dreamy and I live at Intel Island in-world. I'm very friendly and love to chat and help others in Second Life. When I'm not working, you'll find me flying around with my Intel Jetpack or riding my Intel Orange County Chopper Bike.

Elliot Garbus, General Manager, Developer Relations Division, Software and Solutions Group Intel Corporation. Elliot is the General Manager of the Developer Relations Division in Intel's Software and Solutions Group. DRD provides programs and services to assist software companies gain maximum value from Intel platforms. These programs include: training through the Intel Software College; Access to information through the Intel Software Network; Technology and business based partner program through the Early Access & Partner Programs, and Application Engineering services. Elliot joined Intel in 1988 and has held management positions in processor and platform architecture, new product planning and application engineering. He holds 15 patents and is the recipient of an Intel Achievement Award.

I am an I/O Architect in the I/O Technology and Standards group at Intel. I have been active in the development of the Single Root I/O Virtualization and Sharing specification in the PCI-SIG and have been focused on the problem of device sharing on a virtualized platform.

Gael (a.k.a Atalanta Intel in Second Life) is a Manageability Engineer at Intel working in numerous areas associated with Intel® AMT. In her role as a moderator of the Manageability Developer Community Forum, she engages in supporting and enabling developers by contributing in-depth knowledge on latest Intel AMT SDK releases. Gael runs a successful Blog and strives to summarize the gained community knowledge in postings that serve the purpose of giving developers access to comprehensive information more quickly. Gael began working with Intel AMT after years of prior performance analysis and benchmarking. Her other passion in life is called "Ulf".

Gina Bovara is part of the Intel Software Network Developer Marketing team and quite frequently finds herself doing a little bit of everything(!), including ISN customer service, Intel conference support, webpage and Flash design, and Intel marketing activities. Gina is a true ambassador of Intel and loves talking with customers about Intel products, services and future ventures. Gina's hobbies include playing video games (Xbox 360 and World of Warcraft), building her own PCs, collecting Coach purses, and attending developer conferences across the United States. Gina obtained her BS in Computer Science from Ball State University in Muncie, IN in 1998 and has had the pleasure of being employed at Intel since January, 1999.

Intel Software Network Support blog entries will be a mix of Intel Support news & hot topics as they pertain to Intel Software Network and details on interesting issues we might be currently seeing the most support emails about.

Itai is a software engineer and validate Intel® AMT Provisioning area. As you all know Provisioning is the first step in order to work with this great technologies, and have (even when it's minor) touch with any Intel® AMT features.

Family guy, dad, husband, reader, 3.5 tennis player, flyfisherman, Idol watcher, and--oh, yeah, currently biz dev guy for Intel Business Exchange.

Currently working for Intel as a Innovation Accelerator Manager, I look for innovation and accelerate companies businesses by using/managing Intel's resources.

Jason is mobile developer community manager on ISN team, joined Intel China in 1996, has worked on serveral techical and marketing positions in China & Asia regions, and most recently Jason was the manager of Intel Asia Pacific wireless competency centre for developing celluar and handheld business in China and Asia.

Third of four sons. Hail from Ohio. Live in Santa Cruz. I like the ocean. Training rocks!

After 19 years in the field with a large telecommunications company, I decided to take "the factory" for a test drive. Since joining Intel in 2006, I have had many titles and roles, but they all centered around our Software Partner Program, ISPP. Currently I work on enabling programs for ISVs looking for the best ways to engage with the software ecosystem.

I work as an Application Engineer and work with ISVs to develop and write manageability applications that work with Intel's various technologies.

Jonas Kollberg has a long history with service providers and new exciting mobile services. Jonas works as Program Manager at the Intel Wireless Competency Center in Stockholm, with ISV- and service-enabling for Intel's new mobile client platforms. Currently his focus is on Ultra Mobile PCs and Mobile TV. Before coming to Intel, Jonas was a Product Manager at Terraplay. Terraplay produces a platform product used to enable multiplayer gaming services in a mobile environment. Earlier positions include Product Manager for LAN Interconnect services at Telia, the largest service provider in Sweden. Jonas holds a M.S in Electrical Engineering and can be reached at jonas.kollberg@intel.com

Joe Natoli is the Platform Architect for the SOA Products Group at Intel.

I’m a storyteller. I find cool new things, use them to make my life better, and teach others to do the same.

I have more than 25 years of software engineering experience, with the focus since 1993 being on development of multithreaded high-volume data processing and mathematical modeling and simulation systems, on Unix and Windows platforms, programming in C, Fortran, and C++. In addition to developing software, I work for O'Reilly Media as an online community manager, editor, and blogger/writer.

Marius Cornea is a Principal Engineer in Intel's Software & Solutions Group. He received a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Cluj, Romania and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. Since joining Intel in 1994, his work was related to scientific computation, design and development of numerical algorithms, floating-point emulation, exception handling, and new floating-point instruction definition and analysis. His e-mail is marius.cornea at intel.com.

A software person thriving in a hardware company... Maryann's passion is leading edge, out of the box projects. Prior to joining the Intel Software Network team as the Developer Marketing & Support Manager, she was part of the team that drove the introduction of Intel microprocessors into Apple Macs, pushed Intel into cellular handsets and worked closely with Kodak on the first CMOS sensor for digital cameras. Maryann started her professional career as software engineer for Santa Cruz Operation enjoying mornings of coding, afternoons of windsurfing and nights fixing code. She holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics & computer science from University of California and a master's degree from Golden Gate University.

I am a software engineer working at Intel Paris on software optimization in life sciences.

Well - I've been working at Intel for the past 8 years; it doesn't seem possible. For most of that time, I have been involved in technical enabling in the software industry. That means I help connect software developers with Intel technology and resources. I have worked with some great companies -IBM, BEA, SUN and had a lot of fun with some really smart people. I have recently become very interested in virtual world technology and Second Life in particular. Come visit Intel on Second Life if you have the chance - http://tinyurl.com/34chl9. I am not on as much as I used to be, but if I am in world, I would be happy to give you a tour. I am working with Intel Software College and Intel Academic Community to help build a curriculum for new compute platforms built on many core technology. I’ll be blogging on all of these topics and other ideas as they occur to me.

I am a Product Marketing Engineer in the Server Platforms Group Marketing team at Intel and in my current role responsible for product marketing, and setting enabling and marketing strategies for I/O technologies and I/O virtualization technologies on Intel servers. Beyond this professional life, I live in the Northwest, and I love camping, hiking, mountain climbing, playing chess and snowboarding.

Rémi works in advanced visual computing (AVC) within Intel's Software Systems group where he is leading the Game Engine Technology team as Senior Graphics Architect. His career started in the R&D department of Thomson Training & Simulation (now Thales) designing and then leading the Space Magic real-time visual system. He moved to California in 1996 to work on the IRIS Performer project for SGI. He left SGI to co-found Intrinsic Graphics where he co-designed the Alchemy engine as director of technology. Intrinsic Graphics was acquired by Vicarious Vision, then itself acquired by Activision, now merged with Vivendi. Alchemy was also used by Keyhole, which was acquired by Google and became the popular Google Earth. Most recently, Remi worked on the PlayStation 3 SDK as Graphics Architect at Sony Computer Entertainment US R&D where he contributed to OpenGL ES 2.0 specification, and created COLLADA the standard 3D asset desctiption language.

I've worked for Intel since late 2007 in the Software and Solutions Group as a graphics and gaming technical marketing manager in the Visual Computing software division. Previous to Intel I ran the Web3D Consortium for a few years focusing on driving industry standards for communicating 3D graphics on the web. Prior to that, I was a consultant for several years consulting in video and 3D, and in the 90's I was the media data formats standards expert (that'a mouthful!) at Apple. I love anything graphics and media related, particularly 3D graphics and in my next life I aspire to be eitiher a real engineer or a technical content artist.

Robert Chesebrough is the manager of the Intel Software College course architect team, and is responsible for bringing new course content to the ISC portfolio. He has been a contributing courseware developer and instructor for Intel Software College for over 5 years. Prior his management role at Intel Software College, Robert was a senior technical consulting engineer with the compiler marketing and technical support group in Intel’s Software Products division. He authored the “Intel® Compiler Black-Belt Users Guide to undocumented switches". He holds a BS in Physics from the University of New Mexico and has been a software developer for the US Department of Energy, Sandia National Labs & Los Alamos National Labs beginning in the early 1980’s and also in the in the aerospace industry at SBS technologies in the late 1990’s. He is married and has two children who are deeply appreciated and who are both taught at home by their parents. He enjoys programming, mathematics, physics and fishing.

Rob Ennals is a researcher at the Intel Research lab in Berkeley, and is project lead for Intel Mash Maker.

Robert Geva is a principal engineer at Intel's software and solutions group. Robert joined Intel in 1991 and has since developed an expertise in performance analysis and tuning for microarchitectures. Robert has worked on compiler optimizations for a variety of Intel microprocessor based systems, including the 80486, the Pentium Processor, the Pentium Pro Processor, Itanium, the Pentium 4 and Pentium M. Currently, Robert is managing a team of Intel engineers working on the Microsoft compiler to improve the generated code for Intel microprocessor based systems. Robert has BA and MSc from the Technion, Israel institute of technology.

Hi, I'm a old software guy currently employed as a technical consulting engineer for such Intel products as Intel® Threading Building Blocks and thread analysis tools like Intel® Thread Profiler and Intel® Thread Checker. I come from a graphics background, a regular SIGGRAPH attendee who cut my teeth on programming and graphics at Tektronix. I like tinkering with code and hope to share some of my explorations with the community. When I'm not engineering, I like to dress funny and sing madrigals and drinking songs.

I'm a senior software engineer at this wonderful little company called Intel. I'm currently based in Brazil, but I work for a team out of Oregon and I spend a lot of time there. I'm one of those weird guys at Intel who are clueless about hardware. I also keep a personal blog.

I am Sandeep, working on Switchbox in Intel AMT DTK. I have been at Intel for 2 years now and have worked on many cool projects like Remote Gaming and Lamar River (sort of Linux version of Viiv). I love to travel, watch action movies and play chess.

Scott is the Director of Intel's Developer Network and responsible for the Intel Software Network and Intel Software College. He joined Intel in 1991 and has worked on programs spanning embedded controllers, video conferencing, streaming media and now developer networks. Scott's favorite thing in the world to do is fish, anywhere, anytime. He also likes to ski and keeps pretty busy watching his four kids play football, basketball, baseball and tennis.

Scott Crabtree joined Intel in 2005 as an Engineering Manager working with a team focused primarily on video games. He has been making video games for over 20 years, and professionally leading the design and development of games for over 10 years. Scott started as a Software Engineer and has also served often as a Game Designer and Producer. Scott has spoken at the Game Developer's Conference, been published on Gamasutra.com, and served as technical editor for Andrew Rollings and Ernest Adams on Game Design. Scott is proud to have worked on game development with companies including Microsoft, Mattel, The Learning Company, Disney, LEGO, Nike and more. His most recent published games include Yourself!Fitness and NRL Rugby League for PS2, Xbox, and PC, and Gem Drop and Shape Shifter for mobile phones.

Shmuel can be found at the Testing Laboratory validating internal Intel® Active Management Technology features. On his browser's favorites folder he stores anything funny, pages related to Software Testing, Open Source, script languages and also movies, harmonica playing or graphic design.

I am working with Intel as a Software Engineer. Over the past few years I have been working on Benchmarking and Performance Analysis. My role in the Manageability community is to moderate the forums and developing use cases for the cool features supported by Intel® AMT. I would like to use my initial blogs for some interesting discussions on these use cases.

EMEA Geography Manager for Intel Software College, Stephanie enjoys interacting with international Professors, kite-surfing on the Garda Lake and making short movies. Stephanie has a B.A in Film and Television from New York University.

My life in an online community began on the PLATO IV system in 1974, continued on ARPANET in the late 1970s, CompuServe and then this newfangled Internet tube-thingy. I joined Intel in 2001 coming from DEC/Compaq where I was a Fortran compiler developer. Nowadays I focus more on the support and "evangelizing" side of things, including my "Doctor Fortran" column which I started in 1998 and which I suppose could be considered a blog. I've been in the same office in Nashua, New Hampshire, since 1988, but I'm on my third company badge. Outside of work I like to read science fiction, build web sites and travel.

My first job at Intel was as a Digital Content Creation Technology Evangelist (that's a mouthful), and I'd have to say I'm still doing that in a lot of ways. Before Intel, I worked for Mattel as a Senior Artist creating 3D animation for the internet, and was a 3D animation tools (Softimage, Poweranimator, Maya) instructor for the feature animation studios, RFX, and a Lead Animator for Pacific Title|Mirage. I'm one of the few Intel Software Network Community Managers with both a SAG and an AFTRA card. I was a session singer in LA (my most noteworthy work - if you can call it that- was as the voice of doom for Baywatch, several national commercials, and as the singer of the main characters' theme for the Soap, Santa Barbara). I'm also the author of a horror novel, Wizrd, under my pen name, Steve Zell,(St. Martin's Press in the US, Hodder|Headline in the UK) about a Northern Arizona boomtown that would much rather be a ghosttown...

I first joined Intel in July of 1983. I have done a variety of different development jobs at Intel, before leaving in 1995. I came back to Intel in January of 2005. Currently, I am a Senior Performance Engineer at Intel Corporation, working on Server Platform performance in the areas of Virtualization, Databases, Encryption, Scaling, Telephony, Web Server and LINUX. I have worked with Virtualization since 2000.

I have joined Intel in 1989, I am interested in new things, doing things differently, positive thinker... golfer, skier, like technical masterpieces and go an extra mile to achieve the goal, enjoy nature and good food. Contact me at: wolfgang.rosenberg at the domain intel.com. I was the Software College Manager in EMEA during 2007 and manage now the Academia Community. In my current role my focus is to support all aspects of the Academic Community. My background: I started as an Electronics Design Engineer, moved on to Technical Event Management, worked as Customer and Product Marketing Engineer, designed Web Order Management solutions and as Vertical Industry Manager, I started several vertical industry sectors, Manufacturing, Oil-Energy and High Tech Electronics. My interests are in people, global communication and education.

A senior architect at Intel, Ylian Saint-Hilaire part of the Intel Digital Home group and is currently working on network manageability using Intel® Active Management Technology (AMT) as architect and lead for the Intel AMT Developer Tool Kit. Recognized as an innovator and public speaker, he was awarded two Intel Achievement Awards for outstanding work enabling the digital home. On this own time, Ylian is a pilot and enjoys flying around the Portland area and traveling to foreign countries.

Zander Sprague has been working in the corporate world for over 18 years. He has worked for such companies as Fidelity Investments and Intel Corporation, as well as various startups. In his current role as Americas Geography Manager for Intel Software College he is helping universities Master Multicore with Intel’s industry leading assessment tools and curriculum Zander has been a technical trainer for over 15 years and has a true passion for passing on learning to all who need it. His varied training experiences allow him to bring fresh insight to all the projects he works on. Zander is also a professional speaker and published author. Prior to his career as a speaker, author and trainer, Zander graduated from Pitzer College, noted as being the leading liberal arts college for social and behavioral sciences, and a member of the Claremont Colleges. He holds a BA in History as well as a BA in Psychology

I am a Technical Consulting Engineer from Intel SSG Group and responsible for all support issues for iMPSDK