Dear All, Today I leave my position at Xyratex UK. I go to Rome to be with the love of my life.
If any of you have contacts in Italy that could be of use to me I would really appreciate it if you would contact me on: mailto:[email protected] The following is a short CV: I hope I offend no one by doing this. David E. Instone: Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Compliance and SI Engineer. Xyratex Storage Solutions Division I have accrued a wide knowledge and skill base extending over many disciplines during my working life. In addition to my primary discipline of electronics I have skills in RF and microwave measurements, in mechanical engineering and drawing. My range of abilities enables me to produce and inspire many novel and innovative measurement, test and design solutions. My employment with Xyratex ensured that I was kept aware of the latest developments. In particular, in Fibre Channel I have recently been actively involved in steering those developments. My work and expertise were unique within Xyratex. I personally developed measurement techniques, and use them, to measure the signal parameters - amplitude, jitter and impedance - of high-speed serial data links such as Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, 1394b and InfiniBand. I was primarily assigned to the Storage Solutions Division of Xyratex. However, all the divisions within Xyratex used my expertise. The majority of my work concentrated on the Fibre Channel and SCSI products designed and produced by Xyratex. During the design phase I gave advice on the requirements and interpretation of the Fibre Channel specifications. Before and during the PCB layout stage I advised on component placement and the routing of impedance critical traces. I checked all new Fibre Channel designs to ensure that the signal parameters specified in the relevant ANSI and NCITS standards were met. Xyratex also made my compliance and advisory services available to other companies. VLSI Technology Inc. IBM and EMC Corp. have used my services extensively. My responsibilities also included representing Xyratex at the bi-monthly meetings in the USA of the NCITS T11 Fibre Channel Technical Committee and Task Groups T11.2 and T11.3. I am a respected member of the Methodology for Jitter Specification and Signal Quality, and the Copper Interconnect groups of T11.2. I have been actively contributing to their work since 1996. I contributed towards the measurement methods sections of NCITS Technical Report TR-25-1999: Fibre Channel - Methodologies for Jitter Specification. I was technical editor of the electrical interconnect sections of the new Fibre Channel FC-PI specification. I have been involved with 1394a and 1394b including the creation of IEEE standard 1394a: 2000. >From 1995 to 1996 I attended the T10.2 SSA Technical group. I am recognised as a world expert in the field of SSA (Serial Storage Architecture) signal parameter specifications and played a key role in the creation of the following ANSI Standards: ANSI X3.293-1996 Physical Layer 1 (SSA-PH1) ANSI NCITS 307-1997 Physical Layer 2 (SSA-PH2) -- Regards Dave Instone. Compliance Engineer Storage Systems Development, MP24/22 Xyratex, Langstone Rd., Havant, Hampshire, P09 1SA, UK. Tel: +44 (0)23-92-496862 (direct line) Fax: +44 (0)23-92-496014 http://www.xyratex.com Tel: +44 (0)23-92-496000 ------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE EMC Society Product Safety Technical Committee emc-pstc discussion list. Visit our web site at: http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/emcs/pstc/ To cancel your subscription, send mail to: [email protected] with the single line: unsubscribe emc-pstc For help, send mail to the list administrators: Michael Garretson: [email protected] Dave Heald [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: No longer online until our new server is brought online and the old messages are imported into the new server.
