• Presented Distinguished Service Award by Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) for 2004-2005 work on behalf of SNIA's End User Council (EUC). October, 2005.
• Elected Vice-Chair of SNIA's End User Council. October, 2005.
• Featured Moderator at Storage Networking World to present SNIA's EUC 2005 Survey of Storage Management. October, 2005.
• Enrolled in the part-time MBA program at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota. September, 2005.
• Authored article on protocol differences between iFCP and FCIP published in Storage Magazine. June 2005.
• Released the SNIA EUC's survey created by end users of storage to amplify the voice of the End User to storage vendors. April 2005.
• Quoted at length in BusinessWeek magazine. April 18, 2005.
• Inducted into Carlson Order of the Golden Rose. February, 2005.
• Authored article on Best Practice for Designing Core/Edge SANs published in Storage Magazine. November, 2004.
• Elected Governing Board Member and then Secretary of the SNIA EUC. October, 2004.
• Authored Winning nomination for the Storage Networking World's Best Practices: System Implementation. September, 2004
• Architect for Carlson's Core/Edge SAN Network. Early 2004.
• Co-founder of the Minneapolis/St.Paul Storage Networking Users Group. September, 2003.
• Speaker on Best Practices for the SAN. September, 2003 through September, 2004.
• Judge for Storage Networking Worlds Best Practice Awards September 2003; April 2004; and April 2005.
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