Alan Yoder

Alan Yoder, Ph.D., is an elected member to the SNIA Technical Council and serves as the Vice Chair. Alan is involved in SNIA's Green efforts including the Green Technical Work Group, a Green Storage Initiative Governing Board member and secretary, and the co-chair of the Initiatives Alliances Committee. Alan is the co-author of the SNIA whitepaper on Green Storage Best Practices and author of the tutorial on Best Practices. Alan  is a Senior Member of Technical Staff at NetApp, Inc., in Sunnyvale, California. Alan has been at NetApp since earning his Ph.D. in distributed systems in 1997, working on protocols, management frameworks, management applications, management partnerships, the Manage ONTAP(tm) SDK, and other projects. He also has experience in construction and industrial accounting, CAD design and programming, GUI design and development and project management. He holds Bachelors, MSEE and Ph.D. degrees from Goshen College and the University of Notre Dame.