Working with you on this project was truly a pleasure. When Chris Horn introduced us, I had no knowledge of your capabilities or no frame of reference as to who you were, but I quickly realized you are beyond bright and have an incredible work ethic. Both attributes I highly admire in you.

You have an excitement and enthusiasm for technology that is pretty much unmatched — like a young Pat Gelsinger (read his book if you haven’t already). The thing to remember is that those crazy ideas mentioned above wouldn’t have worked without a master like yourself at the helm. You have an amazing talent for understanding requirements and being able to execute on a dime. I was never nervous for your code, only hoping that the keyboard wouldn’t lock up on Chad’s demo station!

I look forward to the next project that we get to work on together @ EMC.

Stephen

See here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umSZQXqSRFA for a short message from

Howard Elias, EMC President of Services & Cloud
Mark Fredrickson, EMC VP of Corp Comm
Mark Quigley, EMC SVP, RSA Security
Brian Gallagher, EMC Storage President
Frank Hauck, EMC EVP Storage Products
Sanjay Mirchandani, EMC CIO
Kurt Grazewski, EMC VP Manufacturing Ops
Bill Teuber, EMC Vice Chairman
Joe Tucci, CEO

You ROCK!

Polly

We’re lucky to have you on the team – there’s no doubt on that! There will be more fun, more adventures, more crisis events that eventually we resolve together…

One other small anecdote – remember the moment we’re backstage after the main part of the VPLEX demo before I went back up for the IaaS demo using Unified Infrastructure Manager and Redwood? I ran into you, and we were looking to see if it would wrap up the remaining vMotions in time for the close out. I thought to myself: “OK, 200 VMs to go, at 2.5s each, ~ 8.5 mins, need to stretch this out just a wee bit”, watched the clock on stage, and it was all seamless – the Redwood demo finished, looked at the clock on stage, switched over to the laptop, and bam – it was done on the last VM.

Was my honour to be working hand in hand with you, and your peers.

Thanks again!

EMC is lucky to have a guy like you on board.

Pat.

When Spellicy asked me to come up to Nashua to help him out, I never thought it was for something as cool as Pat’s keynote. I got up there and he said “I need to create 500 VM’s, can you help with that?” “Suuuure.. I can probably hack together some Powershell relatively easily” Mind you, I don’t write code that often, but I pulled together the V1 version that used a CSV file in about an hour or so.
Then I went home and thought thru the issues and re-wrote more code for V2. After that, I was getting a bit stuck and I called on Alan Renouf to help. He tossed in a bunch more code.

I finished up by steal..er..using code that LucD wrote for dealing with Async tasks. It worked awesome. Spellicy christened it “The BabyMaker” and we, Alan and I, were the proud fathers. It was on the show floor that I told Alan what the coding was for. His jaw dropped and he said “I’d have put more effort into it had I know that!” hahaha He did awesome.

I look forward to seeing all the other code and the changes you made!

Again, congrats for an incredible job. I wish I had the patience and skill to bang out code like you.

mike