Kevin Rowett, founder of Iron Heart Consulting, has over 20 years of progressive and responsible engineering and management experience, most recently as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Violin Memory in Mountain View, California. He graduated from Oklahoma University in Norman, OK with a BS in Mathematics.

Kevin has worked as an engineer, engineering team lead, engineering manager, and executive at many well-known Silicon Valley high technology companies including Tandem, IBM, and Cisco. He has developed proven – and respected – expertise in hardware/software systems design while working at such companies. He has also founded six startup high technology companies, including:

• Force10 Networks, which was sold to Dell for US $768 million.
• Mistletoe Technologies, which designed and produced a high speed security chip.
• Violin Memory, a leading supplier of flash storage system to enterprise companies.

Kevin is the principal designer of all projects at Iron Heart Consulting.

Read Kevin's full resume here.