Al is an R&D Project Manager in Hewlett-Packard’s Telco Platform Software group.  He manages a team responsible for validating and optimizing NFV Infrastructure implementations, with a focus on maximizing packet processing performance on HP Server platforms.  Al has worked at HP for 31 years, and has worked on Linux solutions for telco customers for the past eight years.  Previous assignments include work on HP-UX kernel drivers and DCE RPC and DFS environments.  Al graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1982 with a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Computer Science.