Kevin Shea SVP Engineering, Sepaton

SEPATON, Inc. announced the appointment of Kevin Shea to the position of SVP of engineering.

 Reporting  to president and CEO Mike Thompson, Kevin will lead SEPATON’s worldwide engineering team and hold responsibility for all product development and delivery work for the company’s entire product line, including its S2100 product family, a fast backup and recovery solution.
 
He brings a wealth of engineering and leadership experience, which he has earned over a twenty-five year career in the industry. He has led development efforts for high volume NAS file systems, parallel computing languages, asynchronous file and data base replication, and high performance database management systems.
 
"SEPATON is aggressively driving high performance, high scalability innovations across our product line to address the explosive data growth requirements of the world’s largest enterprises," said Thompson. "Kevin is ideally suited to lead our growing team of engineers and to work closely with our CTO, Jeff Tofano to deliver game-changing solutions. I look forward to working with him."
 
"I am very excited to join SEPATON at this period in the company’s development," said Shea. "Never before has data growth challenged enterprises so significantly. SEPATON is positioned like no other vendor in the industry – with a unique and powerful intellectual property that we will leverage to transform how data is backed-up, recovered and protected."
 
Before joining SEPATON, Kevin served as VP of engineering for several high tech companies, including IBRIX, Interactive Supercomputing and Giantloop; and as VP of software development at Praxis. Most recently, he was principal group manager of the technical computing team at Microsoft, following the acquisition of Interactive Supercomputing.

He holds a BS in Mathematics from the University of New Hampshire, and an MS in Computer Science from Boston University.