Kurt has been working in the area of storage infrastructure since 2001, holding various roles over the years, including storage administrator, SAN architect, certified instructor, data migration specialist, solution architect and consultant. He has been working for IBM for the last 10 years, wholly dedicated to performing storage optimization studies for IBM clients since 2011. His knowledge of storage (block, NAS, object, cloud), storage virtualization, information lifecycle management, backup and Design Thinking is put to use on every consulting engagement.