Pat Barron is a seasoned Technical Support Engineer currently working at VDURA since its renaming from Panasas in May 2024, with prior experience in the same role at Panasas from October 2018 to May 2024. Before this, Pat held the position of Senior IT Engineer and Lab Manager at Sophos from August 2017 to June 2018, and spent 18 years at IBM from July 1999 to August 2017, progressing to Advisory IT Architect in 2008. Pat's career began as a Systems/Network Administrator at Transarc Corporation from August 1989 to June 1999 and included a role as Member of Technical Staff at Carnegie Mellon University and the Software Engineering Institute from May 1987 to August 1989. Educational credentials include a degree from the University of Pennsylvania and ongoing studies at the University of Pittsburgh.