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Dean has been in the technology industry for 19 years, of which 16 have been with Sun. He spent four years in Sun manufacturing in roles ranging from component level debug to managing quality. This included helping the drive to achieve ISO 9002 certification. Dean joined the Sun Engineering community in 1993. He led systems and network administration support for some of Sun's largest and most complex R&D lab environments.

Dean left Sun in 2000 to join a networking startup company called Allegro Networks. At Allegro, he built a world-class QA team, state of the art R&D lab environments and fully integrated automation system.

In 2003, Dean returned to Sun joining the newly formed N1 organization. He orchestrated the integration of Terraspring and Center Run R&D labs and the merger of Sun Cluster into N1. In mid 2003, Dean took over management all of N1's R&D labs, build engineering, automation, and capital budget responsibilities world-wide. In 2004, he became a leading member of the Global Lab & Datacenter Design Services (GDS) team tasked with creating a strategy to standardize Sun's multi-billion dollar technical infrastructure portfolio. He was the architect of the GDS operating model and lead design engineer for lab and datacenter projects world-wide. In 2006, he became the GDS Director. Over the last 24 months, Dean has delivered the GDS strategy, executing two of the largest technical infrastructure consolidations in Sun's history.

Dean is on the technical advisory board for Mission Critical Magazine, Vice President of AFCOM Northern California Chapter, author of the Sun Blueprint, "Energy Efficient Datacenters: The Role of Modularity in Datacenter Design" and was featured in Contrarian Minds, a focus on the engineers, scientists and dreamers of Sun Microsystems. Dean is also the recipient of Sun's 2008 Innovation Award presented by Sun's CEO, Jonathan Schwartz and CTO, Greg Papadopoulos.