Mike Fitzpatrick is an electrical engineer and computer marketing professional with over 30+ years experience in systems design, strategic engineering, storage architecture, product development and marketing. With a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, Mr. Fitzpatrick has served on several different boards and committees that set the standards for computer and storage technologies. Currently Mike represents Fujitsu Computer Products of America on the INCITS T10 SCSI/SAS and T11 Fibre Channel committees as well as IDEMA, the Trusted Computing Group and the Storage Networking Industry Association standards bodies.

In 1995, Mike created and founded the Fibre Channel Loop Community (FCLC, the predecessor to today’s FCIA), an industry wide trade organization focused on the promotion of Fibre Channel technology. Mike Fitzpatrick and the FCLC were able to switch the worldwide market away from a competing technology and to Fibre Channel. Fibre Channel has become an important interface and infrastructure for today’s enterprise systems and subsystems.

Since 2001, Mike has been heavily involved in the development of the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) architecture. In 2004, as Chairperson of the SCSI Trade Association’ SAS Plugfest Technical Committee, Mike successfully led the industry’s first full-scale SAS interoperability plugfest. This plugfest consisted of sixteen companies representing the industry’s leading disk drive, controller, test equipment, cable and systems suppliers. Since that first plugfest, Mike has continued to lead the industry’s SAS plugfest effort and recently successfully completed the eighth multi-vendor SAS interoperability plugfest.

For the past 18 years, Mike has been employed in various marketing and planning positions at Seagate and engineering positions at Fujitsu. Prior to working for disk drive companies, Mike spent 10 years at Prime Computer were he was responsible for overseeing the development of storage related controllers, subsystems and the evaluation and selection of disk drives. Early in his career he spent eight years developing computerized medical instrumentation and hospital information systems.