Inventor of the Year
Innovating Through a Focused, High-Impact Patent Portfolio
2011 Inventor of the Year | |||||||||||
 | Each year, Dell honors outstanding inventors among its employees. This patent year, Tim Lambert was recognized for his innovative work in several technical areas. Tim focuses on bridging high-level, strategic system architectures into scalable platform solutions for Dell server products. His recent focus has been on various aspects of systems management. Each invention represents an innovative approach designed to benefit Dell customers. |
Previous Inventors of the Year
 | 2010 Inventor of the Year Guarav Chawla, Enterprise Technology Strategist, Office of the CTO Guarav focuses on enterprise network storage solutions with particular emphasis on iSCSI, Fibre Channel over Ethernet and Fibre Channel technologies, network-attached storage, storage management and intelligent data management. |
 | 2009 Inventor of the Year Andy Sultenfuss, Senior Strategist/Architect, Business Client Advanced Engineering Group Andy helps drive architectures for Dell™ Latitude™ systems. His recent patent work has focused on system-in-system patents that address practical problems of multiple-machine integration. |
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| 2008 Inventors of the Year Mukund Khatri, Server Software Strategist, Dell Server Advanced Engineering Group Mukund focuses on strategic Dell technologies, particularly power and cooling, virtualization and memory reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) with about half of his patent disclosures making their way into Dell server products. |
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| Robert Winter, Storage Architect, Office of the CTO Robert focuses on the communications landscape, with particular emphasis on network security, protocol off-load, network I/O (input/output) virtualization and all aspects of Ethernet technology, especially higher-speed Ethernet and emerging IEEE and IETF standards. |
