Gary Aulfinger is the Chief Storage Architect and Chief Technology Officer for EVS Corporation.
Aulfinger’s breadth of IT experience and vision for storage technology have helped shape the direction of EVS Corporation’s technology and business leadership.
Prior to joining EVS Corporation, Aulfinger led FedEx’s distributed backup/recovery systems for 12 years. He brought leadership and innovation to FedEx by using technologies such as split mirror backups, snapshots, replication, and backup to disk. Aulfinger oversaw a twenty-fold increase in backup data to nearly 3,000,000 GB.
Prior to being recruited to FedEx, Aulfinger spent 11 years at Carnegie Mellon managing undergraduate computing and consulting services, as well as research facilities for the Information Networking Institute. In this academic environment, Aulfinger developed a unique focus, blending technological innovation with an understanding of the business of managing IT.
Aulfinger holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering (’88) from the Carnegie Institute of Technology and a Master of Science degree (’93) from the H. John Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon.