Curtis Stevens

Curtis Stevens (Strategist, Seagate Technology) has been working in the storage industry for over 35 years with experience in host side drivers, HBA design, Hard disk drives, SSD’s, SAS/SATA/USB/1394/etc. Curtis is the technical editor for standards and specifications in INCITS T10, INCITS T13, SATA-IO, USB-IF, NVMe, and others. Curtis has helped invent and standardize technologies in the areas of Bootable CD-ROM, PATA-SATA bridges, USB Printers, USB Mass Storage, translating SAS to SATA, 4K/512e sector sizes, NVMe Zoned Name Spaces, and most recently, Drive Regeneration/depopulation & Translating SAS to NVMe.