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.