Alan Chhabra Sr Director, Systems Engineering Egenera Alan Chhabra has a decade of experience assisting enterprises in solving complex IT problems. Chhabra has been with Egenera for over five years in various management positions. Most recently, he served as the manager of Egenera IT operations and the consulting principal on Egenera's Technical Program Management team. Today, he manages the Systems Engineering team for Egenera's Public Sales sector, one of the fastest growing business units within the company. Chhabra works with clients on designing their application and infrastructure requirements for high availability, server consolidation, on-demand capacity, just-in-time provisioning, scalability and operations readiness. Chhabra is a frequent speaker at industry events including numerous Oracle forums, where he regularly leads discussions on how Oracle Grid and Fusion tools can help CIOs meet their business objectives. Prior to Egenera, Chhabra founded 4SLICE Consulting, an Internet consulting firm focused on innovative hosting solutions to both large- and medium-sized businesses. He has worked in Big 5 consulting at Ernst and Young and was a Charles Stark Draper Labs Master of Engineering Fellow. Chhabra is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned his Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering and his Masters in aerospace engineering.