Robert (Bob) Monkman has been in the computing industry for 20 years. He is currently the Director of Software Product Management at Penguin Computing. Previous to joining Penguin, Robert has held a variety of Product Marketing and Management roles at MontaVista Software, Eternal Systems, OSE Systems, Wind River Systems, Microtec Research specializing in operatings systems, communication infrastructure, clustering and high availability. Robert has also held applications engineering and hardware/software development roles at Ready Systems and Tellabs. Robert holds a BSEE degree from the University of Illinois.