James Walstrum | Senior Principal Datacenter Solution Architect, Core Datacenter Business Unit
Micron

Jay Walstrum is a Senior Principal Datacenter Solution Architect for Micron’s Core Datacenter Business Unit, where he is focusing on new opportunities in the three to five-plus year timeframe. In his role, he also applies innovative technologies and memory/storage architectures to solve customer system-level challenges. Jay’s responsibilities include working closely with a engineering and market-strategy team to identify new technology, applications, product/architecture specifications, customers, and markets for new product concepts.  He also actively works with customer system architects, technologists, third-party developers, and Micron’s Research and Development team to identify, define, and architect innovative memory solutions. Before beginning with Micron in January 2013, Jay spent 22 years at Xilinx Corp, where he held various positions ranging from the Director of Quality, to the Senior Product Planning Manager, to the Strategic and Technical Marketing Leader.  Jay holds a BSEE from University of Southern California. He holds 12 patents in the areas of FPGA system Solutions and memory interface architecture.