Joe R. Email & Phone Number

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Leading cross-functional global teams, I drive initiatives that enhance engineering productivity, collaboration, and innovation across the enterprise.I focus on empowering the engineering teams through cutting-edge IT solutions, improving workflows, and fostering collaboration across the global IT & engineering organizations.

San Antonio, Tx, Us

The Cyber and Analytics Board of Advisors provides critical input to strengthen and broaden the college’s cyber and analytics research, education and service programs. The board also provides a venue for idea and information exchange among key stakeholders.Members participate in strategic planning, provide subject matter expertise, assist with fundraising efforts, facilitate networking, champion the program externally and facilitate mentorship experiences.

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San Antonio, Texas, Us

I've had the privilege of capturing the world through a unique lens, specializing in Astro, Street, Travel, Portrait, and Events Photography. Over the years, I've developed my skills to create visual narratives that connect with clients and audiences. My work is marked by attention to detail, a love for storytelling, and a commitment to quality.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Built out the IT strategies and IT organizations for Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, End User Compute, Engineering Services, Data, Analytics & AI for the Intel divestiture of their PSG-FPGA group to form the new company Altera.

Rancho Cordova, California, Us

As an IT Executive at Solidigm, I steered the development, scalability, and management of our Global IT Infrastructure and Operations with a team of ~125. Beyond typical IT operations, my role embraced digital transformation, seamless tech integrations from M&A endeavors, and innovating for dynamic business needs.Key Responsibilities:- Budget Planning & Management: Managed a ~$75 million budget, focusing on cost-effectiveness, aligning investments with business goals, and optimizing ROI.- HPC & Engineering Services: Led a team in setting up and maintaining HPC clusters for simulations, design verification, and compute-intensive tasks. Directed the integration and optimization of EDA tools like Cadence & Synopsys. Implemented version control systems (e.g., Github, Bitbucket & Perforce) to manage design files and facilitate collaboration.- Cloud & Datacenter Services: Oversaw cloud solutions and data center operations, prioritizing high availability and adaptability.- Innovation & Automation Services: Advocated for cutting-edge solutions and process automation, leveraging AI and ML for efficiency.- M&A Integration: Managed the technological integration of Intel and SK Hynix to form Solidigm, focusing on synergy between IT infrastructure and new tech assets.- Digital Transformation: Championed the shift from legacy systems to modern platforms to enhance operational efficiency and customer engagement.- Data Infrastructure: Ensured robust, scalable data systems ready for business analytics challenges.Network & Telecom: Directed the design and maintenance of global communication networks for seamless connectivity.- UX & Collaboration: Led efforts to refine collaboration tools for a seamless user experience.- Client & AV Engineering: Oversaw the lifecycle of client devices and their optimal integration.- Support Services: Supervised the global help desk, ensuring swift IT issue resolution.

San Jose, Ca, Us

- Focused on establishing IT’s Enterprise Digital strategy & Architecture to deliver optimal digitalexperience. - Areas of focus include Web Technologies, Digital Worker Technologies, and Digital Workplace. - Strategically selected and implemented technology ecosystems that create a seamless user experience, drive adoption of new capabilities and methods, and harness the power of functional and cross company engagement.- Led the Automation & Self-Service Center Of Excellence (COE)

San Jose, Ca, Us

I built and directed a scalable, enterprise-wide Big Data and analytics ecosystem and team from scratch. This ecosystem catered to a vast and diverse user base, while also fostering innovation, and aligning with digital transformation objectives:- Established and led a global team comprising 100+ professionals, including Directors, Managers, Business Analysts, Developers, Architects, Engineers, and Administrators, to serve 50,000+ users.- Formulated a hybrid architecture combining multi-cloud and on-premises environments. This platform facilitated Big Data processes, reporting, streaming, IIoT, and advanced ML/AI and Deep Learning capabilities.- Championed data platform engineering and architecture leadership. This included guiding global IT teams in data engineering, implementation & delivery, R&D, and 24/7 support.- Integrated M&A technological assets into the existing WD architecture, ensuring seamless data communication and platform unification during acquisition phases.- Spearheaded digital transformation initiatives, focusing on optimizing data management, leveraging technological innovations, and modernizing existing infrastructures.- As of Nov 2021, our WD Big Data Analytics platform processed nearly 100 trillion data points daily, housing over 10 PBs of data that could be swiftly accessed and analyzed.Key Achievement:Instrumental in refining factory efficiencies and operations, resulting in a cumulative saving of over $200M for Western Digital over 5 years.

Portland, Oregon, Us

- Working with peers on the Governing Body representing the largest organizations in the region and contributing to the development of an influential community of Chief Data Officers and Senior Analytics Executives.- Supporting regional Fortune 1000 CDOs, top government and academic CDOs to ensure that content and best-practice vendor sponsors are relevant and structured to deliver maximum value.

La Jolla, Ca, Us

- Playing a key role in the development of a program focused on data management and Big Data.- Making recommendations aimed at assuring that the program addressed employment and educational needs of business, industry, labor and the profession and serve as an advocate of the program.

Founded BigDataCentric to cultivate a community of Big Data enthusiasts.Key Achievements:- Initiated monthly meet-ups at two locations: #SDBigData in San Diego, CA and #OCBigData in Irvine, CA.- Expanded community to 2,500 members with a consistent monthly turnout of 70 participants.- Successfully organized over 50 sponsored meet-ups in collaboration with industry leaders including Western Digital, Cisco, Cloudera, Hortonworks, MapR, Pivotal, DataTorrent, Splunk, Paxata, and IBM.

Irvine, California, Us

- Co-founded the Big Data Intelligence Practice and worked with vendors to develop collaborative GTM solutions.- Defined Big Data business use cases, collaborated with IT and business Executives and created business cases for Big Data implementations and helped vendors to achieve partner certification.- Mentored Big Data Architects and Engineers and created an education roadmap.- Led Proof of Concept (PoC) and Proof of Value (PoV) initiatives to prove out the proposed solutions.- Developed a Big Data technologies roadmap for future use cases and for the adoption of new products and features.- Created and delivered education material to enable customers, partners, vendors and Trace3 Engineers/Architects to understand and utilize Big Data technologies and conducted public Big Data workshops.- Promoted Big Data technologies and the capabilities of Trace3 by building community in the Big Data ecosystem.

Irvine, California, Us

- Managed all engineering requirements associated with the New Technology Integration (NTI) Practice.- Directed the launch of the Trace3 NTI Innovation Lab, acquired hands-on experience and vetted NTI technologies.- Developed and presented educational material to empower customers, partners and Trace3 Engineers/Architects to understand and use NTI technologies.

San Marcos, Ca, Us

Taught a class on the Big Data Ecosystem with a focus on Hadoop technology and components.

York, Gb

- Oversaw the restructuring of the video metadata ingestion platform and played a key role in initiatives to enhance the software delivery lifecycle.- Led a competent team to engage with customers in order to develop an understanding of their requirements.

Boston, Ma, Us

Directed the implementation and operations of data infrastructure (SAN/NAS) and led a technical support team.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

- Held responsibility to manage the Linux engineering and data infrastructure requirements for four data centers at diverse global locations.- Oversaw more than 2000 physical servers and over 20 PBs of storage.

Albany, Ny, Us

- Managed a team of System Administrators in a call center environment.- Oversaw the provision of phone-based support for servers running SCO OpenServer 5, RedHat Enterprise Linux and provided end user support for client desktops and networks.- Oversaw post-sale implementation and delivered training for customers in the US.- Prepared for software integration by vetting and testing new hardware.

- Directed development, operations and support of CMS called "adminIT" that supported 50+ customers website management and ecommerce needs.- Oversaw architecting, implementation and 24x7 operation and support of the KIAHost Web Hosting platform serving 1000+ customers world-wide- Managed a team of 5+ developers and administrators

Spokane Valley, Wa, Us

Formerly Trans World Entertainment Corporation and FYE