In my current role within the Compute, HPC & AI Business Unit (BU) at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), I lead evaluations of emerging technologies and collaborate with technology & business leaders across the company, as well as customers and partners, to evolve our business groups' strategic roadmaps. I do this with mindfulness toward optimizing HPE's return on investment while enhancing our customers' ability to generate insights from ever-increasing amounts of data. As part of the advanced development team, I draw from my technical depth and breadth of knowledge of the server solution stack to lead efforts within product teams that bridge emerging technologies from ideation to proof-of-concept. In those efforts and when frequently called upon to present outcomes and/or recommendations to senior executive leaders in the company, I tailor communications to incorporate necessary business context so that it is clear why a certain direction is (or is not) worth the scoped effort and investment, and where in HPE's product roadmaps a technology could/should be incorporated.My interest and experience in memory-semantic fabrics like Gen-Z and Compute Express Link (CXL) has also led me to represent HPE on the CXL Consortium's Board of Directors since April 2023. In this role, I work along with other member companies on the board to oversee and evolve an important industry standard for the future needs of scalable solutions in the enterprise IT ecosystem. Within HPE, I lead cross-BU efforts to align on HPE's objectives for the CXL standard and its application within our solution portfolio.

In my prior role within the HPC, AI, & Labs Business Unit (BU) at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), I was the chief technologist for the mission-critical data solutions group in the BU, where I directed our technical teams through the development life cycle on complex projects and investigations. I worked closely with our senior leadership to align on both the strategic and tactical initiatives for the business as we delivered elite scalable, in-memory solutions like HPE Superdome Flex and the HPE Compute Scale-up Server 3200 to our customers. These efforts helped hone my ability to present thoughtful recommendations to senior executives that struck an effective balance between the technical merit of an approach and its business & customer value.After moving into this position in HPE's technical career path, I also enjoyed the opportunity to lead a number of advanced development initiatives. I led the definition of a firmware and software boot flow for the prototype that HPE built to demonstrate a new computer architecture paradigm termed Memory Driven Computing. Elements of this paradigm remain active today in industry efforts around memory-semantic fabric protocols, and throughout my time in this role I worked with internal and industry partners to establish a path to enabling high-value use cases that were unreachable without significant performance and/or cost tradeoffs. I was also the project lead for a cloud-based analytics prototype for performance monitoring and optimization of in-memory database application workloads, which was a joint development effort across multiple BUs in HPE. Initiatives such as these continued to provide me the opportunity to learn, to collaborate, to innovate, and to make valued contributions to HPE businesses. These also propelled me into my next role where I became even more involved in advanced development efforts across the BU and HPE as a whole.

Having demonstrated the ability to partner effectively and lead important initiatives that spanned multiple technical teams & disciplines involved in delivering a server product, I was promoted to a master-level technologist position in HP's technical career path in 2010. At that time, the enterprise server business unit set out to incorporate the value of its proprietary ASIC technology into x86 servers that scaled beyond the compute, memory, and I/O capabilities of most servers available in the industry, introducing mission-critical reliability capabilities into the server solution as well. My role involved leading the definition and alignment of platform and code base requirements that affected how various hardware and software subsystems would interface with one another to meet the strategic goals of the entire portfolio. The complexity of this initiative was not just in how to implement the solution, but how to architect it such that it could allow for ease of leverage and reuse of firmware code across the code bases of multiple server products in the HP portfolio. Gaining such efficiency in the development phase of each product generation in this roadmap would improve time-to-market delivery to customers by avoiding duplication of effort when a feature had been developed (or debugged) already in another product.In this role, I valued the opportunity to mentor other technologists on the x86 architecture, which was new to many team members that worked on the initial offering in the HP mission-critical x86 portfolio. I was also able to learn from and collaborate with many of those technical contributors and other leaders to create innovative solutions to challenges faced when designing these products so that the customer and partner experience would not be adversely impacted.

In 2007 I was promoted to an expert-level technologist position within HP's technical career path, and took on a leadership role for a key strategic initiative of the enterprise server division to develop a scalable product roadmap with servers based on the x86 processor architecture. As the BIOS/system firmware team lead, I successfully established schedules and distributed tasks amongst a development team, acting as the focal point for individual project teams while maintaining hands-on firmware development experience and delivering quality embedded software. This role leveraged knowledge I'd gained across the various subsystems in the system firmware domain, but also allowed me to further develop my skills in leadership, communication, and partnering across business units in the company.The initial project I worked on in this phase of my career was jointly developed with our Industry Standard Servers (ISS) business unit and was based on AMD® processors. This was different than my prior firmware development exposure not just in the processor supplier and x86 architecture, but also in that the product's code was built from the ISS code base which was implemented in x86 assembly code as a legacy BIOS solution rather than UEFI. Once again I was learning something new and enjoying it immensely! After a successful introduction of that product, the subsequent offering in this portion of the server portfolio was based on Intel® x86 processors. In this case, instead of being implemented very closely aligned with the scale and architecture of the processor supplier's reference implementation, this system also incorporated a proprietary ASIC designed by HP for more optimal memory scaling performance. Leading the BIOS development team for this project as well, again I was required to partner effectively across teams in the company to ensure the ASIC's architectural interfaces were seamlessly integrated into the x86 firmware solution and the resulting customer experience.

Realizing how much I enjoyed learning the details of specific processor and firmware implementations of memory error handling algorithms, I transitioned from a hardware design engineering role to a firmware (i.e. embedded software) development role within our server organization. This allowed me to get a deeper view into another layer in the server solution stack. There, I was primarily responsible for the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) subset of the overall firmware solution for our entry-level IA-64 server products. The ACPI standard defines interfaces that are used by compatible operating systems to understand and interact with the underlying server hardware.While ACPI was my area of focus in this timeframe, I was able to gain a breadth of understanding of practically every other subsystem of the server while debugging and fixing issues in the firmware code that was written for those subsystems. I also worked closely with our operating system partners (both internal and external) to root cause issues, including using low-level kernel debuggers at times to identify incorrect interpretation of interface data within the operating system code. It was experiences like that which reinforced my interest in learning even more about the different silicon, hardware, firmware, and software layers comprising server solutions in the industry. And that was part of the reason why it was during this period that I began pursuit of my Master of Science degree in Computer Science while continuing to work for HP full-time.

After graduating with my Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Notre Dame, I joined HP in an Electrical Engineering role designing, characterizing, and validating memory subsystem hardware for HP's multi-socket PA-RISC and Intel® Itanium®-based servers. In this role, I delivered key leadership on a small hardware team responsible for design and consultation across the entire product portfolio for the enterprise server business division. I worked closely with internal hardware, software and manufacturing teams as well as external memory suppliers to qualify DRAM components, root cause test failures, and approve supplier test screens. During this period, I developed my interest in the broader architecture of server solutions while researching memory Error Correction Code (ECC) implementations of processors being used in our designs. Using the knowledge gained from that research, I developed web-based tools with HTML and Perl scripts that allowed HP users to input server error logs and obtain a report that decoded those logs to identify the specific memory cell(s) within any DRAM component(s) that experienced a bit error within the system. This was widely used across the server organization and HP manufacturing teams to isolate memory failures to specific DRAM components and accelerate the Root Cause Analysis (RCA) process with HP's DRAM suppliers.