Defining AI and analytics stacks and solutions.

Developing cognitive solutions including big data, machine learning / deep learning, unstructured data analytics, text analytics.

Solution engineering for primarily cognitive and big data and analytics solutions. Passionate about providing "data developers" with new capabilities.

Responsible for working with the IBM Systems & Technology Group (STG) leadership and strategy teams — including brand chief technology officers, senior architects and product line managers — to ensure hardware roadmaps are optimized for IBM solution plays. Assessing and augmenting the roadmaps of these STG assets to optimize across key attributes such as performance, scalability, consumability, lifecycle management, availability, integration and interoperability is imperative in my current… Show more Responsible for working with the IBM Systems & Technology Group (STG) leadership and strategy teams — including brand chief technology officers, senior architects and product line managers — to ensure hardware roadmaps are optimized for IBM solution plays. Assessing and augmenting the roadmaps of these STG assets to optimize across key attributes such as performance, scalability, consumability, lifecycle management, availability, integration and interoperability is imperative in my current role. Additional responsibilities include working across IBM to define and deliver on a strategy that provides a core set of integrated system platforms that can be leveraged to develop multiple integrated solutions for our clients that can satisfy the needs of a broad range of workloads, including analytics, big data and cloud.As an executive, leading chief engineers on the Power Systems development team in the definition and hardware configuration of integrated solutions is a big part of my job. Perhaps the best part of my current role at IBM is engaging with clients. Understanding the needs of existing clients and helping them leverage emerging technologies — as well as working with prospects to help make them successful — while driving revenue for IBM through the implementation of leadership offerings, is extremely rewarding. Show less

Responsibilities included leading efforts in workload optimization for IBM Power Systems and leading the pre-concept work for IBM POWER7 and next-generation processors. Drove architecture and design of the IBM Smart Analytics System, a family of workload-optimized systems that deliver improved operational characteristics, and are optimized for the full hardware-software stack — delivering leadership enterprise data warehouse capability.

Led the Systems Technology Outlook effort. Created technology, industry and client predictions to guide systems development. Participated in Technical Team studies, Academy Studies and contributed to the IBM Research Global Technology Outlook, which helped me understand technology issues and their implications to our competitive posture, as well as opportunities for differentiation. Interacted with IBM global business technical sales leaders to comprehend issues unique to different geographies.… Show more Led the Systems Technology Outlook effort. Created technology, industry and client predictions to guide systems development. Participated in Technical Team studies, Academy Studies and contributed to the IBM Research Global Technology Outlook, which helped me understand technology issues and their implications to our competitive posture, as well as opportunities for differentiation. Interacted with IBM global business technical sales leaders to comprehend issues unique to different geographies. Led an update with the worldwide competitive sales team to give them insights on industry and geography concerns. Show less

Led IBM Competitive Analysis Technical Team. Projected technology, systems designs and performance for the server industry.

Led system performance team for IBM Power Systems hardware design. Performed technical tradeoffs and optimization to define system architecture.

Was system performance lead for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Defined new systematic applications approach to system performance design analysis; developed a reusable set of kernels for performance design, led key tradeoff decisions to optimize the designs (e.g. space and power savings).

Tuned applications for increased performance on IBM mainframe vector unit. Drove application requirements to operating system (MVS & VM) and to hardware. Led innovation around memory management and I/O performance.

Provided technical leadership for reliability and functional qualification.

Qualified memory and CMOS ASIC technology.