Financial Application Platform ResearchBuilding an environment for researching new financial applications for the bank and our clients.Clean room environment complete with reference data feeds (securities, prices, FX), portfolio simulation (trade generation), multi-persona UI from client roles to internal operation teams and continuous regression environment.Leveraging technologies like React, Scala, GraphQL, Kubernetes, Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana, Postgres and more.Small team environment from User Research, Design, Front-end Development (React/GraphQL/Apollo), Back-end Development (Scala, Postgres, Kafka) and infrastructure (OpenStack VMs, Kubernetes, Helm)

IBM Cloud, Application Runtimes and Frameworks (Node@IBM, Java and Swift@IBM)Building on our work with Swift@IBM, I am now focused across our language runtimes of NodeJS, Java and Swift as well as our supported developer experience on Bluemix. IBM Cloud, Runtimes, Swift@IBMBuilt, organized and led a global team that focused on bringing the Swift language to the server. This included team members from Yorktown Research, Haifa Research, Emerging Tech, Runtimes along with our team spun out of the mobile innovation lab. This team has focused on building an open source ecosystem at https://github.com/ibm-swift which includes over 100 open source repositories from the Kitura web framework to support libraries to samples and more. We also enabled IBM's cloud to support Swift with buildpacks, container support, integration with cloud monitoring/logging and more. Learn more on our de v center at https://developer.ibm.com/swift/IBM Cloud, Mobile Innovation LabStarted efforts in late 2015 to build Watson iOS SDKs and engage with Apple to bring their newly open sourced Swift language to the server.Technical lead for the Mobile Innovation Lab in Austin, Texas. Building mobile application experiences that highlight the disruptive power of Mobile, Cloud and IoT.The Mobile Innovation Lab is staffed with designers, developers and backend services experts whose mission includes building next generation mobile experiences. By leveraging new technologies like indoor navigation, wearables, sensors, engaging cloud services and more, the team serves as headlights to IBM and our customers on the new normal in B2C experiences. As the DE/technical lead, I am involved in project selection, reaching out to IBM's industry experts and customers, driving our technology roadmap and mentoring the team as they develop these solutions.

2014: IBM Bluemix Mobile DataMy research team lead the development of the Mobile Data service available in Bluemix. Transitioning our research prototype to become a SaaS product offering involved embracing design-for-fail, service monitoring and integration with Bluemix runtime services. Our architecture embraces messaging across the backend, as well as out to the clients. All communication, from our Client SDKs (iOS, Android, JS) through the backend services, is asynchronous. (MQ, NodeJS, iOS, Android, Javascript, MongoDB, Cloudant)2013 - PresentMobileFirst Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) *ResearchHelped developed a complete research prototype MBaaS. This MBaaS contained iOS and Android SDKs, mid-tier services as well as operations services. The first services we developed included Mobile Data and Mobile Identity.MobileFirst Research ArchitectProvided guidance across IBM Research and the rest of the company on creating and positioning new services, middleware, and systems in support of MobileFirst applications. 2012: Co-Led IBM Research Global Technology Topic called MobileFirst.We developed a comprehensive technology outlook around Mobile, Cloud, and Analytics that resulted in IBM re-branding its mobile portfolio and kicking off company wide efforts to provide offerings to help companies develop continuous, engaging client experiences that are powered by the cloud in integrated into enterprise backend systems.2009 - 2012: Mobile Systems Monitoring and Management of IBM Servers (http://ibmremote.com)Developed a prototype in 2009 and worked with customers and HCI teams to customize app to meet needs in this space.I released the app on Apple's App Store in March 2011.Team released Android version on Google Play in April 2012.Continuing research and development to expand this support across the IBM portfolio.

Mobile Systems Management2009 - 2011Started effort to use native mobile apps to manage IBM servers. Created IBM Mobile Systems Remote (available in App Store) as a testbed to demonstrate to customers and gather direct customer feedback. Started work communicating with IBM BladeCenter systems and have worked with many parts of IBM to spread this approach to storage, System Z mainframes as well as new systems under development.Full Software Stack Analysis ToolCreated an environment within virtual bringup environment that tracked operating system, middleware, java and application execution events and built a graphical user interface to allow you to find critical sections of any layer of the software stack while running a given workload. Analyzing SpecPower, we fed this data back to development teams to tune software layers for POWER7. User interface was built as a native MacOS tool.2006-2008: POWER7 Simulation DevelopmentLed a company-wide strategy to leverage a single processor simulation model used for:concept design, verification tool development, OS bringup, PHYP, AIX, AS400, pre-silicon test and scalability testing. Jointly developed an interface to connect our simulator (Mambo) to Virtutech's SimICS environment. This configuration was used to bringup the entire System P software stack well before hardware availability. This software simulation effort help bridge the work of many teams across IBM in software, hardware and verification to lead to record system bringup for an IBM POWER system.2004 - 2009 Manager, Led Multiple Simulation EffortsPOWER7 Virtual Bringup Environment (2006-2009)DARPA PERCS System Simulation Environment (2002-2009)Nintendo Wii Chip Simulation(2003-2005)Microsoft XBox-360 Chip Simulation(2003-2005)Playstation 3 Cell Chip Simulation(2001-2005)Created Mambo Simulation Environment (2001)

IBM Server Group, Senior EngineerNovember 1997 - January 2000SimOS-PPC DevelopmentWorked with Stanford team and IBM Research to create a PowerPC extension to Stanford's SimOS project to allow for IBM to boot AIX on the SimOS platform.Code-Reuse Tools DevelopmentDeveloped an AIX kernel extension based on AIX sampling program sprof, to determine the amount of code reuse on a number of customer servers. The development team used this data to determine the effectiveness of a PowerPC binary translation engine.IBM Microelectronics Group, Senior EngineerJuly 1994 - November 1997Simulator DevelopmentI designed and developed extensions to my architectural simulator, PASTA, to help groups analyze potential PowerPC architectural enhancements including VMX (a.k.a. Alti-Vec). This tool was used by Motorola, IBM, and Apple to analyze these enhancements.Execution-based Timing SimulatorTo help a design team analyze a proposed VLIW architecture called PowerPCX; I co-developed an execution-based timing simulator. This model was coded in C++.Compiler AnalystI worked with IBM Haifa to enhance the code generation of the GNU C/C++ compiler targeting PowerPC. This work entailed testing, debugging, and benchmarking new versions of the GNU compiler against all available PowerMac compilers. Additionally, we analyzed the assembly generated by these compilers to document optimization techniques being exploited by the various compilers. We produced a summary of these results and presented them to the major MacOS ISVs.Simulation ArchitectGolden Gate Architectural System Simulation. I designed and lead development of a system simulation model, which was capable of simulating an entire x86 system. We wrote the device models (IDE, VGA, Serial I/O, and Keyboard) and tied them into the simulators. We also modified the BIOS to work on the architectural simulator and the supported devices. We were able to boot DOS completely and OS/2 partially.

AT&T Bell Labs, Architecture Tools DeveloperI worked in the Hobbit Architecture Group as the software specialist. I supported and developed a number of tools used in the development of the Hobbit Architecture. These tools included an architectural simulator, timing simulator, assembler, compilers, internal analysis tools, and test generators. Additionally, I designed and developed tools used to develop a new embedded core design.