Mobile tablet developer on Pathway, a dynamic and dependable eCOA platform, which is a single device providing clinical, cognitive, and functional assessments across the CNS therapeutic landscape. Pathway can be configured with VeraSci’s novel assessments, including BAC and VRFCAT along with licensed gold standard scales and measures to support global clinical trials.

IBM sold its xSeries server product line and development teams to Lenovo. As such, my entire group continued existing projects initially and have since then developed system management software.+ Currently, technical team lead for the Lenovo xClarity Mobile app, an Android / iOS app used to monitor, manage and configure data center equipment. The app is a Cordova / Phonegap hybrid based on Angular 4 / Ionic 3 and was recently ported from the original AngularJS / Ionic 1 version. Designed, coded and tested substantial portions of the app, and ran a team of 10 Romanian and Brazilian developers over the past 3 years+ Prior to the mobile project, developed DOJO/Javascript client web support on the new Lenovo xClarity Administrator systems management software. This JAVA virtual appliance application can monitor and configure thousands of rack servers, Flex chassis and their associated blade servers and switches. The work consisted of user interface client-side items, such as: - JSON / REST interfaces from the JAVA server to the client DOJO 1.10 client - A menu bar status providing at-a glance summaries of alerts and jobs. - DOJO internationalization language support - Filter logic allowing users to exclude events and alerts from the UI display + Team lead for the Flex chassis management module user interface group with design and development responsibilities for web, CLI and SNMP features. Responsible for a team of six US developers, five Romanian developers and a team of 6 Brazilians.+ Worked extensively with legal, project management and transition teams to integrate the IBM product lines into the Lenovo environment. Several key activities related to the management module included: - Re-branding to update the UIs to Lenovo icons, colors and look-and-feel. - Code changes to support IBM and Lenovo hardware coexisting in the chassis.

IBM ended up buying Blade Network Technologies when the company went public in late 2010.The entire management module group was integrated back into the xSeries server division at IBM. where we continued existing projects related to the Flex chassis management module.+ Developed an interactive front/rear chassis web graphic providing color-coded status and context-specific configuration and monitoring capabilities. The graphic was dynamically built from image data read from devices installed in the chassis to provide accurate hardware renderings.+ Participated in a co-development joint venture with Hitachi to create the next-generation management module card that could be shared in the IBM and Hitachi blade server chassis. Provided code development, testing and education services.+ Customized the management module firmware to support two chassis offerings along with the Flex chassis. One project involved the development of the Flex Carrier-Grade hardened chassis for the telco industry with telco alarm manager (TAM) capabilities and the other was an OEM offering working with Tracewell Systems to implement a military-spec hardened chassis.+ Led an effort to migrate the entire client-side web logic from a DOJO 1.7 level to the DOJO 1.10 Asynchronous Module Definition (AMD) architecture.

IBM sold the Bladecenter management module (AMM) group to BNT (Blade Network Technologies), a producer of chassis and rack switches. The entire management module group continued work on Bladecenter AMM and also new projects for BNT under the newly formed subsidiary Data Center Technologies.+ Began development of the next-generation management module (CMM) for the IBM Flex chassis, which was the follow-on product to the IBM BladeCenter chassis. This involved porting the entire management module firmware code base to a new hardware platform and refining the code to manage an entirely new chassis architecture.+ Re-designed the management module web support from a simple Javascript/HTML client-side implementation to a DOJO 1.7 framework with a REST/JSON-based server interface. Also, transitioned from an Apache web server implementation to a more nimble Lighttpd server.+ Provided UI support for a scalable blade complex which allowed up to four blade servers to be configured to act as a single compute resource. The function allowed defining complexes, configuring partitions, managing power state and retrieving inventory data.+ Acted as main IBM/DCT representative for development and support of the IBM zSeries BladeCenter extension. This offering integrated two BladeCenter chassis into the mainframe hardware rack to act as an offload service utilizing high-power Intel and Power7 server blades.

IBM xSeries Server Development+ Senior embedded firmware developer for the Advanced Management Module (AMM) team with years of experience in all aspects of the product, including hardware, system services, networking and user interface. Technical team lead responsible for code, design and test of complex line items, along with managing developers in RTP, Austin, IBM Israel and IBM China.+ Team lead for the AMM user interface group, responsible for all aspects of web, CLI and SNMP development. Ran extensive projects to migrate AMM UIs from a Nucleus RTOS to a SUSE Linux OS, with adoption of open source Apache/PHP and netSNMP solutions.+ Team lead for AMM infrastructure and security group, responsible for Linux OS, platform security and overall system services architecture. Oversaw efforts to improve system performance, memory footprint reduction and hardware redundancy. + Implemented server management firmware for the Hardware Platform Interface (HPI) and the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) architectures, running OpenHPI and IPMI on a PowerPC 440 / Linux system+ Implemented a new architecture and API set to be used by internal management components, consisting of a topology database to model the installed chassis devices with their inventory, firmware, environmental and networking information.

IBM Systems & Technology Group+ Developed embedded processor performance libraries in PowerPC 405/440 RISC assembly language for use in a Monta Vista Linux environment.

IBM Microelectronics Division+ Team lead responsible for architecture and implementation of network processor reference platform control plane embedded software. VxWorks based system running on PowerPC 750 SBS K2 card and multiple distributed PowerPC 405s.+ Extensive porting experience with third party networking stacks, including WindRiver Systems TMS, Nortel Networks OpenIP and IBM Research portable SNMP agent.+ Added dynamic ARP support on a distributed control point, running on multiple PowerPC 750 and 405 processors.+ Designed, coded and tested a gigabit Ethernet and PCI device driver, allowing two alternatives for network processor to control point processor communication.+ Defined and implemented a control plane architecture and distributed NP client-server configuration methodology for a low-end NP based controller. VxWorks based system running on a dual PowerPC 440GP subsystem, intended for DSL and wireless markets.

IBM Networking Hardware Division+ Lead developer responsible for all aspects of network management, including implementation and support of the SNMP agent, MIB definition and instrumentation, user documentation and field support.+ Key member of design team which created an OO/C++ based design for implementing a wide variety of LAN/WAN/Voice MIB coverage and trap generation+ Conceived and coded a POSIX multi-threaded subsystem which provides SNMP agent capability, MIB instrumentation and trap support.+ Coded and incorporated over 10,000 lines of SNMP code designed to run on two systems; PowerPC 603/604 with IBM OS/Open RTOS and 68040 with Proteon MOS.+ Created a dynamic re-configuration design to support network management in a hardware hot-plug environment.

IBM Communications Products Division+ Primarily responsible for the implementation and integration of the LU6.2/APPN protocol support into the 3174 communications controller.+ Enhanced a 3270 data-stream screen painting algorithm to remove a jittery presentation inherent when operating over low speed links.+ Re-designed a link level buffer management scheme that reduced parallel channel code by 40% and provided a significant throughput enhancement.