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Austin, Texas Area

Senior Technical Project / Program Manager with extensive computer hardware and server development. Adept at working with customers to establish product requirements and manage development, manufacturing and test teams to develop and take products into production.

Austin, Texas Area

Managed remanufacturing and delivery of refurbished Applied Materials 200mm Producer and Centura semiconductor manufacturing tools making sure customer requirements and production goals were met.• Simultaneously managed build delivery of multiple tools ensuring high quality and on time delivery.

Austin, Texas Area

Developed and delivered complex server and storage enterprise solutions. Provided management and guidance to a global cross functional team including development, test, and manufacturing. Responsible for development execution, product deliverables, SOW, budgets, and schedules. Provided a single point contact for the customer. Managed alignment of customer business goals and requirements with Jabil technology and fostered relationships. ● Won development opportunity and delivered custom Power 8 OpenPOWER storage rich server. ● Delivered 1st pass custom servers in 7 months as required by the customer. Generated $16M in revenue.

Austin, Texas Area

Managed a team of developers to integrate, test, and enable network switches, network software, and Flash storage products obtained through acquisitions on IBM Power Servers. Defined processes and managed work to productize, test, and release the products to manufacturing. ● Managed test and release to manufacturing of 3 new Ethernet / Fibre channel switches on Power. Collaborated with acquired team to define processes to integrate new products. ● Achieved target schedules and acquisition revenue targets. ● Established software support and system test plans to enable the release to manufacturing of first PCIe Flash product on Power servers.

Austin, Texas Area

Led a global team of over 100 (3 US locations, a Japanese partner, Hitachi, and vendors in multiple countries) to develop and deliver the Power p775 super computer which delivered revolutionary compute density and scalability. Managed definition, development, bring-up, test, and manufacturing start up. Joined with firmware and system software teams to develop support plans. Customers included DARPA, government agencies, and weather forecasting entities in the UK and European Community. ● Rescued a troubled program and improved execution and communication achieving power on target. Worked with stakeholders to reset schedules and budgets and establish credible plans. ● Managed hardware and development expense exceeding $400M ● Negotiated Hitachi SOW valued over $20M. Collaborated to set base line IBM / Hitachi plans, schedules, and budget. Managed joint HW development, bring up, test, and manufacturing start up. ● Enabled early manufacturing ramp to supply verification hardware and smooth production start up. ● Accelerate system delivery by 6 months by coordinating hardware and software development to simultaneously. ● Planned and managed 8 staged hardware, firmware, and system software releases over a 1 year period. ● Achieved revenue targets by providing extensive customer support to meet acceptance criteria

Austin, Texas Area

Managed development and introduction of updates to 2 low end Power servers that included incorporating the Power 6+ processor, additional memory and new networking features. Managed IBM and joint IBM / Hitachi HW development, test, and the release to manufacturing of these high volume products (more than 30K units per year). ● Enabled 6 month acceleration of the first follow on P7 Processor based product by incorporating and testing P7 changes along with P6 updates.

Austin, Texas Area

Led development of a series super computers based on IBM P2SC, Power 4, Power 5, and Power 6 processors. Managed overall New Product Introduction including card design, mechanical design, power design, system and compliance test, and manufacturing ramp. Systems targeted for scientific simulation and weather forecasting. ● Directed extended teams of 70+ contributors ● Negotiated development work split, costs, and SOW with partner Hitachi valued at $10M for Power 6 system. ● Collaborated with Hitachi and achieved 1st pass success for Power 6 system planar. ● Managed overall program expenses. The Power 6 program expense exceeded $31M. ● Reduced Power 4 development cost and time to market to 12 months by leveraging existing Power 4 server designs and HW. ● Developed unique power and packaging to achieve density requirements for Power 5 system. ● Implemented water cooling technology improving system cooling on Power 6 system. ● Introduced new test processes for early hardware that improved development HW availability and smoothed Power 6 system manufacturing production ramp. ● Delivered first Power 5 system to Lawrence Livermore Labs as planned. Overcame difficulties and delays brought on by simultaneous Power 5 server and super computer bring up. ● Power 6 Product released to manufacturing as planned (over 1300 compute Nodes delivered in 2008)

Austin

Manager and Program Manager for joint development of the Fireball server with Group Bull. Fireball was was a low end 4 way SMP system based onthe Power 601 Processor.

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Activities and Societies: Kappa Sigma Fraternity, MIT Rowing

Msee, Electrical Engineering