Steven Richman Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

• Experienced Engineering Manager of AI and Analytic engineers delivering optimized solutions and benchmark proof points; along with a distributed lab team responsible for end-to-end server environment ownership.• Passionate about leading others, developing innovative solutions, and delivering results through service with an emphasis on trust, empathy, and inclusion.• Guided team to develop and deliver the first of a kind Industry End-to-End AI benchmark (TPCx-AI via TPC.org). Led the team to deliver world-record published results with our major OEM partners.• Proficient project management skills by leading projects across multiple teams and multiple geographies.• Empowered team members through problem solving by growing and leveraging their network.• Motivating team members by conducting regular 1:1s and ensuring understanding of their work aligning to organizational objectives and key results.• Managed the department multimillion-dollar capital & expense budget by leveraging my business acumen, awareness of the roadmaps, and knowledge of finance processes.• Increased management responsibilities from lab and DevOps engineering to encompass AI and Analytic Engineers developing solutions and benchmarking.• Improved my team’s employee experience survey overall score by 32%, the employee engagement score by 52%, and the employee culture score by 43% (from 2019-2023).• Leading and growing technical AI and Analytic engineers to become Tech Leads toward Principal Engineers.• Creatively solved budget constraint problems by delaying purchases, using loaner equipment in lieu of purchasing, and reducing budgets by 50% to better align with schedules.

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

• Maintained technical breadth and depth to provide guidance to team members and stakeholders that led to streamlining the lab by supervising the development of tools and automation of processes; ultimately reducing cost.• Managed Capital and Expense planning and purchasing for a department budget. Also led the team to monitor and reduce AWS spending by 75% ($300K) by implementing monitoring and best practices.• Developed automation and standard optimized configurations for AI, Analytics, and HPC use cases supported across 4 labs and consolidated to 2 labs. Making the team more efficient and reducing resources by 50%.• Managed through attrition and many org changes. Providing E2E solutions while improving the fungible use of resources through DevOps automation.

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

• HPC batch product manager and team lead – Increased compute pool efficiencies that gained thousands of additional job slots. Led the team to develop and deploy solutions (jobtrack) that improved core utilization.• Saved >$4M locally and >$8M globally by leading the global initiative to reduce unavailable cores down to 5%.• Improved globally deployed disk clean-up policies that significantly improved job success rates.• Developed a very tight collaborative relationship with the central Netbatch development team (Israel).

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

• IT-EC global OEM vendor manager and escalation owner – drove global resolution with vendor escalations, provided product improvement feedback, increased efficiencies through consistent processes, and improved safety.• HW Global Operations Team Lead – root caused, developed, and Project Managed incident resolution. Operationally evaluated server hardware with the Data Center Engineering Technical Workgroup.• IT-EC Representative for the global compute solution technical workgroup – architected and developed the HW-SUM (Scan and Update Module) tool that automated the patching process on 10s of thousands of servers globally.• OS Provisioning owner and architect – Product owner and architect of OS provisioning that centralized the DB and WebUI. Improved efficiency with a hybrid model, requiring fewer admins and infrastructure resources per site.

Hillsboro, Oregon, United States

- Managed the RHEL to SLES Migration for multiple sites (15K Linux clients).- Owned OS provisioning for the site and innovated a solution that doubled the concurrent build capacity.- Led EC new hardware qualifications that determined 100s-1000s of servers that would be purchased for the compute environment.- Server OEM vendor escalations owner where I engaged directly with OEM account managers and engineers to drive issues to resolution for our datacenters globally.- Quickly promoted to the supervisor role and led many projects.- Managed schedules, Hired and supervised intern program, and Linux Client Team Liaison.- Participated as a senior member of the Coding team developing automation and tools to improve CSC support using PERL and shell scripting.- Co-developed a laptop reservation and checkout tool to manage the schedule and automated building of the loaner laptop pool running Windows.