Steven Richman Email & Phone Number

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.

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.

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.