- Consulting across Compute, Storage and Network teams on technologies on the horizon and how they can improve our offerings- Primary interface with internal Hardware, Firmware and Datacenter design teams to develop strategies and hardware designs based on Cloud deployment needs and challenges around power and cooling. - Involved hands on and influencing design, provisioning and at scale telemetry of large scale AI systems and taking those learnings into building next wave of improvements for managing and deploying these clusters at scale. - Influencing and collaborating with industry CPU, GPU, memory and IO partners to innovate and bring performance, power and cost optimizations to cloud designs at scale that extends from customer premises and couple of racks to 100s and thousands of hosts for our largest customers. - Closely collaborating with large customers and customer facing teams around Compute offerings and deployments.

Chief Firmware Architect Datacenter Group - Strategy, Design and Customer Relationship role to define and differentiate Lenovo offerings - Key focus on hierarchical and common building block approach to deliver offerings for Enterprise, Cloud and Edge segments. - Execution co-leadership to ensure design to delivery success by identifying focus areas and reviewing the next steps with broader team- Partnership with industry experts and hands on customers to deliver the foundational open sourced solutions ready to use. Key focus on security and telemetry.

Lead Firmware Architect for Lenovo DCG server portfolio - Lead modular design for BMC and UEFI that can meet SMB, Tier 1 Hyperscale Scale out and Enterprise Scale up needs- Key focus on RAS, System Management and Security as Lenovo differentiation - Drive automation around WW firmware engineering team execution- Drive customer centric innovation by working directly with customers, industry workgroups, field technical teams and customer support teams- Frequently present to executive and technical teams internally and externally in customer briefings

-Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) end to end improvements for System x servers in concert with System Centers and Openstack environments. -Memory and memory channel based flash technology (exFlash) enablement leadership -PureFlex systems-Contributions to Power Efficiency designs

-Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) end to end improvements for System x servers in concert with System Centers and Openstack environments. -Memory and memory channel based flash technology (exFlash) enablement leadership -PureFlex systems-Contributions to Power Efficiency designs

-RAS leadership. -Power Management Design for IBM servers-Memory technology enablement leadership Key Area (2011-present)-UEFI Technology roadmap ownership-Memory and RAS initiatives leadership and architecture.-PureFlex systems.(2008 - 2011)-UEFI firmware based scalable servers. Led work by global team across 4 different sites/time zones. Being the initial UEFI scaled server drove new design changes with hardware and system management teams. Helped eliminate boot up differences between scaled and non-scaled servers of past so that common code and features could be easily shared across theportfolio. (2006 - 2008)-IBM EXA chipset based scalable server development.

BIOS technical lead for Intel x86 based servers. Key Areas:2000- 2002 High Volume server development.2002- 2006 Part of IBM Blade Server team. Worked on collaboration Blade projects with other companies and helped with ODM Blade development.

Worked as consultant at IBM in Server Diagnostics department.Key areas-Intel Based Server Diagnostics -Helped IBM Research Memory Compression chip team by providing utilities for initial chip debug.

Key Areas. -PCI-PCI bridge chipset design diagnostic support. for hardware team at DCM Data Systems.-Worked as consultant at IBM in Server Diagnostic group.