Power Systems Performance, Automation Lead
CurrentLeading a team of 6 individuals around the globe with varying levels of seniority to drive multiple productivity transformation initiatives across the organization - Developing an Ansible framework that standardizes the process of configuring servers, installing virtual machines, deploying workloads and collecting data to evolve performance testing practices - Developed a Slack bot that enables users to easily and conveniently configure, boot and probe servers from Slack with consistency, which has helped mitigate weeks’ worth of erroneous activities - Communicate with executives and managers weekly to articulate goals, build plans and share progressSpearheaded groundbreaking innovations related to processes and tools that enabled the organization to successfully deliver Power10 business commitments on schedule for general availability - Reduced system downtime from days to minutes by screening all defects encountered on the performance organization's servers and being the sole point of contact with over half a dozen development teams (e.g., processor validation, memory, hypervisor, firmware, etc.) to fix functional and performance issues - Self-initiated a “one-liner command” automation project that transformed error-prone documentations and procedures into thousands of lines of robust easy-to-use Bash scriptsParticipated on the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) OSG Java committee as IBM’s technical representativeDelivered runtime performance improvements to various software products on IBM Power Systems that significantly influenced business success - Directly contributed to the success of multi-million dollar deals by demonstrating Java performance leadership on Power through customer proof-of-concepts - Collaborated with multiple IBM software product teams to deliver double digit percentage performance improvements on Power through code changes and tunings at the application, runtime and OS levels
