Joe Loas

About Joe Loas

Proven leader with a broad and strategic skill set encompassing enterprise leadership, SRE, DevOps, storage, databases, compute, cloud architecture, and observability. Adept at steering global initiatives, shaping financial strategies, and cultivating high-value client partnerships to drive organizational growth and operational excellence- Currently manage the File and Block SRE and Operations team in the US and Europe for IBM Cloud- Managed the Observability and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment team for IBM Cloud Object Storage- Past responsibilities include strategic international project responsible for 2x revenue growth in 2019 for business unit and over 1 exabyte of storage deployed- Received IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award in January 2020- Director of Operations for Cleversafe until acquisition by IBM in 2015.SKILLS: Leadership Observability Strategic Planning Site Reliability Engineering Business Development and Sales Data Science Machine Learning Cloud Capacity Planning Cloud Deployment Complex Contract Negotiations Operations Management Mergers & Acquisitions Project Management

Experience

1. Program Director, File and Block Storage Operations and Sre, Ibm Cloud

   IBM

   Sep 2024 — Present · Chicago, IL, US

   Manage the File and Block storage Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Operations team in the US and Europe for IBM Cloud. Responsible for 24/7 support for our File and Block storage offerings. Own capacity management for all storage in the IBM Cloud (File, Block and Object) which includes forecasting through to installation. Have responsibility for security and compliance for file and block storage which includes vulnerabilities and audits.

Education

• Kellstadt Graduate School of Business, DePaul University

  Master, Business Administration; Finance

  2004 — 2006

• Bowling Green State University

  B.S.B.A, Business Administration; Production & Operations Management; Purchasing & Supply Chain Management

  1997 — 2001

• Project Management Institute

  PMP, Project Management Professional Certification, Project Management Professional

  2009 — 2009

Skills

• Integration
• Supply Chain
• Business Process
• Business Transformation
• Leadership
• Manufacturing
• Business Strategy
• Business Process Improvement
• Six Sigma
• Forecasting
• Process Improvement
• Logistics
• Supply Chain Management
• Project Management
• Management
• Procurement
• Team Leadership
• Erp
• Analysis
• Vendor Management