Joseph Joe Swingler

About Joseph Joe Swingler

Chief architect of the IBM TS7700 for system z, a best of breed enterprise business continuance data storage solution for zSystems. I\'m also the founder of the industry-changing Grid Architecture which is a cloud-based architecture that differentiates the technology from other competitors in the market. Overall, I\'m a highly technical architect with a strong ability to interface with customers, help close sales deals and provide enterprise solutions architecture.

Experience

1. Chief Product Architect - Storage - Stsm - Master Inventor

   IBM

   Jan 2009 — Present

   Leading 14 teams spanning three global development sites within the U.S, Japan, and Mexico to architect and implement TS7700, a system z enterprise storage cloud solution that ensures the highest level of business continuance. • Leading product integration with on premise and off premise object based storage technology through OpenStack Swift, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Glacier and similar.• Primary customer-facing contact providing the technical depth required to close numerous global multi-million dollar deals. Assisted with over 80 Fortune 500 customers including top world banks, financial institutions, healthcare organizations and retail. Tailored numerous customer configurations to maximize customer investment and provide distinct differentiation from competition. • Owner of product roadmap, futures, strategy, product requirements, design specifications and contributor to many published documents through customer, marketing and sales collaboration.• Present product content at conferences world-wide such as IBM Edge, SHARE and IBM zSeries Business Leaders Council (zBLC). Subject matter expert for dozens of executive briefings.• Built a customer focused team through ongoing education for development, test, manufacturing, support, pre-sales, sales, business partners, vendors and product marketing.

Education

• Arizona State University

  Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Electrical Engineering

  1999

Skills

• Storage Management
• Team Leadership
• Written Communication
• IT Strategy
• High Availability
• Software Development
• Aix
• Integration
• Enterprise Storage Architecture
• Storage Architecture
• Product Specification
• Storage Virtualization
• Systems Management
• Replication
• Business Development
• Strategy
• Ibm Aix
• Server Architecture
• Strategic Leadership
• Functional Specifications
• Customer Facing Roles
• Virtualization
• Cloud Computing
• Enterprise Architecture
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Servers
• Storage
• Enterprise Storage
• Cluster
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Solution Architecture
• Pre-Sales
• Technology Roadmapping
• Technical Architecture
• Strategic Roadmaps
• Data Center
• Fibre Channel
• Disaster Recovery
• Data Migration
• Sql