Erwin was managing consultant in IBMs Lab-Based Services organization responsible for the implementation of cloud-based solutions leveraging IBM’s PowerVC solution as well as Dev/Ops solutions centered around Chef and Docker. Also play a key role in the propagation of open source technologies in IBMs Power community. These responsibilities require significant face-to-face communication with the customer community and excellent communication skills is critical to job success. This role has required a level of expertise in a variety of technologies including virtualization, storage, networking, and operating systems including AIX, IBM I, and several distributions of Linux including RedHat, SuSE and Ubuntu. Additionally, in-depth skills with multiple hypervisors including PowerVM and KVM has been critical to job success.
As an Open Source advocate for IBM I have also been instrumental in the leveraging of technologies such as Linux, and PHP on the IBM I platform
Previously assigned as the test team lead for the enablement of Linux on the IBM Power systems. Responsibilities included managing a team of four technical resources, development of automated test scripts, definition of test cases, monitoring of test progress, reporting of test progress and results. This role required interfacing both with internal management as well as external distribution partners.
Erwin is now Senior Solutions Consultant for Rogue Wave Software and is having a great time in this new endeavor!
