Hugh Edward Hockett

 

1198 Joslyn Ridge Ct, Apex, NC 27502; (919) 389-1968; hhockett@gmail.com

 

 


Summary:   Highly motivated software architect specializing in innovative cloud, networking, and automation solutions.

 

Professional Work Experience:

 

IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC                                                                                                    

IBM Cloud Pak System - Senior Technical Staff Member and Master Inventor                                       2019 to Present

·       Lead software architect for IBM Cloud Pak System, an on-prem hybrid cloud solution for VMs and containers.

·       Drive software development of 10+ engineering squads focused on features including hybrid cloud integration, high availability, disaster recovery, multi-system management, install, upgrade, security, RAS, DevOps, QA and more.

·       Developed a first-class experience for deploying multiple OpenShift clusters and containerized software by integrating Ansible, DHCP, DNS, NFS, HAProxy, Keepalived and a Docker registry as supporting services.

·       Serve as a lab advocate for multiple Fortune 500 clients providing architectural guidance and support.

IBM Cloud Automation Manager – Senior Software Engineer                                                                2016 to 2019

·       Lead a team of 30+ developers to release the GA version of a hybrid cloud management platform that accelerates application and multi-cloud infrastructure deployment using infrastructure as code with an optimized user interface.

·       Designed and developed a highly scalable SaaS offering on IBM Cloud based on Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, Angular, Node.js, LoopBack, MongoDB and more, and then adapted it to an on-prem Kubernetes offering. 

IBM PureApplication System – Senior Software Engineer                                                                      2010 to 2016

·       Software architect and development lead for the expert integrated cloud appliance for application orchestration.

·       Served as a release architect for a team of 200+ engineers ensuring we shipped high quality and on time releases. 

·       Designed a multi-site disaster recovery solution for multiple IBM PureApplication Systems that uses database replication and global mirroring of storage volumes across datacenters. 

·       Developed a patented multi-system high availability cloud solution that uses a clustered file system (GPFS) and workload patterns that can be intelligently deployed across multiple systems. Received an IBM Corporate Award.

IBM Enterprise Networking Solutions for System z – Advisory Software Engineer                                        2003 to 2010

·       Served as a Chief Programmer for z/OS Communications Server, an enterprise TCP/IP networking stack.

·       Architected, developed, and tested several TCP/IP related features and performance optimizations including TCP offload, L3 VMAC, SNMP, Network Traffic Analyzer, and the Communication Controller for Linux.

·       Owned a 700,000 LOC network simulator that enables developers to test without hardware dependencies.

·       Participated on two Enterprise System Architecture Boards focusing on future z/Series strategies and technology. 

Patents & More

·       Named an IBM Master Inventor for contributions to IBM’s intellectual property and promoting innovation. 

·       Granted 57 US patents to date with 14 applications pending and 28 defensive publications.

·       Serve on the IBM Software Group networking patent board helping review networking related patent applications.

·       Presented at numerous conferences: Think, InterConnect, IBM Research, IBM Technical Leadership, SHARE…

·       Awards: IBM corporate, multiple outstanding technical achievements, client relationships, RockIT, Bravo…

 

Pre-Professional Work Experience:

 

Microsoft, Redmond, WA                                                                                                            Summer 2002

Program Manager Intern – Architected new networking features for Server Appliance Kit for Windows

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC                                                                                                  Summer 2001

Software Engineer Intern – System tested z/OS Communications Server (TCP/IP Networking)

 

nanoCom Corporation, Blacksburg, VA                                                                                        Summer 2000      

Developer – Wrote multipoint video conferencing software

 

NASA Langley SHARP Program, Hampton, VA                                                                            Summer 1999 

Developer – Created interactive educational websites using Perl CGI scripts that connect to a MySQL database

 

Education:

 

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA                                                                                                        Spring 2003           

B.S. Computer Engineering with Computer Science Minor; Bradley Scholar - Full scholarship senior year                

Overall GPA: 3.85; In Major GPA: 3.96; In Minor GPA: 4.00; summa cum laude

                       



Programming Languages & Platforms: C/C++, Go, Node.js, Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, Angular, Swift, Java, Groovy, PL/X, REXX, assembler, VB, PBasic, Perl, ASP, Pascal; Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker, Helm, MongoDB, Istio, Informix, DB2, MySQL, Git, Jenkins, Travis, ZenHub, Trello, Agile, Mural, Salesforce, AWS, GCP, Azure (AZ-900 certified), IBM Cloud

 

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