Monday June 21, 2004

What do I do? I work in High End Operations Engineering, inside our world wide operations organisation. I manage a team of SW Engineers who develop factory automation software to test our products globally. I am responsible for everything from F25K -> E4900, and the testing of the uniboard for all platoforms that support it. Working with Big Iron is fascinating, it presents many interesting challenges as these products are so phenomenal, powerful and also very complex. Our goal in the factory is to ensure our customers receive the best quality product they can, when they wan it. Our test environment relies primarily on Java Servlets to execute and schedule tasks, and then uses perl and tcl/tk to interact with our products, execute code and check results.
In reality what we do is manage a Data Center, but unlike traditional Data Centers in which the hardware remains constant or perhaps grows over time, ours is constantly changing, we have hardware coming in and then going out all the time. It is an incredibly dynamic environment.
We work very closely with many different aspects of the company and of course we use Sun products to test Sun products. We are a showcase for what you can do with Sun Technology in a manufacturing environment.
Anyway, that's what I do. (2004-06-21 12:07:07.0) Permalink Comments [1]