Jeff White
AI Factory and AI Edge Product Lead
at Dell Technologies
Experienced technology executive with proven record of accomplishment
Profile
About
Jeff is an experienced technology executive with proven record of accomplishment. He has successfully designed and commercialized new technologies, services and business models. He has experience in modern artificial intelligence, cloud native, communications and information technologies and has developed technology strategies to successfully build new capabilities that address emerging ecosystems. He has an adaptive approach to leadership challenges, focused on building value at an accelerating level. Jeff is an active support of community serving as past Chairman of North Texas regional technology council Board and IEEE Senior Member.

Jeff has held senior roles at early-stage artificial intelligence/machine reasoning-based robotic process automation technology providers and served as CTO of Elefante Group, a stratospheric wireless communications platform. He also held senior positions at Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent where he led technology initiatives, solutions development, business development and services delivery. Prior, Jeff worked at Cingular Wireless and BellSouth in technology and operations roles.
Skills
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Edge Compute
Edge Compute
Telecommunications
Telecommunications
Software Architecture
Modern Software Architecture
Experience
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AI Factory and Edge Product Development Lead
Dell Technologies ○ Aug 2024 - Present

Responsible for Dell AI Factory and Edge AI product strategy, technical direction, product requirements and development. Support major business development initiatives. Determine financial business case for AI Factory. Interface with key partners Nvidia, AMD, Intel, Foundation Model developers and AI software ecosystem. Serve as Product Owner for AI Factory in our agile development process.

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AI Factory and Edge Product Development Lead
Digital Twin Consortium ○ Aug 2024 - Present

Member of the Digital Twin Consortium Steering Committee Board representing Dell Technologies.

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Chief Technology Officer - Edge Product & Operations
Dell Technologies ○ 2022 - Aug 2024

Chief Technology Officer for Edge at Dell Technologies ISG CTO organization. Focus on Edge platform design and application of Edge technology to current enterprise use cases and emerging use cases of generative AI, simulation(XR/VR) and autonomous system control. Structured Edge partner design program, Edge patent committee co-chair, member of AI/ML Architecture Review Board. Technical focus areas in Distributed Systems Design using Model Driven Agent-Based control, Edge Orchestration, Edge Infrastructure Control, Scheduling Algorithm design, AI Discriminative/Generative ensemble and multimodal approaches for AI/ML control, AI/ML workload support, MultiCloud Execution Environment, Edge Information-Data Management, Edge Native Hardware evolution. Patents in distributed data management, Generative and Discriminative AI/ML, MultiTier/MultiObjective scheduling orchestration algorithms, cybersecurity and software defined edge. 14 Patents granted and 37 pending as of July 2024, see below.

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Industry Chief Technology Officer - Edge Technology and Autonomous Systems
Dell Technologies ○ 2018 - 2021

Lead for edge technology development, composable systems technology strategy and autonomous technical ecosystem development for the Global Office of CTO for Dell Technologies. Areas of technology research include edge distributed systems management, edge communications, platform as a service, autonomous systems, applied artificial intelligence, distributed data management, hybrid multi-cloud architecture, policy/control/orchestration. Lead an architecture and development team focused on customer collaborative research. Chair the Dell Automotive Design Authority Council providing technical leadership of Dell's automotive vertical. Vice-Chairman award winner for 2020. Patents in the area of edge platform control, distributed data management, cloud native application management, scheduling and autonomic control.

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Chief Technology Officer
Elefante Group ○ 2017 - 2018

Early stage venture focused on experimental stratospheric communications platform for Broadband and 5G access. Directed technology strategy, spectrum acquisition, system planning and system design in conjunction with tier 1 US defense contractor. Led technology discussions with prospective investors, government regulators and partners.

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Head of Communications Media & Entertainment Practice Americas
Hewlett Packard Enterprise ○ 2015 - 2017

Lead HPE efforts in Communications segment in developing innovative solutions addressing transformation to Cloud, SDN and IP based platforms and business models. Set strategy, Design Solutions and Develop Business engagement. Significant engagements with clients in net new business areas.

Awards and Recognition
Steering Committee Board Member
Digital Twin Consortium ○ Aug 2024 - Present

Member of the Digital Twin Consortium Steering Committee Board representing Dell Technologies

Chairman Board of Directors, Director
Tech Titans ○ Jan 2007 - 2014

Chairman of Board of Directors (2012 - 2014) and Member of Board of Directors (2007 - 2014) of Technology Association of Dallas Fort Worth focusing on Entrepreneurial Support, STEM, Legislative Advocacy, and Technology Industry Development

Senior Member ○ IEEE

Senior member (2024), recognized by Dallas section (2008), recognized for leadership in industry relations (2011), best presentation at Envision 2020 conference, keynote speaker at IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computation

Patents
67 patents applied, 17 patents granted to date
Method and System for Managing Elastic Accelerator Resource Pools with a Shared Storage

12204949 ○ Jan 21, 2025

Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing workflows. The method may include obtaining, from a client, by a registration manager associated with accelerator pools, a request to perform a portion of a workflow using accelerators; identifying a minimum quantity and a maximum quantity of accelerators associated with the request; identifying a storage to store data associated with the portion of the workflow; identifying an accelerator pool of the accelerator pools that includes at least the maximum quantity of accelerators; establishing a connection between the client, the storage, and accelerators of the accelerator pool to perform the portion of the workflow; and initiating the performance of the portion of the workflow using the storage, the client, and the accelerators of the accelerator pool.

Secure Base Activation Image for Edge Day Zero Secure Infrastructure Provisioning

12105850 ○ Oct 01, 2024

A method of implementing a self-provisioning computer system is shown. The method includes storing a secure base activation image on a computer system. This includes stor­ing executable code to implement enhanced network dis­covery configured to first attempt to determine if a private TCP port is open and if the private TCP port is not open to default to use of a public URL on a well-known TCP port at the computer system. This further includes storing execut­able code to implement an auto-connection service config­ured to automatically connect to a remote activation service to perform identification and attestation of the computer system. This further includes storing executable code to implement a secure vault for cryptographic secrets.

Presentations
Inter-Academy International 6G Symposium
New Delhi, IN ○ Oct 16-18, 2024

Resiliency and Sustainability of 6G for Autonomous, Cloud/Edge and Security
AHEAD Leadership Summit
Palm Beach, FL ○ Sep 30-Oct 2, 2024

Understanding Your Edge: Evolving the Technology Closer to the Business Challenge
AI Hardware & Edge AI Summit
San Jose, CA ○ Sep 9-12, 2024

The Impact of LLMs at the Edge - What can we Learn from the Generative AI Boom; Unleashing AI Acceleration from Edge to MultiCloud
Inter-Academy International Workshop On Future Communications and 6G
Technology and Innovation Centre University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland ○ June 24-25, 2024

Industry Influencers Forum - Emerging Opportunities in AI, Networking, THz, Advanced Computation and Vehicles for Greater Industry Engagement and International Collaboration
Digital Twin Consortium Member Meeting
Las Vegas, NV ○ June 11-13, 2024

Dynamic Twin Control Framework for Edge
Storage Networking Industry Association - SNIA, Compute Memory and Storage Summit
Online ○ May 21-22, 2024

Edgenuity - AI/ML In, On, and For the Modern Edge
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