Steve Phillpott

Steve Phillpott

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• 2020 CIO Hall of Fame, 2020 CIO 100 award for Advanced Analytics/ML Project, for more…

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  • What a Journey! Thank you, Western Digital.
    Sep 26, 2020

    What a Journey! Thank you, Western Digital.

    What a Journey! Thank you, Western Digital. It’s hard to believe that my time at Western Digital has come to an end.

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Experience

  • Society for Information Management (SIM) San Diego

    Greater San Diego Area

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    Greater San Diego Area

Publications

  • What a Journey! Thank you, Western Digital

    Thank you Western Digital. This 7+ year journey has been amazing, and I owe it all to the IT/DAO team as well as many business partners throughout Western Digital. I want to thank each and every one of you for your trust in my leadership and your commitment to excellence. It shows. Together, we built one of the best IT/DAO organizations around and I sincerely thank you for that.

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  • Make Transformational Quick Pivots With Cloud

    Oracle Blogs

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  • Digital Twins Optimize Robot Service Times in Manufacturing Ops

    Western Digital

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  • Now is the Time for DevOps, Self-Service and Automation

    Western Digital Corp

    Great article from one of my team members on Self-Service/Automated DevOp

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  • 2020 CIO 100 Award for Innovation : Big Data Analytics Platform (BDAP)

    IDC

    Western Digital – Big Data Analytics Platform (BDAP) .
    The CIO 100 Awards celebrates organizations and the teams within them that are using IT in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving relationships with customers. It is an acknowledged mark of enterprise excellence.

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  • Advanced Analytics drives competitive advantage at Western Digital

    IDG CONTRIBUTOR NETWORK - CIO.COM

    You have heard the hype: Data is the “new oil” that will power next-generation business models and unlock untold efficiencies. For some companies, this vision is realized only in PowerPoint slides. At Western Digital, it is becoming a reality. Led by Steve Phillpott, Chief Information Officer and head of the Digital Analytics Office (DAO), Western Digital is future- proofing its data and analytics capabilities through a flexible platform that collects and processes data in a way that enables a…

    You have heard the hype: Data is the “new oil” that will power next-generation business models and unlock untold efficiencies. For some companies, this vision is realized only in PowerPoint slides. At Western Digital, it is becoming a reality. Led by Steve Phillpott, Chief Information Officer and head of the Digital Analytics Office (DAO), Western Digital is future- proofing its data and analytics capabilities through a flexible platform that collects and processes data in a way that enables a diverse set of stakeholders to realize business value.

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  • Editors Award - Best HPC Use Case for Manufacturing - Awarded by SuperComputing 2019-HPCwire

    HPCWire

    Editor’s Choice for Best Use of HPC in Manufacturing awarded to Western Digital who created a million-vCPU AWS cluster using Univa software to simulate crucial elements of upcoming head designs,

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  • When Transformation Is the Imperative - Driving Change

    HCL Tech


    *Every IT decision can be an opportunity to future-proof an organization’s technology.

    *Taking the time to create a common big data platform will ultimately accelerate the adoption of advanced analytics and machine learning.

    *Transformation requires long-term vision. Sometimes the best decision for the future of the company will increase costs and complexity in the short-term.

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  • Western Digital HDD Simulation at Cloud Scale

    Amazon AWS

    Western Digital runs worlds largest commercial workload on Amazon to accelerate innovation.

    "“Storage technology is amazingly complex and we’re constantly pushing the limits of physics and engineering to deliver next-generation capacities and technical innovation. This successful collaboration with AWS shows the extreme scale, power and agility of cloud-based HPC to help us run complex simulations for future storage architecture analysis and materials science explorations. " Steve…

    Western Digital runs worlds largest commercial workload on Amazon to accelerate innovation.

    "“Storage technology is amazingly complex and we’re constantly pushing the limits of physics and engineering to deliver next-generation capacities and technical innovation. This successful collaboration with AWS shows the extreme scale, power and agility of cloud-based HPC to help us run complex simulations for future storage architecture analysis and materials science explorations. " Steve Phillpott

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  • Digital Transformation: Transforming Disks to Data

    CIO Connect

    Written by : Jamie Kirkland and Peter Cox
    CIO- Chief Value Officer

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  • Extreme Scale HPC: How Western Digital Corporation leveraged the virtually unlimited HPC capacity on AWS in their quest to speed up innovation and build better products

    hpcwire.com

    Written by : By Bala Thekkedath - Global HPC Marketing Lead, Amazon Web Services

    Western Digital runs the Worlds Largest Commercial Workload on Amazon AWS. 1 Million cores of compute on Amazon AWS to accelerate innovation and product development.

    It's all about accelerating the cycles of engineering innovation by reducing a 20 day simulation down to 8 hours.

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  • Inside Western Digital’s massive cloud ERP migration

    IDG - CIO.com

    A merger of three fortune 500 size companies has given Western Digital CIO Steve Phillpott a unique lens on moving ERP to the cloud. Here are his key takeaways.

    Peter Sayer, Senior Editor CIO.com

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  • It’s Not the Gig Economy – It’s the Apps Economy

    eWeek

    Already daunted by the need to put two-thirds of the company through a big change, Western Digital’s leaders decided to look at the question from a different angle. They realized that with two of the three companies having to switch to new apps, two-thirds of the organization would have to undergo a major change, no matter which application was selected. ……. That long-term view is the vision that matters–especially for established companies already contributing so much to the U.S. and world…

    Already daunted by the need to put two-thirds of the company through a big change, Western Digital’s leaders decided to look at the question from a different angle. They realized that with two of the three companies having to switch to new apps, two-thirds of the organization would have to undergo a major change, no matter which application was selected. ……. That long-term view is the vision that matters–especially for established companies already contributing so much to the U.S. and world economy. Written by: Michael Hickens:

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  • ERP - Future Proofing on a New Standard

    Oracle Profit Magazine - by Tara Swords

    When faced with a choice between three legacy ERP systems, Western Digital chose instead to future-proof its systems by deploying one of the world's largest ERP Cloud implementations saving costs, improving efficiencies and improving accuracy of reporting.

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  • Reimagining Business with AI

    Wired Magazine

    Artificial intelligence is already changing the way industries operate—pushing boundaries to augment human intelligence and improve decision-making. Today, Western Digital improves tests’ reliability and speed through predictions sourced from deep learning (aka AI/ML). “Deep-learning tools save us tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, of dollars over the next many years,” says Phillpott.

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  • Western Digital's CIO Modernizes Technology In The Face Of Two Major Acquisitions

    Forbes Magazine

    The integration of a major acquisition is the bane of the existence of many executives. Chief information officers have special challenges during such scenarios, since, after all, they must think about the people, processes, and technologies that must be integrated. This is an enormous amount of change to usher in. Authored by Peter High.

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  • CIO Risk Takers, Rain Makers

    Information Week

    (2011)The heavily regulated pharmaceutical industry might be one of the last places you'd expect to find cloud computing taking hold, but Steve Phillpott, CIO of Amylin, sees the cloud as a fairly mature business and technology model. And rather than debate its definition, he's focusing on what value it provides.

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Projects

  • Using AI/ML to Build the Supply Chain of the Future

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    Global supply chains are reaching new levels of scale and complexity, with customer requirements rapidly evolving. This makes a one-size-fits-all fulfillment model at best, inefficient, and at worst, downright confusing. Instead, we saw an opportunity to take advantage of our end-to-end visibility, connected enterprise systems, and data modeling to create a customer-centric, micro supply chain.

    Using data science techniques along with a rich set of historical supply chain data, we…

    Global supply chains are reaching new levels of scale and complexity, with customer requirements rapidly evolving. This makes a one-size-fits-all fulfillment model at best, inefficient, and at worst, downright confusing. Instead, we saw an opportunity to take advantage of our end-to-end visibility, connected enterprise systems, and data modeling to create a customer-centric, micro supply chain.

    Using data science techniques along with a rich set of historical supply chain data, we created a machine learning feedback loop to help automate supply chain modeling. Powered by a customer rules engine, the model self-adjusts as customer requirements change.

    In the end, we built and validated a prediction model that is more reliable than carrier committed dates – enabling us to drive transit times, routes, and shipping schedules down to the delivery-address level.

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Honors & Awards

  • 2020 CIO 100 Award for Innovation : Big Data Analytics Platform (BDAP)

    https://blog.westerndigital.com/cio-100-awards-hall-of-fame/?utm_medium=socpd1&utm_source=li&utm_campaign=corporateblog&utm_content=cio100&utm_term=03-09-2020-659

    Award: Western Digital – Big Data Analytics Platform (BDAP) .

    The CIO 100 Awards celebrates organizations and the teams within them that are using IT in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving relationships with customers. It is an acknowledged mark of enterprise…

    Award: Western Digital – Big Data Analytics Platform (BDAP) .

    The CIO 100 Awards celebrates organizations and the teams within them that are using IT in innovative ways to deliver business value, whether by creating competitive advantage, optimizing business processes, enabling growth or improving relationships with customers. It is an acknowledged mark of enterprise excellence.

    https://www.idg.com/news/cio-celebrates-business-technology-innovation-with-2020-cio-100-award-winners-hall-of-fame-inductees/

  • 2020 CIO Hall of Fame

    https://www.idg.com/news/cio-celebrates-business-technology-innovation-with-2020-cio-100-award-winners-hall-of-fame-inductees/

    CIO's Hall of Fame is a personal leadership award that celebrates outstanding achievement in information technology management.

    The CIO Hall of Fame was created to spotlight outstanding IT leaders who have significantly contributed to and profoundly influenced the IT discipline, the use of technology in business and the advancement of the CIO role.

    Along with their significant career accomplishments in the field of IT, Hall of Fame members have all demonstrated substantial…

    CIO's Hall of Fame is a personal leadership award that celebrates outstanding achievement in information technology management.

    The CIO Hall of Fame was created to spotlight outstanding IT leaders who have significantly contributed to and profoundly influenced the IT discipline, the use of technology in business and the advancement of the CIO role.

    Along with their significant career accomplishments in the field of IT, Hall of Fame members have all demonstrated substantial business impact and technology vision within one or more organizations. This elite group has a reputation for leadership among their peers (or outside entities such as the media or industry experts) and have shown a positive influence on the IT profession and/or advancement of the CIO role.

  • 2020 Global Technology Executives Who Matter Awards - Elite Alumni

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    The Elite Alumni award showcases the courageous leadership and commitment to innovation and business transformation that earns technology executives perennial acknowledgment.

    The program honors those top IT leaders who have delivered unparalleled value to their organizations in innovation, business transformation, courageous leadership, digital disruption and talent development.

  • 2019 Global Innovation Top Technology Executives to Watch Award Recipient

    https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6504393539265323008/

    These annual awards recognize the top-performing Chief Information Officers, Chief Information Security Officers, Senior Technology Leaders, Venture Capitalists and Search Executives who have demonstrated unparalleled leadership in the following areas: Innovation; Business Transformation; Courageous Leadership; and Digital Disruption in their businesses.

  • 2017 Top50 Chief Information Officers from the California Diversity-Council

    https://www.3blmedia.com/News/California-Diversity-Council-Announces-2017-Top-50-Chief-Information-Officers

  • 2017 HMG Transformational CIO of the Year

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  • 2017 Silicon Valley CIO of the Year

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  • 2017 Trace3 Outlier of the Year Finalist

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  • 2016 Computerworld’s Top 100 IT leaders

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  • 2013 San Diego CIO of the Year

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