Kevin R. Gee




IBM Champion, 2019-2025:
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Major Public-Facing Activities

2026

Jan

 Recognized as an IBM Champion for the 8th time.

2025

Dec

 Draft publication of a IBM Redbook I worked on:

Tim Simon, Faraz Ahmad, Felipe Bessa, Mathieu Ferre, Kevin Gee, Ahmed Mashhour, Manish Mukul, James Pinto, Jesse Proetto, Nageswara Sastry Renduchintala, Girish Shrigiri, Vivek Shukla, Shailendra Singh, Tsvetomir Spasov, Ilgin Unlu, Henry Vo. Security and Cyber Resilience with Power11. An IBM Redbook publication. December 2025. https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248595.html [PDF]

Nov

 Work on as-of-yet unpublished of a IBM Redbook:

Henry Vo, Vijaybabu Anaimuthu, Shawn Bodily, Rohit Chauhan, Kevin Gee, Srishankar Grandhi, Ricardo Martins, Urmishree Mohapatra, Vinod Narayanan, Prajwala B Patil, Saulo H N Pereira, Ivan Rakus, Shivarudrappa Satynaik, Yuichi Tamagawa, Sasibindu Thumati, Tim Simon. High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions in IBM Power Virtual Server. An IBM Redbook Publication.

Oct

 Conference:

Blake Hoskinson and Kevin Gee. "Validating Quantum-Safe Encryption in your Power environment (with demo)". IBM TechXchange 2025. October 2025.

Robert Young and Kevin Gee. "Architecting Performance: Exploring IBM Power Virtual Networking Technologies". IBM TechXchange 2025. October 2025.

Oct

 Publication of a IBM Redbook I worked on:

Tim Simon, Jose Martin Abeleira, Guiliano Anselmi, Rohit Chauhan, Kevin Gee, Rob McNelly, Peter Piskutz, Borislav Ivanov Stoymirski, Atanas Yordanov, Henry Vo. IBM Power11 E1150 Introduction and Technical Overview. An IBM Redbook Publication. July 2025. https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248589.html PDF

Sep

 Contributed content to this new IBM Redbook:

Tim Simon, et al. IBM Power E1180: Introduction and Overview. An IBM Redbooks publication. July 2025. https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248587.html [PDF]

Oct

 Contributed content to this new IBM Redbook:

Tim Simon, et al. IBM Power11 Scale-Out Servers: Introduction and Overview. An IBM Redbooks publication. July 2025. https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248590.html [PDF]

Aug

 Blog article:

Kevin Gee. "Supercharge Your IBM Power11 with Resource Groups." Mainline Information Systems. 28 August 2025. https://mainline.com/supercharge-your-ibm-power11-with-resource-groups/ (last retrieved on 4 Sept 2025).

Jul

 Webinar panelist:

Blake Hoskinson, Michael Miller, Kevin Gee, Peter Piskutz. "Exploring IBM Power11: Driving Innovation Across Modern Workloads." Pellera Technologies. 29 July 2025. https://youtu.be/1O8QUa1PN7I (last retrieved on 7 August 2025).

Jul

 Recognized as an IBM Redbook Gold Author.

Apr

 Recognized as an IBM Contributor, Advocate, and Influencer for 2025.

Feb

 Publication of a IBM Redbook I worked on:

Tim Simon, Felipe Bessa, Hugo Blanco, Carlo Castillo, Rohit Chauhan, Kevin Gee, Gayathri Gopalakrishnan, Samvedna Jha, Andrey Klyachkin, Andrea Longo, Ahmed Mashhour, Amela Peku, Prashant Sharma, Vivek Shukla, Dhanu Vasandani, Henry Vo. IBM Power Security Catalog. An IBM Redbook publication. Published 2025-February-19, Updated 2025-April-15. https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248568.html [PDF]

Jan

 Recognized as an IBM Champion for the 7th time.

Jan

 Started a new position as a Solution Architect at Mainline Information Systems

2024

Oct

 Conference:

Kevin Gee. "Building an IBM Partner Showcase Lab". IBM TechXchange 2024. 22 October 2024.

Kevin Gee. "Planning the Infrastructure for a Deployment of OpenShift on Power". IBM TechXchange 2024. 22 October 2024.

Erik Rottsolk and Kevin Gee. "Graph Analytics Revolution Empowering Insights with Trovares AI in the WWT ATC". IBM TechXchange 2024. 22 October 2024.

Youssef Largou, Erik Rottsolk, and Kevin Gee. "AI Use Cases on IBM Power10". IBM TechXchange 2024. 22 October 2024.

Sept

 Wrote Certifications:

IBM AIX v7.3 Administrator. September 2024.

IBM PowerVC v2.2 Administrator Specialty. September 2024.

July

 Blog post:

Steven McCall and Kevin Gee. "Server Infrastructure Newsletter - 07-2024". World Wide Technology. Link

Feb

 Blog post:

Kevin Gee. "WWT Architects Named IBM Champions" World Wide Technology. Link

Jan

 Recognized as an IBM Champion for the 6th time.

2023

Sept

 Conference:

Kevin Gee., Avery, R., Joseph, R. "IBM Environment in the WWT ATC: Integration, Possibilities, and Lessons Learned". IBM TechXchange 2023. September 2023.

Sept

 Video produced with IBM:

OpenShift on IBM Power10 Link

Aug

 Training:

Kevin Gee. "A Primer on IBM Power Computing: Technology and Value Proposition". World Wide Technology. 17 Aug 2023. Link

May

 Blog post:

Avery, R., Randolph, J., Joseph, R., and Kevin Gee. "IBM THINK 2023 - Recap and Highlights". World Wide Technology. 26 May 2023. Link

Apr

 Blog post:

Joseph, R. Kevin Gee. Avery, R. Randolph, J. "IBM in the WWT ATC". World Wide Technology. 21 April 2023. Link Link

Apr

 IBM Seller Briefing:

Participated in an Arrow-IBM panel discussion at IBM SKO2. Coppell, TX. April 2023.

Jan

 Recognized as an IBM Champion for the 5th time.

2022

Aug

 Training:

Kevin Gee. "Introduction to IBM's Power10 Scale-Out Offerings". World Wide Technology. 23 August 2022.

Apr

 IBM Seller presentation:

Kevin Gee and Patrick Reeve. IBM Partner Summit. IBM Tampa, Florida. April 2022.

Apr

 IBM Seller presentation:

Kevin Gee and David Midkiff. IBM Partner Summit. IBM Atlanta, Georgia, March 2022.

Feb

 Started a new position as a Technical Solution Architect/Field CTO at World Wide Technology.

Jan

 Recognized as an IBM Champion for the 4th time.

2021

Nov

 Conference:

Participant in the IBM Exhibitor booth to show off and discuss Bayesian Optimization Accelerator (BOA) at The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Network, Stoarage, and Analysis (SC 21), 16-17 November 2021.

Nov

 Conference:

Kevin Gee. ""Partnering with IBM to Engineer Products". IBM Community Festival. 11 November 2021.

Oct

 Conference:

Steve Finnes and Kevin Gee. "Power Systems HA/DR Solutions for AIX". IBM Systems Technical University 2021 (virtual). 25 Oct 2021.

Sept

 IBM Redbook:

Quintero, D., Rao Chandolu, U., Sree, A., Kevin Gee., Kurapati, S., Yalamuri, V. "Cloud Backup Management with PowerHA SystemMirror". An IBM Redpaper Publication. 14 Sep 2021. Link

July

 Wrote Certifications:

IBM PowerHA SystemMirror V7.2.5 for AIX Administrator Specialty. July 2021.

IBM AIX v7 Administrator Specialty. July 2021.

June

 Business Partner presentation:

Kevin Gee. "Business Continuity Options for IBM Power Systems: Seller Education for Ingram Micro and Partners". Ingram Micro Partner Conference. 16 June 2021.

Feb

 Business Partner presentation:

Kevin Gee. "How to Position and Sell IBM VM Recovery Manager for POWER". Ingram Micro Sales Conference. 10 Feb 2021.

Jan

 Recognized as an IBM Champion for the 3rd time.

2020

Dec

 Business Partner briefings:

Kevin Gee. "How to Position and Sell IBM VM Recovery Manager: Seller Education". Tech Data UK Sales Education. 7 Dec 2020.

Oct

 Conference:

Steve Finnes, Kevin Gee, and Ravi Shankar. "PowerHA for AIX Strategy and Direction". IBM TechU 2020 (virtual). 26 Oct 2020.

Steve Finnes, Kevin Gee, and Ravi Shankar. "VM Recovery Manager Strategy and Direction". IBM TechU 2020 (virtual). 26 Oct 2020.

Sep

 IBM Asia Seller briefing:

Kevin Gee. "VM Recovery Manager Deep Dive". IBM Asia Technical Seller Briefing (virtual). October 2020.

Kevin Gee. "How to Position and Sell VM Recovery Manager". IBM Asia Technical Seller Briefing (virtual). Sept 2020.

Aug

 Business Partner briefing:

Kevin Gee. "HA/DR Solutions for the Cloud". Arrow Sales Briefing. 21 Aug 2020.

May

 Business Partner briefing:

Kevin Gee. "How to Position and Sell IBM VM Recovery Manager: Seller Education". Sirius Sales Education. 21 May 2020.

Feb

 Business Partner briefing:

Fleming, P., Kevin Gee. "IBM POWER9 Programs & Promotions". Tech Data Quarterly Partner Webinar. 05 Feb 2020.

Jan

 Recognized as an IBM Champion for the 2nd time.

2019

Nov

 Business Partner briefing:

Fleming, P., Kevin Gee. "IBM POWER9 Programs & Promotions". Tech Data Quarterly Partner Webinar. 07 November2019.

Sept, Oct

 IBM Seller workshop:

Kevin Gee. "Live VM Recovery Demo". IBM Power Systems and Storage Business Resiliency Roadshow. IBM Costa Mesa, Oct 2019.

Kevin Gee. "Live VM Recovery Demo". IBM Power Systems and Storage Business Resiliency Roadshow. IBM NYC, Oct 2019.

Kevin Gee. "Live VM Recovery Demo". IBM Power Systems and Storage Business Resiliency Roadshow. IBM Dallas, Sept 2019.

Kevin Gee. "Live VM Recovery Demo". IBM Power Systems and Storage Business Resiliency Roadshow. IBM Atlanta, Sept 2019.

May

 Conference:

Steve Finnes and Kevin Gee. "Cognitive Solutions HA/DR solution family". (POSTER), IBM TechU Atlanta, 2 May 2019.

Steve Finnes and Kevin Gee. "What's new in IBM PowerHA for AIX and Linux". IBM TechU Atlanta, 29 April 2019.

Steve Finnes and Kevin Gee. "VM Recovery Manager for Power Systems". IBM TechU Atlanta, 30 April 2019.

Feb

 Conference:

Steve Finnes, Shankar, R., Kevin Gee. "HADR for Power Systems". IBM THINK 2019, February 2019.

Shankar, R., Steve Finnes, Kevin Gee. "VM Recovery Manager Demo and Discussion". IBM THINK 2019, February 2019.

Steve Finnes, Shankar, R., Kevin Gee. "VM Recovery Manager: A New HA/DR Solution for Cloud on IBM Power Systems". IBM THINK 2019. February 2019.

Jan

 Recognized as an IBM Champion for the 1st time.

2018

Dec

 IBM Seller workshop:

Kevin Gee. "HA/DR Solutions for POWER". IBM Poughkeepsie/IBM Poland joint briefing. 7 Dec 2018.

Oct

 Conference:

Nimmagadda, R., Kevin Gee., Lindahl, M., Garrison, K. "Skytap/Aricent PowerHA Lab". IBM TechU. October 2018.

July

 IBM ASEAN Seller and Partner Workshop:

Steve Finnes, Kevin Gee. IBM ASEAN PowerHA Workshop, IBM Philippines, July 2018.

Steve Finnes, Kevin Gee. IBM ASEAN PowerHA Workshop, IBM Thailand, July 2018.

Steve Finnes, Kevin Gee. IBM ASEAN PowerHA Workshop, IBM Sri Lanka, July 2018.

June

 Partner Strategy Discussions:

Kevin Gee. "Options for High Availability within the Skytap Cloud Offering". Strategy Meeting at Skytap. June 2018.

May

 Business Partner briefing:

Steve Finnes, Herrera, M., Kevin Gee. "PowerHA SystemMirror Product Update". IBM Sales Update for Mainline. 14 May 2018.

April

 Conference:

Steve Finnes, Kevin Gee. "PowerHA for AIX trends and directions". IBM Systems Technical University Orlando, April 2018.

Steve Finnes, Kevin Gee. "PowerHA for Linux". IBM Systems Technical University Orlando, April 2018.

Steve Finnes, Kevin Gee. "Geographically Dispersed Resiliency (GDR): Overview, roadmap and positioning". IBM Systems Technical University Orlando, April 2018.

April

 Conference:

Steve Finnes and Kevin Gee. "PowerHA for AIX trends and directions". IBM Systems Technical University Dubai, April 2018.

Steve Finnes and Kevin Gee. "PowerHA for Linux". IBM Systems Technical University Dubai, April 2018.

Steve Finnes and Kevin Gee. "Geographically Dispersed Resiliency (GDR): Overview, roadmap and positioning". IBM Systems Technical University Dubai, April 2018.

Tanmoy Roy Choudhury and Kevin Gee. "Engineering the Digital Future - Impact of Strategic Partnerships in the Cognitive Era". IBM Systems Technical University Dubai, April 2018.

Mar

 Conference:

Kevin Gee. "Aricent: Live PowerHA UI Demos". IBM THINK Las Vegas, March 2018.

Feb

 Started a new position as a Technical Account Executive/Director of Technical Sales at Aricent (later acquired by Altran, then Capgemini Engineering).