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title: "Mendy Furmanek"
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image: "mendyfurmanek-200.jpg"
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member: ibm
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date: 2021-03-03
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Mendy Furmanek is the IBM Director of OpenPOWER Processor Enablement where she drives IBM partnerships in chip development as well as OpenCAPI partner enablement.
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Mendy received a BSEE with a double major in Electrical/Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Duke University in 2001.
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She also studied at the University of Madrid for her Spanish degree and the University of Queensland as part of her BSEE.
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She first joined IBM in 2000 as a design and verification intern on POWER4 and has been part of the IBM processor development team ever since.
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Mendy's expertise is in pre-silicon verification and led the development of a premier multi-hundred global verification team responsible for POWER, Z, and IBM System ASICs.
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While focused in verification she has experience across all aspects of chip development.
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She managed the overall delivery of POWER8 and then moved to her current executive role in OpenPOWER at the end of 2015.
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Concurrently with becoming President of the OpenPOWER Foundation in 2019 Mendy led the opening of the POWER Instruction Set Architecture (ISA).
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Mendy has a passion for the open hardware movement and is excited about the opportunities it presents for the industry.
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