Joy has extensive experience in IBM Z software, hardware, development, and sales. She is an IBM DevOps Product Manager with the mission to improve the development experience for z/OS Application Programmers. Joy has spent 8 years in Sales as the Worldwide Leader of Analytics and Linux on IBM Z. Before that she was a manager for 13 years in IMS, Db2 for z/OS and Business Intelligence leading teams as a Release Manager, Customer Support Manager and Product Manager. She started her career at IBM as an assembler programmer in IMS after graduating from the University of Texas.