As an industry analyst, I concentrate on researching, reviewing, opinionating, advising, speaking, and creating research reports, webinars, podcasts, videos, and blogs on emerging technology topics. My areas of coverage include AI, ML, Observability, AIOps, Cloud, CloudOps, Incident Management, API, and Enterprise software.Please reach out if you want to schedule a briefing or need thought leadership/advisory work.

I write about Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Cognitive Technologies, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning on Forbes.com

As an industry analyst, I concentrate on researching, reviewing, opinionating, advising, speaking, and creating GigaOM research reports, webinars, podcasts, videos, and blogs on emerging technology topics. My areas of coverage include AI, ML, Observability, AIOps, Cloud, API, and Enterprise software.Please reach out if you want to schedule a briefing or need content creation.

As the head of US Operations, I am responsible for expanding deepsense.ai activity in the US/North America. With over 60 commercial AI projects under the belt, and with over 100+ Data Scientists & Engineers deepsense.ai is one of the largest pure AI boutique consulting companies in the world. Some of the projects include: Demand Forecasting using AI, Churn Reduction, Fraud Detection, Marketing (incl. online ads) Automation & Attribution, AIOps, AI for IT Ops, Quality Control / Defect Detection using Deep Learning, Predictive Maintenance, Aerial Image Recognition using Computer Vision, Sentiment Analytics using Natural Language Processing and my favorite real-time detection of cyber/real-world crimes (similar to minority report!). Please reach out to me to learn more and to see how we can help with AI enabling your enterprise.

I lead the strategy, vision, innovation and evangelism for emerging technologies for Oracle Cloud (OCI). It includes, Cloud, Cloud Infrastructure, Edge/IoT, Blockchain, Security, and other bleeding edge technologies. If you are start-up, or an established player, and want to partner with us, reach out to me.

As the lead strategist, I manage the platform strategy team that is responsible for creating a world class Watson Cloud Platform that enables our customers to run Cognitive, Edge/IoT, Video, Analytic and other enterprise workloads on our native cloud platform. * Create a vision and develop strategy/technology roadmaps for native Cloud based services.* Communicate strategy and technology roadmaps to executive staff, key industry partners and customers.* Leverage technical and business expertise to influence, guide, and shape business strategy and decision-making at the highest organizational levels.* Provide consultation, design input, and feedback for research and new product development and design reviews across multiple organizations and architectures.* Represent the company as a recognized technology expert at key industry conferences.* Responsible to lead the dialog with executive management and technical colleagues to establish a vision on how and where we invest to deliver a next generation cloud based platform and services.  * Meet with innovative, emerging tech start-ups to explore partnership, collaboration and other potential opportunities.

My unit within Intel is responsible for Big Data, Cloud, Mobile, Identity, SOA, Security, Cloud Data Privacy, and Tokenization solutions. As a Chief (Solutions) Architect, I help customers visualize a futuristic architecture that can move them from a current restrictive architecture to an open model to support cloud, mobile, social and other future-based technologies. I educate them on how to use existing technologies and architecture as building blocks while expanding only where it is needed. This allows for an orderly and cost-effective expansion as opposed to a rip-and-replace model.As a CTO, I am responsible for setting the product strategy, vision and roadmap based on the market demands and customer needs.As an Evangelist, I am responsible for solutionizing our products, creating vision and strategy, doing outbound messaging, and engaging with the analyst community. It also involves blogging, writing, and speaking about what we do, why we are different, how we are better and why customer executives should choose us over competition.As an Executive, I work closely with customer C-level executives to understand their needs and drive a solution that will fit their needs and their budgets. This involves talking technology to high-level executives, understanding their needs, understanding their constraints, overcoming their concerns and objectives and helping field sales teams to close the deal.

L1 is the leading provider of Identity solutions for State, Federal and International governments.As a Visionary, my charter is to guide the overall strategy within public sector and commercial sector technical executives involved in Identity, Cloud and Application Security.As a Divisional Executive/Evangelist, my goal is to help L-1 expand into new government and commercial markets with the following areas of focus: distributed enrollment, cloud infrastructure, security, identity, modernization, governance, and SOA enablement.As an Enterprise Solutions Architect, my role is to work with top commercial and government executives (CIOs, CTOs) to architect solutions that solve business needs, transform legacy systems (mainframe systems to modern SOA, REST, Cloud based computing platforms), enhance mission-critical processes and deliver top- and bottom- line results for their organizations.

•Manager/ Lead Architect responsible for Cloud, SOA, REST, Web 2.0, Security (and other emerging technologies) in eastern region.•Considered an expert in selling to C Level executives.•Responsible for Cloud security, SOA, SOA security, ESB, Compliance, Identity, Web services, SOA governance, SOA administration products in my region.•Work with engineering / project management to define roadmap and new features based on customer needs and field requirements.•Work closely with partners in engaging them as needed and oversee the delivery cycles.•Participate and help with pre-sales RFI, RFP, ROI, POC, Demos.•IBM certified SOA Solution Designer/ Developer.•Responsible for mentoring new hires and making them proficient in SOA solutions•Track record of having met, or beat, quotas on a consistent basis. (avg, 150-180%)•Ability to support multiple IBM account teams from different regions and geos.

•Solution Architecture Team Lead for the Identity Management product line. •Responsible for practice and business development for BMC IDM line of products.•Develop solutions for customer specific needs including Single Sign on, Role Based Access Control, Delegated Administration, desktop pass-through authentication, administrative workflow and automated user provisioning.•Engage Customers for Onsite Demos, White Board sessions, Presentations, Technical Sessions as necessary.•Technical Evangelist selling to C level executives.•Met or exceeded quota on a consistent basis.