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Portland, Oregon, United States

Leveraging 14 years of engaging with Mainframe customers on Mainframe Migration strategy and working with Mainframe Migration partners to improve their services and tools. I am helping a select number of SIs, ISVs and MSP with their offerings, content, collateral, and marketing.

United States

Helping Ensono grow their Mainframe Migration business and offerings.Ensono is one of the largest Mainframe Hosting MSPs in the world. Their Modern Cloud Connect Mainframe offering provides low latency between the hosted mainframe and the cloud. This low latency facilitates the implementation of cloud solutions in partnership with the mainframe.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Assisting Astadia to increase the companies value by influencing company strategy, GTMs, technology improvements, and partnerships with SIs, ISVs, MSPs, and Cloud Providers.Amdocs acquired Astadia on November 2, 2023. This acquisition will drive new migrations and continued success.

Redmond, WA

Responsible for cross company strategy and for leading the WW Global Blackbelt Team to help customers transform their IBM and Unisys Mainframe workloads to Azure. I first established the Mainframe Migration program at Microsoft in 2008. Over the past 14 years we built an ecosystem of SIs, MSPs and ISVs which provide the services and tools for transforming.

Redmond, WA

Lead the Strategic Workloads team in the One Commercial Partner Organization which focuses on workloads which drive customer commitment to Azure. Strategic Workloads include Mainframe Transformation to Azure, SAP on Azure and Blockchain. We own the strategy and ecosystem of Services Partners (SIs, MSPs) and Specialty Partners which provide the Services.

Redmond, WA

Continued to lead the Enterprise Modernization team in the One Commercial Partner Organization to focus on our ecosystem of Modernization Specialty Partners and enabling Modernization offerings from our Global Systems Integrators. Migration workloads focused on Database Migration (Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Exadata, Teradata), Mainframe Migration to Azure, and.

Redmond, WA

Continued to lead the Enterprise Modernization team in the Enterprise Partner Organization to focus on our ecosystem of Modernization Specialty Partners and enabling Modernization offerings from our Global Systems Integrators. Migration workloads focused on Database Migration (Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Exadata, Teradata), Mainframe Migration to Azure, and SAP.

Redmond, WA

Moved the Enterprise Modernization team to the Enterprise Partner Organization to focus on our ecosystem of Modernization Specialty Partners and enabling Modernization offering from our Global Systems Integrators. Migration workloads included Database Migration(Oracle, Sybase, DB2), AWS Migration, VMware Migration, Mainframe Migration, SAP Replatforming.

Redmond, WA

Iinitially led the Enterprise Partner Group (EPG) Infrastructure Compete Team. In September 2006 duties were expanded to include the EPG Enterprise Platform Modernization (EPM) team. EPM was initially comprised of Mainframe and Unix experts who, working with our partners, help customers modernization and migrate their legacy applications to the Windows.

Redmond, WA

Worked across product teams to catalogue and share product roadmap dates and features with our field sellers and customers. Integrated product release date information with customer license positions to demonstrate the value of their license agreements. Delivered Product Roadmap presentations in the Microsoft Enterprise Briefing Center and WW events.

Redmond, WA

Marketing and product management of Windows Datacenter Server and Enterprise ServerOversight for Windows Datacenter High Availability ProgramKey contributor to Itanium Machine Check Architecture, Windows System Resource ManagerFacilitated acquisition of Connectix Virtual Machine Technology resulting in Virtual Server and Hyper-v

Sunnyvale, CA

Drove marketing development and product requirement. Drove competitive differentiation with the IBM z/Series. Ensured that compatibility was maintained while delivering differentiated features and capabilities.

Seattle, WA

Provided WW Software and Sales supportEditor of the Corporate Systems Engineering Research JournalCertified new hardware and firmware releases on the Amdahl Millennium Series of ServersRepresented Amdahl at the IBM Share conference and TPF User's ConferenceInventor of Amdahl’s Multiple Server Feature and Dynamic CPU Add capability:US Patent 6453344.

Seattle, WA

Provided 2nd level Regional hardware, software, and sales support across the West CoastCertified new hardware and firmware releases on Amdahl's 580,5990 series of serversDeveloped and delivered 5860 Operator trainingKey contributor to Amdahl’s Multiple Domain Feature:US Patent 5072376 “Measuring utilization of processor shared by multiple system control.

Wahington DC

Supported customers including MVT, SVS, MVS, VM/370. Supported hardware including Amdahl 470 v5, v6, v7, v8. Customers included Library of Congress, House of Representatives, NASA, Federal Reserve Board, CIA, Maryland National Bank.Provided 2nd level Regional hardware, software, and sales support from Washington DC to Atlanta.

Blacksburg, VA

Systems Programmer maintaining the MVT/ASP and VM/370 systems. Migrated from MVT/ASP to MVT/HASP and then to MVS R2 and JES2. Began in the Co-op program where I worked while going through school and then joined full time in 1975 as a Lead Systems Programmer.