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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 mainframe workloads to Windows and Linux. As companies establish Cloud First strategies, Azure has become the chosen destination for Mainframe Transformations. We are dedicated to helping our customers on their Mainframe Transformation journey to Azure.

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, Tools and Offerings to help customers transform their on-premise business critical workloads to Azure and take advantage of the Azure platform.

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 SAP on Azure.

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 on Azure.Leads Azure High Potential Partner Program which is focused on working with a select number of partners to build and deploy new solutions on Azure including IaaS, PaaS and Azure Advanced Workloads (Cortana Intelligence Suite, IoT, Azure Machine Learning, Blockchain, etc.)

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, OSS on Azure, Oracle on Azure, DB2 on Azure and SAP on Azure.Specialty Business Development included leading a team of workload specialists (SQL Server, Windows Server, Office 365, Dynamics CRM, Enterprise Mobility Suite, Windows 10, Analytics, Azure Advanced Workloads) who worked with GSIs to develop practices to drive deployments of these technologies.

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 platform. Compete leadership expanded to include the EPG Data Platform Compete team and the EPM team expanded to include Database Migration(Oracle, Sybase, DB2), AWS Migration, VMware Migration, Mainframe Migration, SAP Replatforming, OSS on Azure, Oracle on Azure, DB2 on Azure and SAP on Azure.

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 “Multiprocessor servers with controlled numbered of CPUs ”US Patent 6195750 "Method and apparatus for dynamic CPU reconfiguration in a system employing logical processors"

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 programs”Research Publications "The Effects of MP Serialization on Logical Partitioning Capacity”

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.