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New York, United States

Lake George, New York, United States

Providing meteorological advice on the impacts of climate to water quality at one of America's finest lakes.

Helping organizations and people adapt to climate change. Determining how to adapt to wide variations in weather to produce best outcomes. Developing proactive solutions built on weather information using 6 years of success with leading global insurers.

Greater New York City Area

I am currently an alliance consultant helping businesses and organizations realize significant new value through investment in powerful alliances. I specialize in developing integrated alliance strategies, effective alliance programs, strong partner portfolios and optimized alliance relationships. * Leverage 20+ years of IBM Alliance Management to generate strong year to year revenue improvement.* Collaborate with alliance leaders worldwide to improve alliance practices * Use proven best practices to accelerate time to revenue with through alliances across multiple industries and with companies of all sizes.

New Windsor, New York

For this innovative manufacturing start up, I am developing a comprehensive alliance strategy and function to secure funding and broad support from Venture Capital firms. Alliances now position Futrfab for rapid growth in initial market introduction and broad industry adoption. An ecosystem of partners is being developed to help manufacturers more quickly bring new products to market at a much lower cost.* Established an alliance strategy tightly aligned with the company's vision to create more value for investors.* Created the alliance function framework at Futrfab to deliver new capabilities to markets and support the alliances as they provide growing value to the Futrfab ecosystem.* Developed a partner selection framework for the initial technology partners to bring the technology to market and the broad ecosystem to support a wide variety of manufacturers,* Provided the partner program that the partners and ecosystem will need to be successful with Futrfab technology.

Greater New York City Area

For 6 years, I was the global Subject Matter Expert within IBM Insurance for using weather to solve business problems and address climate change risks.. As a meteorologist, computer scientist and business consultant, I am able to solve business problems and provide more value to insurers in new and innovative ways. My focus is on the business problem like impacts from climate change first and then show if/how superior weather information address the problems. I have helped insurers create valuable digital experiences for their policyholders that have improved retention and lowered risks. I have helped insurers lower costs by streamlining claims processing by using AI and machine learning with a valuable data source, weather. Finally, I have helped other teams in other industries use weather data to create models that create new business, drive efficiency and provide value added services to their customers.Check out two clients use of weather: Desjardins and Weather Warranty

New Paltz, New York

I identify clients' business needs (opportunities and issues) and determine best how to address their needs by applying weather information from The Weather Company to new solutions. I work extensively worldwide with some of the most innovative insurers seeking to improve policyholder satisfaction/retention, create new products/services, reduce costs/claims as well as optimize operations. Weather information integrated with other critical data and IBM analytic/cognitive capabilities help companies make better decisions. Through market analysis and consultative selling, I have proposed solutions that are helping IBM clients' uniquely meet their needs. As a meteorologist, I am able to quickly identify how weather information can address needs in specific industries. As a computer scientist, I use my understanding of infrastructure and current technologies to help clients understand how to leverage current and future technologies to create powerful analytics applications through the ultimate in IOT data, weather.I nurtured the IBM and Weather Company partnership that led to IBM to close on the acquisition of The Weather Company on Jan 29, 2016. With over 30 years of IBM knowledge, I was able to quickly grow business opportunities with IBM services and analytics teams. Together, we have built an impressive pipeline of opportunities for IBM.In addition to Insurance, I have expertise that provides solutions in an ever growing set of industries including Government/Smarter Cities, Transportation, Energy/Utilities and Agriculture industries. I speak at public events about weather, climate change and the impact on businesses and governments.

Ibm Corporation, Poughkeepsie Ny

I developed a focused marketing strategy to win new accounts with emerging solution areas worldwide and enhanced the brand image of IBM servers by distinguishing their capabilities to deliver superior business results and new solutions for clients. I leveraged the changing buying patterns and digital marketing to create demand and displace the competition. • Pioneered marketing strategies that focused on industry line of business executives. I demonstrated unique advantages a system infrastructure provides for key business applications. * Collaborated on and implemented a global digital marketing strategy that capitalized on changing buying patterns to create demand and displace competitive solutions.* Boosted Smart Cities and analytics solution sales on IBM servers with improved competitive messaging through compelling digital collateral including analyst papers and videos.

Poughkeepsie, Ny

I integrated key systems technologies that drove joint solution demand that led to 150% revenue increase of systems sales on partner solutions. I created and strengthened strategic alliances with multi-year partnering agreements to create more powerful and differentiated solutions with Systems Integrators, ISVs, Resellers, Managed Service providers and others. I engaged partners to create solutions on the new PowerLinux platform in the Capital Markets industry needing analytics and speed. I created and grew strong global strategic alliance portfolios in Insurance and Capital Markets.* Boosted key alliances and expanded the portfolio of solutions by 50% from global software providers and systems integrators supporting $50M of revenue annually.* Introduced deep knowledge of IBM partnering strategies and Partnerworld programs to grow the breadth of alliances.* Established successful multi-partner solutions through innovative joint marketing and sales team support.* Created innovative solutions by teaming with partners and IBM brands to provide market leading solutions with industry specific cloud providers.• Developed partnerships with new and existing channel partners that drove solution sales for each partner through innovative joint marketing and sales support with Calypso Technology and Murex in the Capital Markets industry and Majesco Mastek and CSC in the Insurance industry.

Hawthorne Ny

My interest in the influence of weather on business and my background in meteorology, I consulted with the Deep Thunder research project team on improving their web presence. The effort focused on explaining the technology used by Deep Thunder and its application to improving business outcomes. I developed a deeper understanding of state of the art weather forecasting models and how they can be tuned to support business models with enhanced business analytics.

Poughkeepsie, Ny

In a position focused on technical and sales partnerships, I created a new dynamic portfolio of solutions based on the latest systems technology that met client needs in the Capital Markets and Insurance markets. I created a cross-IBM Financial Markets strategy that led to a significant new and effective alliances.• Drove $20M influenced revenue in the Capital Markets and Insurance industries annually. • Established a new portfolio of alliances supporting 35 partner-based solutions in Capital Markets and Insurance• Spearheaded the turnaround of 3 critical partnerships that led to 2x influenced revenue in 2 years in the Americas, Europe and Asia• Integrated FPGAs and GPUs to create optimized solutions that expanded market penetration for joint alliance-based solutions* Collaborated with diverse teams to create highly successful alliance agreements that united new product development, marketing and sales agreements with IBM brands and partners.

Poughkeepsie, Ny

I spearheaded software and services partner agreements worldwide in new markets with early Cloud solutions on mainframes, I enabled emerging Linux business applications from start-ups to established software companies. I addressed enterprise customer needs with new solutions on a trusted platform.* Expanded the portfolio of mainframe open source solutions which aided the growth of System z Linux-based solution sales on zVM. * Pioneered unique private and public partnerships which brought Higher Education open source applications to a cloud infrastructure on System z that benefited students throughout the United States.* Recruited and enabled 30 different software providers (start ups and established) that supported additional growth of the mainframes using Linux solutions.* Enabled IBM and partner sales teams to collaborate and increase enterprise client sales.

Poughkeepsie, Ny

I conceived and managed new innovative partner programs to recruit and drive new workloads on Linux-based systems via extensive teaming across the company. I Designed and continuously enhanced programs to meet start up and established software partner technical and marketing needs to drive hardware sales. I created the strategy for and implemented a set of worldwide innovative partner programs recruiting new workloads and driving sales of Linux solutions on IBM virtualization technologies. I addressed enterprise customer needs for superior Linux solutions on an enterprise platform. Finally, I reorganized a System z software partner enablement team ($8M+ budget) to focus on new workload sales.• Designed and continuously enhanced programs to meet changing software partner to drive hardware sales• Reorganized a System z software partner enablement team to focus on sales of new Linux-based workloads

Poughkeepsie, Ny

I pioneered the development of successful partnerships with leading software providers like Peoplesoft and Temenos that enabled System z to grow when the industry expected mainframe sales to decrease• Created a partnership that grew direct System z revenue 5x in 5 years• Established senior executive relationships between ISV C-level executives & IBM senior executives • Created superior System z solutions for ISVs by synthesizing the ISV technical needs with mainframe technologies: USS, Parallel Sysplex, DB2/zOS and Websphere technologies.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Dual Majors: Computer Science And Atmospheric Sciences, 3.5

Activities and Societies: Internship with Lightning Detection team in New Mexico with Dr Richard Orville Summer employment at the National.

Mba, Marketing, 3.5

Extended MBA program completed while working full time at IBM to help balance my technical background with the business needs of clients.

Continuing Education, Data Analytics

On line courses (MOOC) providing academic background in tools of data / predictive analytics: - R programming - Data analytics techniques