Lead a team of offering managers Responsible for strategic planning, offering and product management for the IBM Analytics portfolio of database and data warehouse products for the Hybrid Cloud. Aggressively pursued a strategy to support clients as they migrate their applications and data to the cloud. Drive the definition of the next generation of Netezza appliances providing clients with an array of options supporting their analytics platform and the march to hybrid cloud. Aggressively pursing the definition and implementation of a common user experience across the hybrid cloud.

Manage the Informix business at IBM including product planning and investments; development of our channel, enablement, and go to market strategies. Operate like a startup within IBM leveraging agile philosophies to allow our team to be aggressive in the introduction of innovative technology to drive revenue. Leveraged unique approach to quality both in our approach to QA as well as the metrics that we leveraged to measure quality and client satisfaction.The Informix engineering team is driven by a philosophy that the database must provide the lowest cost of ownership. This philosophy means that even complex capabilities like grid management are simple to use and manage. It is not unusual for one DBA to support thousands of instances of Informix.Examples of Initiatives during this period:Worked with a significant industry partner to define the conceptual framework of a true embedded enterprise database. Lead the implantation of key capabilities in Informix to create the industries leading embedded database technology. The Informix database is embedded in millions of devices around the world.Recognized an opportunity in the Internet of Things space to leverage Informix object relational technology to implement full native support for the JSON data type. Extended this capability to support the integration of Relational and JSON data providing a true NewSQL environment. Extended the Informix native Temporal-Spatial capability in partnership with IBM Research. The Informix Warehouse Accelerator is an in memory no knobs warehouse based on the IBM Research "blu" technology. The 1st implementation of the in memory "Blu" technology from IBM was in Informix. Led the team in a transition to agile and continuous delivery years before it was fashionable.Instrumental in developing the go to market for each of the Informix releases. Developed the partnership which drives the largest revenue from one partner from one product in IBM.

World Wide Engineering responsibilities for a global team of 650 engineers located in Germany, India, Ireland, and the United States. Responsibilities included the strategic direction and delivery of products that generated in excess of $750 million per year. Integrated culturally and geographically diverse organizations and re-tooled where needed to build a strong, progressive team focused on quality and customer delight. Key responsibility was stabilizing the engineering organization. Implementing a number of changes designed to accelerate time to market while dramatically improving quality.