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West Union, Sc Usa

Provides the strategic direction of zigbee smart energy Home Area Network (HAN) capabilities on Itron North American and International smart electricity meters.Collaborates closely with developers, standards bodies, partners and customers to expand and implement new smart meter capabilities to solve utility, residential and commercial customer problems.Defines and directs the development and delivery of Internet of Things (IoT) products such as embedded solar meters/communications gateways and customer facing devices utilizing wireless protocols such as zigbee SE 1.x, SEP 2.0, ModBus (SunSpec), etc.

Greenville, South Carolina Area

Actively promotes the zigbee alliance, zigbee initiatives and leads a work group to roadmap and communicate the future of zigbee smart energy.

Led Agile development teams in the creation of home control systems, energy management systems, web services, and lighting control devices for a home energy management system and web service used by several power generation utilities in electric power generation demand-response system trials such as the Xcel Energy Smart Grid City Project - a 400 system pilot beginning January 2009.

Defined, directed, and managed the development and sourcing of Linux Networx’s line of High Performance Computing (HPC) hardware, power distribution units, and management appliances.

Managed the business and technical relationships between Novell and 20 key technology partners including companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, EMC, etc.• Negotiated a $1.3 million partner service contract.• Researched, cold-called, and persuaded over 50 ISVs to support their software on SUSE Linux. • Reduced hardware certification time from 5 days to 0 days which resulted in doubling the number of Hewlett-Packard systems certified on SUSE Linux.

Collaborated with partners and customers to define software programming interfaces for several key Novell products including: GroupWise, iFolder, ZENworks, iManager, eXtend, and Novell Identity Manager.

Led the definition, development, coordination, and delivery of over 9 different retail, channel, and web-delivered, Linux-based software products and services. One retail product that sold over 70,000 units and won 6 product excellence awards.

Managed the development of a PC-based, unified messaging/telephony product for a European telecommunications company.

Led a team in the design, development, manufacture, marketing, and support of a line of intelligent fax products.

Managed a group of engineers focused on product definition and business planning activites for Unisys' line of terminal and workstation products.

Mba, Business Administration

Activities and Societies: Graduated With Distinction

Bs, Computer Science