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New York, NY, US

United States

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Armonk, New York, United States

• As General Manager for IBM Power, I drove the development, sales, and marketing of IBM’s $3B per year Power Systems franchise and IBM's Power offerings which serve enterprise data centers and cloud platforms. I also.
• Reversed decline and negative profits by restructuring the business with new leadership, updated strategies, an innovative market segmentation approach, and a revised organizational structure, leading to positive.

Somers, NY

• In this role, I built the global ecosystem of partners on top of the POWER architecture, including chip, system, software, and go-to-market channel development, along with national governments worldwide.
• Reset the Power Systems business in China by forming a joint venture with a local Chinese hardware developer and manufacturer to create locally developed Power Systems in China.

Armonk, NY

• I ran IBM’s worldwide corporate Intellectual Property business, including technology licensing, patent licensing and sales, and joint development collaborations. I orchestrated global business development activities.
• Grew the business back from a decline to over $1B in annual IP income by revamping the Software Licensing, Research IP Partnerships, and Patents Sales and Licensing strategies.

Armonk, NY

As Vice President, I managed and commercially leveraged IBM’s patent portfolio, building IBM’s revenue and profit opportunities through the commercialization of software and services Intellectual Property assets.

Somers, NY

I owned and managed all Systems Engineering Tools and Products across the Rational software division and IBM.

Somers, NY

As the Integration Executive for Rational Software, I acquired and integrated the Telelogic Corporation, headquartered in Sweden, into IBM, including all facets of the organizational and business processes of Human Resources, Development, Sales, Marketing, Services, Support, Contracts, Pricing, and Real Estate.

Somers, NY

• As VP of Grid Computing, I led IBM’s global Grid Computing business across the enterprise, including overall business leadership, marketing, development, business development, services, strategy, and sales.
• Spearheaded Grid Computing revenue, references, partnerships, solution offerings, skills/sales enablement, ISVs, and mindshare with Analysts, Press, and Customers.

Armonk, NY

• I identified, nurtured, and incubated new Emerging Business Opportunities (EBOs) for IBM as the Director of Corporate Strategy. I discovered new emerging growth businesses that led to 2 points of growth for IBM.
• Served as the lead strategy consultant for key emerging businesses including Linux, Storage Software, and Embedded Computing.
• Analyzed many new opportunities that include providing strategy consultation of value chain analysis, business design, profit modeling, partner strategies, solution design, and the development of execution models for.

Somers, NY

• Overseeing the technical strategy for the software group, I implemented and executed the technical software strategy across IBM Software Group including the WebSphere, Lotus, Tivoli, DB2 & Rational business units.
• Set the tone and pace for the technical strategy mission, including developing the Software Group's external strategy messages for customers and analysts.
• Served as the Chair of IBM's Open-Source Steering Committee and Program Office, Software Group’s Linux Strategy, Government Standards Compliance, Platform Investment Priorities, and numerous software technology.

White Plains, New York

• As a manager, I shaped solutions for Home Banking and Bank-to-Bank SWIFT message processing. I developed a new solution to provide “network hub” capabilities for financial message processing.
• Oversaw product management and financial measurements, including revenue, expense, and cost for banking solutions.

Indianapolis, Indiana

• As a Development Manager in the Insurance Solutions space, I cultivated and led an organization of 150 people located in Indianapolis, Austin, Charlotte, Dublin, and Brussels to develop and support all of IBM’s.
• Developed a set of Insurance assets on top of IBM’s Application Framework for e-business including Insurance-specific business components, data stores, data models, object models, architectures, and integration adapters.

Open Invention NetworkSM is an intellectual property company that was formed to promote Linux by using patents to create a collaborative environment. It promotes a positive, fertile ecosystem for Linux, which in turns drives innovation and choice in the global marketplace. This helps ensure the continuation of innovation that has benefited software.

Guided Grid Computing Standards for the global IT industry. These key standards eventually were consumed and are encompassed into today’s global Cloud computing standards.

Ba, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Phi Gamma Delta

Ms, Management

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