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Paris, Va, Us

Leesburg, Virginia, Us

Middletown, Va, Us

Specializing in core classes leading to various Comptia certifications and degree programs in Computer Science.

London, Gb

I am able to tap into my 30+ years of technical experience and broad industry contacts to provide technical advice and due diligence services to a variety of Venture Capital and Private Equity firms worldwide. The frequency of these opportunities vary from season to season, but this is some of the most exhilarating work that I do and it keeps me on my technical toes for all of the other stuff that I'm doing.

Wilton, Connecticut, Us

The Big Willow was acquired by Aberdeen Group in 2018.The Big Willow reveals Buying Intent by processing billions of daily interactions that identify individuals who are researching products on the Internet and discovering and tracking their Buying Journey to ensure optimal targeting of sales and marketing investment.I'm an investor and have also been providing strategic technical consulting for a while now. The core technology is well proven and is providing huge value to thought leading customers (ironically to several competitors to products that I have overseen in the past). I'm helping to team to refactor the code to get the kind of scale that we will need as the customer base continues to explode.I've been working on some fun stuff as time allows:★ getting the existing on-premise environment replicated into a co-lo facility and enhancing security, availability, and data governance.★ conducting an internal audit to provide compliance to SOC3 evidence to TBW customers★ providing guidance on refactoring the core solution to a cloud application architecture to be buzzword compliant (security, scale up/down/in/out, serverless with Lambda, etc.)★ looking into a customer portal environment to enhance UX for internal and external users

Round Rock, Texas, Us

I spent three years at Dell working hard to help build a software and solutions business in what was a long-time hardware producer. Not an easy task for sure, but with a combination of several billion dollars in acquisitions and a lot of hard work to rationalize products and align technical strategy, we made a lot of progress.Then came along the EMC deal and Dell decided to divest of several assets to pay for its $67B price tag. We announced the divestiture of Dell Software Group to private equity firms Francisco Partners and Elliott Management in June.During my time at Dell, I oversaw technical strategy and architecture for Dell’s Systems and Information Management products, including hybrid cloud management, application management, data protection, end-point management, Windows server management, and database management; a combined portfolio of products exceeding $900MM in revenue.★ Provided thought leadership and technical management for the company’s 900+ R&D personnel resulting in four major new product initiatives and retention of key technical personnel through a period of extreme uncertainty.★ Continuously evolved the company technical software strategy and drove product management and development teams to structure product roadmaps to align with the strategy and architecture.★ Served as strategic architect for Dell’s Enterprise Mobility Management solution; voted Best of Interop 2014 Conference & Expo in Mobility Solutions.★ Led the Client Systems Management Architecture Review Board to drive alignment between Dell Software and the Client Systems Business Units resulting in increased synergies and collaboration between product teams across BUs.

San Jose, California, Us

Oversaw technical strategy and architecture for CA’s Enterprise Management products, including infrastructure management, application performance management, service operations management, virtualization and automation management, and application integration platform with revenues from these products exceeding $750MM. Extensively involved in corporate strategy and M&A activities that lead to acquisitions like Nimsoft, WatchMouse, iTKO, and NetQoS.

Houston, Texas, Us

Led Bristol Technology development and product management incubation team integration into HP Software.

I co-founded Bristol Technology, a software company, with $100,000 of seed investment and served as CTO and board member until its purchase by Hewlett-Packard in 2007. Bristol signed a deal with Microsoft that provided us full access to the Windows source code, one of only three companies in the world with such an agreement. Without additional investment, and from a first year revenue base of $500,000, Bristol revenue grew 70% annually over the next five years; reaching the Inc. 500 and being ranked #1 on Connecticut’s Fast 50. Later we drove the transformation of Bristol into an enterprise software company and raised venture funding led by Apax Partners and Jerusalem Venture Partners. Four years later, Bristol had established its patented product, TransactionVision®, as the market leader in Business Transaction Management and was purchase by Hewlett-Packard in early 2007.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Loved living in the Hudson Valley (during Spring/Summer/Fall anyway) and worked on some of the precursor technology for IBM supercomputers including PowerParallel and Watson. My main focus was on high performance interconnects between large clusters of RISC compute node clusters and the back-end data stores hosted on Parallel Sysplex mainframe clusters. It was pretty novel to work on a computing system that required an airplane hanger sized data center. But that was before cloud data centers...

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

My first full-time job after college, I built the network subsystem of NCR's Tower line of departmental servers. I was there for the Motorola 68K line and the transition to Intel x86 chips which was major coup in those days. I worked mostly on network device drivers, the TCP/IP stack, and even did a token-ring solution as that was popular in banks in those days. I transitioned quickly into the systems architecture team (15 years junior to everyone else in the group) where I drove networking technical strategy for NCR's Intel-based tightly coupled systems.NCR was a great first experience in the computing systems business and I am continually amazed at how many industry leaders got their start there and how often I have run into them again decades later at other jobs and at customers. Mark Hurd was an upcoming sales guy at NCR back then and 18 years later bought my startup during his time as CEO of HP.

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical Engineering

Ms, Computer Engineering

Bs, Computer Science