Effigy Labs is a technology development and marketing company partnership. We have developed and patented a human interface device which we are currently in the early stages of manufacturing. We are currently pursuing several funding and go-to-market strategies. Questions, offers, and proposals are welcome. Effigy Labs is for sale.

I style and photograph jewelry made by my wife, Laurie Roberts. I designed and built my own lighting studio and props. I use a Canon T5i DLSR camera. I can professionally photograph pearls, gold and silver, and round and shiny things. I design and style layouts and sets for jewelry catalog themes. I also photograph rough and finished gem and mineral specimens.

I play guitar and keyboards and write songs and sing in a Rock and Roll band, the Bob Helps Band. It's a lot of fun. We are currently recording our second album. My wife is the bass player, so I get to practice a lot.

We looked after the top 100 or so HP Software customers, owned the IT4IT Reference Architecture for HP, and delivered workshops to customers preparing to improve on their ITSM maturity. I was involved in Best Practices and the CMS / UCMDB community. I delivered 500 sessions of the CMS Practitioner's forum. I achieved HPE TCP Master status.

I am Customer-Oriented R&D. I bring the customer to R&D, and I bring R&D to the customer. It's all about the customer. I love customers. Yes I do a bunch of coding, solution architecture, best practices, writing, blogging, thinking, and generally telling anyone who will listen about my ideas. But it's really about making the best product for the customer.

Writer, researcher, consultant, investigator, architect, process engineer, developer, general shaman and community evangelist for the CMS/CMDB/Discovery and Dependency Mapping/ITSM. Community Best Practices, UCMDB/DDMA/CMS Practitioner's Forum hit 250 sessions and 5 years running.

We help customers as well as other internal product management groups whose solutions use the HP Universal CMDB with delivery and service content. We define requirements for R&D and own the CMDB roadmap. We provide competetive analyses for our competitors.

Developed marketing collateral for our go-to-market campaignsWorked with Customers to understand needs and requirements (working with Product Management)Developed doc for UCMDB-SM Integration and productized early packageWrote white papers for CMS and CMDBManaged CMS Community forums and Practitioner resourcesRewrote CMS Best Practices Library

Practice Manager for MAM (Mercury Application Mapping) and Mercury Change Control Management (CCM) solutions. Responsible for practices, best practices, creating artifacts and content for Practitioners, Marketing, Sales and Pre-Sales, and Customers, presentations, training, facilitating interdeparmental collaboration, and advisor to the field consultants. I love it!

I tried to suggest CMDB content as much as possible. I also wrote a bunch of white papers and best practices.

Customer-facing consultative role for solution architecture and deployment for BSM/CMS

I engaged a lot of customers but what really happened was, I realized I was building a model community model. The combination of SME + Best Practices + bringing customers together made something happen. I began writing all this down.

I was already a programmer, writer, teacher, speaker, and IT philanthropist. I learned the new ways of the ITIL and CMDB world.

Started and ran a successful Professional Services business, specializing in Computer Associates Software consulting. We got CA's reseller of the year award, three years in a row.

Part of CA-Unicenter initial training and incubation enablementDeployed CA-Unicenter in many early adapters including James Avery Craftsman, La Quinta Inns, Tandy Corp., Mrs. Baird's Bread, and other prominent businessesPre-sales Systems Engineer, assisting sales organizations with technical architecture for large customers.Co-architected and developed the "V Room", a pan-platform lab to showcase platform support and independence for CA-Unicenter and related solutions. This room helped sell millions of dollars of CA-Unicenter solution licenses. The success of the V Room project attracted the attention of Mr. Chris Russell, president of Integrated Cocepts, Inc., and led to the establishment of the Enterprise Management Group there which was awarded CA's highest reseller award for three consecutive years after I formed that group.

Led an internal project to standardize CA storage management, resulted in $6-7 million savings per yearStorage Management consulting

Managed 2,500+ storage devices for Major Banking CorporationDeveloped more efficient standardsImproved peformance for major banking applications