Experience

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  IBM

  • Executive Partner, IBM Talent Business

    • Sep 2017 - Present

    Global executive partner responsible for enabling C-suite leaders, especially Chief Human Resource Officers, to transition to a digital business model through adoption of artificial intelligence and robotics process automation optimizing talent business decisions and reinventing HR processes. A business leader responsible for enterprise strategy, investment proposals, GTM, and offering development for IBM's Talent business comprised of HCM platform services, cognitive HR SaaS solutions, HR consulting and delivery services capabilities. Frequent speaker, author, and client consultant on cognitive AI, talent analytics, digital HR transformation, and the key role of talent data across the business.

  • Director of Offering Management, Watson Talent Analytics

    • Sep 2013 - Sep 2017

    Appointed as part of IBM’s global executive team to build first-to-market talent analytics business—developing and championing IBM Watson Talent Insight’s development from R&D to global release.Leadership includes defining market, business plan, and early investment vision; building a cross-functional organization (e.g., developers, data scientists, industrial organization psychologists, services, marketers); scaling solution across worldwide data centers across multiple market releases; and serving as external face of the business, with presentations ranging from Harvard University and Rutgers to Society of Industrial & Organizational Psychology and the U.S. government, as well as IBM summits and HR Tech events.IBM earned an analyst-appointed award in 2015 establishing the talent insights platform as the industry's first cognitive analytics solution for HR.

  • Program Director & Manager role | Product Management, Marketing & Software Development

    • Jul 2001 - Sep 2013

    Promoted or appointed across six leadership roles over eleven years, with highlights ranging from business strategy, portfolio planning, and product integration on a multimillion-dollar information management portfolio, to marketing portfolio strategy across IBM’s entire information management product suite, to operationalizing a worldwide software development, service, and QA organization.Highlights included introducing a new analytics category to market for optimized decision making resulting in CEO-appointed technical innovation award, developing IBM’s Big Data strategy, and developing IBM's information integration business from research to a broad commercial portfolio. Additionally, co-directed marketing program identified in 2011 as one of IBM’s four strategic pillars; accepted 2007 award on behalf of executive team for technical innovation, collaborative leadership, and programmatic impact.Early roles included building 200-member software development organization supporting product information integration investment—capturing a new market that today represents a multimillion-dollar segment.ALL ROLES:Program Director, Industry Solutions, Product Management (7/10–9/13)Program Director, Information Integration Product Management (1/09–7/10)Program Director, Portfolio Management Marketing Strategy (1/07–1/09)Program Director, Information Integration & DB2 Database Development (12/04–1/06)Senior Development Manager, DB2 Database (12/02–12/04)Senior Development Manager, Information Integration (1/02–12/02)

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  Informix

  • Portland, Oregon

  • Director of Engineering, Sr. Software Development Manager, Software Engineer

    • Aug 1996 - Jul 2001
    • Portland, Oregon

    Recruited and promoted from engineering leadership on a single software product (instrumental in acquiring Illustra), to managing a new category of distributed database technology, to finally directing two major software programs—one leading to IBM’s 2001 acquisition of Informix and globally part of an entirely new style of object RDBMS technology.Tenure included end-to-end new product development, software lifecycle management, and technical direction; go-to-market planning and delivery; and support across an international portfolio. Highlights included organizational restructuring of a 75-member dynamic server development organization’s practices, optimizing operations through a new SLA, and driving major performance improvement within a specialized product.ALL ROLES at INFORMIX:Director of Engineering, Informix Software (1/01–12/01)Senior Software Development Manager (2000–2001)Software Development Manager (1998–2000)Software Engineer (1996–1998)

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  NCR Corporation

  • Ontario, Canada

  • Architect & Software Developer

    • Jan 1991 - Aug 1996
    • Ontario, Canada

    ALL ROLES at NCR:Architect, Document Management Systems (1994-1996)Programmer Analyst, Document Management Systems (1991-1994)