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EDS was purchased by HP in August of 2008, so now I am taking on a new role being the leader of the architect capability for HP's services organization. This means I'll be doing much more work with The Open Group and ITIL. I'm still going to keep my hand in blogging and providing technical support for the relationship with Microsoft.


I've also recently joined the executive board for the First Robotics Competition for North Texas. I'm leading the judging committee, so we'll see how that goes. This is a great cause that has significant impact on the development of our future technologists.


A bit of history

 

At the start of 2002, I was named an EDS Fellow for Electronic Data Systems (EDS). As of July 2009, they moved the EDS follows over to become HP Fellows. The HP fellows are an illustrious group of individuals (this is a list of some from HP labs).

 

From May 2003 until July of 2004, I was the Chief Technologist for EDS Application Services, before that I was the Chief Tech for the Apps Americas organization for a number of years. From July of 2003 - January of 2004, I was also the acting VP of portfolio management for applications, as this organization was being formed.


I am a Purdue University graduate in Electrical Engineering and completed an EMBA at  SMU's Cox School of Business back in 2000. I am also a licensed professional engineer in the state of Texas.


Other interests

 

I've been writing for The Next Big Thing blog since the middle of 2005, some these have recently been reposted at backbone.com.  I've been writing some whitepapers for Cutter as well. Near the end of 2007 I was asked to join the Enterprise Irregulars and this will be an interesting opportunity to exchange some viewpoints with a diverse group of folks.

 

I also spend some time helping out as an MBA advisor for SMU and on their curriculum committee.

 

My personal motto is: Quality is what you'll put up with.

 

My hobbies are electronics, amateur radio (AD5EN), recreational programming and my family. I am also interested in reading (Fantasy and Science Fiction), working out and walking.

 

I do spend some time playing (and writing when I get the chance) computer games for Windows and the Pocket PC. My favorite computer games are 1st person shooters and strategy games. At one point I wrote a number of games for the Apple II, Macintosh, HP 1000 and DEC PDP and VAX/VMS computers. Since almost all of those platforms are dead, it shows how things change. It is sort of funny how many of them are owned by HP today.

 

 

 

Do you have too many things coming at you at the same time? This is what I have learned to do with them. I am done (for now) with many of those functions that caused me to try and be in three places at once, so I don't have to juggle as much as I used to.