40 years experience in IT

Gartner Vice President, Distinguished Analyst & Agenda Manager – 29.5 years

• Authored over 50 Magic Quadrants and Critical Capabilities
• Additional research included Market Forecasts, Market Guides, Cool Vendors, Innovation Insights, and Hype Cycles.
• Spoke at and chaired Gartner conferences worldwide, webinars, custom consulting and training
• Founded and Chaired Gartner's Remote Access / Wireless Summits
• Security Summit Keynote Author/Speaker
• Launched the SSL VPN Market
• Introduced the first Mobile Device Management research
• Received Chairman's Special Integrity Award, and Mobile Security Thought Leadership Award
• Market viability research and assessments, contract reviews, collateral reviews

Pacific Bell, Senior Software Engineer

• Winner at First Annual Innovations of Artificial Intelligence
• Co-founded an Expert Systems Project Group for internal telco projects
• Sofware Test Auditor for the 1984 AT&T Divestiture
• Led a Data Dictionary Project affecting hundreds of telco critical path programs.

Expertise includes:

• Anti-Malware
• Citizen Computing
• Enterprise DRM
• International Travel Safety & Privacy
• IoT Security
• PC/Mac Encryption
• Mobile / Endpoint Management & Security
• IPsec & SSL VPN
• Remote Working /Telework /Telecommuting Best Practices
• Wireless Security & Privacy

What motivates me?

I am an end user at heart and with that mindset, I make every effort to help companies deliver technology that improves our digital lives.

 

Favorite quotation:

"I don't believe in the no-win scenario." - James T. Kirk