My career has spanned a multitude of areas, and I look forward to its next step. That career has built on bachelors degrees from MIT in Economics and in Computer Science plus Masters and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from McGill University. My career pursuits include design of image recognition hardware as well as other research in AI; hardware and software to decoy missiles; real-time automotive software; designs for advanced IBM processor chips including both servers and the Cell processor made famous in Sony game consoles; design and implementation of software for multiple processor simulators; a multitude of compiler optimizations; early SaaS (Software as a Service) offerings in cloud and DevOps; research in providing automatic and individualized student feedback in MOOC-style education; managing large teams; acting as Director of Technology for key tech-strategy-business readouts for IBM's CEO and her Senior Vice Presidents; and my current strategy and operations role for cloud and systems in IBM Research. These activities have yielded dozens of patents and dozens of papers.
I have served as Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Micro, Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group (SIG) on microarchitecture, Chair of ACM's SIG Governing Board (comprising major disciplines across computing), and as Secretary-Treasurer of ACM. (ACM is the Association for Computing Machinery, which among many other things bestows the Turing Award -- computing's "Nobel Prize"). I have also run may large conferences. I currently serve on ACM's investment committee, helping steward a very large portfolio.
As this plethora of pursuits may suggest, I dive deep to understand the key fundamentals in each new area, and then strive to cross-pollinate those fundamentals with key principles from other areas to find new solutions that are both technically sound and business wise. I am always seeking positions where that approach may help identify new and unique business opportunities.