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Expertise

Find a path through your technology challenges.

Your teams need to adopt AI, deliver reliable software, manage complex engineering and make the most of compute capacity. I help bring the right expertise and partners to those challenges.

Overview

Start with the problem worth solving.

An unclear business case, misaligned teams or gaps in governance can hold back a sound technology investment. My role is to bring the business and engineering priorities into the same discussion, so executives, specialists and buyers can agree on a path forward.

I work with customers, IBM specialists and partners across the United States, Canada and Latin America. These six areas connect your business priorities to the technical capabilities and people who can help.

AI & Agentic Software Development

Scale AI beyond isolated coding tasks.

The challenge

AI can now generate code faster than most organizations can review, secure and release it. The harder problem is context: requirements, designs, code, tests and incidents often live in separate tools, so AI assistants and agents work without the full picture. Speed without governance simply moves the bottleneck.

How I help

  • Frame where AI belongs across planning, coding, testing, release and operations, and where human review must stay in the loop.
  • Connect AI assistants and agents to governed engineering context so recommendations are traceable and explainable.
  • Set practical guardrails for security, compliance, intellectual property and quality.
  • Build a roadmap that moves teams from isolated pilots to scaled, measurable adoption.

The goal: Faster delivery with control, clearer accountability, and the confidence to scale AI beyond pilots.

DevOps & Software Delivery

Bring the whole release into view.

The challenge

Most enterprises have invested in Git, CI/CD, cloud, security and observability. Yet gaps remain: database changes handled outside the pipeline, inconsistent deployments across environments, secrets managed by hand, and limited visibility into what is actually being released.

How I help

  • Release orchestration and deployment automation with IBM DevOps Deploy, from build output to production across hybrid environments.
  • Secure secrets handling, including the built-in integration between IBM DevOps Deploy and HashiCorp Vault.
  • Database DevOps with partner DBmaestro, so database changes follow the same automated, governed and auditable process as application code.
  • Test automation with ecosystem partners such as Worksoft, and accelerated delivery with IBM DevOps Solution Workbench powered by knowis.

The goal: Shorter lead times, fewer deployment surprises, and release evidence that is ready for audit.

Engineering Lifecycle Management

Keep complex engineering work connected.

The challenge

Products and systems are growing more complex, more software-defined and more regulated. Engineering teams, suppliers and compliance groups need one trusted view of requirements, designs, changes and test results. Without it, rework and late surprises become the norm.

How I help

  • End-to-end traceability from requirements through design, change and test.
  • Collaboration across engineering disciplines, suppliers and partners on shared, versioned information.
  • Impact analysis and change control that show what a decision touches before it is made.
  • Compliance evidence produced as work happens rather than assembled afterward, now enhanced with AI.

The goal: Less rework, faster and better-informed decisions, and audit readiness built into everyday engineering work.

Enterprise Automation

Automate the work that holds teams back.

The challenge

Automation efforts often grow team by team. The result is tools that do not talk to each other, uneven security, and little visibility into the value being delivered.

How I help

  • Identify high-value automation opportunities across IT operations, software delivery and engineering.
  • Design governance so automation is secure, observable and repeatable at enterprise scale.
  • Align automation investments with the resilience, cost and productivity goals executives care about.
  • Draw on IBM Automation Software and its ecosystem to assemble the right combination of capabilities.

The goal: More productive teams, more resilient operations, and automation the business can trust.

High-Performance Computing

Put computing capacity to productive use.

The challenge

Simulation, analytics and AI training compete for the same finite compute, and quantum resources are beginning to join the mix. Without intelligent scheduling, expensive capacity sits idle while important jobs wait.

How I help

  • Workload scheduling and orchestration with IBM Spectrum LSF, including LSF Suites, across on-premises, cloud and hybrid clusters.
  • IBM Spectrum Symphony for high-throughput, service-oriented workloads, including cloud deployments.
  • Hybrid cloud resource optimization that adds capacity when demand peaks and scales back when it passes.
  • A common foundation for coordinating classical, AI and emerging quantum workloads.

The goal: Higher utilization, faster time to results, and a scalable foundation for the next generation of compute.

Technology Strategy & Stakeholder Alignment

Build a shared understanding of what matters.

The challenge

Technology investments involve different priorities, constraints and stakeholders. Your business leaders, engineering teams and partners need a shared understanding of the problem, the options and what success would look like.

How I help

  • Clarify the business priorities, technical requirements and constraints behind your initiative.
  • Build a business case that makes the options, trade-offs and expected value clear.
  • Connect your team with IBM specialists and ecosystem partners suited to the challenge.
  • Help stakeholders agree on priorities, responsibilities and a practical path forward.

The goal: A clearer business case, aligned stakeholders and a shared plan for the next steps.

Industries and regions

Enterprise challenges, regional perspective

  • Financial services
  • Government
  • Telecommunications
  • Engineering-led organizations

Experience across the United States, Canada, the Caribbean and Latin America informs my work with clients in these industries.

How I work with clients

From the first question to a shared plan

1. Listen

Start with the business priority, the constraints and what success looks like, before any product is discussed.

2. Connect to outcomes

Translate technical capability into measurable results that executives, engineers and buyers can all support.

3. Assemble the team

Bring in IBM specialists, ecosystem partners and customer references that fit the specific challenge.

4. Guide to value

Stay involved through adoption and expansion, keeping the business priorities visible as the work progresses.

Ecosystem

Bring the right expertise to the table.

I work with IBM specialists and ecosystem partners, including DBmaestro, Worksoft and knowis, to address connected challenges in database delivery, test automation and application development.

Start with the challenge your team is facing.

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