Portable Audio Equipment

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 EDS – an HP company. 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).

From May 2003 until July of 2004, I was the Chief Technologist for EDS Application Services. This
group does much of the software development for EDS’ long term clients. 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 EDS 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

I also spend some time helping out as an MBA advisor for SMU.

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 those skills have
atrophied. It is sort of funny how many of them are owned by HP today.