Brian Goodman

Current

• Manager, Cloud engineering and experience at IBM
• Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM

Past

• Senior Software Engineer, Manager, Emerging Technology & Innovation at IBM
• Senior Software Engineer, Technology Adoption Program at IBM
• Senior IT Architect, Client Technology Strategy at IBM

• Senior IT Architect, On Demand Workplace at IBM
• Staff Software Engineer, Advanced Internet Technology Lab at IBM
• Software Engineer, Advanced Internet Technology Lab at IBM
• Assistant Program Manager, Assoc. for WW Knowledge Exchange at Hampshire College
• Lead Programmer at VSI

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Education

• Hampshire College

Connections

314 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company

Brian Goodman’s Summary

Value driven, action-oriented, creative and technically proficient software engineer, manager, IT architect and project leader, with broad customer contact experience in social software, collaboration and innovation management. Prolific idea generation codified through projects, publications and inventions covering a broad range of subject matter. Current on application design, development and delivery of high-impact, leading-edge technology.

Brian Goodman’s Specialties:

software development, innovation management, social software, grassroots collaboration, expertise location

Brian Goodman’s Experience

• Manager, Cloud engineering and experience

  IBM

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2009 — Present (1 year )

  Responsible for the architecture, development and end-to-end user experience for IBM cloud services.
  
  Leading a catalyst team of developers, designers and user experience professionals in iterative development.
  
  Delivering IBM’s public Development and Test cloud

• Senior Technical Staff Member

  IBM

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2008 — Present (2 years )

  Recognized by peers at IBM with permanent appointment to Senior Technical Staff. Position is limited to top IBM technical contributors, approximately 0.3% of IBM employees worldwide. Acknowledges past contributions and encourages continued involvement in technical innovation.

• Senior Software Engineer, Manager, Emerging Technology & Innovation

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2006 — 2008 (2 years )

  Lead, manage and grow IBM’s premiere emerging technology and innovation lab.
  
  Responsible for leading design and development activities for fourteen developers, delivering over a dozen projects.
  
  Provide technical leadership for offshore development teams in China, India and Vietnam.
  
  Engage customers around innovation management & social software: GM, JP Morgan Chase, Syracuse University, Thomson, Johnson & Johnson and USPTO.
  
  Projects managed, architected, developed or delivered include:
  
  - IBM Innovators Library – social space for developers
  - IBM Media Library – YouTube for the enterprise
  - WikiCentral – the enterprise wiki system
  - Enterprise Tagging System – common social tagging system
  - IBMr – reputation and expertise location system

• Senior Software Engineer, Technology Adoption Program

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year )

  Co-founder & technical head for IBM’s Technology Adoption Program, accelerating time-to-market for innovation.
  
  Defined client strategy for the IBM intranet, addressing standards, guidance and emerging technology issues.
  
  Provided technical leadership to global resource teams in India and Vietnam.
  
  Engaged customers, including BlueCross & BlueShield, Wachovia, Commerce Bank and Raytheon.
  
  Member of IBM Academy study focusing on improving workplace accessibility.
  
  Managed, architected, developed and delivered the Technology Adoption Program’s end-to-end IT environment
  
  - Self-service offering management site
  - Technology evaluation & advanced reporting
  - Innovation hosting model

• Senior IT Architect, Client Technology Strategy

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2004 — 2005 (1 year )

  Led the strategic vision for emerging client technology and architecture for the On Demand Workplace.
  
  Authored client-provisioning strategy and corporate standard for client application development.
  
  Engaged customers and thought leaders such as General Electric and IBM’s Senior Technology Leadership.
  
  Lead as a technical mentor in IBM’s premiere recruiting program, supporting a client-based self-help prototype.

• Senior IT Architect, On Demand Workplace

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2003 — 2004 (1 year )

  Set the architectural direction of collaboration and expertise location for the On Demand Workplace.
  
  Lead architect on a geographically dispersed 20-person development team for the corporate expertise system.
  
  Collaborated on the design of a common profile system, using XML database months ahead of industry awareness.
  
  Presented IBM’s workplace vision to internal and external customers, such as Fleet Bank and General Electric.

• Staff Software Engineer, Advanced Internet Technology Lab

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  2001 — 2003 (2 years )

  Lead development efforts in peer-to-peer, broadcast messaging, knowledge management and web services.
  
  Supported 20,000 internal early adopters in real time knowledge exchange, extending to thousands of customers.
  
  Served as lead architect and collaborated on the production of IBM’s first B2B web service.
  
  Designed and developed web service hosting, provisioning, metering and billing for external customers.

• Software Engineer, Advanced Internet Technology Lab

  IBM

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years )

  Developed prototypes in emerging technology areas including Java, XML, XSL, Servlets, Fast-CGI, Host-On-Demand, instant messaging & credential management. Technical assistant to IBM’sSVP Internet Technology.

• Assistant Program Manager, Assoc. for WW Knowledge Exchange

  Hampshire College

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year )

  Designed and developed collaborative, web-based educational experiences connecting professors and students from the Five College community with counterparts in Croatia. Tooling included online assignment submission, commenting, grading, threaded-discussion and shared image galleries.

• Lead Programmer

  VSI

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1997 — August 1997 (3 months)

  Engineered and programmed a commercial, multimedia-based training course for automobile drivers, combining computer, design and key principles of psychology. The final product involved interactive video, role-playing and testing with a total run time of over 2.5 hours and installation of 4GB. Product is in commercial use.

Brian Goodman’s Education

• Hampshire College

  Bachelor of Arts , Computer Science, Psychology and Design , 1994 — 1998

  Thesis: “Digital Collaborative Child-friendly Environments”

  Activities and Societies:

  Cognitive development and neuropsychology field research. Teaching assistant for three courses in computer science, human computer interface design and multimedia production & development. Managed campus media lab.

Additional Information

Brian Goodman’s Websites:

• My Company

Brian Goodman’s Interests:

cloud computing, identity, grassroots collaboration, social software, technology adoption, innovation management, technology and society, agile development, IT architecture, patents, publications, photography

Brian Goodman’s Groups:

IEEE Computer Society, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects

•    The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group
•    IEEE Computer Society Members
•    IBMers
•    Cloud Computing

Brian Goodman’s Honors:

Author and inventor on 42 patent filings, 2002 - 2010

- Topics include web services, autonomics, publish/subscribe, peer-to-peer, caching, service contract negotiation

Author of over four dozen publications (books, chapters, reviews, articles, productions, conferences & proceedings), 1998 - 2010

- Topics include tech. adoption, innovation management, high performance resilient web applications, design patterns, web services, peer-to-peer, instant messaging, collaboration, child-friendly computing and various commercial multimedia productions.

Attained Distinguished IT Architect, Open Group, 2009

Appointed IBM Master Inventor, 2009

Elected Senior Member IEEE, 2009

CIO 100 2008 Award in Knowledge Management, International Data Group, 2008

Awarded Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, IBM Corporation, 2004, 2007, 2008 & 2010

Attained Senior IT Architect Certification, IBM Corporation, 2008

Awarded Patent Issue Recognition - Top 10% Potential Value, 2007

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