CTO / Sr. Director - Sun Learning Services
San Francisco Bay Area
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- CTO / Sr. Director - Sun Learning Services at Sun Microsystems
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- Chief Architect - Enterprise Tools at Sun Microsystems
- Principal Consultant at NetDynamics
- Chief Architect - Business Systems at Pacific Gas & Electric
- AS400 Consultant at Synon
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Charles Beckham’s Summary
Charles Beckham is responsible for architecting, building and operating the global learning and documentation technology infrastructure upon which Sun Learning Services and Sun's strategic initiatives rely. As the Chief Technology Officer for Sun Learning Services, Beckham leads the development of all the online offerings the eLearning products group and oversees the 60 online stores which sell Sun's learning services worldwide. His team created learning.sun.com portal to provide web-based courseware for Sun's employees and the Sun Learning eXchange (SLX) which hosts videos and podcasts for both restricted and public viewing.
Beckham is recognized as one of most accomplished and innovative software designers of scalable, secure, and reliable systems for the Internet. He has served as the Chief Architect of Sun's Developers Tools and previously was the Principal Consultant at NetDynamics until its 1998 acquisition by Sun. Beckham's background includes more than twenty years of experience delivering mission-critical networked systems. At the time of the Sun/Netscape Alliance, he served as engineering manager for the infrastructure and applications divisions.
Charles Beckham’s Experience
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CTO / Sr. Director - Sun Learning Services
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; JAVA; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
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Chief Architect - Enterprise Tools
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 1998 — June 2006 (7 years 8 months)
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Principal Consultant
NetDynamics
(Information Technology and Services industry)
1995 — 1998 (3 years )
NetDynamics was the inventor of the modern day application server which is the backbone of the transactional web. I was the Principal Consultant at NetDynamics and also served as an expat in Japan and Australia
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Chief Architect - Business Systems
Pacific Gas & Electric
(Public Company; PCG; Utilities industry)
1992 — 1995 (3 years )
Chief architect for the Qualified Facilities Information System (QFIS), a booking and payment business system that processed in excess of 4 billion per year in real time energy pricing.
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AS400 Consultant
Synon
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
1990 — 1992 (2 years )
Additional Information
Charles Beckham’s Websites:
Charles Beckham’s Interests:
Golf
Charles Beckham’s Groups:
The Learning CONSORTIUM - Ellliott Masie
Brandon Hall Research
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CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community -
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ASTD 2009 Speakers Group -
Sun Microsystems HR Alumni Group
Charles Beckham’s Honors:
Bersin & Associates - Technology Excellence - SLX
ASTD - MyLearning CLE - Collaborative Learning Environment
ASTD - Organizational Learning - Sun Learning eXchange
Brandon Hall - Best Use of Wikis & Blogs
Brandon Hall - Best Use of Mobile Learning - SLX
Brandon Hall - Best use of Learning Technology - CLE
Technology in Action (Training Magazine) - Strategic Informal Learning
Developer.com Product of the Year Awards: Java Tool of the Year
Codie Awards: Finalist - Best Software Development Product
Jolt Winner - Best Collaboration Tool
