Lee Nackman

Lee Nackman

Corporate Vice President, Identity and Security Division at Microsoft

Greater Seattle Area

Current
  • Corporate Vice President, Identity and Security Division at Microsoft
Past
  • Software Consultant at Self-employed
  • VP, Product Development & Customer Support at IBM Rational software
  • VP & CTO Rational Software at IBM
  • VP, Application Development Tools at IBM
  • Director of Architecture, WebSphere at IBM
  • Research Staff Member at IBM Research
Education
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Brown University
Connections
411 connections
Industry
Computer Software
Websites

Lee Nackman’s Summary

I combine technical depth with executive management experience managing worldwide multiple product teams of more than 2000 people.

Lee Nackman’s Specialties:

Leadership of large technical teams; product innovation; use of open source in commercial products; application development tools and processes


Lee Nackman’s Experience

  • Corporate Vice President, Identity and Security Division

    Microsoft

    (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

    April 2009Present (11 months)

    I lead Microsoft's Identity and Security Division (ISD), which creates products designed to protect systems and information from the latest threats, while ensuring that the right people have flexible, manageable access to the information that they need.

  • Software Consultant

    Self-employed

    (Computer Software industry)

    March 2008February 2009 (1 year )

    After 26 years with IBM, I took a year off to rejuvenate myself, refresh my technical skills, and do some writing. During that year, I consulted as acting VP of Product Development for Morphormics, Inc., a startup spin-off of the Medical Image Display and Analysis group at University of North Carolina. Morphormics is developing new technology for automatic segmentation of organs from CT scans to be used in radiation treatment planning.

  • VP, Product Development & Customer Support

    IBM Rational software

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    April 2005March 2008 (3 years )

    I was responsible for worldwide product development and customer support for the Rational brand in IBM Software Group. I also managed the CTO and his team and the IT organization within Rational.

  • VP & CTO Rational Software

    IBM

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    October 2003March 2005 (1 year 6 months)

    As CTO, I am responsible for the technical strategy for the Rational Software division of the IBM Software Group, and for Software Group's Eclipse-based tools. As VP of Design, Construction, and Testing development, I am directly responsible for product development for IBM's modeling tools, Java and J2EE tools, and testing products.

  • VP, Application Development Tools

    IBM

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    September 2000September 2003 (3 years 1 month)

    I led IBM's initiation of and participation in Eclipse, creation of the WebSphere Studio tool products, development of IBM's system compilers (C, C++, Fortran, Cobol), and Java virtual machines.

  • Director of Architecture, WebSphere

    IBM

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    November 1998August 2000 (1 year 10 months)

    Initiated Eclipse. Led WebSphere division architecture team.

  • Research Staff Member

    IBM Research

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Computer Software industry)

    December 1981November 1998 (17 years )

    At IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research center I did research in robotics software, computational geometry, computer-aided design, finite element mesh generation, and application development tools. I also held various research leadership positions.


Lee Nackman’s Education

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Ph.D. , Computer Science , August 1976December 1981

  • Brown University

    B.Sc. , Computer Science , September 1972June 1976


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