Senior Solution Architect at Memento, Inc.
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Senior Solution Architect at Memento, Inc.
- Past
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- Program Manager at IBM Office of the CIO
- Senior IT Architect at IBM Advanced Internet Technology Group
- Webmaster at IBM Olympic Programs
- Webmaster and Internet Evangelist at IBM Internet Division
- Software Engineer at IBM UK Ltd
- Education
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- Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business
- University of York
- Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham
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Paul Reed’s Experience
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Program Manager
IBM Office of the CIO
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2007 — March 2008 (1 year )
Created and managed a program to bring external technology from early stage and startup companies into IBM focusing on employee collaboration and productivity tools.
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Senior IT Architect
IBM Advanced Internet Technology Group
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — April 2007 (6 years 4 months)
Variety of projects deploying leading edge solutions in the data analytics and information organization space. Project teams consisted of a partnership between product and research staff, in addition to customers. My role focused on infrastructure and middleware architecture and development to support the analytic approaches.
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Webmaster
IBM Olympic Programs
(Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 1998 — December 2000 (2 years 10 months)
Architect for the global web hosting infrastructure for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games (www.olympics.com): server infrastructure, network connectivity, global load balancing, edge caching and CDN integration, application design and testing, security, operations, disaster recovery, change management, staffing and shift planning. This infrastructure is now used to host www.ibm.com.
Led the design and development of the content management system (CMS) and tools used to securely integrate third party data, venue results feeds, and editorial content. Parts of this were subsequently integrated into IBM WebSphere (Java, Perl, Apache, JMS, DB2, IBM Websphere, and Lotus Notes). -
Webmaster and Internet Evangelist
IBM Internet Division
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IBM; Internet industry)
January 1996 — February 1998 (2 years 2 months)
Webmaster and technical lead for many major international sport event web sites. Managed a team of 10+ technical and creative staff with end-to-end responsibility to deliver the solution: design and develop content and applications, design and build hosting infrastructure, build-out venue operations center, day-to-day management and operations, liaise with other technology partners, primary point of contact for the customer. Events include: Australian Open tennis, Wimbledon, Roland Garros, US Open tennis, The Masters, Deep Blue vs. Kasparov, NFL Superbowl and Nagano Winter Olympic Games.
Inventor of the patented technology underlying IBM SurfAid, a web data mining, metrics and analytics product. This technology was later spun out into a separate company, Coremetrics.
Managed the installation of all WAN and LAN networking in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympic Games, including the hotels used for IBM customer hosting, the Olympic Village, sponsor village and IBM Press Café. -
Software Engineer
IBM UK Ltd
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
October 1992 — December 1995 (3 years 3 months)
Supported and developed IBM Mail Exchange, a worldwide mainframe email and EDI service. Pioneered the development of a gateway to allow sending and receiving of SMTP mail to the Internet.
Designed, developed and deployed the first web site for the International Olympic Committee (www.olympic.org). Presented to the IOC executive board at ASOIF 1995 (Association des Fédérations Internationales Olympiques d'été) in Monaco on the evolution and future of the Internet.
Paul Reed’s Education
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Babson College - Franklin W. Olin Graduate School of Business
MBA , 2008 — 2010 (expected)
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University of York
BSc , Computer Science , 1989 — 1992
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Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham
A-Levels , Maths, Physics, Computer Science , 1984 — 1989
Additional Information
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Paul Reed’s Interests:
Running, sailing, skiing.
Paul Reed’s Groups:
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Babson FastTrack Fall-2010
Paul Reed’s Honors:
Graduate Paper Award at TRI-Ada 1992 for a paper derived from my final year thesis; "Experiences in Implementing Ada9x Protected Records and Requeue".
IBM Excellence Award, 1998, 2000
IBM Invention Plateau Award, 1999, 2006
IBM Corporate Award, 2001
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